Prison Break Movies

Prison Break Movies
List of the best jailbreak movies selected by visitors to our site: Escape From Pretoria, Prison Break: The Final Break, The Next Three Days, The Shawshank Redemption, Papillon, Rescue Dawn, Escape from Alcatraz, Mrs. Soffel, Lock Up, Nowhere to Run.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA, South Africa, Germany

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

The movie covers the events which occurred in between the downfall of The Company and the finale of the series. It details the arrest and incarceration of Sara Tancredi, the final escape plan which Michael devises for Sara. It also reveals the ultimate fate of Gretchen Morgan.

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: 9.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:22

    Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, adventure, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Czech Republic, Spain
    Duration01:00

    Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
    CountryUSA, Luxembourg
    Duration02:00

    A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Escape from Alcatraz tells the story of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 years, the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once - by three men never heard of again.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    A prison warden's wife is seduced into helping a notorious killer escape.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
    Duration01:42

    Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryChina, USA
    Duration01:55

      Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA

        An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryChile

        During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryNorway, France, Sweden, Poland
        Duration01:56

        Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, determined to escape from the island. After a tragic incident, he ends up leading the boys in a violent uprising. When the boys manage to take over the island, 150 soldiers are sent in to restore order.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:29

        A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned on a submarine. With the help of a fellow prisoner and an amateur agent, he must race against the clock to escape the vessel and expose who set him up.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, adventure, history
        CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
        Duration02:13

        Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film details their perilous & uncertain journey to freedom, as they cross deserts, mountains, & several nations.

        Duration01:31

        Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.

        Markimdb: 8.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryFrance, Italy

        Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:17

        In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
        CountryRussia

        Mikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrecomedy, crime, biography
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:21

        A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:23

          Young teenager, Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryIndia

          Accused of murdering her husband, IAS officer Chanchala, is taken to a haunted house called Bhaaghamathie Bungalow, where police and CBI officials interrogate her to dig up dirt on a politician she had worked under. As she's left alone in the haunted house, spirits take control of her and IAS Chanchala transforms into an unrecognisable person. How this impacts her and everyone around her forms the crux of the story.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
          CountryUSA, Mexico
          Duration02:13

          Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genreaction, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

            Rob Schneider writes and stars in this comedy about a nerdy con man whose swindling ways land him a stiff prison sentence. Terrified at the prospect of being raped in prison he enlists the aid of a mysterious kung-fu expert to teach him how to fight.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryCanada
            Duration01:21

            The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. But what exactly are they being trained for? Vivien intends to find out.

            Markimdb: 1.8
            Genreaction, adventure, detective
            CountryGermany, USA
            Duration01:40

            After selling his soul to a sorceress Robin is killed in battle. Distraught over these horrific turn of events Marian and Little John attempt to resuscitate Robin and his Merry Men. In doing so they inadvertently have turned the one-time heroes into the living dead and worse, the ghostly reincarnations are now hunting down Marian and Little John. So the pair attempt to seek out a new potion that will free these tormented souls from their demonic possession.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA

            The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, in the summer of 1978.

            Markimdb: 5.2
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:30

            Criminals and a beautiful but cunning hitchhiker must battle a supernatural force known as the Reaper.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure
            CountryUSA, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada
            Duration02:43

            Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle. Jack's only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it, he must forge an uneasy alliance with a brilliant and beautiful astronomer and a headstrong young man in the British navy.

            Markimdb: 3.8
            Genreaction, drama, crime
            CountryUSA

            The lone surviving thief of a violent armored car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and administered an experimental drug.

            Markimdb: 5.4
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
            CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, South Africa
            Duration01:45

            Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and all, are transferred to another prison where they will compete in a Death Race in the desert. Also, at the same time, Ceaser runs into a marketer who wants to franchise the Death Race program.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrecomedy, musical, adventure, family, crime, detective, music
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:47

            While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:53

            Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Doctor Hank Pym, protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

            Markimdb: 4.7
            Genrecomedy
            CountryUSA

            After winning over the staff and students of Milford High School, chemistry teacher Richard Martinez aka Bianca Del Rio sent her nemesis Vice Principal Deborah “Debbie” Ward to jail in a flawlessly executed plan. When Debbie is released from jail, she conjures up a scheme to do away with Bianca Del Rio once and for all, by luring her on a dangerous journey to Russia to accept a teaching award and cash prize.

            Markimdb: 5.1
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA

            Dylan Burke attempts to move on from his former life as a criminal with his true love Maria. He soon realizes that his past will continue to haunt him, when he learns the new local prison warden, Daniel Calvin, has not forgiven him for an old crime.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrefantasy, adventure, family
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:25

            Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrecomedy, musical, adventure, family, cartoon
            CountryFrance, Japan, USA
            Duration01:25

            A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genredrama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Malta
            Duration01:39

            Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, adventure, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:17

            Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
            CountryUSA, Germany, China, Japan
            Duration03:07

            When a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.

            Markimdb: 5.6
            Genrecomedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA

            After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of love that both have been looking for all along.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genreaction, adventure, western, history
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:25

            McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, crime
            CountryUSA, France
            Duration02:19

            Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrecomedy, crime
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:52

            A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds that was stolen and subsequently hidden more than 20 years earlier.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

              Agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones) are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K (Josh Brolin) to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.

              Markimdb: 4.5
              Genreaction, comedy, adventure, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:50

              Two inept, small-town Sheriff's Deputies catch an escaped prisoner that they believe was wrongly convicted.

              Markimdb: 7.6
              Genredrama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:36

              Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.




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