Escaped prisoner movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant escaped prisoner movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense and captivating films and TV shows about / with escaped prisoner, prison escape, murder, escape, chases and races, fugitives, chase, convict, violence and prison plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as escaped prisoner: Van Diemen's Land (2009), Run! (2016), Abducted (2007), Chase (2010), Runaway Train (1985), Morgan's Ferry (2001), Another Mother's Son (2017), Patriot Games (1992), U.S. Marshals (1998), The Chase (1966).

List of escaped prisoner movies

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Van Diemen's Land (2009)
Genre: Biography, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared ...
Style: tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: survival, cannibalism, wilderness, penal colony, escaped prisoner, cannibal, murder, fugitives, rivalry, confined, life is a bitch, escapades ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: australia, tasmania
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 6.6
 123
Run! (2016)
Genre: Action
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min.
Story: A captain in pursuit of escaped prisoners must survive harsh climates and unravel a mystery involving sensitive documents.
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: escaped prisoner, fleeing, on the run, runaway, bandit, prison escape, chase, romantic triangle, protector, love triangle, fugitives, uncover truth ...
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 5.7
 911
Abducted (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack, a man wrongly convicted of murder is sent to a prison where the unscrupulous warden has political aspirations. The warden manipulates his wife, his political adviser/lover, the prisoners and the voters, all while maintaining a smiling ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, suspense, erotic ...
Plot: prison, prison warden, kidnapping, escaped prisoner, fall in love, couples, murder, love, kidnapped, danger, escapades, rivalry ...
Time: 1900s, 21st century
Place: canada, idaho, washington state, portland oregon
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 6.9
 7K
Chase (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Chase is an American police procedural drama television series created by Jennifer Johnson for the NBC network. The series follows a U.S. Marshals fugitive-apprehension team, based out of Houston, Texas. Jerry Bruckheimer and Johnson serve as ...
Style: realistic, detective, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: policewoman, u.s. marshal, escaped prisoner, fugitives, wanted, chase, police investigation, special agent, law enforcement, rivalry, police, police procedural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, houston texas
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 7.2
 33K
Runaway Train (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
Style: road movie, suspense, intense, realistic, rough ...
Plot: train, survival, runaway train, prison, prisoner, wilderness, snow, chases and races, violence, winter, fugitives, train crash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: alaska, usa
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 5.6
 689
Morgan's Ferry (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three escaped convicts hide out in the home a reclusive woman as they wait to catch a ferry.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot: dangerous attraction, on the run, fall in love, criminal heroes, confined, couples, isolation, woman in danger, danger, manhunt, escaped prisoner, farmhouse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: southern usa
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Another Mother's Son (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Directed by Christopher Menaul ('Summer in February', 'Fatherland) and written by Jenny Lecoat, Another Mother's Son tells the true story of Louisa Gould, a widow living in Nazi occupied Jersey who takes in a Russian prisoner of ...
Style: captivating, suspense, costume drama, period drama
Plot: world war two, surrogate family, hunger, pow, escaped prisoner, tragedy, fight, heroine, death of protagonist, nazi, world war, fighting the system ...
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 6.8
 120K
Patriot Games (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Style: exciting, political, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: terrorism, spy, hitman, revenge, espionage, cia, terrorist, assassination, conspiracy, ira, violence, secret agent ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., ireland, usa, north africa, scotland yard ...
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 6.6
 113K
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: manhunt, cia, on the run, conspiracy, frame up, agent, fugitive, tough cop, corruption, car chase, murder, u.s. marshal ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, chicago, kentucky, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.1
 13K
The Chase (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubber Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' ...
Style: suspense, retro, neo noir, technicolor, crime drama ...
Plot: racism, social commentary, manhunt, small town, adultery, lynch mob, drunkenness, sheriff, murder, vigilantism, on the run, escaped prisoner ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa, southern usa
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 7.8
 316K
The Fugitive (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard, a determined detective who will not rest until ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, detective, neo noir, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, on the run, betrayal, escape, framed for murder, investigation, fugitives, death row, doctor, manhunt, corruption, fugitive ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, washington d.c.
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 4.2
 2K
Point Blank (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, rescue, danger, race against time, one man army, brother brother relationship, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, confined, daring rescue, fugitives, escaped prisoner ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, vengeance, psychopath, torture, violence, serial killer, rape and revenge, kidnapping, woman in danger, violence against women, murder, sadism ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.0
 24K
Becky (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
Style: suspense, bloody, psychological thriller, creepy, dark ...
Plot: home invasion, tough girl, murder, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, one against many, escaped prisoner, widower, anger, blood, teenage protagonist, loss of mother ...
Time: 2020s
Place: atlanta georgia
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The Vanished Murderer (2015)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: At a women's prison in the northern China in 1932, a prisoner escapes. Inspector Song Donglu is summoned to investigate the escape.
