Films like The Escapist
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...
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Escape Plan
Film · 2013 · also action and thrillerRay Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can de...
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Nowhere to Run
Film · 1993 · also action and thrillerEscaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
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Lights Out
Film · 2024 · also action and thrillerA drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him and all th...
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Murphy's Law
Film · 1986 · also action and thrillerA tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
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Section 8
Film · 2022 · also action and thrillerAfter avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
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Off the Grid
Film · 2025 · also action and thrillerAfter a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a...
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Maze
Film · 2017 · also thrillerInspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World Wa...
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon
Film · 2022 · also thrillerA young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and misc...
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Damage
Film · 2009 · also action and thrillerAn ex-con battles it out in the cage to pay for the operation that would save the daughter of his victim. Along the way he finds fatherly love, and friendship, in the mos...
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South of Heaven
Film · 2021 · also thrillerConvicted felon Jimmy gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release, he vows to give Annie, his childhood love, now dying from cancer,...
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