Sud-àfrica, 1978. En Tim Jenkin i l'Stephen Lee són dos activistes polítics blancs del Congrés Nacional Africà. El règim de l'apartheid els empresona i tramen un pla per escapar de la infame presó de Pretòria.
Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ever built, Ray must track him down with the help of some of his former friends.
Tancat per un delicte menor, el jove JR (Brenton Thwaites) aprèn ràpidament les duresa de la vida a la presó, i que per sobreviure a dins cal buscar protecció. Aviat es trobarà sota la mirada del criminal més famós d'Austràlia, Brendan Lynch (Ewan McGregor), però aquesta empara té un preu. Lynch i el seu equip tenen plans per al jove protegit: després de sortir JR en llibertat, haurà d'ajudar Lynch amb el seu pla de fuga.
During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
Jimmy està aturat, divorciat i no té un duro, Clyde va perdre un braç a la guerra de l'Iraq i ara treballa de cambrer en un antre, i Mellie és una perruquera obsessionada amb els cotxes, tots tres són germans i estan entestats a burlar una suposada maledicció familiar. Per això robaran la càmera cuirassada del circuit de carreres Charlotte Motor Speedway, durant la celebració de la cursa Coca-Cola 600 a Carolina del Nord. Per poder dur a terme el pla necessitaran un expert en demolicions, Joe Bang. L'únic petit inconvenient és que és a la presó.
Retirat de l'ofici, en Tucker (Robert Redford) viu en una llar de jubilats i ha trobat en la Jewel (Sissy Spacek) a l'amor de la seva vida. Quan un dia veu al detectiu John Hunt (Casey Affleck) per televisió, l'ex-atracador sent la necessitat de donar un últim cop i demostrar que encara pot portar de cap els policies més competents.
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
Lió, abril de 1943. A la França ocupada, el tinent Fontaine és detingut pels alemanys i portat a la seu de la Gestapo per ser interrogat. De camí a la fortalesa de Montluc, on ha de ser confinat, salta del cotxe de policia, però aviat torna a ser capturat i és condemnat a mort. Després d'haver perdut el coneixement, comprova que està tancat en una cel·la d'espai reduït. Un dia, mitjançant l'ús d'una agulla, busca la manera de desbloquejar les seves mans emmanillades. A poc a poc, una idea s'anirà convertint en obsessió: fugir.
After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that promises to have far-reaching implications on his life and the lives of countless others.
After escaping from prison, Joe and Terry go on a crime spree, robbing banks through Oregon and California in order to finance their scheme for a new life south of the border. Unfortunately, things get more complicated when they meet Kate, who runs into them with her car. She joins the bandits on their cross-country spree, and eventually she steals something, too: their hearts.
Bumbling bank janitor Ernest P. Worrell is assigned to jury duty, and soon finds himself in trouble when he is covertly switched with a look-a-like crime boss. Ernest must escape from jail to expose the mix-up.
Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew battle some soldiers on Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they're trying to rescue the French Ambassador -- there's a coup going on. Some of John's soldiers unload their machine guns into the Ambassador and his family, blowing the mission and getting his best friend Radio Jones killed. He heads back to the US and visits Radio's wife Shondra to tells her the news, and then promises that he'll take care of her and her son Eddie. But shortly after he makes that vow, Shondra and Eddie get kidnapped.
Cody Jarrett i la seva banda assalten un tren que transporta 300.000 dòlars, assassinen els conductors i fugen amb els diners. Poc després els agents federals inicien la persecució, convençuts que ell és l'autor de l'assalt. Cody es lliura a la policia i és condemnat a només dos anys de presó, ja que ha preparat una coartada perfecta. Tot i això, els agents del tresor estan convençuts que va ser el cervell de l'assalt i li tendeixen un parany.
A daring prison break from an airliner at 30,000 feet leaves U.S. Marshal Pete Nessip mourning a brother and gunning for revenge. After being ordered to turn in his badge, he seeks out Jessie Crossman, a noted skydiver, and offers to sponsor her crew for the annual Independence Day parachuting show in Washington, D.C., if she trains him. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the mid-air jailbreak is planning a daring computer theft on Independence Day.
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
The movie is based on the autobiography of Horst Fantazzini. Son of an anarchist, he was known in Northern Italy as “the gentleman bandit” because he robbed banks without violence, with only a toy gun. After many convictions and jailbreaks, in the summer of 1973 he's being held in Fossano, Piedmont when he tries to escape again. This time things get messy and he has to use a real gun and take two prison guards as hostages.
Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and Mickey, a menacing hothead, demands money of Noel. A few days later, Mickey returns to the estate, shoots up a dinner party and threatens them again. Noel sends Nicole to an hotel and goes to his old gang to help him hunt down the dangerous Mickey. Mickey has other problems, too, including heartache for a daughter he hardly knows. Young, eager cops tail Nicole, and all are on a complicated collision course.
Fugitive convict Aldo seizes a car, taking policeman Giacomo and civilian Giovanni hostages. While chased by the police all over Italy, they will eventually become friends.