The Shawshank Redemption
Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
A banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.
Why you'll love it
The film tells the story of a man who is wrongly imprisoned and his elaborate plan to escape.
The Great Escape
Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II make a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of POWs hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.
Why you'll love it
The film is about a group of prisoners of war who plan an elaborate escape from a German camp during World War II.
A Man Escaped
François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock
A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.
Why you'll love it
The film is based on the memoirs of André Devigny, a member of the French Resistance held in Montluc prison by the occupying Germans during World War II.
Papillon
Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory
A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Why you'll love it
The film is based on the autobiography of Henri Charrière, a French convict who escapes from a prison in French Guiana.
Escape from Alcatraz
Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts Blossom
Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.
Why you'll love it
Based on a true story, the film follows three men who escaped from the infamous Alcatraz prison.