Prison break movies are always a thrill to watch. It interesting how criminals or the prisoners who try to escape the prison has this out of the box thinking to make the impossible happen. Even if the Prison breakers are good people or evil criminals it is equally interesting to see their brilliant minds working on something the world thinks is impossible.
Here are some best Prison break stories from some best movies:
1. Shawshank Redemption:
Shawshank Redemption is one of the best movies that has ever been made. It tops the IMDB rating list with a 9.3 out of 10. The movie features how an innocent husband and a banker Any Dufrene gets falsely accused of his wife’s murder. Shawshank Redemption shows the long journey of Andy’s struggles and his hope that a good life is waiting for him. But during all this, he also manages to execute a slow and steady Prison escape which takes him 19 years to succeed.
2. The Silence of the Lambs
The movie features an FBI agent Clarice Starling, and her hunt to find a serial killer that Targets, beautiful chubby women.
However, the movie also features a brilliant escape of another serial killer and a former psychiatrist Dr.Hanibal Lector who used to rip out his victims face by his teeth. In the movie, Lector escapes from a high-security Police custody by killing two cops and ripping apart one of the cop’s faces and wearing it over his face which made the other policemen believe that the body belonged to Police officer who was attacked by Lector. That was insane!
3. Prison Break: The Final Break
Prison Break: The Final Break is a 2009 television movie of the famous Prison Break franchise. The Prison break series featured how Micheal Scofield (Wentworth Miller) helps his brother Lincoln Burrows to get away from the Prison as he is falsely accused of the murder of the Vice President’s brother. However, the movie featured a man (Wentworth Miller) who plans to rescue his pregnant girlfriend (Sarah Wayne Callies) from a women’s prison.
4. Gupt
Gupt starring Bobby Deol and Kajol had an edge of the seat prison break sequence. After Bobby Deol’s character, Sahil is imprisoned for 14 years, he plans to escape and executes it with the help of an old prisoner.
Sahil gets to know from the prisoner that the jail has one escape route that goes through a sewage gutter pipe which can be accessed from a flush toilet located in an unused chamber of the jail.
To break the prison, Sahil creates a problem with other prisoners which makes the jailor put him and two prisoners in the chamber. All the three then finally escape the jail through the sea.
5. Qayamat
Ajay Devgn in Qayamat had one of the most engaging prison breaking sequences. The emotional value attached to his prison break made the audience cheer out loud for him.
Back in 2003, when I watched this film as a teenager, I remember the rush I felt in my heart. The fact that Ajay single-handedly saves Mumbai from an apocalypse was so heroic that everyone felt like having an emotional support for his character.
Further, the sequence was shot in a great way. There were several twists which made sure to give a nail-biting experience to the audience.
6. Lucknow Central
Farhan Akhtar and Diana Penty-starrer Lucknow Central has hit the theatres this Friday. The film revolves around the musically inclined Kishen Mohan Girhotra (Farhan), who ends up in jail after being accused of murder. He forms a band with his other prison inmates, which is a front for a jailbreak. Will they manage to escape?
Lucknow Central is inspired by a real incident. Did you know there is actually a band formed by prison inmates in Lucknow that performs at functions? The band, which is called Healing Hearts, was formed in the Adarsh Karagar, just on the outskirts of Lucknow.
How many of them have you watched from the list?
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