Prison Escape Movies

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's...

Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably...

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks...

A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds...

It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

During World War II, convicts are recruited by the Allies for an extremely hazardous mission.

Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself...

When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and...

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the...

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

This film is about the adventures of cowboy Tom as he sets out to exact revenge on his father’s killer, Taylor. Tom is a cowboy from Nevada. He...

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with...

This is the story of a man fighting with all his might for his life and his freedom. Eleuterio (”El Lute”) embarks upon an action-packed...

Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for...

"American Criminal" is filmed entirely in one shot ... A police officer, a prosecutor, a judge, and a forensic scientist conspire to manufacture...

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a...

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes...

Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for...