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10 Best Movies Like Escape from San Quentin

If you loved Escape from San Quentin, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
You Only Live Once

You Only Live Once

1937★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from San Quentin for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is for...

#2
Nightfall

Nightfall

1956★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from San Quentin for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit....

#3
They Live by Night

They Live by Night

1949★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from San Quentin for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning....

#4
Cry of the City

Cry of the City

1948★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from San Quentin for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another cri...

#5
M

M

1951★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from San Quentin for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Remake of the 1931 Fritz Lang original. In the city, someone is murdering children. The Police search is so intense, it is disturbing the 'normal' criminals, and the local hoods de...

#6
The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from San Quentin for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

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