Movies like Escape 2012
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Escape (2012)
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Original name: Flukt
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Ten years after the Black Death devastated the country, a poor family sets out on a journey to search for better living conditions. In a deserted mountain pass, they are attacked by a gang of ruthless killer thieves. The only one spared is 19 year old Signe. She is taken prisoner, and the gang brings her back to their camp. Here, she soon learns that they have a fate worse than death in store for her, and realises that her only hope is to escape.
Style:
exciting, suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, bandit, captive, wilderness, viking, escape, orphan, friendship between girls, sword and shield, ruthlessness, revenge, on the run, woman in danger, gang, captivity, chase, chases and races, escapades, danger, confined, violence spree, kickass women, manhunt, brutality, forest ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place:
europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting and realistic films with plots about danger, escapades, survival, murder, deadly, heroes and graphic violence mostly in Adventure, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Escape: Pathfinder (1987), The Naked Prey (1965), The Wild Hunt (2009), Van Diemen's Land (2009), Backcountry (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Norway, Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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medieval, lapland, survival, indigenous people, viking, winter, snow, coming of age, nature, heroes, sapmi, female nudity ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 11th century, 10th century
Place:
europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last ...
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Time:
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Place:
africa, south africa
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100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A medieval reenactment game turns into a Shakespearean tragedy when a non-player crashes the event to win back his girlfriend.
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role playing, mind game, escapades, woman in danger, danger, woods, viking, missing girl, folk horror, attempted rape, magic realism, pagan ...
Time:
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Place:
canada
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared ...
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tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
cannibalism, survival, escaped prisoner, penal colony, wilderness, murder, cannibal, fugitives, confined, escapades, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, tasmania
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, natural horror, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, woods, nature, camping, bear, lost in the woods, dangerous animal, danger, bear attack, forest, lost ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, ontario canada, canada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jannicke wakes up in the hospital. All of her friends are dead. As she walks through the dark corridors, she thinks she is left alone. But the nightmare isn't over yet.
Style:
scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
hospital, medical, nightmare, psychopath, snow, mountain, abandoned hotel, masked man, winter, female fighter, killer, missing person ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
europe
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Eirik and his girlfriend, Jannicke, join newly coupled Mikael and Ingunn, along with single wisecracker Morten, on a snowboarding excursion to a remote mountainous region in Norway. When Morten breaks his leg, however, and requires medical ...
Style:
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Plot:
hotel, psychopath, group of friends, mountain, characters killed one by one, manic, snowboarding, sole survivor, female fighter, abandoned hotel, characters murdered one by one, photograph ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2016, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two British beauties go to Barbados with a yacht captain who does not know what he's in for.
Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On a family trip in the African desert, a research scientist unintentionally travels off course and is brutally murdered by an arms dealer. His girlfriend is put to the ultimate survival test as she attempts to evade the killers and protect his ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, pursuit, survival, father daughter relationship, hyena, woman in danger, wilderness, on the run, murder, manhunt, kickass women, poacher ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Returning to his homeland after years of slavery, a Norman prince seeks revenge on his father's murderer – his ruthless uncle, Earl Durant. Gaining the trust of a band of exiled farmers, he leads them into battle against Durant, exploiting ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 11th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Drama set in the viking age, Helgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son. Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents death and someone he never expected to ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Cast into a violent and bloody world of murder, Hereward, a novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne - a book of great beauty and power - to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, historical drama ...
Plot:
viking, monk, medieval, heroic mission, chase, escapades, danger, monastery, master warrior, gospel, norse mythology, nordic ...
Time:
middle ages, 8th century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Switzerland, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A band of Vikings cross enemy lines and a panicked race begins. The losers will pay with their lives.
Style:
saga, stylized, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
scandinavia, europe
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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27%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Audience:
boys' night
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25%
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 91 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."
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independent film, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
60s, 1900s, 20th century
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Similarity:
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175
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Prepare to get tangled in the jungles of Belize when an arms smuggler loses her partner in a deadly shootout and finds herself on the run in the tropics of Central America. Helen is an amateur, making her money as an illegal arms trader to Central ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
central america
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Four friends set out on a motorcycle adventure weekend, clocking up miles in an attempt to outrun their age and urban lifestyles. After bartering with a local land owner for a place to set up camp, they spend the night reminiscing over their wasted ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, survival, captivity, danger, confined, haunted by the past, woods, wilderness, buddies, escapades, friendship, abduction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
escape, monster, bigfoot, danger, woods, survival, confined, deathtrap, violence, murder, creature feature, creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, cave, expedition, disaster, danger, underwater, death, forces of nature, underground, water, struggle for survival, deathtrap ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
papua new guinea
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Australia, Singapore
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An unlikely friendship between 2 young men becomes everything, when an Australian soldier takes refuge under the canopied jungles of Singapore, during the violent Japanese invasion in World War II. Jim is lost, injured and defenseless in a hostile, ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
escape, world war two, jungle adventure, danger, soldier, communication problem, military, chase, world war, imperial japan, escapades, jungle ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
singapore, asia, australia
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, epic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
native american white relationships, colonialism, wilderness, survival, native, danger, captivity, culture clash, settler, colonial america, escape, pioneer ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, virginia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Former LAPD cop, Dakota Varley, enters a power boat race seeking the prize of $250,000, but immediately discovers, first hand, that this race's risk matches the prize: one racer is killed, 3 others seriously injured in multiple action-packed ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, rough, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, martial arts, survival, one man army, heroes, one against many, chase, island, rivalry, danger, contests and competitions, escapades ...
Time:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Vikings pillage Ireland, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young boy is spared when a Viking takes pity on him instead of killing him. Twenty years later the boy returns to Iceland take his revenge.
Style:
cult classic, esoteric, historical drama, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
viking, sword and shield, medieval, revenge, barbarian, sword and sorcery, female nudity, sorcery, time machine, scandinavian culture, ancient, kidnapping ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young Viking called Vitharr arrives in Britain with dreams of conquest and adventure, but when his family and clan are ambushed and killed, he must survive alone in this strange,dangerous new land as he searches for his Uncle's settlement.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
viking, medieval, vengeance, life philosophy, murder, danger, rivalry, heroes, youth, society, escapades, conquering ...
Time:
middle ages, 9th century
Place:
britain
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20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Sweden, Iceland, Norway
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Trausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other clan leader. Isold, daughter of Erikur now takes his place. ...
Style:
tension, bleak, dark, melancholic, suspense ...
Plot:
viking, medieval, revenge, family feud, murder, power struggle, tragedy, forbidden love, violence, betrayal, love triangle, honor ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 11th century
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
20%
77K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander ...
Style:
exciting, period piece, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ancient rome, roman empire, ancient world, ancient history, slavery, medieval, sword fight, master and servant, ancient, gladiator, slave, legends and myths ...
Time:
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Place:
scotland, britain, england, greece, europe ...
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20%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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boys' night
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, illinois
Similarity:
20%
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