20 movies like No Escape, ordered by similarity : Papillon(2017), Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison(1951), Woodpeckers(2017), The Big House(1930), Breakout(1959), The Old Man & the Gun(2018), Escape Plan 2: Hades(2018), Death Race(2008), Midnight Express(1978), Maze(2017), Beyond Skyline(2017), In Hell(2003) ...
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
USA
1994
118 Minutes
Ray Liotta Lance Henriksen Stuart Wilson Kevin Dillon Ian McNeice Jack Shepherd Michael Lerner Ernie Hudson
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A soldier convicted for murdering his commanding officer is dumped and left to die on a prison island inhabited by two camps of convicts.
Adventure, History, Biography, Drama
USA|Czech Republic|Spain
2017
133 Minutes
Charlie Hunnam Rami Malek Roland Møller Nina Senicar Tommy J. Flanagan Eve Hewson Christopher Fairbank Brian Vernel
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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.
Drama
USA
1951
87 Minutes
Steve Cochran David Brian Philip Carey Ted de Corsia Scott Forbes Michael Tolan Dick Wesson Paul Picerni William Campbell
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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.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Jean Jean Ramón Emilio Candelario Judith Rodriguez Jose Cruz Manuel Raposo Karina Valdez Aleja Johnson Carlota Carretero Keunis Álvarez Orestes Amador
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Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
Crime, Drama
USA
1930
87 Minutes
Wallace Beery Chester Morris Robert Montgomery Lewis Stone Leila Hyams George F. Marion J.C. Nugent Karl Dane DeWitt Jennings Matthew Betz Claire McDowell
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A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.
Drama, War
UK
1959
99 Minutes
Richard Todd Richard Attenborough Bernard Lee Michael Wilding Dennis Price Donald Houston William Franklyn Vincent Ball Peter Arne Peter Jones Ronnie Stevens
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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.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|UK
2018
93 Minutes
Robert Redford Casey Affleck Sissy Spacek Danny Glover Tom Waits Tika Sumpter Ari Elizabeth Johnson Teagan Johnson Gene Jones John David Washington Barlow Jacobs
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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.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
China|USA
2018
94 Minutes
Sylvester Stallone Dave Bautista Curtis Jackson Jaime King Jesse Metcalfe Huang Xiaoming Lydia Hull Baylee Curran Ashley Cusato Vincent Young Tyler Jon Olson
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Years after he fought his way out of an inescapable prison, Ray Breslin has organized a new top-notch security force. But when one of his team members goes missing, Breslin must return to the hell he once escaped from.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany|UK
2008
105 Minutes
Jason Statham Tyrese Gibson Ian McShane Joan Allen Natalie Martinez Max Ryan Jason Clarke Frederick Koehler Jacob Vargas Justin Mader Robert LaSardo
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Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory.
Biography, Drama
UK|USA
1978
121 Minutes
Brad Davis Randy Quaid John Hurt Bo Hopkins Paul L. Smith Mike Kellin Norbert Weisser Irene Miracle Paolo Bonacelli Michael Ensign Kevork Malikyan
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Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2017
92 Minutes
Martin McCann Niamh McGrady Tom Vaughan-Lawlor Barry Ward Eileen Walsh Andy Kellegher David Coakley Seán T. Ó Meallaigh Aaron Monaghan James Browne Ross McKinney
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Inspired by the true events of the 1983 breakout of 38 Irish Republican prisoners from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA|Canada|Indonesia|UK|China|Singapore
2017
106 Minutes
Frank Grillo Bojana Novakovic Jonny Weston Callan Mulvey Antonio Fargas Jacob Vargas Iko Uwais Yayan Ruhian
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A tough-as-nails detective embarks on a relentless pursuit to free his son from a nightmarish alien warship.
Action
USA
2003
98 Minutes
Jean-Claude Van Damme Lawrence Taylor Marnie Alton Lloyd Battista Carlos Gomez Emanuil Manolov Chris Moir Billy Rieck Kaloian Vodenicharov Malakai Davidson Veselin Kalanovski
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A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the wardens' entertainment.
Comedy, War, Drama
UK|USA
1969
101 Minutes
Oliver Reed Michael J. Pollard Karin Baal Wolfgang Preiss Helmut Lohner Peter Carsten
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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.
Western
USA
1953
87 Minutes
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A man is framed and sent to toughest prison in the territory.
Drama
USA
1967
129 Minutes
Paul Newman George Kennedy J.D. Cannon Lou Antonio Robert Drivas Strother Martin Jo Van Fleet Wayne Rogers Anthony Zerbe Ralph Waite Harry Dean Stanton
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A laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
Crime, Drama
USA
2018
96 Minutes
Alexander Dreymon Lesley-Ann Brandt Erik LaRay Harvey Cedric Young Wayne David Parker Jacqueline Williams Javon Anderson Jerilynd Bartys Michael Alexander Phillip Edward Van Lear Anton Bassey
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A rogue love story centered on a female correctional officer whose life is turned upside down by the fleeting affections of her lover - a male convict whose charm is only as genuine as his desire to be free.
War
USA
1953
120 Minutes
William Holden Otto Preminger Robert Strauss Don Taylor Harvey Lembeck Richard Erdman Peter Graves Neville Brand Sig Ruman Michael Moore Peter Baldwin
prisoner of war spy guard pilot sergeant nazi engaging gripping suspenseful tense germany prison camp world war ii prisoners of war loyalty imprisonment escape mystery quest 1940s
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
98 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Hume Cronyn Charles Bickford Yvonne De Carlo Ann Blyth Ella Raines Anita Colby Sam Levene Howard Duff Art Smith Roman Bohnen
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At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
War, Drama, History
USA|Luxembourg
2006
125 Minutes
Christian Bale Steve Zahn Jeremy Davies Galen Yuen Abhijati "Meuk" Jusakul Chaiyan "Lek" Chunsuttiwat Teerawat "Ka-Ge" Mulvilai Yuttana Muenwaja Kriangsak Ming-Olo Pat Healy Toby Huss
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A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Mystery & Thriller
France|USA
1973
150 Minutes
Steve McQueen Dustin Hoffman Victor Jory Don Gordon Anthony Zerbe Robert Deman Woodrow Parfrey Bill Mumy George Coulouris Ratna Assan William Smithers
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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.