Movies like Escape 1995

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Escape (1995)
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Escape (1995)
Original name: Eskapo
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set during the terrifying reign of Filipino despot, Marcos, two upper caste but very different strangers team up to try and survive the physical and mental torture they undergo after they are suddenly jailed. Geny is the conservative businessman while Serge is more sensitive and outgoing. Both of the young men's parents give all of their money, but the government refuses to free them. Even a mutual hunger strike fails to move their jailers. In desperation, Geny and Serge begin plotting their escape.
Style: political drama
Plot: dictatorship, prison, escape, businessman, politics, torture, hunger, dictator, politician, historical event, media, jail, militarism, martial law, political repression, physical torture, despot
Time: 70s, year 1977
Place: the philippines
Keyword: filipino

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, tense and realistic films with plots about prison, escape, murder, torture, jail, death and politics mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Escape: The Seventies (2002), The Chain (1996), Manila Kingpin (2011), Aguila (1980), Marighella (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Seventies (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A middle-class Filipino family struggles to survive in the era of dictatorship.
Style: political, tagalog
Plot: martial law, strong female character, mother, torture
Place: the philippines
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95%
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The Chain (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When unjustly imprisoned in a South American jail, a tough cop and a renegade arms dealer must set aside their differences to escape.
Style: independent film
Plot: prison, cop, renegade, jail, escape, arms dealer, police officer
Place: south america
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51%
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Manila Kingpin (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Mobster Asiong Salonga (ER Ejercito) rules the mean streets of Manila with an iron fist—until he is betrayed by a trusted friend. Manila Kingpin is based on the story of the notorious Tondo, Manila, gang leader Nicasio “Asiong” Salonga, whose ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, tagalog ...
Plot: betrayal, murder, raid, police brutality, police raid, jail, rivalry, danger, love and romance, society, hired killer, true crime ...
Place: manila philippines, the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.2
 69
Aguila (1980)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Philippines
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Daniel Aguila's son recounts memories of the Philippines as he searches for his father.
Plot: politician, incest, half sister
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Marighella (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the ...
Plot: dictatorship, dictator, brazilian military dictatorship, escape, journalism, violent, male pubic hair, racial issues, fascism, male nudity, military dictatorship, torture ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, northeast brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Across the Crescent Moon (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The story revolves around a SAF exemplary Agent, Abbas Misani a Muslim who is married to Emma, whose parents with strict Christian upbringing would not accept both Abbas and Emma to their family.
Plot: interfaith relationship, police officer, terrorist, kidnapping, muslim, human trafficking, kidnapper, acceptance
Place: the philippines
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44%
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Mano Po (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: During the Chinese Revolution in 1949, young Chinese copra trader named Fong-Huan marries Elisa, a young and pretty Filipina. The couples children, Daniel and Linda, were raised in a mixture of Chinese and Filipino-Hispanic tradition. These richly ...
Plot: immigrant, birthday, sister sister relationship, funeral, flashback, kidnapping, engagement, pregnancy, family business, rebellious daughter, patriarch, interracial romance ...
Time: year 1949
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Heavens Indivisible (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A wealthy man comes to terms with his adopted sister.
Plot: damage, rivalry, jealousy, death of father, heart attack, stepmother, stepfather, death of mother, blind date, crystal, car, only child ...
Place: the philippines
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43%
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10000 Hours (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Senator Gabriel Alcaraz (Robin Padilla) is preparing to deliver a privilege speech alleging corruption in the highest levels of government. On his way to the Senate, he gets wind of a plot against him. The police seek to arrest him for his part in ...
Plot: die hard, political conspiracy, martial arts, fugitive, flashback, police, escape, informant, corrupt official, rescue, interpol, senator ...
Place: amsterdam, the philippines
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42%
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 3K
438 Days (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 124 min.
Story: On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on ...
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: partner, politics, investigative reporter, investigative journalism, political unrest, wartime, escapades, dictatorship, political intrigue, news report, partners against crime, investigation ...
Place: ethiopia
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40%
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On the Job (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
Story: On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, corruption, danger, corrupt law enforcer, honest law enforcer, assassination, politics, criminal heroes, dishonesty, asian, prison, contract killer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: the philippines, asia, manila philippines
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40%
Escape from Mogadishu (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Diplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: wartime, soldier, survival, life is a bitch, wartime life, runaway, escape attempt, society, civil disobedience, inter-korean relations, military, dictatorship ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: somalia, south korea, africa
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38%
 5.4
 15
Ishmael (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Story: An ex-convict who is ostracized by his neighborhood. Little does he know that this neighborhood he once knew is set to awaken his past. Ishmael decided to come back home to find peace and solitude in a place familiar to him. But his dream of ...
Style: one man show
Plot: getting home, piano, locked in, worship, island, sin, pig, religious cult, church, tattoo, boat, water ...
Place: the philippines
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38%
Woman Prisoner No. 407 II (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Coming soon
Style: sadistic
Plot: women's prison, physical abuse, women in prison, sadist, degradation, female prisoner, torture, female nudity, violence, humiliation, prison, sadism ...
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37%
 6.0
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Mean Dog Blues (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Former TV documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart tries to inject an acceptable degree of verisimilitude in Mean Dog Blues. A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey (Gregg Henry) finds himself on a Southern chain gang. Captain ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: prison, escape, murder, corruption, forest, false accusation, female nudity, rape, injustice, power relations, tough heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Jailbreak Lovers (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Toby, a woman who always played by the rules. Toby never ran a red light, married the only boy she ever dated, raised a family and went to church. She did everything she was supposed to do. When Toby loses her job and starts a non-profit to ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: dog, prison, convict, prison escape, jail, escaped prisoner, runaway, male female relationship, escape, relationships, problem, cheating wife ...
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35%
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 23
Banal (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Cris and Jason are two policemen with two opposite personalities and philosophies-Cris is the epitome of the rare, near-extinct breed of honest cops while Jason is the basurero, the legman/front man who does the dirty work of his district's ...
Plot: friendship, dirty cop, shootout, politician, priest, police, hostage, police officer killed, car chase, torture, police raid, corrupt cop ...
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35%
Enemies of the State (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Crime thriller inspired by the story of Jiri Kajinek, which is considered the first bounty hunter in the Czech Republic. Thanks to his escape from the prison fortress Mirov it became a legend and the most wanted man in Europe. Five weeks while ...
Style: suspense, captivating
Plot: prison, jail, prison escape, lawyer, court, law and order, legal, prison fight, prison life, crime boss, jailed, criminal ...
Time: 2000s
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The Confession (1970)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story: The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Style: political, political thriller, cynical, sad, thought provoking ...
Plot: politics, communism, dictatorship, dictator, spy, anti communist, cold war, prison, protest, worker, espionage, radical ...
Time: year 1970, 1950s, year 1968, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: france, czechoslovakia, czech republic, soviet union, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Man Standing Next (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending
Plot: assassination of president, politics, assassination, tragedy, betrayal, dictatorship, state terrorism, spy, espionage, intelligence agency, hearing, military dictatorship ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: south korea, seoul, washington d.c., paris france, east asia ...
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32%
Batas Ng Lansangan (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Army Major RUBEN MEDRANO was once a part of an elite anti-kidnapping task force. An unfortunate incident during an operation got him suspended and sent back to Manila. There he tries to renew ties with his daughter MARISSA who has been living with ...
Plot: assassin, military officer, murder, father daughter relationship, gangster, revenge, drug dealer
Place: the philippines
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30%
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Cain & Abel (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In this modern-day version of the biblical legend on Cain and Abel, strong-willed matriarch Señora Pina favors her younger son Ellis over the older Loren whom she blames for the death of her husband. Ellis grows up cowardly and spoiled while Loren ...
Plot: revenge, last will and testament, domineering mother, brother vs brother, chambermaid, baby, mother, murder, rape, jealousy, coward, inheritance ...
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30%
 6.2
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Deathrow (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A neglected and unloved orphan raised by poor relatives in the slums of Manila is wrongfully convicted of murder that resulted from a heist he was compelled to join. Unable to prove his innocence and his minor age, he is thrown into the cruel, ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Plot: prisoner, jail, juvenile delinquent, murder, lawyer, death sentence, prison life, teenage boy, danger, death row, prison, male nudity ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Hell Hole (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Caged like animals! Sexually abused and brutally tortured! ... Escape is their only hope!
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: prison, woman with a gun, sex slave, big breasts, women in prison, kidnapping, female nudity, death, blood, suicide, women's prison, escape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 1K
Feng shui (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Joy and her family have just moved into a new home, in a sparsely populated village. For them, it’s time for new beginnings- a new chance and a new hope. But what for fortune awaits them.. and woe the tragedies to follow. On what should be the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, spooky ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, danger, couple relations, curses spells and rituals, superstition, family relations, getting home, siblings relations, horoscope, buddha, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Caged Women II (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Nicole Clark, a young beautiful and talented aspiring singer finds that living in a big city is not all its "cracked up to be". After being sexually harassed by her record Producer and then coming home to find her boyfriend in bed with ...
Style: independent film
Plot: prison, women's prison, woman with a gun, sexual fantasy, white slavery, female nudity, desire, erotica, torture, fear, lesbianism, jail ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
In My Own Hands (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Joven dela Rosa is an NBI officer who investigates The Catleya Killer case perpetrated by a man who preys married women. The killer tortures his victim to death and disposes the body at the sidewalk during night time. However, as Joven gets busy ...
Style: slasher, suspense
Plot: affair, serial killer, adultery, adulteress, wife, child abuse, pistol, beach, party, revenge, violence, government agent ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Mano Po 2: My Home (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Antonio Chan, a prominent Chinese businessman, has three women in his life v Sol, a Filipina; Lu Shui, a Chinese; and Belinda, a Filipino-Chinese. Antonio has children with all three women. A crisis shakes up the over-extended Tsinoy family ...
Plot: handicapped, interracial romance, adultery, burial, flashback, murder, frame up, wedding, chinese culture, loss of son, family relations, interracial relations
Place: the philippines, china
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28%
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Bente (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Story: A back to back treatment of a malaise which has shocked Philippine society for the past so many years: the mysterious disappearances and killings of Filipino journalists and activists. The film focuses on a hard-hitting radio commentator and his ...
Plot: politics, pursuit, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mayor, expose, infidelity, husband wife relationship, radio, telephone call, family relations, wiretap, radio announcer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Bukas Bibitayin Si Itay (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Philippines
Story: Elmo is an ex-convict who swears on his mother’s remains to live uprightly. After his life in prison, Elmo makes sure to avoid any conflict despite the mistreatment he receives from people. His wife Cathy seems discontent with the meager money her ...
Plot: wife, shootout, smoking, adultery, murder, bank, police, judge, confession, rage, father daughter relationship, torture ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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