Movies Like I Escaped from Devil's Island
If you liked I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973), a action and adventure movie directed by William Witney, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Rampage: Capital Punishment (2014)
★ 6/10Also action and crimeA man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.
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Convict (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also action and crimeSet in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the…
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Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also crime and actionA vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt…
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In the Blood (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also action and crimeWhen her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
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Polar (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also action and crimeWhen a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
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Bronson (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also action and crimeA young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
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Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also action and crimeHeavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka in a battle to the death. This…
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Murphy's Law (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also action and crimeA tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
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Avengement (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and actionWhile on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
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Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also action and crimeCarlton Leach rises from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late '80s and early '90s.
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Until Death (2007)
★ 6/10Also action and crimeAnthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
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Crank: High Voltage (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also action and crimeChelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.
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Al Capone (1959)
★ 6.6/10Also action and adventureIn this unusually accurate biography, small-time hood Al Capone comes to Chicago at the dawn of Prohibition to be the bodyguard of racketeer Johnny Torrio. Capone's rise in Chicago gangdom is followed through murder…
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The Protector (1985)
★ 5.9/10Also action and crimeBilly Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is…
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Stone (1974)
★ 6/10Also action and crimeAfter one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.
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The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026)
★ 8.3/10Also action and crimeAs Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.
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Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)
★ 5.8/10Also action and crimeIn Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the…
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Missing in Action (1984)
★ 5.9/10Also action and adventureAmerican servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring…
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Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also action and crimeWith a hitman’s gun aimed at him, Finch tells the story of how he broke out of jail, fell in love, and took the identity of a man wanted by the Mafia.
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Undisputed III: Redemption (2010)
★ 7.6/10Also action and crimeRussian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But…