Movies like The Escape Artist

20 movies like The Escape Artist, ordered by similarity : Papillon(2017), Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison(1951), The Old Man & the Gun(2018), Maze(2017), No End(1985), Race to Space(2001), South Central(1992), Midnight Express(1978), Eddie Macon's Run(1983), Apprentice(2016), The Raid 2(2014), Breakout(1959) ...

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The Escape Artist

Teenager Danny Masters, the son of the late Harry Masters, considered the second best escape artist in history, wants to follow in his father's footsteps, he already a skilled but untested ... See full summary »

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Papillon

Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.

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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

At California's Folsom Prison, escape attempts and riots are on the rise due to the old-school sadistic style of management of a brutal warden.

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The Old Man & the Gun

Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.

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Maze

Inspired by the true events of the 1983 breakout of 38 Irish Republican prisoners from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.

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No End

The wife of the recently deceased lawyer tries to cope with grief after his loss and to keep his last case going in court.

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Race to Space

In the 1960s a young woman works at NASA as an animal trainer responsible for the chimpanzee who will go into space.

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South Central

A former gangster fresh out of prison wants to change his life for the better and must save his 10 year old son who has already chosen a gang life.

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Midnight Express

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

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Eddie Macon's Run

A young man, harshly sentenced for a few minor infractions, escapes from a prison in Huntsville Texas and flees to Laredo, Texas, where he hopes to cross into Mexico for a reunion with his wife and small son.

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Apprentice

Inevitably, a transfer to a maximum security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.

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The Raid 2

Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.

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Breakout

In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.

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Hannibal Brooks

A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom.

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I Never Sang for My Father

A middle-aged New York professor (Gene Hackman) loses his mother (Dorothy Stickney) and reaches out to his bitter father (Melvyn Douglas).

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The First Auto

Hank owns horses, stables horses and races horses. He favorite horse always wins and he is prosperous and will known. His son (Bob), however dreams only of the future of the horseless ... See full summary »

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After the Storm

After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.

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I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.

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Simple Things

In order for a big-city doctor to get the job of a lifetime, he must spend his summer in Dunn's Rock, North Carolina. Arriving with his 10-year old son, he discovers what is most important and learns to enjoy the simple things in life.

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The Great Escape

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

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In the Name of the Father

A man's coerced confession to an I.R.A. bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free them.

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