
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.

You Only Live Once
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...

Nightfall
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....

They Live by Night
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....

The Killer Is Loose
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from San Quentin for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole...

M
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...

They Made Me a Fugitive
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Escape from San Quentin for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge....