Escape From Prison
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    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

    The young wizard (Daniel Radcliffe) and his friends (Rupert Grint, Emma Watson) confront Sirius...

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    The Ceremony (1963)

    An innocent man awaits execution in a Tangier prison for a murder he did not commit, until his...

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    The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)

    A French sailor (Jim Caviezel), framed and sent to an island prison, escapes and seeks revenge on...

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    Black Mama, White Mama (1973)

    A hooker (Pam Grier) and a radical (Margaret Markov) escape from a brutal Philippine prison, chained...

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    Deadly Nightshade

    A dead man offers an escape for prison fugitive, Jones, who discovers the look-alike body and...

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    The Defiant Ones (1958)

    Two men (Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier) of different races, who hate each other, escape from a chain...

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    Chronicle of an Escape (2007)

    An Argentine government squad kidnaps the goalkeeper of a soccer team and sends him to a detention...

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    O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

    A mysterious lawman tracks three escaped convicts (George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson)...

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    Cool Hand Luke (1967)

    A likable Southern loner (Paul Newman) on a chain gang resists the captain and keeps trying to...

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    Canon City

    This suspenseful crime drama reenacts the famed 1947 prison break out of the Canon City, Colorado...

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    Von Ryan's Express (1965)

    An Air Force colonel (Frank Sinatra) and a British major (Trevor Howard) seize a Nazi prison train...

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    Condemned (1929)

    Ronald Colman's second talking picture, Condemned is a snail's-pace melodrama set on a Devil's...

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    Escape From Alcatraz (1979)

    Based on the true story of a hardened convict who engineered an elaborate plan to bust out of the...

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    Thieves Like Us (1974)

    Lovers Bowie (Keith Carradine) and Keechie (Shelley Duvall) live by night with their fugitive gang...

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    Murder in the First (1995)

    A young lawyer (Christian Slater) argues inhumane treatment in the murder defense of a 1930s...

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    Papillon (1973)

    Safecracker Henri ``The Butterfly'' Charriere (Steve McQueen) tries to escape from Devil's Island...

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    I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)

    An innocent man is sent to a prison farm, where he endures the dehumanizing effects of a cruel...

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    The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

    Two life sentences for a 1947 double murder land an innocent man (Tim Robbins) in a corrupt Maine...

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    Raising Arizona (1987)

    A loser (Nicolas Cage) and his wife (Holly Hunter) kidnap a quintuplet from an unfinished-furniture...

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    Breakout (1975)

    A woman (Jill Ireland) hires a bush pilot (Charles Bronson) to free her husband (Robert Duvall),...

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    Rescue Dawn (2007)

    During the Vietnam War, Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale), a U.S. fighter pilot, is shot down over...

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    Hard Choices (1986)

    In this odd mix of social commentary, forbidden romance, police action thriller, and teenage...

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    The Adventurer

    The Adventurer was Charlie Chaplin's last film in his contract for Lone Star/Mutual, and it is the...

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    The Emperor Jones (1933)

    A swaggering railroad porter (Paul Robeson) kills a man, escapes from a chain gang and becomes king...

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    The Chase (1966)

    An escaped convict (Robert Redford) heads for his wife (Jane Fonda) and corrupt small-town Texans,...

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    Murder One (1988)

    Based on a true story, three prison escapees steal a car and murder six members of a rural farm...

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    Figures in a Landscape

    Depending upon viewers' feelings towards filmmaker Joseph Losey, they'll either consider Figures in...

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    Jackson County Jail (1976)

    Yvette Mimieux delivers a sensitive, nuanced performance in a role that could have easily spread...

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    Gunmen (1994)

    A New York bounty hunter teams up with an ex-con smuggler to track down a missing cash fortune.

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    Shout (1991)

    A hip teacher (John Travolta) brings rock 'n' roll to a teen (James Walters) and his pals at a home...

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    Fast Walking

    A prison guard (James Woods) joins two plots: one to kill an activist inmate (Robert Hooks), one to...

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    Con Air (1997)

    A wrongly convicted parolee (Nicolas Cage) on a flight with a group of vicious prisoners tries to...

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    They Went That-a-Way & That-a-Way

    Two bungling small-town policemen (Tim Conway, Chuck McCann) go undercover in prison on the trail of...

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    Nobody's Baby

    Two brothers (Skeet Ulrich, Gary Oldman) have different plans for a baby after one of them causes a...

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    Firestorm (1998)

    A firefighter (Howie Long) and his mentor (Scott Glenn) encounter an escaped convict (William...

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    Macho Callahan (1970)

    A bitter Union soldier escapes from prison and seeks revenge against the man who put him there.

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    Freeway 2

    A teenage prostitute escapes from a juvenile prison with a 16-year-old serial killer and both go on...

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    The McKenzie Break

    A wily Irish officer (Brian Keith) lets a U-boat captain (Helmut Griem) lead a mass escape from a...

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    Mrs. Soffel (1984)

    A warden's wife (Diane Keaton) in 1901 Pittsburgh falls in love with a condemned man (Mel Gibson)...

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    Jacob Two Two Meets The Hooded Fang (1999)

    After a bump on the head, a boy goes on trial for insulting a grown-up and finds himself sentenced...

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    The Good War (2004)

    Two mortal enemies eventually begin to respect and admire each other's distinct views.

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    The Hole (1997)

    A group of cellmates plan a jailbreak by escaping through the prison's sewer system, but their plans...

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    Last Run

    A retired U.S. intelligence agent (Armand Assante) tries to rescue a former KGB bigwig targeted for...

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    Lucky Break (2002)

    Under the leadership of a small-time bank robber, British inmates hatch a plan to escape by staging...

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    Condition Red (1995)

    A hotheaded prison guard falls in love with a dangerously alluring inmate who was framed; they both...

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    Skidoo (1968)

    Hippies take over the yacht of a crime kingpin (Groucho Marx) named ``God,'' letting a reformed...

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    The Ice Runner (1993)

    An American CIA agent is imprisoned in a Siberian labor camp and plans his escape by befriending a...

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    Running Hot (1984)

    Convicted of murdering his father, 17-year-old Eric Stoltz is sentenced to death. While in prison,...

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    Live By the Fist

    A Navy SEAL gets himself tossed into a seething Filipino prison after his attempts to stop a gang...

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    McVicar (1981)

    British John McVicar (Roger Daltrey) escapes from prison, becomes a public enemy and then turns his...