Jailbreak thriller movies

List of the best jailbreak thriller movies selected by visitors to our site: The Next Three Days, Instinct, Midnight Express, Anonymous, The Ledge, Disconnect, The Skin I Live In, The Call, The Devil All the Time, 127 Hours.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA, France
Duration02:13

    A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:01

    Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
    Duration02:10

      Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Germany, Saudi Arabia
      Duration01:41

      A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

        Disconnect interweaves multiple storylines about people searching for human connection in today’s wired world. Through poignant turns that are both harrowing and touching, the stories intersect with surprising twists that expose a shocking reality into our daily use of technology that mediates and defines our relationships and ultimately our lives.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountrySpain, USA
        Duration02:00

        A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama, adventure, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
        Duration01:33

        The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:00

        As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

          Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. A romance occurs and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. She promises to write John overseas until he returns.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
          Duration01:47

          France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:42

            An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:35

            Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands in this imaginative and emotional drama.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, France
            Duration01:35

            Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
            Duration02:18

            Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:18

            A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, India

            What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, Japan
            Duration02:27

            Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration01:59

            Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girl friend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar, and stalks his victim over several days.

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:41

            Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
            CountryMexico, Spain, USA
            Duration02:05

            Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:02

            A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:52

            A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:03

            Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:03

            An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration01:52

              After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:33

              When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Amy. Johnathan Mostow's tense thriller then follows Jeff's desperate search for his wife, which eventually uncovers a small town's murderous secret.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
              CountryFrance, Spain, USA
              Duration02:13

              An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:36

              While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:32

              A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.

              Markimdb: 6.9
              Genrethriller, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:02

              Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.

              Markimdb: 8.5
              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
              CountryUSA, Germany
              Duration01:46

              Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genrethriller, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:57

                An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

                Markimdb: 5.9
                Genrethriller, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:04

                Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.

                Markimdb: 7.9
                Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:53

                After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?

                Markimdb: 6.6
                Genreaction, thriller, detective
                CountryUSA, Italy, Malta, France, United Kingdom
                Duration02:29

                When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon and cryptographer, Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genrethriller, drama
                CountryUSA

                Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA, Germany
                Duration02:04

                Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

                Markimdb: 7.7
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:38

                The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

                Markimdb: 6.6
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
                Duration01:35

                A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

                Markimdb: 8.1
                Genrethriller, drama
                CountryCanada, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
                Duration02:32

                Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?

                Markimdb: 7.5
                Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:04

                A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

                Markimdb: 8.1
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:29

                  With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

                  Markimdb: 6.5
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:46

                  The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

                  Markimdb: 6.4
                  Genrethriller, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA, Spain, Hungary, Serbia
                  Duration01:50

                  A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

                  Markimdb: 7.4
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:54

                  An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is asked to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial. But if he doesn't do it, the judge will have him disbarred.

                  Markimdb: 6.3
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:38

                  A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.




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