Stayin' Alive: Great Escapes in Thriller Movies

Caught out on the streets during the most lethal night of the year, the characters in 'The Purge: Anarchy' must escape from danger at every turn in order to stay alive. They aren't the first ones with a burning need to escape.

When their home security system is breached, a family seeks refuge wherever they can find it. To escape death, however, they'll have to rely on each other.

The zombie apocalypse comes home for Sarah Polley when she wakes up and must fight tooth and nail just to escape her own bathroom.

Chained by a maniac in a filthy bathroom, a man faces a life-and-death decision: use a hacksaw to cut off his foot, or die.

Liv Tyler and her husband are under attack by masked home invaders, so she makes a run for the shed in their backyard in one last desperate attempt to summon help.

Accused of being a foreign operative, CIA agent Angelina Jolie breaks out of the agency's headquarters and is frantic to find her husband. So when she's surrounded by her former comrades, she's not about to give up quietly.

Brad Pitt is better prepared than most to protect his family on the streets of New York City when zombies attack.

Realizing he is being followed, Matt Damon ducks into the U.S. Consulate in Zurich, Switzerland, where he must fight off heavily armed Marines before making a stealthy escape.

Imprisoned in a secret underground CIA complex, Saoirse Ronan kills an agent and then must flee for her life.

After surviving a savage attack and seeing her friend die, Sara Paxton refuses to give up, crawling away to what she hopes will be safety.

Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss, and Laurence Fishburne team up to break the Keymaker out of captivity, prompting a pulse-pounding freeway chase toward freedom.

Kate Bosworth and husband James Marsden move back to her hometown, only to discover they are not welcome. Sometimes the only way to escape a bad situation is by defending yourself.

Alexandra Daddario escapes Leatherface's room and then a van in a desparate attempt to flee a terrible living nightmare.

When contaminated water turns an entire town into killer zombies, Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell desparately search for a vehicle to escape in while fending off a group of infected "crazies."

The apes are sick and tired of being abused by humans, and nothing is going to stop them from crossing the bridge and escaping into the woods.

Sharni Vinson puts her survivalist training skills to good use in order to evade masked home invaders, first jumping out a window, then later taking matters into her own hands with a trusty axe.