Best movies about escapes

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Discover the best movies about escapes, ranked from best to worst.

Based on 0 votes, the movie A Perfect World, starring Kevin Costner and Clint Eastwood, came in first as the best movie about escapes of all time, followed by Bandit and Bandits from 2001. Scroll down for the top 10 movies about escapes, recommended by movie fans in 2026.

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A Perfect World

1993 - Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura DernDrama, Crime

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Texas in the 1960s: an escaped convict takes a young boy hostage, and a surprising friendship slowly grows between them. On their trail is a U.S. Marshal, helped by a criminologist. Kevin •••

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Bandit

2022 - Josh Duhamel, Elisha Cuthbert, Mel Gibson, Nestor Carbonell, Lorenzo Yearby, Swen...

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After escaping from a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and proceeds to rob a record 59 banks and jewelry stores while being hunted by a police •••

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Bandits

2001 - Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate BlanchettComedy, Crime

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After breaking out of prison, Joe and Terry rob banks across Oregon and California to pay for a new life south of the border. Things get complicated when they meet Kate, who hits them with •••

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Chicken Run

2000 - Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Imelda StauntonAnimation, Comedy, Family

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A group of farm chickens wants to escape, even though they can't fly. Rocky the rooster tries to teach them, while brave Ginger keeps the flock together. Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson and •••

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Escape from Alcatraz

1979 - Clint Eastwood, Patrick McGoohan, Roberts BlossomDrama, Thriller

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In January 1960, Frank Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, the maximum-security prison on an island in San Francisco Bay from which no one had ever managed to escape. With other inmates, he •••

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Escape from New York

1981 - Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence, Adrienne Barbeau, Harry Dean Stanton...

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In 1997, Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a maximum-security prison for the worst criminals, who have formed an anarchic society.

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Escape From Pretoria

2020 - Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter, Nathan Page, Grant Piro...

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South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the •••

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Escape Plan

2013 - Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim CaviezelAction, Thriller

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Ray Breslin is the world's top expert in prison security and designs places no one can escape from. Framed, he ends up locked in one such building he designed himself, and has to find a •••

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Escape Plan 2: Hades

2018 - Sylvester Stallone, Dave Bautista, Jesse MetcalfeAction, Thriller, Crime, Mystery...

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Ray Breslin runs a team of security experts trained to break people out of the world's most secure prisons. When Shu Ren, his most trusted operative, is kidnapped and locked inside a •••

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Escape to Victory

1981 - Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von SydowDrama, War

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During World War II, a group of prisoners in a German camp plays a football match against the German national team. For them, the match is about more than sport: it is also a chance to •••

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This list includes, for example, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Escape From Pretoria, Escape from New York.

What are the most recent movies in this list?

Among the titles with a known release year, the most recent are: Roofman (2025), The Count of Monte-Cristo (2024), Bandit (2022).

Which movies from 2010–2019 are included?

Titles released in this period include Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018), Tau (2018), The Maze Runner (2014).

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