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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
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1977★ 5.8

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

A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality....

#2
Palindromes

Palindromes

2005★ 6.2

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

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revo...

#3
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

2003★ 7.3

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

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she ...

#4
The True Adventures of Wolfboy

The True Adventures of Wolfboy

2019★ 5.9

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

Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother....

#5
Norman

Norman

2010★ 6.1

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

A teenager pretends to be dying from cancer as a way to cope with the realities of his daily existence and his father's terminal illness....

#6
Teen Spirit

Teen Spirit

2019★ 6.0

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

A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and am...

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