Movies like The Escape

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The Escape (1978)
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The Escape (1978)
Original name: La Carapate
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: escape, murder, on the run, prison, hostage, politics, fugitives, rebellion, chases and races, legal, society, false accusation, confined, nothing goes right, disorder, disagreement, odd couple, dishonesty, prison escape, prostitute, cheating wife, female nudity, boat, rolls royce, hidden money ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s, 1960s
Place: paris france, france

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Most similar movies to The Escape

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and witty films with plots about disorder, partner, dishonesty, nothing goes right, chases and races, friends and buddies mostly in Comedy, Crime and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Escape: The Umbrella Coup (1980), The Goat (1981), The Brain (1969), The ComDads (1983), The Sucker (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Umbrella Coup (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful
Plot: hitman, contract killer, killer, danger, criminal heroes, dishonesty, disorder, hotel, down on your luck, comedy of errors, gangster, birthday party ...
Time: 70s
Place: cannes, paris france, riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.3
 11K
The Goat (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Style: funny, humorous, laugh out loud, buddy comedy, sweet ...
Plot: bad luck, private detective, farce, amnesia, love and romance, memory loss, cigarette smoking, partner, accountant, goofy hero, nothing goes right, odd couple ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: france, paris france, latin america, mexico, acapulco mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 6.8
 4K
The Brain (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
Style: fast paced, exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, date night, boys' night
Plot: heist, caper, train, cat burglar, prison escape, robbery, prison, dishonesty, chases and races, criminal heroes, disorder, cons and scams ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: france, belgium, normandy, paris france, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 6.9
 7K
The ComDads (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, clever ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: reluctant partners, partner, odd couple, dishonesty, family conflict, disappearance, disorder, buddies, nothing goes right, teenage life, cons and scams, father son relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: france, nice france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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 7.3
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The Sucker (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it ...
Style: road movie, semi serious, humorous, realistic, funny ...
Audience: kids
Plot: car chase, anti hero, hitchhiker, gangster, odd couple, dishonesty, partner, disorder, drug dealing, criminal heroes, chase, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france, naples italy, rome italy, southern italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.1
 318
On the Run (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Portugal, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting, cynical ...
Plot: escape, vampire, friendship, on the run, fugitives, chases and races, nothing goes right, city life, prison, urban, dark humor, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
Style: slapstick, realistic, not serious, exciting, humorous ...
Plot: assassination attempt, female nudity, female terrorist, nudity, danger, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, fall in love, goofy hero, escapades, chases and races, terrorism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Money Money Money (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
Style: semi serious, realistic, biting, cynical, clever ...
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, pope, dark humor, disorder, buddies, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, criminal's revenge, politics, goofy hero, crime gone awry ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: france, europe, paris france, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Doing Time (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, clever ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, prisoner, escape, anti hero, partner, friends, disorder, troublemaker, buddies, confined, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Inspector Blunder (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, detective
Plot: law enforcement, french police, reporter, rescue, kidnapping, gangster, confined, dishonesty, journalism, disorder, silly humor, son ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Fugitives (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
Style: feel good, exciting, witty, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: chase, comedy of errors, reluctant partners, fugitives, bank robbery, goofy hero, odd couple, disorder, nothing goes right, chases and races, unlikely criminals, nobody believes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, disturbing, light ...
Plot: rabbi, farce, chase, on the run, racial stereotype, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, prosecution, disorder, on the road, partner, false identity ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.7
 571
Sinful Davey (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the Duke of ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, on the run, chase, redemption, starting over, disorder, love, father, friendship, partner, bare breasts, murder ...
Time: 19th century, year 1969, regency period
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 718
Flic Story (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving ...
Style: cynical, realistic, not serious, witty, humorous
Plot: cop, human trafficking, nudity, gangster, murder of a nude woman, disorder, fish out of water, working undercover, nothing goes right, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Fork in the Road (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.
Style: semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot: on the run, murder, kidnapping, convict, escape, partner, chases and races, odd couple, danger, nothing goes right, confined, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Treehouse Hostage (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Timmy Taylor and his two friends, Stevie and Buddy capture escaped convict Carl Banks (Jim Varney) and hold him hostage in their treehouse over the weekend so that Timmy can use Carl as his current event project at school on Monday. The boys then ...
Style: epic, independent film, exciting, semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: school, captivity, childhood, forgery, mischievous children, youth, buddies, heroes, chases and races, confined, misfit, fugitives ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything (1973)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, ...
Style: slapstick, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: disorder, goofy hero, nothing goes right, juvenile delinquency, chaos and mayhem, job, family honor, anesthetic, breaking the fourth wall, father son relationship, archbishop, army general ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 2K
Serial Lover (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dark humor, disorder, looking for love, thirty something, writers, dinner, misfit, freak, gory, blood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Joint Brothers (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: le chichon
Style: controversial, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: drug dealing, dishonesty, police station, friends, partner, thief, burglary, drug dealer, theft, heroin, police, controversy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.2
 6K
Flashback (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar ...
Style: entertaining, emotional, light, witty, humorous ...
Plot: lsd, friendship, train, chase, on the road, fbi, hippie, unlikely friendships, prison, criminal heroes, partner, mistaken identity ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.3
 2K
Distracted (1970)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
Style: cult classic, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Plot: daydreamer, advertising agency, advertising, family relations, misunderstanding, marketing, mother son relationship, couples, disorder, goofy hero, love and romance, workplace ...
Time: 70s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
My New Partner (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the ...
Style: exciting, witty, suspenseful, neo noir, anthology ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, buddy cop, prostitute, corrupt cop, police corruption, corruption, disorder, misfit partners, odd couple, buddies, law enforcement, bad guy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.1
 31K
Ruby & Quentin (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, inspirational, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison escape, buddies, prison, unlikely partners, buddy, partner, runaway, odd couple, criminal heroes, bank robbery, friendship, police investigation ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, witty, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, midlife crisis, tennis, buddies, friends, love and romance, disorder, love affair, dishonesty, couple relations, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Hidden Treasure of the Mississippi (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Will and Clayton witness a murder, but out of fear decide not to tell anyone. They and their friend Betsy, whose father has been wrongfully accused of the crime, go on a journey to find the real killer, and at the same time redeem themselves.
Style: humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious, independent film
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: false accusation, murder, small town, amateur detective, adventurer, investigation, best friend, heroes, danger, youth, escapades, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.3
 441
Framed (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.
Style: exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: frame up, partner, violent content, profanity, performer's life, disorder, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, criminal's revenge, forgery, rivalry, unlikely partners ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Halal State Security (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Someone is killing Parisians of Arab ethnicity. When an Algerian diplomat is murdered by the same assailant, two Algerian detectives are sent to help the French with the investigation and they have their own ways of doing things.
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, partner, odd couple, buddies, disorder, fish out of water, racism, chase, society, investigation, buddy cop, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, algeria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.2
 468
Pros & Cons (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case of mistaken identity. It's the hysterical prison comedy that's so funny, it's ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: prison, gang, escape, hostage, profanity, partner, cons and scams, frame up, prison life, embezzlement, mistaken identity, injustice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.5
 3K
Hold-Up (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied ...
Style: realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous, action thriller ...
Plot: bank robbery, crime gone awry, misfit partners, criminal heroes, on the run, nothing goes right, chase, disorder, partner, ex convict, bank, bank robber ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: canada, rome italy, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.0
 378
Idiot in Paris (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual
Plot: social relations, prostitute, village, village life, village idiot, frenchman, drunken man, merchant
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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