Prison movies similar to Escape from Alcatraz?

[Rhood]

Looking for suspenseful prison escape movies to watch that are similar to Escape from Alcatraz.
That age of the film doesn't matter.

Just finished watching Lock Up & Escape Plan with Sylvester Stallone and they were both dumb as hell.

Looking for something better than that. Any recommendations?

 

[El Chimpo]

Shawshank Redemption is the most obvious one

 

[Kingz]

Pretty much The Shawshank Redemption...which you've probably already seen. It even borrowed a lot of elements from Escape From Alcatraz but it's a vastly superior film.

Good prison break movies are hard to make. Usually they are like the shitty Stallone ones.

 

[El Chimpo]

its not an escape movie but Felon is awesome

 

[jmac98]

That was a fun movie.

The obvious choice if you enjoyed that is Shawshank Redemption.
Or a good classic, The Great Escape.

 

[Kingz]

I'm surprised they haven't made a good movie about this attempted escape from Alcatraz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alcatraz

 

[mmascene]

Mel Gibson's Get the Gringo.

 

[Lethal_Striker]

The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption and Escape from Alcatraz are the best prison movies. Well that's if you aren't counting Chained Heat that is.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

The Rock.

 

[El Chimpo]

Mel Gibson's Get the Gringo.

underrated movie

 

[Luke Rockhard]

psst.. THE ROCK

CAGE... that's all I got to say

 

[Joe]

runaway train, bad boys

 

[Bullitt68]

The GOAT prison movie:

Midnight Express is another one of the great '70s prison movies. There are also some excellent older prison movies from the classical Hollywood era like Each Dawn I Die and Brute Force. And if POW stuff counts, there's stuff like The Great Escape and The Hill that'd be worth checking out.

 

[Cheese]

psst.. THE ROCK

CAGE... that's all I got to say

Close but this is the Cage movie you should have said

 

[Krav McGraw]

The Shawshank escape got torn apart in another thread. The pipe experts came out in full force.

 

[irish_thug]

underrated movie

Highly underrated.

 

[JohnSAFTAHess]

I fucking hate Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile. Just brutal movies..

I haven't seen it yet but I hear Short Eyes is good.. It's about a child molester's time in prison. Blood In Blood Out is all over the place, occasionally hilariously cheesy but still entertaining.. Let's Go to Prison is a decent jail comedy by Bob Oedenkirk. Fuck, I'm having a hard time thinking of prison movies that haven't been mentioned and none of those are escape movies.

Think I'll give Get the Gringo a try though.

Fuck... Just watch Oz.

 

[Brujo]

Tango & Cash

 

[El Chimpo]

Highly underrated.

Edge Of Darkness as well

 

[europe1]

Mel Gibson's Get the Gringo.

Good film, but it dosen't really feel like a suspensful escape film. The prison in that movie is more like a city in-and-of-itself than a penitentiary.