Movies like The Great Escape
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The Great Escape (1963)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
Style:
epic, suspenseful, clever, breathtaking, dramatic, exciting, realistic, motivational, tense, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, family outing, kids, manly
Plot:
world war two, prison, prison escape, war, nazi, pow, military, soldier, chase, escape, motorcycle, freedom, camp, capture, escape attempt, wehrmacht, suspense, officer, desperation, army, determination, nazi germany, courage, prisoners of war, jail ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place:
germany, poland, europe, alps, switzerland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, dramatic and harsh films with plots about war, brutality, dialogue, world war two, survival, courage and runaway mostly in War, Drama and History genres. Some movies like The Great Escape: Von Ryan's Express (1965), The Guns of Navarone (1961), Papillon (1973), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), A Bridge Too Far (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
italy, germany, new jersey, europe, milan italy ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Style:
exciting, intense, tense, serious, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
greece, germany, fictional island
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Style:
inspirational, psychological, realistic, dramatic, talky ...
Plot:
prison escape, prison, escape, life philosophy, human spirit, survival, runaway, escape attempt, brutality, criminal heroes, jail, escape plan ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place:
latin america, atlantic ocean
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany for enforced negotiations with Hitler.
Style:
exciting, intense, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, espionage, war, nazi germany, military, soldier, spy, suspense, runaway, insubordination, rescue, commando mission ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1943
Place:
germany, poland, england, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A Bridge Too Far tells the story of Operation Market Garden, the failed attempt by the allies to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland and allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and ...
Style:
epic, realistic, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
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war, world war two, behind enemy lines, tank, military, army, courage, allies, nazi, soldier, paratrooper, u.s. army ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 70s, 20th century
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germany, poland, england, berlin germany, netherlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Fourth-generation Army Col. William McNamara is imprisoned in a brutal German POW camp. Still, as the senior-ranking American officer, he commands his fellow inmates, keeping a sense of honor alive in a place where honor is easy to destroy, all ...
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Plot:
world war two, war, military, prison, nazi, racism, soldier, prison escape, ethnic conflict, pow, russian, propaganda ...
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1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in ...
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. This was a POW detention center like no other. There were no walls or barbed-wire fences for the ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA, Australia
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Story:
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
Style:
tense, harsh, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
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Duration: 175 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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36%
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Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Story:
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suspenseful, bleak, tense, harsh, rough ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a ...
Style:
inspirational, captivating, epic, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Country: UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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35%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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touching, intense, emotional, rough, epic ...
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Country: USA, UK
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the ...
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Story:
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Story:
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