Movies and TV series about escapes

The 60 best titles about escapes, ranked by the iRank Score — our composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb. Every page includes cast, where to watch and similar recommendations.

Casablanca
iRank91
1942 · Michael Curtiz
MovieDramaRomance
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Toy Story 3
iRank88
2010 · Lee Unkrich
MovieAnimationComedyFamily
Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must b
Cool Hand Luke
iRank87
1967 · Stuart Rosenberg
MovieCrimeDrama
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admi
The Great Escape
iRank86
1963 · John Sturges
MovieAdventureDramaWar
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder
Room
iRank85
2015 · Lenny Abrahamson
MovieDramaThriller
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
The Twilight Zone
iRank85
1959 · Rod Serling
SeriesDramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Le Trou
iRank84
1960 · Jacques Becker
MovieCrimeDramaThriller
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Ove
Reservoir Dogs
iRank84
1992 · Quentin Tarantino
MovieCrimeThriller
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic
The Fugitive
iRank84
1993 · Andrew Davis
MovieActionDramaThriller
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
The Deer Hunter
iRank84
1978 · Michael Cimino
MovieDramaWar
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
The Elephant Man
iRank83
1980 · David Lynch
MovieDramaHistory
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity
Escape from Alcatraz
iRank81
1979 · Don Siegel
MovieDramaThriller
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and
Chicken Run
iRank81
2000 · Nick Park
MovieAnimationComedyFamily
The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts
War for the Planet of the Apes
iRank81
2017 · Matt Reeves
MovieDramaScience FictionWar
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins
Prison Break
iRank81
2005 · Nelson McCormick
SeriesAction & AdventureCrimeDrama
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the
The Bourne Identity
iRank77
2002 · Doug Liman
MovieActionDramaMystery
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but f
MacGyver
iRank77
1985 · Stephen Downing
SeriesAction & AdventureCrimeDrama
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items h
First Blood
iRank76
1982 · Ted Kotcheff
MovieActionAdventureThriller
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
iRank74
2010 · David Yates
MovieAdventureFantasy
Harry, Ron and Hermione walk away from their last year at Hogwarts to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, putting an end to Voldemort's bid for immortality. But with Harry's beloved Dumbledore d
Ready or Not
iRank74
2019 · Tyler Gillett
MovieComedyHorror
A young bride's wedding night turns into her worst nightmare when her ridiculously rich in-laws force her to play a gruesome game of hide-and-seek.
Papillon
iRank74
1973 · Franklin J. Schaffner
MovieCrimeDrama
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
MacGyver
iRank73
2016 · Michael Clear
SeriesAction & AdventureDrama
20-something Angus MacGyver creates a clandestine organization where he uses his knack for solving problems in unconventional ways to help prevent disasters from happening.
Smile 2
iRank72
2024 · Parker Finn
MovieHorrorMusicMystery
About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fam
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
iRank72
2016 · David Yates
MovieAdventureFantasy
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the c
The Way Back
iRank71
2010 · Peter Weir
MovieAdventureDramaHistory
A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.
A Quiet Place: Day One
iRank71
2024 · Michael Sarnoski
MovieHorrorScience FictionThriller
As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.
Public Enemies
iRank69
2009 · Michael Mann
MovieCrimeDramaHistory
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate
Closer
iRank68
2004 · Mike Nichols
MovieDramaRomance
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
Jurassic World
iRank68
2015 · Colin Trevorrow
MovieAdventureScience Fiction
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
The Living Daylights
iRank67
1987 · John Glen
MovieActionAdventureThriller
After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between
Smokey and the Bandit
iRank66
1977 · Hal Needham
MovieActionAdventureComedy
A race car driver tries to transport an illegal beer shipment from Texas to Atlanta in under 28 hours, picking up a reluctant bride-to-be on the way.
Cube
iRank66
1998 · Vincenzo Natali
MovieMysteryScience FictionThriller
A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.
Ready or Not: Here I Come
iRank66
2026 · Matt Bettinelli-Olpin
MovieComedyHorrorThriller
Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith at her side. Gr
The Maze Runner
iRank66
2014 · Wes Ball
MovieActionMysteryScience Fiction
A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society,
#Alive
iRank65
2020 · Cho Il
MovieActionHorrorScience Fiction
As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
The Adam Project
iRank65
2022 · Shawn Levy
MovieAdventureComedyScience Fiction
After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future.
Girl, Interrupted
iRank64
1999 · James Mangold
MovieDrama
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she st
Madagascar
iRank63
2005 · Eric Darnell
MovieAdventureAnimationComedy
Four animal friends get a taste of the wild life when they break out of captivity at the Central Park Zoo and wash ashore on the island of Madagascar.
The Island
iRank63
2005 · Michael Bay
MovieActionScience FictionThriller
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The I
Curse of Chucky
iRank63
2013 · Don Mancini
MovieHorrorThriller
After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the mounting bloodshed and chaos.
The Long Kiss Goodnight
iRank62
1996 · Renny Harlin
MovieActionCrimeMystery
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her pa
Now You See Me
iRank62
2013 · Louis Leterrier
MovieCrimeThriller
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
The Amateur
iRank62
2025 · James Hawes
MovieActionThriller
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into his own hands when his supervisors refuse to take
The Last Stand
iRank60
2013 · Kim Jee-woon
MovieActionCrimeThriller
Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious drug baron, his gang, and a
John Carter
iRank59
2012 · Andrew Stanton
MovieActionAdventureScience Fiction
John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a w
Damsel
iRank58
2024 · Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
MovieActionAdventureFantasy
A young woman's marriage to a charming prince turns into a fierce fight for survival when she's offered up as a sacrifice to a fire-breathing dragon.
Trap
iRank57
2024 · M. Night Shyamalan
MovieCrimeHorrorThriller
A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.
Old
iRank56
2021 · M. Night Shyamalan
MovieHorrorMysteryThriller
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
iRank55
2015 · Wes Ball
MovieActionAdventureScience Fiction
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate la
The Expendables
iRank54
2010 · Sylvester Stallone
MovieActionAdventureThriller
Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a lo
Kiss the Girls
iRank54
1997 · Gary Fleder
MovieCrimeDramaMystery
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women an
Cowboys & Aliens
iRank53
2011 · Jon Favreau
MovieActionScience FictionThriller
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhy
U.S. Marshals
iRank53
1998 · Stuart Baird
MovieActionCrimeThriller
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is
Sleeping with the Enemy
iRank50
1991 · Joseph Ruben
MovieDramaThriller
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
Halloween
iRank50
2007 · Rob Zombie
MovieHorror
The early years of young Michael Myers and the events leading up to his fateful Halloween night murder rampage in the quiet town of Haddonfield, Illinois.
Poseidon
iRank49
2006 · Wolfgang Petersen
MovieActionAdventureDrama
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
The Lone Ranger
iRank49
2013 · Gore Verbinski
MovieActionAdventureWestern
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto,
The Invasion
iRank46
2007 · Oliver Hirschbiegel
MovieHorrorMysteryScience Fiction
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien vi
Sucker Punch
iRank45
2011 · Zack Snyder
MovieActionFantasyThriller
A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a group of fellow inmates, she embarks on a quest to col
Taken 3
iRank41
2014 · Olivier Megaton
MovieActionThriller
Ex-government operative Bryan Mills finds his life is shattered when he's falsely accused of a murder that hits close to home. As he's pursued by a savvy police inspector, Mills employs his particular