Tau (2018) | 5.8 | |
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The Mist (2007) | 7.1 | |
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Escape attempt movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant escape attempt movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating and weird films and TV shows about / with escape attempt, escape, survival, violence, murder, danger, confined, death, fear and kidnapping plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as escape attempt: The Seasoning House (2012), ATM (2012), King of Devil's Island (2010), Wolf Creek 2 (2013), Eden (2012), The Island (2005), Chicken Run (2000), Misery (1990), Tau (2018), Papillon (1973).
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, bleak, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, strong violent content, rapist, confinement indoors, sexual abuse, rape and revenge, male nudity, dehumanization, danger, vengeance, escape attempt ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2010s
Place:
balkan, europe
Is relevant ?
25K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a late night visit to an ATM, three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man.
Style:
scary, slasher, psychological, tense, christmas horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
trapped, evil wins, psychopath, stalking, escape attempt, confinement indoors, serial killer, unknown killer, survival, confined, trap, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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, ...
Style:
bleak, tense, visually appealing, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
punishment, sexual abuse, prison life, island, juvenile detention, prison, rebellion, child abuse, protest, isolation, survival, coming of age ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1915
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina, and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site’s most infamous local, the last ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, torture, gory, killing spree, sadistic horror, escape attempt, chase, decapitation, violence, danger, tourist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Is relevant ?
9K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of Chong Kim who, as a young teen, was abducted into the sex trade, and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, sex trafficking, rape, slavery, teenage life, life is a bitch, pimp, sex slave, prostitute, captivity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, nevada, usa, las vegas
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327K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, manly, boys' night
Plot:
distopia, cloning, escape, clone, conspiracy, fugitives, technology gone awry, island, dystopian future, lookalikes, utopia, on the run ...
Time:
future, year 2005, year 2019, 2010s, near future ...
Place:
fictional island, los angeles
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211K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the British chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the american rooster and Ginger the chicken decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky ...
Style:
claymation, funny, witty, humorous, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, toddlers, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot:
stop motion, bird, freedom, escape, anthropomorphic animal, prison, escape attempt, chicken, talking animal, rescue, chicken farm, anthropomorphism ...
Time:
20th century, year 1959, post world war two, 1950s, year 2000 ...
Place:
england, europe, united kingdom, yorkshire, northern england
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234K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
insanity, obsession, psychopath, hostage, stephen king, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, isolation, torture, writers, obsessed fan ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa
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34K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, intelligent ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, escape attempt, kidnapping, experiment, woman in danger, laboratory, murder, security system, kidnapped woman, drone, danger ...
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138K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Style:
inspirational, psychological, grim, realistic, depressing ...
Plot:
prison escape, prison, escape, life philosophy, runaway, human spirit, prisoner, escape attempt, brutality, prison break, prison life, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 1973, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
persia, latin america, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners ...
Style:
epic, suspenseful, suspense, clever, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, family outing, manly, kids ...
Plot:
world war two, prison, nazi, prison escape, motorcycle, pow, freedom, army, war, military, soldier, chase ...
Time:
1940s, year 1963, 20th century, 1900s
Place:
germany, america, europe, switzerland, alps
Is relevant ?
36K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
Style:
psychological, slasher, scary, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
obsession, survival, psychopath, kidnapping, woman in danger, escape attempt, maniac, danger, stalker, hostage, stalking, torment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Is relevant ?
206K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, slasher, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, adult
Plot:
shark, animal attack, giant monster, underwater, sea monster, ocean, giant creature, giant animal, killer shark, professor, survival, mission ...
Time:
2010s, jurassic, prehistory, 21st century
Place:
shanghai, usa, asia, pacific ocean, california ...
Is relevant ?
