With Escape Artists (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Servant (2019–2023)
TV-MA | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A Philadelphia couple are in mourning after an unspeakable tragedy creates a rift in their marriage and opens a door for a mysterious force to enter their home.
Stars: Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Nell Tiger Free, Rupert Grint
Votes: 41,304
2. The Magnificent Seven (2016)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Western
Seven gunmen from a variety of backgrounds are brought together by a vengeful young widow to protect her town from the private army of a destructive industrialist.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio
Votes: 216,916 | Gross: $93.43M
3. The Equalizer (2014)
R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him cannot stand idly by when he meets a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour
Votes: 380,663 | Gross: $101.53M
4. The Equalizer 2 (2018)
R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Robert McCall serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, but how far will he go when that is someone he loves?
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Orson Bean
Votes: 166,572 | Gross: $102.08M
5. The Equalizer 3 (2023)
Action, Crime, Thriller | Post-production
Plot under wraps.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, David Denman, Sonia Ammar
6. Emancipation (2022)
R | 132 min | Action, Thriller
A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Gilbert Owuor
Votes: 22,058
7. Southpaw (2015)
R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction, a champion boxer fights to get custody of his daughter and revive his professional career.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence, Forest Whitaker
Votes: 244,774 | Gross: $52.42M
8. A Knight's Tale (2001)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight.
Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon
Votes: 191,689 | Gross: $56.57M
9. The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
PG-13 | 117 min | Biography, Drama
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Director: Gabriele Muccino | Stars: Will Smith, Thandiwe Newton, Jaden Smith, Brian Howe
Votes: 525,388 | Gross: $163.57M
10. Pig (I) (2021)
R | 92 min | Drama, Mystery
A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
Director: Michael Sarnoski | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin, Cassandra Violet
Votes: 79,493
11. The Man from Toronto (2022)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The world's deadliest assassin and New York's biggest screw-up are mistaken for each other at an Airbnb rental.
Director: Patrick Hughes | Stars: Kevin Hart, Woody Harrelson, Jasmine Mathews, Kaley Cuoco
Votes: 52,190
12. Sex Tape (2014)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A married couple wake up to discover that the sex tape they made the evening before has gone missing, leading to a frantic search for its whereabouts.
Director: Jake Kasdan | Stars: Jason Segel, Cameron Diaz, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper
Votes: 114,567 | Gross: $38.54M
13. Dr. Death (2021–2023)
TV-MA | 403 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
As patients entering the operating room of Dr. Christopher Duntsch for routine spinal surgeries start leaving permanently maimed or end up dead, two fellow surgeons and a young Assistant District Attorney set out to stop him.
Stars: Joshua Jackson, Christian Slater, Alec Baldwin, Dominic Burgess
Votes: 13,496
14. Knowing (2009)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson
Votes: 238,456 | Gross: $79.96M
15. Fences (2016)
PG-13 | 139 min | Drama
A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.
Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Jovan Adepo
Votes: 111,397 | Gross: $57.68M
16. Seven Pounds (2008)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama
A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Director: Gabriele Muccino | Stars: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy
Votes: 307,277 | Gross: $69.95M
17. Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)
PG-13 | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Roman J. Israel, Esq., a driven, idealistic defense attorney, finds himself in a tumultuous series of events that lead to a crisis and the necessity for extreme action.
Director: Dan Gilroy | Stars: Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo, Lynda Gravatt
Votes: 40,004 | Gross: $11.96M
18. The Upside (2017)
PG-13 | 126 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedic look at the relationship between a wealthy man with quadriplegia and an unemployed man with a criminal record who's hired to help him.
Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, Nicole Kidman, Aja Naomi King
Votes: 58,392 | Gross: $108.25M
19. The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
Director: Tony Scott | Stars: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj
Votes: 201,087 | Gross: $65.45M
20. Being the Ricardos (2021)
R | 131 min | Biography, Drama
Follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
Director: Aaron Sorkin | Stars: Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Nina Arianda
Votes: 42,677
21. My Dentist's Murder Trial
Pre-production
Based on the article: "My dentist's murder trial: adultery, false identities and lethal sedation", tells the story of how Dr. Gilberto Núñez was accused of the death of Thomas Kolman who was his best friend.
Stars: Pedro Pascal, David Harbour
22. Troop Zero (2019)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a competition offers her a chance to be recorded on NASA's Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troop of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that last a lifetime.
Directors: Bert, Bertie | Stars: Mckenna Grace, Viola Davis, Jim Gaffigan, Allison Janney
Votes: 11,282
23. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
R | 94 min | Drama, Music
Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
Director: George C. Wolfe | Stars: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo
Votes: 55,243
24. The Back-up Plan (2010)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman conceives twins through artificial insemination, then meets the man of her dreams on the very same day.
