Movies like Escape from Segovia
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Escape from Segovia (1981)
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Original name: La fuga de Segovia
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Narrates the escape of 29 political prisoners, led by ETA, from Segovia prison. Based on actual events.
Style:
based on true events
Plot:
prison, francisco franco, journalist, terrorism, political prisoner, franco regime (francoism), eta terrorist group, prison escape, franco regime, eta
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and tense films with plots about prison, murder, prison escape, terrorism, true crime, terrorist and prison life mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Escape from Segovia: Ogro (1979), Outlaw (1999), McVicar (1980), She Made Them Do It (2013), Numbered Days (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
At the close of 1973, Franco is still governing Spain with an iron hand. Opposition parties are forbidden; labor movements are repressed; and Basque nationalists are mercilessly hunted. The caudillo is aging, though, and the future of the régime is ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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284
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london
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79%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
"She Made Them Do It" follows the twisted life of Sarah Pender (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) a charismatic, intelligent young woman who would become one of the country’s most sought after fugitives.
Style:
psychological, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
murder, prison escape, manipulation, femme fatale, investigation, convict, dangerous attraction, uncover truth, love, runaway, prison, escaped prisoner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist group ETA, days before making an attack, he meets Charo, a junkie of eighteen years, despite the sordid environment in which they grew up, still has the naivety. He has dedicated his life to a cause they do not ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
Plot:
prison, alcohol abuse, prison escape, marital abuse, women's prison, child abuse, murder
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62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one of the men who killed Juan wants to meet with her in the Nanclares de la Oca prison in Araba (Spain), ...
Plot:
grief, terrorism, eta terrorist group, forgiveness, television, discussion, jail cell, court, meeting, murder, regret, prison ...
Time:
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Place:
iberian peninsula, basque country
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
terrorism, getting home, eta terrorist group, politician, uncle nephew relationship, exile, dying man, eta
Place:
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Country: West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
It tells his story in the turbulent days near the end of the Vietnam War, as a young Chicano man questioning his and his people’s place in society as thousands of his Latino brethren return from the war in coffins.
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Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 131 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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