Movies like The Escape 1997
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The Escape (1997)
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Clayton, at the age of nineteen, is convicted for a crime he did not commit. Ten years afterwards, after having taken all the abuses against him in prison, he decides to escape, without caring about the consequences.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
escape, on the run, prison, sex scene, lust, dam, poetry, graphic violence, love and romance, fugitives, fall in love, chase, confined, false arrest, prison escape, police, female nudity, male nudity, dream, helicopter, runaway, rain, nightclub, imprisonment, wrongful conviction ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, suspenseful, realistic and serious films with plots about chases and races, danger, on the run, chase, graphic violence, rivalry and escapades mostly in Action, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Escape: King of Africa (1968), I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973), Kill Slade (1989), Runaway Car (1997), Damned River (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A British colonial policeman in Africa, circa 1900, pursues a band of escaped killers across territory so wild, it lies just "one step to hell."
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
wasteland, escaped killer, gang, wilderness, chase, manhunt, escape, hostage, captivity, heroes, prison, rescue ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
africa, south africa
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95%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
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realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, bleak ...
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boys' night
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prison, blaxploitation, escape, brutality, raft, shark, male homosexuality, leprosy, graphic violence, friends, life is a bitch, rebellion ...
Time:
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90%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A bounty hunter is hired to abduct a reporter who has uncovered a U.N. conspiracy plot.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic
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boys' night
Plot:
ranger, journalist, mercenary, sexploitation, heroes, on the run, kidnapping, media, missing person, confined, betrayal, criminal heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A nurse apprentice, who had a bad day at work, meets a computer programmer at a car garage. The man is urged to go somewhere, but his car is not ready yet, so the nurse offers him a ride. Before leaving the man, they pick up the nurse's baby ...
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road movie, serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
car, chase, on the run, car chase, on the road, programmer, police, helicopter, nurse, baby, danger, chases and races ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group hires a guide to take them whitewater rafting down the Zambezi River in Africa, but what they don't know is that the guide is actually a deranged psychotic killer.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
boat, river, graphic violence, nude, stalking, soldier, escapades, on the run, psychopath, forces of nature, family in danger, strong sexual content ...
Time:
80s
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a Marine Colonel orders his men to massacre a village they were sent to rescue some hostages but when they found them dead they decide to get some payback. Upon returning to the States the Colonel would be court-martialed and made a plea ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, realistic
Plot:
terrorism, airplane, daring rescue, save the day, government agency, rivalry, hostage, air disaster, hijacking, airplane hijack, escape, graphic violence ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Grand Royale is a new high-tech passenger train with a computerized engine. On its maiden voyage, it suffers a severe technical failure, killing the controller and gradually increasing its already high speed, at the rate of 2 more miles per ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
train, runaway train, railway, catastrophe, disaster, forces of nature, hijacking, technology gone awry, confined, save the day, androids and robots, rivalry ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A man in Central America finds his brother's murdered body. It turns out that his brother has been murdered because he knows the whereabouts of a lost city in the jungle. The man teams up with a search expedition and goes off to hunt for these ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
jungle, treasure hunt, lost city, murder, treasure, expedition, graphic violence, chase, betrayal, adventurer, dishonesty, ancient mystery ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Action
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Though policewoman Hsie Wan-chin (Cynthia Yang Li-ching) is merrily planning for her wedding with fellow cop Wilson Tsiang (Lawrence Ng Kai-wah), he is having an illicit affair with her best friend, May (Moon Lee). When Wilson tries to break things ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kung fu, strong female presence, graphic violence, love and romance, violence spree, dishonesty, fugitives, law enforcement, betrayal, love triangle, vengeance, frame up ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bounty hunter in Los Angeles sets out to track down and stop a masked serial killer who murders women by using kung-fu moves.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
serial killer, car chase, bounty hunter, psychopath, blaxploitation, track down, investigation, rivalry, graphic violence, martial arts, deadly, chases and races ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Ching is a prisoner in a Honk Kong jail that has a large population of Mainland Chinese prisoners. Ching escapes to see his young son, who he has been put in an orphanage. He surrenders himself to authorities, but the vengeful chief of security, ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, heroic bloodshed, jail, tough heroes, friends, unlikely partners, vengeance, rivalry, confined, partners, fugitives, prison life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Christopher Skase. He ruled Australia and stole a fortune, fleeing to the coast of Spain. No one could touch him. No one could stop him. Until Peter Dellasandro and a small force of men swore they'd bring him down.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, rough, humorous, exciting ...
Plot:
rivalry, on the run, dishonesty, cons and scams, chase, fugitives, caper, greed, intrigue, runaway, kidnapping, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
australia, europe, spain, mallorca
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jamie Marshall (Kelly McGillis) is a "storm chaser" who, having lost her husband in a crash after his plane was struck by lightning, recklessly throws herself into her work. Sent by her boss to Colorado to investigate the cause of a ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, tornado, apocalypse, dealing with death, obsessive quest, couple relations, escapades, forces of nature, environmental, hurricane, storm ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, Israel
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A government-trained killing machine must turn his lethal skills against his top-secret squad's AWOL leader
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serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
top secret, terrorism, awol, soldier, battles, rivalry, on the run, military, fugitives, prostitute, heroes, chase ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Mikel will marry Julia, owner of a major jewelry he inherited from his parents. During the party in announcing their commitment, Mikel meets Ari, one of the waitresses catering. The attraction that arises between them will make Mikel is interested ...
