Alcatraz Breakout
AMERICA'S HELLHOLE PRISON - ESCAPE-PROOF UNTIL JOHN GRANT PROVED IT WASN'T!
Genres
Overview
America's most feared prison. The nation's worst gangsters, such men as Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and Alvin Karpis have been broken there, and no man has ever escaped from "The Rock." Alcatraz and its impregnable walls, escape-proof, until inmate 1313-0 proved it wasn't!
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
58 min
Release Date
1978-01-01
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
1
Vote Average
2
Barrett Cooper
Warden
Albert Eskinazi
Harding
Irmgard Millard
Wife
Ray Myles
George Frasier
Marland Proctor
John Grant, Inmate 1313
5.0
Death Row Girls
In a nightmarish world of secret graveyards and machine gun executions, inmates must die... or kill to survive. Escape is no option, and is punished with... death, or a fate worse than death.
2004-12-25 | ja
5.9
Maze
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
2017-09-22 | en
6.5
Hamburg Altona
Three prisoners, Combe from Rijeka, Menso from Bosnia, and Bogart from Belgrade, escape from prison. Their final destination is the city of their dreams - Hamburg. They temporarily part ways and agree to meet at the train station in Zagreb. First, each of them goes to his hometown. From there on, we follow three separate stories. In the first, Combe, in the shady harbor district of Rijeka, tries to get back at his former crime partner, Mrvi, who turned him in to the police. In the second story, we witness Mensa's relationship with his wife Riza and their children in a small Bosnian village. The third story depicts Bogart's love affair with a young teacher in a Belgrade suburb. Afterwards, at the train station in Zagreb, Bogart finds out from the newspaper that the police caught his friends. At the last minute, he changes the original plan.
1989-01-01 | sh
7.1
The Rock
When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
1996-06-07 | en
4.4
Mercenary for Justice
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.
2006-04-25 | en
5.1
Half Past Dead
A man goes undercover in a hi-tech prison to find out information to help prosecute those who killed his wife. While there, he stumbles onto a plot involving a death-row inmate and his $200 million stash of gold.
2002-11-15 | en
6.5
Instinct
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.
1999-06-04 | en
7.5
Escape from Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
1979-06-22 | en
7.9
A Man Escaped
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
1956-11-11 | fr
7.7
White Heat
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
1949-09-02 | en
5.9
The Domino Principle
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.
1977-03-23 | en
6.4
Son of a Gun
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.
2014-10-16 | en
5.7
Lorna
Lorna and Jim have been married for a year but Lorna remains sexually unsatisfied. While he's at work, she is raped by an escaped convict, then becomes lustfully involved with him.
1964-09-11 | en
5.5
I Escaped from the Gestapo
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
1943-05-14 | en
7.2
Murder in the First
A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.
1995-01-20 | en
6.2
Bad Romance: The Vicky White Story
When new prisoner Casey is brought to prison corrections officer Vicky White's facility, the two develop a secret infatuation.
2023-10-21 | en
5.8
Breakwater
A young ex-con risks his newfound freedom to track down the estranged daughter of a fellow inmate, and unknowingly brings a devil from her past straight to her doorstep.
2023-12-22 | en
5.7
Drop Zone
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.
1994-12-08 | en
5.4
Devil's Island
A French doctor sentenced for treason performs brain surgery on the prison commandant's daughter.
1939-01-07 | en
6.6
Dillinger
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.
1973-07-20 | en