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1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

R | 142 min | Drama

Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.

Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler

Votes: 2,888,139 | Gross: $28.34M

2. Skyfall (2012)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Judi Dench

Votes: 731,023 | Gross: $304.36M

3. Top Secret! (1984)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Music

An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.

Directors: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Stars: Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Jeremy Kemp, Warren Clarke

Votes: 73,027 | Gross: $20.50M

4. Midnight Express (1978)

R | 121 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Director: Alan Parker | Stars: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli

Votes: 88,227 | Gross: $35.00M

5. Lock Up (1989)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.

Director: John Flynn | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Sonny Landham

Votes: 46,423 | Gross: $22.10M

6. Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001 Video)

PG | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

The now famous Burt Gummer returns to his hometown of Perfection, Nevada for the first time in years, but the deadliest Graboid evolution yet forces him to save the town he swore to protect.

Director: Brent Maddock | Stars: Michael Gross, Shawn Christian, Susan Chuang, Charlotte Stewart

Votes: 19,233

7. Borgman (2013)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A vagrant enters the lives of an arrogant upper-class family, turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process.

Director: Alex van Warmerdam | Stars: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval, Alex van Warmerdam

Votes: 18,909 | Gross: $0.06M

8. Mujer Perversa (2023)

95 min | Drama

Victoria. a fearless Latina in a narco-cartel world falls for her bodyguard and stepsister, Katy, leading to a risky love triangle. Amidst the danger, she must make tough choices for her survival.

Director: Danilo G. Santos | Stars: Norma Calix, Guillermo Quintanilla, Fernando Gaviria, Antonio Aguirre

Votes: 5

9. Carry on Spying (1964)

87 min | Comedy

Agent Simpkins and trainees chase STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans) for a stolen chemical formula, using gadgets and disguises to defeat villains The Fat Man, Dr Milchman, and Dr Crow.

Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey

Votes: 3,110

10. Get Santa (2014)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

After Santa Claus is arrested and jailed, a recently paroled prisoner and his young son attempt to save Christmas before it's too late.

Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kit Connor, Ewen Bremner

Votes: 4,753

11. Jailbreak Pact (2020)

135 min | Drama, Thriller

This drama is inspired on a real event in 1990 when 49 political prisoners escaped from a tunnel that took 18 months to dig.

Director: David Albala | Stars: Alberto Ellena, Amparo Noguera, Benjamín Vicuña, Carolina Paulsen

Votes: 2,435

12. Grey Wolf: Hitler's Escape to Argentina (2012)

Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama, History

Adolf Hitler the biggest criminal in history escaped from the ruins of Berlin and fled with his pregnant girlfriend Eva Braun to a life in the depths of Patagonia, Argentina where he died in 1962.

Director: Gerrard Williams | Stars: Dante Venesio, Maria Heller, Martin Gianola, Pietro Gian

Votes: 340

13. Kongo (1932)

Passed | 86 min | Drama, Horror

This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a ... See full summary »

Director: William J. Cowen | Stars: Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce

Votes: 1,123

14. Ambush at Dark Canyon (2012)

R | 90 min | Drama, Western

U.S. Marshall Duke Donovan is imprisoned, accused of being an accomplice in a bank robbery. After discovering that his partner is planning to kill his wife, he must escape prison in time to save his wife and clear his name.

Director: Dustin Rikert | Stars: Ernie Hudson, Sydney Penny, Courtney Gains, Andrew W. Walker

Votes: 516

15. A Coming-Out Party (1961)

98 min | Comedy, War

A somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits in a German POW camp find their new acerbic fellow prisoner is a key officer who must be got out at all cost.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes

Votes: 619

16. The Brain (1969)

G | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

When NATO transfers some of its funds from Paris to Brussels by train, a criminal mastermind posing as a British colonel plans to steal it but two petty French thieves also have the same intent.

Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bourvil, David Niven, Eli Wallach

Votes: 4,371

17. The Wooden Horse (1950)

101 min | Drama, History, War

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany.

Directors: Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple | Stars: Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel, David Greene

Votes: 1,595

18. Pablo Escobar: Countdown to Death (2017 TV Movie)

68 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Through rare interviews, images and wiretap audio, this documentary reconstructs the last nine years of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's life.

Director: Santiago Diaz Oso | Stars: María Isabel Santos, Sebastian Marroquín, Alba Marina Escobar, Germán Castro Caycedo

Votes: 264

19. The Great Escape: The True Story (2021)

60 min | Documentary, History

Three-part documentary examining the story of the audacious Second World War prison break, in which 76 prisoners of war tunnelled their way out of a German prison camp in March 1944.

Stars: Martyn Hillyard, Tim McInnerny

Votes: 16

20. Eighty Acres of Hell (2006 TV Movie)

94 min | History

Unprepared for a protracted war, the huge number of prisoners of war overwhelmed both sides ability to hold them. Coupled with the bitter animosity toward the enemy this lead to inhuman ... See full summary »

Director: Gary Foreman | Stars: Thomas Y. Cartwright, William C. Davis, Joseph G. Dawson, David Dixon

Votes: 26

21. Pekka ja Pätkä mestarimaalareina (1959)

79 min | Comedy

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Director: Armand Lohikoski | Stars: Esa Pakarinen, Masa Niemi, Siiri Angerkoski, Armas Jokio

Votes: 306

22. Infernum (2010)

7 min | Short, Drama, History

A high-stakes drama of redemption and death, set during the chaos and brutality of the medieval Inquisition.

Director: Ted Marcus | Stars: David Dayan Fisher, Charlie Hunter, Vera R. Taylor, Denis O'Mahoney

Votes: 11

23. The A-Team (1983–1987)
Episode: Judgement Day: Part 1 (1985)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Mobster Joe Scarlett puts the squeeze on judge Mordente by kidnapping his daughter. Hannibal takes the place of Scarlett's messenger Augie to find out where the kidnappers are hiding the ... See full summary »

Director: David Hemmings | Stars: George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Mr. T

Votes: 296

24. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode: Only the Lonely (2002)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama

The truth is out about Virginia's murder. Fenner becomes Neil's new lodger. The computer illiterate Sylvia begins teaching the new IT class. Shaz and Denny hatch an audacious escape plan.

Director: David Holroyd | Stars: Claire King, Kerry Norton, Pauline Campbell, Kika Mirylees

Votes: 39

25. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode: Sweet Sixteen (2002)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama

Buki has stopped breathing following the escape tunnel cave-in, and Sylvia rushes to help. Fenner is jealous about Karen and Mark's fledgling relationship. Julie J. is reunited with her teenage daughter.

Director: Craig Lines | Stars: Kim Oliver, Helen Fraser, Paul Opacic, Jade Williams

Votes: 37

26. Dead at 21 (1994)
Episode: Life During Wartime (1994)

Action, Adventure, Crime

Ed and Maria team up with a TV conspiracy theorist and infiltrate a mortuary, where they make a shocking discovery.

Director: Jefferson Kibbee | Stars: Jack Noseworthy, Lisa Dean Ryan, Whip Hubley, Michael Reilly Burke

27. Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode: Snowball in Hell (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Barney faces the cat o' nine tails and a cruel ex-guard at a former penal colony as the other IM members work to trick the man out of a cheap substance which could be used for nuclear weapons.

Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Votes: 296

28. Relic Hunter (1999–2002)
Episode: Smoking Gun (1999)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Chicago 1930 - Sydney and Nigel are in Chicago to find Al Capone's gun.

Director: Ian Toynton | Stars: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Michelle Nolden

Votes: 153

29. The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode: The Frightened Inn-Keeper (1965)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Simon steps into strange events happening in a Cornish inn when he responds to an appeal for help from the inn-keeper's daughter.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Roger Moore, Michael Gwynn, Suzanne Neve, Percy Herbert

Votes: 138

30. Tremors (2003)
Episode: Night of the Shriekers (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

After Burt finds and kills a Shrieker in the valley, a government-funded science project with the goal of turning Shriekers into rescue animals is discovered. When the creatures escape, ... See full summary »

Director: P.J. Pesce | Stars: Victor Browne, Gladise Jiminez, Marcia Strassman, Lela Lee

Votes: 109

31. Nova (1974– )
Episode: History's Great Escapes (2004)

TV-PG | Documentary

"Great Escape" follows archaeologists---and original escapees---as they retrace the daring World War II POW escape dramatized in the 1963 Steve McQueen movie.

Director: Mark Radice | Stars: Richard Donat, Robert Krulwich

Votes: 26

32. Flashpoint (2008–2012)
Episode: Planets Aligned (2008)

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While trying to rescue an abducted girl, SRU finds another kidnappee and Jules must connect with her in order to save everyone.

Director: Kelly Makin | Stars: Tatiana Maslany, Peter Stebbings, Pascale Hutton, Hugh Dillon

Votes: 272

33. Narco Wars (2020–2022)
Episode: Chapo Public Enemy No 1 (2021)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, Crime, History

The search for the world's most-wanted drug trafficker - El Chapo - as told by two women in Chicago whose drug-dealing husbands turned against the man who supplied nearly half of America's ... See full summary »

Director: Minna Sedmakov | Stars: Mike Ferrara, Olivia Flores, Mia Flores, Jack Riley

Votes: 24

34. Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023)
Episode: Hide and Seek (2022)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Picard must face the ghosts of his past when he and his crew are attacked by a new incarnation of an old enemy; Seven and Raffi face Jurati in a final showdown.

Director: Michael Weaver | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Alison Pill, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd

Votes: 3,504

35. The Watcher (2022– )
Episode: The Gloaming (2022)

TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Dean and Nora find a hidden room where someone's been living. Theodora shares intriguing intel about Roger Kaplan. The family makes a fateful decision.

Director: Max Winkler | Stars: Naomi Watts, Bobby Cannavale, Mia Farrow, Noma Dumezweni

Votes: 1,612

36. Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (2010–2012)
Episode: ...Nor Iron Bars a Cage (2010)

TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Kevin's out for payback on anyone who has ever crossed him. His next stop is a prison in the Null Void. Ben and Gwen try to stop him, where Ben comes to a grim decision.

Director: Butch Lukic | Stars: Yuri Lowenthal, Ashley Johnson, Greg Cipes, Dee Bradley Baker

Votes: 313

37. Justified: City Primeval (2023)
Episode: City Primeval (2023)

TV-MA | 52 min | Crime, Drama

Fifteen years after Raylan Givens left the hollers of Kentucky, a chance encounter in the Florida swamps sends him to Detroit and places him on a collision course with a violent sociopath and a formidable defense attorney.

Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Adelaide Clemens

Votes: 1,383

38. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: Battle of the Giants or It Takes Two to Tangle/Bye Bye Boris or Farewell My Ugly (1961)

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky and Bullwinkle finally meet up face-to-face with Mr. Big in the concluding chapters of "Upsidaisium".

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Pete Burness, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, George Singer, Ernest Terrazas | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad

Votes: 36

39. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Prisoners of War, Part Two - Battle for the Mind (1998)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

Examines the treatment of prisoners of war on both sides during WWII. From interrogation to housing to repatriation, civilian and military POWs were often used as pawns between warring nations.

Stars: Charlton Heston, Mark Seaman, Robert C. Doyle, Sydney Dowse

40. Zorro (2024– )
Episode: La boda (2024)

Action

Nah-Lin learns Lolita is Diego's soft spot. She endangers the bride to coerce Diego into renouncing Zorro on their wedding day.

Director: Jorge Saavedra | Stars: Miguel Bernardeau, Renata Notni, Dalia Xiuhcoatl, Emiliano Zurita

Votes: 96

41. Irmandade (2019– )
Episode: What Brothers Are For (2019)

TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Thriller

While Andrade gives a press conference, the Brotherhood attempt their heist. Cristina is put in charge of an excavation of a prison escape tunnel.

Directors: Pedro Morelli, Aly Muritiba | Stars: Seu Jorge, Hermila Guedes, Bruce Wexler, Natália Lage

Votes: 52

42. Watchmen (2019)
Episode: See How They Fly (2019)

TV-MA | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Everything ends. For real this time.

Director: Frederick E.O. Toye | Stars: Regina King, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Hong Chau

Votes: 6,901