Style:
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Plot:
fall in love, love and romance, rivalry, car chase, female nudity, male nudity, robbery, car, love triangle, adultery, sexual content, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 193 min.
Story:
When senior police inspector Vishwa Pratap Singh arrests Dr. Michael Dang, the leader of the international terrorist group PSO, the group blast the jail Dang is lodged in killing huge numbers of inmates including two of Vishwa's sons and his ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
revenge, prison, death row, terrorism, false accusation, prison life, couple relations, disability, vigilantism, law enforcement, criminal heroes, confined ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
india
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A jailed auto mechanic must run for his life after he witnesses the murder of a fellow inmate by two prison guards.
Style:
campy, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
frame up, murder, chase, confined, law enforcement, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, on the run, dishonesty, death row, wrongfully committed, prison life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Yul Brynner plays political leader Sharif who is sprung from a police van on his way to a firing squad by young loyalists led by Sal Mineo. Yul and the other prisoners kidnap an ambulance and head into the Arabian desert with the police in hot ...
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serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
fictional country, truck, exotic locale, revolutionary, arab, desert, state affairs, corrupted ruler, rebellion, escapades, daring rescue, on the run ...
Time:
60s
Place:
africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action
Country: Lebanon, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A kickboxer is hired to protect half of a valuable medallion, but an evil warlord and another kickboxer are determined to have it, no matter what it takes.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, lebanese civil war, locket, treasure hunt, rivalry, blind ambition, escapades, on the run, dishonesty, good versus evil, parents and children, disguise ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, lebanon, canada, ottoman empire, beirut lebanon
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A medieval cult travels to the 20th centrury and kills people, in an attempt to bring about the end of the world. The policeman Michael Nostrand must stop them, but what does his fate truly hold?
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, police investigation, supernatural, police detective, serial killer, murder, oracle, curses spells and rituals, time machine, graphic violence, reluctant partners, special agents ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
minnesota, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young California surfer has to grow up in a hurry when he is thrown into a Peruvian political prison in 1980.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, false arrest, frame up, confined, survival, police corruption, law enforcement, escapades, jail, suspense, nude ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Scott Kane (Drew Fuller), a man with a checkered past is trying to live a clean life. When his son Owen falls ill, Kane finds his only option is to turn to Daniel Morgan (William Atherton), the local kingpin of the criminal underworld. Morgan offers ...
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boys' night
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betrayal, wanted, going straight, vengeance, rivalry, family relations, fight, escape, on the run, uncover truth, showdown, chase ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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66%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
In Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhua, RAW Agent Vinod (Saif Ali Khan) is rescued by colleague Rajan (Ravi Kishan) from a rogue Pakistani army officer (Shahbaz Khan). In Russia/Uzbekistan, an ex-KGB Officer is tortured and murdered. In Cape Town, a ...
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serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Adventure, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The real-life adventure of a dashing Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp because he dreams of climbing 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and planting the Italian flag at the summit. The obsessive British camp commander pursues him, and ...
Style:
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Plot:
holocaust, rock climbing, chase, obsessive quest, against humanity, confined, contests and competitions, heroes, fugitives, survival, escapades, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
kenya, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Maverick downhill racer, Tyler Crowe, reunites with best friend and renegade snowboarder, Mark Rider. It doesn't take long for the old friends to take on a new mission. Together they head to Alaska, where led by a veteran guide, the two attempt ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot:
adventurer, skiing, best friends, escapades, against the odds, wild ride, winter, contests and competitions, uninhibited rivalry, snow, mountain, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
RAW agent Tiger is on a mission to retrieve information from a scientist in Dublin. The plot centers on an Indian spy (RAW) code-named Tiger who falls in love with a Pakistani spy (ISI) during an investigation and how Tiger's ideology and ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, sentimental, serious, romantic ...
Plot:
spy, secret agents, espionage, tough heroes, fall in love, on the run, undercover, weapon system, government agency, chase, dishonesty, forbidden love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, ireland, asia, chile, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shifting alliances put a pair of hardnosed hit men in jeopardy in this 1999 crime caper. A New Orleans mob boss looking to settle scores sends Ray (Rick Fox) and A.K. (Casper Van Dien) to New York City to collect overdue debts.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, graphic violence, hitman, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, tough heroes, dishonesty, fighting crime, partners, criminal's revenge, buddies, criminal heroes ...
Time:
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Place:
new orleans, new york, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from Nazi Germany by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Style:
realistic, exciting, talky, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
train, war, world war two, escape, prison, behind enemy lines, prison escape, nazi, railway, military, prisoners of war, soldier ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Where beasts feared to tread, he made it his home; Where the scorching sun could not reach, he shined in the cold bloodedness. Where the police never managed to catch him, he always killed
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting, semi serious
Plot:
hostage, jungle, rescue, love and romance, lone wolves, love triangle, police, captive, terrorist, damsel in distress, chase, moll ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
india
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Champagne Gang is an exciting action-packed drama about four beautiful California beach girls who pull heists to pay for luxury items and surfing vacations to Mexico and Hawaii.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
heist, beach, gang, on the run, feminism, robbery, girl power, police, hotshot hero, criminal heroes, woman in danger, exploitation ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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