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10 Best Movies Like Escape

If you loved Escape, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Bronson

Bronson

2009★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted ...

#2
Pacto de Fuga

Pacto de Fuga

2020★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel ...

#3
Brute Force

Brute Force

1947★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how ...

#4
Riot in Cell Block 11

Riot in Cell Block 11

1954★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly....

#5
Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman

1985★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molin...

#6
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski...

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