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Movies: Best "escaped convict" Movies


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A Perfect World(1993)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 18min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 697 votes)

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

No Good Deed(2014)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 23min | Crime, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 284 votes)

Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.

The Emperor of Paris(2018)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 1min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 218 votes)

Paris, France, early 19th century. The legendary convict François Vidocq lives in disguise trying to escape from a tragic past that torments him. When, after an unfortunate event, he crosses paths with the police chief, he makes a bold decision that will turn the ruthless mastermind of the Parisian underworld against him.

Dark Passage(1947)

3.6/5 (with 136 votes)

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

Labor Day(2013)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 51min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 493 votes)

Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

The Chase(1966)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 15min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 119 votes)

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

The Trip(2021)

1h 53min | Comedy, Horror
3.4/5 (with 216 votes)

A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can carry out their respective plans, unexpected visitors arrive and the couple is faced with a greater danger than anything they could have plotted.

The Defiant Ones(1958)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 36min | Crime, Drama
3.6/5 (with 96 votes)

Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

Becky(2020)

1h 33min | Thriller, Crime, Horror, Action
3.2/5 (with 179 votes)

A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.

Directed by Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion - With Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale, Amanda Brugel, Robert Maillet, Ryan McDonald, ...

Great Expectations(1946)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 58min | Romance / Love, Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 131 votes)

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

We're No Angels(1989)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 46min | Comedy, Crime
3.1/5 (with 217 votes)

Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

Ghosts of Mars(2001)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 38min | Action, Horror, Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 464 votes)

In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find the post deserted and something far more dangerous than any criminal — the original inhabitants of Mars, hellbent on getting their planet back.

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The Desperate Hours(1955)

1h 52min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 61 votes)

Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.

The Escapist(2008)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 42min | Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 102 votes)

Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.

A Man Escaped(1956)

1h 41min | Thriller, Drama, War, History
4.0/5 (with 215 votes)

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

El Condor(1970)

2.9/5 (with 12 votes)

You can get killed trying to break through the walls of El Condor...but it's one helluva way to die!

Point Blank(1998)

1h 38min | Action, Drama, Crime
2.4/5 (with 10 votes)

Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) before making their demands. Only Rudy, a former mercenary and brother of one of the fugitives, can take out the criminals before more of the hostages die.

Desperate Hours(1990)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 45min | Mystery, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 79 votes)

An escaped con, on the run from the law, moves into a married couple's house and takes over their lives.

After the Fox(1966)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 48min | Crime, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 27 votes)

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

House of Frankenstein(1944)

1h 11min | Horror
3.0/5 (with 72 votes)

An evil scientist and a hunchback escape from prison and encounter Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's Monster.

Van Diemen's Land(2009)

1h 44min | Drama, History, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 19 votes)

The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.

Directed by Jonathan auf der Heide - With Greg Stone, Torquil Neilson, Oscar Redding

Versus(2000)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 59min | Action, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 74 votes)

Set in the present where a group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, unwittingly, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead, with the assistance of the evil Sprit that has also come back, come back from ages past, to claim his prize. The final standoff between Light and Dark has never been so cunning, so brutal and so deadly. This is where old Japanese Samurai mysticism meets the new world of the gangster and the gun. Gruesome, bloody and positively bold.

Fast Five(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 10min | Action, Thriller, Crime
3.6/5 (with 3,824 votes)

Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom.

Appointment in Honduras(1953)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 19min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution. Denied permission to land in Honduras, Corbett releases the prisoners and with their aid hijacks the ship. They land, taking the wealthy Sheppards as hostages, and start the arduous trip upriver to Corbett's rendezvous, meeting jungle hazards.

À Nous la Liberté(1931)

1h 35min | Comedy, Music
3.5/5 (with 36 votes)

In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.

The Adventurer(1917)

26min | Comedy, Adventure
3.5/5 (with 55 votes)

The daring convict no. 23, known as The Eel, escapes from prison and, after mocking his inept persecutors, saves the lives of three people in peril: a beautiful girl, her mother and an annoying suitor, only to get exhausted and almost drowned. Once he regains his strength at Judge Brown's home, he participates on an upper-class social party where he competes with the suitor for the favors of the charming Miss Brown. But prison guards are still after him….

And God Created Woman(1988)

2.2/5 (with 15 votes)

In this variation on director Vadim's own, more acclaimed Et Dieu Créa La Femme (1956, the same title in French), the vamp Robin Shea marries charming carpenter Billy Moran, only to get out of prison, but soon decides to seduce James Tiernan, who runs for state governor.

The Front Page(1931)

3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

Hildy Johnson is an investigative reporter is looking for a bigger paycheck. When an accused murderer escapes from custody, Hildy sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime. But when he finds the criminal, he learns that the man may not be guilty. With the help of his editor, Hildy attempts to hide the convict, uncover the conspiracy and write the scoop of his career.

Happy, Texas(1999)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Crime, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 49 votes)

Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.

Susana(1951)

1h 26min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

The story of a girl of questionable mental stability who escapes from incarceration and ends up at a plantation where she disrupts a working family's daily routines and chemistry.

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