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- The Poseidon Adventure
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
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- Escape from New York
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- The Shawshank Redemption
- The Great Escape
When most think of this film, it is always viewed in the nostalgia-dappled light of that ’70s staple, the disaster epic. But this is really an inventive thriller with a premise that requires the cast to navigate from the top to the bottom of a capsized ship. The ingenious use of sets and set-up creates a real nailbiter, and the actors essay charact...
Escape? Escape from what? Responsibility? Adulthood? Conformity? Well, you could say “yes” to all of those suggestions, and you’d be right. While he really isn’t trying to get out of anything except another boring day in high school, our hero (Matthew Broderick) goes to great lengths to have a private public day out in Chicago. Bringing along his j...
Before there was Saw, before there was the carefully plotted deadly interconnections of a revenge minded man named John Kramer, there was this equally effective Canadian suspense ride. When a group of people find themselves locked inside a terrifying maze filled with fatal consequences, we witness their often ineffectual means of trying to find the...
This film is really one big set-up for what ends up being a pretty intense escape. Or two, for that matter. Our hero, played with great authority by Steve McQueen, is a safecracker sentenced to a French penal colony on Devil’s Island. Notorious for being nearly inaccessible, this crafty criminal, along with help from a forger (Dustin Hoffman), devi...
While Johnny Depp may be a bit too good looking to convince us he’s John Dillinger, Michael Mann’s movie about the notorious criminal’s crime spree and killing remains a solid action drama. Even better, the director stages two dramatic escapes among the many first class firefights. One involves Dillinger breaking into prison to free a buddy. The se...
The title says it all. Clint Eastwood had a big late ’70s hit with this adaptation of the J. Campbell Bruce non-fiction tome. In it, he plays a notorious escapee from other prisons sent to ‘The Rock’ for its equally contentious reputation against same. As Clint and his co-conspirators plot and plan, we wonder how they will ever pull it off. The res...
There is actually two parts to this title. The first offers up the President of the United States (Donald Pleasance), who is kidnapped by radicals. Hijacking Air Force One, the terrorists down the plane inside the maximum security prison known as Manhattan. This requires former war hero turned government headache Snake Pilssken to infiltrate the fo...
The premise is pretty simple: a huge apartment block in Jakarta, Indonesian, is owned by a powerful mobster and he uses the place as a hideout, storehouse, and security system. Most of the residents are his underlings, charged with protecting him at all costs. When a rookie cop and his fellow officers invade, hoping to end his evil rein. The ensuin...
For most people, this is the ultimate escape movie. We have a man, unjustly imprisoned, his life destroyed by a corrupt system in a corrupt time, and for the next few decades, he meticulously plots his revenge both against the people in power and against the walls that hold him. Thanks to Frank Darabont’s deliberate scripting and excellent directio...
Since it contains one of the most iconic images in the history of motion pictures involving one on the silver screen’s most charismatic stars, this has to be at the top of the list. When POW Steve McQueen (yes, him again) sends his rickety motorcycle over a barbed wire fence in an attempt to flee the Nazis, it stands as a solid example of ’60s defi...
- Papillon. Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory. 33 votes. Convicted murderer Henri Charriere (Steve McQueen), known as "Papillon" for his butterfly chest tattoo, is transported to French Guiana to serve his sentence in a work camp.
- The Shawshank Redemption. Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton. 44 votes. The Shawshank Redemption, a captivating drama directed by Frank Darabont, hinges on the resilience of the human spirit.
- Midnight Express. Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt. 26 votes. In the gripping drama Midnight Express, Billy Hayes (Brad Davis), an American student, faces a horrifying ordeal after he's caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey.
- Stalag 17. William Holden, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss. 23 votes. One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered and shot dead.
- Thirteen Lives (2022) Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton. Action, Adventure, Biography (2h 27m) 7.8 on IMDb — 85% on RT.
- Tunnel (2016) Directed by Kim Seong-hun. Starring Ha Jung-woo, Bae Doona, Oh Dal-su. Drama, Thriller (2h 6m) 6.8 on IMDb — 100% on RT. Tunnel is a South Korean drama film starring Ha Jung-woo as Lee Jung-soo, a car dealer who ends up trapped inside a tunnel after a cave-in.
- Mine (2016) Directed by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro. Starring Armie Hammer, Annabelle Wallis, Tom Cullen. Drama, Fantasy, Thriller (1h 46m) 5.8 on IMDb — 17% on RT.
- Sully (2016) Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney. Biography, Drama (1h 36m) 7.4 on IMDb — 85% on RT. Sully is a biopic drama film featuring the events of US Airways Flight 1549, a passenger plane that emergency landed on the Hudson River.
- The Shawshank Redemption 1994, 142 min. Frank Darabont • Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton. Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Buddy Film • Drama.
- Grand Illusion 1937, 114 min. Jean Renoir • Starring: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay. Anti-War Film • Drama • Escape Film. find this movie on ► Buy or Rent on iTunes.
- The Great Escape 1963, 172 min. John Sturges • Starring: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson. Adventure • Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-a-True-Story.
- The 39 Steps 1935, 86 min. Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim. Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Chase Movie • Escape Film.
"The Shawshank Redemption", "Grand Illusion", "The Great Escape", "A Man Escaped", & "The 39 Steps" are on The Best Escape Films of All Time on Flickchart.
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