Style: psychological, detective, thrilling, captivating
Plot: escaped prisoner, female prisoner, inspector, police officer, runaway, escape, investigation, police investigation, crime investigation, crime solving, prison escape, forensics ...
Time: 1930s
Place: hong kong, china
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A Perfect World (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: 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.
Style: road movie, sincere, suspense, touching, neo noir ...
Plot: kidnapping, life philosophy, fugitives, prison escape, prison, moral ambiguity, on the run, boy, friendship, child abuse, small town, road trip ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1993, year 1963
Place: texas, usa, austin texas, birmingham alabama, alaska
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 6.5
 15K
Kika (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then moves in with him. They might live happily ...
Style: sexy, erotic, dark comedy, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, tabloid journalism, stepfather stepson relationship, murder disguised as suicide, escaped prisoner, voyeurism, masturbation, gays and lesbians, photographer, lgbt, lesbian, sex scene ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: spain, europe
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 6.2
 583
Caught (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: David Slaney escapes from jail and attempts to hook up with his partner for one last deal, while evading the detective on his trail. Based on the novel by Lisa Moore.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, crime drama
Plot: one last job, escaped prisoner, police investigation, drug dealer, investigation, fight, criminal, runaway, fugitives, gangster, fighting crime, woman with a gun ...
Place: canada
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 4.9
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Nitro Rush (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the follow up to the box-office hit Nitro (2007), we catch up with Max as he serves time for the role he played in the death of a police officer. When the film begins, Max learns that his 17-year-old son Theo has just been recruited by a criminal ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating
Plot: escaped prisoner, street racing, organized crime, criminal underworld, runaway, father son relationship, convict, partners in crime, family problems, money problems, family relations, father and son ...
Place: quebec
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 7.2
 2K
9 Souls (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.
Style: serious, realistic, surreal, uplifting, crime drama ...
Plot: prison, on the run, treasure hunt, criminal heroes, society, social misfits, misfit, friendship, chase, escaped prisoner, convict, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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 5.7
 248
Kill Me (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Switzerland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A teenage girl helps an escaped fugitive flee Germany into France, after extracting a promise that he will help her commit suicide.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: on the run, partner, fugitives, on the road, unfulfillment, dealing with death, misfit partners, escaped prisoner, police, trust, friendship, deal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, germany, marseille, europe
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 7.1
 31K
Ruby & Quentin (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, inspirational, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison escape, buddies, prison, unlikely partners, buddy, partner, runaway, odd couple, criminal heroes, bank robbery, friendship, police investigation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003
Place: france, europe
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 7.3
 266K
Identity (2003)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style: twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, mental disorder, investigation, psychology, murderer, mental illness, motel, split personality, psychopath, rainstorm ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, florida
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 5.0
 131
Family (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Eldon and Cole pick up a hitchhiker, Jean on their father-son trip to find perspective on the back roads of America, they quickly learn that everything is not what it seems. As the road unfolds in front of them, so do their lives begin to ...
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: abduction, on the road, on the run, fugitives, hidden identity, under the surface, chases and races, parents and children, escaped prisoner, child in peril, prison escape, hitchhiking ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.1
 41K
Splinter (2008)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. ...
Style: scary, bloody, psychological, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, zombie, infection, infected, macabre, monster, virus, parasite, death, body horror, supernatural, transformation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
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 7.3
 623
Ripped Parrot (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Three convicted criminals escape from prison carrying only a güiro, a tambor and an accordion. During their journey, they meet with a bunch of interesting characters and are forced to use their musical skills to help them get home.
Style: road movie, funny, light, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: escaped prisoner, prison escape, fugitives, prisoner, ex convict, fleeing, musician, absurd humor, runaway, humour, music, escapades ...
Time: 70s
Place: dominican republic
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The Moment After II: The Awakening (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In The New World Order, who can you trust? Religious "fanatics"? The government? Ragtag militia? Religious "fanatics"?After a dramatic escape from death row, former FBI agent Adam Riley (David A.R. White) reunites with his friend ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, christian film, apocalyptic ...
Plot: religious persecution, faith, christian, special agent, fighting the system, undercover, religions or cults, rivalry, society, danger, escapades, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
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Playing with Dolls: Havoc (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: (This version of the film is Uncensored and uncut) When serial killer Havoc escapes from his prison, there is no holding back. He descends upon unsuspecting lovers in their cabin get away. The world's most brutal killer is loose and his thirst ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: masked killer, serial killer, cabin in the woods, snow, murder, blood, killer, psycho killer, escaped prisoner, maniac, chase, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Year of the Tiger (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: prison, escape, violence, brutality, prison escape, free will, devastation, freedom, tsunami, escaped prisoner, convict, crash ...
Time: year 2010
Place: chile
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 5.2
 646
Red Letters (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: college, prison, law enforcement, dishonesty, obsession, destructive relationship, amateur detective, murder, escaped prisoner, nudity, life is a bitch, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, mojave desert
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