Director: Alan Poul | Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Alex O'Loughlin, Michaela Watkins, Eric Christian Olsen
Votes: 50,920 | Gross: $37.49M
25. Masters of the Universe (2024)
Animation, Action, Adventure | Post-production
He-Man, the most powerful man in the universe, goes against the evil Skeletor to save the planet Eternia and protect the secrets of Castle Grayskull.
Directors: Aaron Nee, Adam Nee | Star: Kyle Allen
26. A Journal for Jordan (2021)
PG-13 | 131 min | Drama
1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, before he is killed in action in Baghdad, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father.
Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Chanté Adams, Jalon Christian, Robert Wisdom
Votes: 2,323
27. The Weather Man (2005)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
Director: Gore Verbinski | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Caine
Votes: 81,512 | Gross: $12.48M
28. Hope Springs (2012)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Director: David Frankel | Stars: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell, Jean Smart
Votes: 43,209 | Gross: $63.54M
29. Unfinished Business (I) (2015)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every way imaginable, and unimaginable.
Director: Ken Scott | Stars: Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Tom Wilkinson, James Marsden
Votes: 34,083 | Gross: $10.21M
30. Cassandro (2023)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Follows the true story of Cassandro, the ''exotico'' character created by Saúl Armendáriz, gay amateur wrestler from El Paso who rose to international stardom.
Director: Roger Ross Williams | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla De La Rosa, Raúl Castillo
Votes: 59
31. Alex & Emma (2003)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
A writer must turn out a novel in thirty days or face the wrath of loan sharks.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Luke Wilson, Kate Hudson, David Paymer, Sophie Marceau
Votes: 13,657 | Gross: $14.21M
32. The Billionaire's Vinegar
Drama | Announced
A drama based on the true-life scandal that ensued when bottles of wine purported to have been owned by Thomas Jefferson were called fakes -- after they had been bought for a half-million dollars by billionaire Bill Koch.
Star: Matthew McConaughey
33. The Borrowing (2024)
PG-13 | Drama, Romance, Thriller | Pre-production
Ben Nathan Anderson, a ordinary teenager lived in Iowa City, Iowa. He spending hang by Ben's friends Natalie and Olivia with another beautiful Thursday battling. In the terrible midnight, ... See full summary »
Director: Jason M. Koch | Star: Rolando Davila-Beltran
34. Let Her Speak
Drama | Announced
Texas senator, Wendy Davis, becomes an advocate for reproductive rights in her state and fights to keep its abortion clinics open.
Star: Sandra Bullock
35. Streets of Rage
Action, Adventure, Crime | Announced
Feature film based on the 1991 SEGA video game
36. Disorder (I)
Drama, Thriller | Announced
A war veteran is hired to protect the family of a wealthy business man. Based on the 2015 French film, 'Disorder'.
Director: James Mangold
38. Prototype (2016 TV Movie)
60 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Three unlikely cohorts inadvertently stumble upon an invention that challenges the very nature of quantum physics, a discovery which in turn puts their lives in grave danger.
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Stars: Jack Davenport, Cote de Pablo, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Toby Hemingway
Votes: 25
39. Untitled Secret Service
Comedy | Announced
The story revolves around two young Secret Service agents who are stuck with the worst detail in the First Family - the President's black sheep son.
Stars: Glen Powell, Jay Ellis
41. I Want to F*** Your Brother
Comedy | Pre-production
The story follows a buttoned-up lawyer who gets her black sheep younger brother a summer job at her New York law firm. He quickly becomes the toast of the town - and the object of desire of the powerful women they work for.
Director: Melissa K. Stack
42. Feather - (The First Part Last)
Drama | Announced
Follows an African-American teenager in New York as he navigates the challenges of teen-fatherhood. Based on the Coretta Scott King winning Novel 'The First Part Last'
Star: Ashton Sanders
43. Universal Soldier
Action, Sci-Fi | Announced
A soldier is resurrected following a secret military project called the "Universal Soldier" program.
44. The Kaiju Score
Action, Crime, Thriller | Announced
A criminal heist takes place in the middle of a giant monster attack.
45. Madden
Announced
After being forced into retirement by the Oakland Raiders, fiery former NFL head coach John Madden teams up with a mild-mannered Harvard programmer to rewrite his fading legacy by building the world's first football video game.
46. Pierre Pierre
Comedy | Announced
A French nihilist is asked to smuggle a stolen Mona Lisa.
Director: Larry Charles
47. The Ends of the Earth
Biography, Drama, Romance | Announced
The controversial love affair between an oil baron and his adopted daughter destroys the empire they built together.
49. Voicemails for Isabelle
Announced
This is about a young woman trying to navigate her dating life in Los Angeles.
Director: Sharon Maguire
50. Blue Thunder (I)
Action, Drama | Announced
A secret military drone program recruits a police officer for its pilot program. Inspired by the 1983 film, 'Blue Thunder'.