Movies like Escape 1995

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Escape (1995)

7.1

Original name: Eskapo

Genre: Drama, Thriller, Action

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.

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Most similar movies to Escape

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, rough and serious films with plots about prison, escape, jail, murder, torture, violence and suspense mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Escape: The Seventies (2002), The Chain (1996), Manila Kingpin (2011), Enemies of the State (2010), Across the Crescent Moon (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.

The Seventies (2002)

7.7

279

Genre: Drama

Country: Philippines

Duration: 128 min.

Story: A middle-class Filipino family struggles to survive in the era of dictatorship.

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95%

The Chain (1996)

4.3

229

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.

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80%

Manila Kingpin (2011)

6.6

200

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 ...

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68%

Enemies of the State (2010)

6.0

916

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 ...

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61%

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70s

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Across the Crescent Moon (2017)

6.2

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.

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55%

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The Heavens Indivisible (1985)

6.9

Genre: Drama

Country: Philippines

Duration: 127 min.

Story: A wealthy man comes to terms with his adopted sister.

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55%

438 Days (2019)

6.7

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 ...

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53%

The Man Standing Next (2020)

6.9

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 ...

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Mean Dog Blues (1978)

6.1

275

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 ...

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52%

10000 Hours (2013)

7.0

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: Philippines, Netherlands

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 ...

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Banal (2008)

6.8

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 ...

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48%

Hell Hole (1978)

4.7

103

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Philippines

Duration: 82 min.

Story: Caged like animals! Sexually abused and brutally tortured! ... Escape is their only hope!

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45%

On the Job (2013)

6.9

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 ...

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42%

Escape from Hellhole (1983)

3.8

118

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: Indonesia, Philippines

Duration: 100 min.

Story: Indonesian film about a Punjabi girl getting tricked into living with a big time pimp. Uncle MG as they call him, abducts virgins, and forces them to submit to his hymen bustin ways. The not so attractive gals get several chances to marry Uncle MG, ...

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41%

Caged Women II (1996)

5.5

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 ...

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Escape: Human Cargo (1998)

6.1

468

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: USA

Duration: 107 min.

Story: An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influential Saudi partners, they have him arrested. Due to the US policy of noninterference in SA, the embassy won't help him. He must escape.

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40%

Bente (2009)

6.8

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 ...

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38%

Marighella (2019)

7.1

55K

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 ...

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186 Dollars to Freedom (2012)

5.2

571

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.

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37%

Woman Prisoner No. 407 (1976)

5.6

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea

Duration: 105 min.

Story: Kang-hie recalls from her cell how she was used by Japanese detectives to track down and destroy the Korean Independence fighters. She manages to escape from prison during a break and proceeds to hunt down her former lover who was a Japanese agent.

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36%

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The Saratov Approach (2013)

5.5

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA, Ukraine

Duration: 107 min.

Story: An inspirational true story. On what seemed like any other day, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to teach a friend. But then the missionaries experience the ...

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36%

Kartavya (1995)

5.2

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: India

Story: Karan and his mother live a happy life and he is soon to be married to Kajal. But on the day of his engagement, he discovers his mother is not his biological mother.

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In My Own Hands (1996)

7.4

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 ...

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Batas Ng Lansangan (2002)

6.8

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 ...

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34%

Island of Lost Souls (1974)

5.1

130

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Country: Mexico

Duration: 95 min.

Story: Rene Cardona directs the film version of Jose Leon Sanchez's best-selling novel, which relates the author's 20 years of imprisonment on an island ruled by brutality. When a sadistic man declares himself the boss of an island pueblo, an ...

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Terminal Island (1973)

5.2

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 88 min.

Story: In the wake of a Supreme Court decision to outlaw the death penalty, California passes an initiative that designates San Bruno island as a dumping spot for first-degree murder convicts, free to do what they like except leave. The main camp of ...

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34%

Woman Prisoner No. 407 II (1976)

5.0

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea, Hong Kong

Duration: 90 min.

Story: Coming soon

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The Last Castle (2001)

6.9

82K

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 131 min.

Story: A Court Martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.

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34%

Sleeping Dogs (1977)

6.3

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: New Zealand

Duration: 107 min.

Story: Recluse Smith (Sam Neill) is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught ...