Prison Escape Movies

By the turn of the 20th century, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Billy the Kid and virtually all of the West's legendary outlaws are either dead or...

The movie is based on the autobiography of Horst Fantazzini. Son of an anarchist, he was known in Northern Italy as “the gentleman...

A naive computer expert (Patrick Cassidy), a con artist (David Hemmings), and a tough guy (Bruce A. Young) join together in an escape from a...

Prisoners battle each other -- and the police -- when they escape the Colorado State Penitentiary.

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

Bob Muldoon and Ruth Guthrie, an impassioned young outlaw couple on an extended crime spree, are finally apprehended by lawmen after a shootout in...

Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.

Desmond plays convict Mike Gilbert, who goes on the lam with fellow prisoners Gruber and Graham when he finds out his wife is divorcing him and feels...

The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.

A stagecoach owner goes to jail to catch a holdup gang.

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the...

Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his...

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.

A crime boss tries to cause a riot and prison break while behind bars.

Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined...

A convicted racketeer becomes prison trustee when an inmate whom he persuaded to escape is killed.

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.

Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably...