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Plot Summary:
Based on a real event, this is the spectacular escape of seven prisoners in 1991 from the Villa Devoto prison in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the process of digging a tunnel to escape, they make a bizarre and frightening discovery just as they are about to break through to freedom. One escapee promises to report their findings when they are all free and once out, he pays his debt to "the tunnel of bones,"sharing their macabre story with a local journalist, and ultimately the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Pugoy - Hostage Davao (1993)
Plot Summary:
Pugoy: Davao Hostage Crisis movie based on 1989 crisis starred Ian Veneracion. The story behind the rape joke of mayor duterte.
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Genere: Action, Crime
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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The Chain (1996)
Plot Summary:
When unjustly imprisoned in a South American jail, a tough cop and a renegade arms dealer must set aside their differences to escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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5 Dark Souls (1996)
Plot Summary:
A group of popular teenagers trick three unsuspecting classmates into the woods to see what it's like to kill someone.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Crime, Horror, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Shootout at Wadala (2013)
Plot Summary:
The first-ever registered encounter by the Mumbai Police, which took place on November 1, 1982. It's based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, stylized
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The Grave (1996)
Plot Summary:
Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly buried with a dead millionaire.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman (2021)
Plot Summary:
Morgan Freeman explores real-life prison breaks that have captured the attention of the public, showcasing an up close and personal view of what the prisoners are faced with in executing their break outs.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Escape From Pretoria (2020)
Plot Summary:
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 infamous Pretoria Prison….
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: political, suspense, tense, atmospheric, dramatic, thought provoking, suspenseful, psychological thriller, inspirational, mindfuck
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Nitro Rush (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the follow up to the box-office hit Nitro (2007), we catch up with Max as he serves time for the role he played in the death of a police officer. When the film begins, Max learns that his 17-year-old son Theo has just been recruited by a criminal organization. Desperate to get him out of this situation, Max escapes from prison. He discovers that Theo and his best friend Charly have fallen under the control of Daphne, an alluring femme fatale, who is taking advantage of the teens’ expert computer skills to plan a bold and risky burglary. Quickly understanding he’ll be unable to persuade his son to walk away from it all, Max joins the team in order to protect them. His driving skills and his athletic prowess will prove to be invaluable assets in this action-packed sequel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Streetfighter (1974)
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Terry is a tough mercenary and a master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Terry to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then try to kill him to conceal their secret plans, he promptly offers his services to protect her. Much ultra-violent martial-arts fighting action, as expected, ensues. This also includes a subplot of a family's blood-feud with Terry over a disputed debt.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, bloody, cult classic, stylized, controversial, crime drama, perverse, exciting, rough, serious
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Johan Falk: Vapenbröder (2009)
Plot Summary:
John Falk is on a routine mission with the Gothenburg police special unit GSI. With the help of a Norwegian undercover police and a civilian infiltrator in one of Gothenburg's heaviest criminal gangs, the GSI are trying buy six assault rifles and thus get them off the street. But suddenly everything changes when a new unknown player suddenly and immediately wants to buy not only those weapons but even more, including armor-piercing shells.GSI realizes that this can not be any ordinary robbers. Someone will start a war on the streets of Gothenburg. At the same time as the situation gets more and more complicated for John Falk's infiltrator Frank Wagner when the leader of the gang he infiltrated realize that one of his own leaking to the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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Force of Execution (2013)
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Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. For a simple prison hit, he sends his best enforcer and protégé Roman Hurst (Foster). When the hit goes wrong, Hurst is forced to pay the price of his failure: banishment in the city that he almost once ruled. But a war is brewing for the soul of the city between Alexander, a cold-blooded gangster known as 'The Iceman" (Rhames) and a merciless Mexican cartel. Hurst, with the help of an ex-con restaurant owner (Trejo) who has a few hidden moves of his own, will rediscover his own will to survive the coming conflict and to wreak vengeance on those who have wronged him.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
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Chronicle of an Escape (2006)
Plot Summary:
The true story of four men who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Argentina's military death squads during the 1970s is brought to the screen in this thriller. In 1977, Claudio Tamburrini (Rodrigo de la Serna) was a goalie for a minor-league football team when he was abducted by members of the Argentine military police and taken to an unofficial detention center on the false suspicion that he was a terrorist. Over 30,000 people lost their lives at the hands of Argentinean authorities under the military junta that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983, and as he was tortured by intelligence agents looking for information he didn't have, Tamburrini fully expected to become another victim. After many sessions of brutal torture, Tamburrini and his fellow captives Guillermo (Nazareno Casero) and Tano (Martin Urruty) were being readied for execution when, in a final desperate act, Tamburrini dove out a window during a rainstorm.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, disturbing, crime drama, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful
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The Escapist (2008)
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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 - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, harsh, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, psychological thriller, mindfuck, sincere, mind bending
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Tango & Cash (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 112000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: intense, detective, action comedy, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, cult classic, sentimental
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Prison on Fire (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ching and Yiu and problems they face with Mickey, a fellow inmate and "Assassin", a prison guard. Yiu is sentenced to three years for manslaughter. In a fight for his father, he pushed a man and was run over by a bus. Ching was sent to prison for killing his wife for being a prostitute. During the end of the film, inmates decide to go on hunger strike to protest against the cigarette price rise, this causes problems with Assassin. Ching bit Surface's ear off and gets an extended sentence, continued on Prison on Fire II, Yiu is released later on.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Connection (2014)
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Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, noir, neo noir, captivating, hood, powerful, realistic
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The Hatton Garden Job (2017)
Plot Summary:
In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled by 4 elderly men. With the stolen property having a value of up to £200 million, the incident has been called the "largest burglary in English history".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Last Rampage (2017)
Plot Summary:
The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, in the summer of 1978.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama
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Con Air (1997)
Plot Summary:
When the government puts all its rotten criminal eggs in one airborne basket, it's asking for trouble. Before you can say, "Pass the barf bag," the crooks control the plane, led by creepy Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. Watching his every move is the just-released Cameron Poe, who'd rather reunite with his family.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 314000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, serious, action packed, intense, realistic, suspenseful, entertaining, action adventure, romantic
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Enemies of the State (2010)
Plot Summary:
Crime thriller inspired by the story of Jiri Kajinek, which is considered the first bounty hunter in the Czech Republic. Thanks to his escape from the prison fortress Mirov it became a legend and the most wanted man in Europe. Five weeks while eluding the police, is still shrouded in mystery. Kajínek Film is a powerful story of the most famous prisoner int the Czech Republic in our story of double murder, the story of lawyer looking for new evidence, the story of the underworld and its penetration into the government and handling of the story. George is a victim of conspiracy or Kajínek cold-blooded killer? Trying to prove his innocence or to intimidate and influence witnesses?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Felon (2008)
Plot Summary:
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: brutal, realistic, tense, emotional, serious, sincere, social, grindhouse, cerebral, rough
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Escape at Dannemora (2018)
Plot Summary:
The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 440 min
Plot tags: melancholic, captivating, atmospheric, entertaining, anthology, anime, grindhouse, non fiction, historical drama, interesting
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Escape Plan: The Extractors (2019)
Plot Summary:
After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured. Now he and his team must pull off a deadly rescue mission to confront their sadistic foe and save the hostages before time runs out.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, saga, action thriller, action packed, neo noir, psychotronic
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, rough, psychological, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime thriller
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Fortress (1992)
Plot Summary:
A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie. The prison is a futuristic one run by a private corporation bent on mind control in various ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, cyber, futuristic, suspense, cult classic, apocalyptic, breathtaking, tech noir
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Lock Up (1989)
Plot Summary:
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, brutal, clever, cult classic
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The Escapist (2002)
Plot Summary:
Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, but the evil Ricky kills Valerie anyway. Their baby is saved, and later Barnes is arrested and sentenced to life in the maximum security prison, Sullen Voe. Denis fakes his own suicide, then assaults a police car in order to get himself arrested and sent to prison with the intention of tracking down and killing Ricky Barnes. He does not reveal his true name and is called John "What" by the prisoners and guards. Denis escapes from successive prisons, forcing his eventual transfer to Sullen Voe. When he reaches his objective, Ricky Barnes schedules a confrontation, but things do not quite turn out the way Denis had expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough
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Escape Plan (2013)
Plot Summary:
Ray 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 design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 254000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, twist ending, clever, entertaining, intense, serious, action packed, brutal
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Son of a Gun (2014)
Plot Summary:
Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but protection comes at a price.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, stylized, exciting, suspenseful, neo noir, surprise ending, noir, bloody, suspense, crime drama
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Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Plot Summary:
Escape from Alcatraz tells the story of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 years, the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once - by three men never heard of again.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, motivational, inspirational, neo noir, non fiction, crime drama