54K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, twists and turns, life sentence, prison escape, prison life, redemption, african american, friendship, black, adaptation, criminal, escape attempt ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1932
Place:
mississippi, new york, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, slasher horror, slasher, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, kidnapping, child abduction, struggle for survival, basement, serial child killer, victim, phone terror, locked in a basement, homicidal maniac, kidnapped, masked killer ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 2020s, 20th century
Place:
colorado, denver colorado
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Five backpackers, diving in a ruined underwater city, quickly learn they are not alone in the submerged caves.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bloody, psychotronic, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
shark, sea, underwater, panic, animal attack, killer shark, shark attack, fear, research, great white shark, survival horror, chase ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
mexico
Is relevant ?
1.1M
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, teens ...
Plot:
friendship, underwater, shark, memory loss, father son relationship, animal, freedom, courage, single father, rescue, odd couple, talking animal ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new south wales, oceania, pacific ocean, sydney australia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK, China
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
Style:
captivating, rough, tense, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
kidnapping, ransom demand, billionaire, rich, mafia, kidnapped boy, violence, escape attempt, money, greed, wealth, rich man ...
Time:
year 2017, 70s, 2010s, year 1971, year 1973
Place:
rome italy, italy, saudi arabia
Is relevant ?
546K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, twist ending, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, mental illness, murder, psychopath, psycho, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, insanity, paranoia, serial killer, schizophrenia, violence ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2017
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, america
Is relevant ?
21K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, captivity, slave, misogynist, kidnapping, serial rapist, psychopath, abuse, childhood trauma, escape attempt, isolated house, slavery ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant ?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, intense, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
friendship, weekend, prison, jail, false accusation, coming of age, heroin, women, justice, women in prison, injustice, escape attempt ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
thailand, the philippines, hong kong, southeast asia, bangkok thailand ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, rough, intense ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
prison, escape, freedom, prison break, rebelliousness, death, prison escape, dignity, escape attempt, prison life, fugitive, prisoner ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
florida, southern usa
Is relevant ?
297K
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the ...
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, gothic horror, melancholic, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, date night, family friendly, family outing, horror for children ...
Plot:
afterlife, stop motion, corpse, supernatural, goth, wedding, marriage, death, disagreement, fear, love, loneliness ...
Time:
19th century, year 2005, edwardian era, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
europe
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Chile, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style:
bloody, scary, disturbing, slasher, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, survival, gory, decapitation, ant, sadistic horror, suicide, violence, sadistic violence ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
south america, peru, america, chile, latin america ...
Is relevant ?
19K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 588 min.
TV show
Story:
African teen Kunta Kinte, brought to America to be enslaved, and the generations of his family.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, uplifting, suspense ...
Plot:
slavery, racism, civil war, american civil war, family history, human spirit, slave trade, african american, american south, escape attempt, black, justice ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, 1800s, 20th century, 1860s ...
Place:
africa, usa, america, tennessee
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, political, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
genocide, journalism, vietnam war, war, photographer, civil war, photograph, brutality, anti war, friendship, photography, politics ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1984
Place:
cambodia, vietnam, east asia, asia, new york
Is relevant ?
22K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style:
serious, captivating, sincere, touching, crying ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gender, childhood, transsexual, youth, child protagonist, children, summer, friendship, lgbt, tomboy, sexual identity, society ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, indiana, paris france, europe
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film centers on Asuna, a young girl who spends her solitary days listening to the mysterious music emanating from the crystal radio she received from her late father as a memento. One day while walking home she is attacked by a fearsome monster ...
Style:
anime, touching, captivating, sentimental, serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dealing with death, parallel world, imaginary, grief, radio, teenage life, escape attempt, rescue, life & death, spirit, supernatural, myth ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant ?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Ian Archer wakes up one morning to find himself at a mysterious academy for teens with special abilities. Unable to find answers to his questions from the school’s faculty and cut off from any kind of outside contact or means of escape, Ian forms ...
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, heroic, stylized
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, supernatural ability, investigation, suspicion, boarding school, teenage life, high school hunk, teenager, high school, supernatural power, rebelliousness, rebellion ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Is relevant ?
338K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style:
twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time:
year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
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