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Maze (2017)
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, complex
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ira, terrorist, prison, assassination attempt, prison escape, male objectification, murder, society, danger, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, political prisoner, troubled marriage, nazi, confined, true crime, mobster, anglo irish relations, football hooligan, confined space, world war, prison riot, hunger, world war two, biopic ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, contemporary
Place:
northern ireland, ireland, belfast
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, suspense and psychological films with plots about murder, true crime, danger, prison, society, biopic and violence mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Maze: Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008), The Corrupted (2019), The Truth Commissioner (2016), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), Hunger (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on Martin McGartland's real life story as a informant for the British Police to spy on the IRA. Taking place from 1987-1991, Martin (Jim Sturgess) works his way up the ranks of the IRA, while keeping his informant with the police Fergis ...
Style:
sexy, factual, brutal, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ira, brutality, weapons, crime gone awry, storytelling, terrorism, secret agent, snitch, danger, state affairs, undercover, spy ...
Time:
80s, year 2008, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, canada, northern ireland, europe, scotland ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
corruption, society, murder, friendship, danger, escapades, rivalry, small town, police, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2012, year 2002
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam, a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, politics, ethnic conflict, secrets, problem, social problems, crime solving, uncover truth, workplace situations, workplace, life is a bitch, murderer ...
Place:
northern ireland, ireland, belfast, dublin ireland, london
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, mysterious villain, true crime, murder, murder investigation, investigation, killing, crime solving, crime investigation, murder mystery, fbi investigation, uncover truth ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.
Style:
sincere, political, depressing, visually stunning, art house ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, ira, male nudity, suicide, prisoner, dying, terrorist, nudity, rebellion, police brutality, suffering ...
Time:
20th century, year 2008, 2000s, 90s, year 1981 ...
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, london, europe, belfast
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Style:
political thriller, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
ira, moral dilemma, radical, terrorist, state affairs, undercover, betrayal, family relations, snitch, siblings relations, political unrest, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, year 2012, year 1993, year 1973, 90s ...
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, london, england, belfast ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father ...
Style:
inspirational, political, thought provoking, sentimental, dramatic ...
Plot:
prison, father son relationship, terrorist, lawyer, courtroom, terrorism, politics, trial, biopic, male nudity, justice, courtroom drama ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s, 70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, england, nepal, britain ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston ...
Style:
serious, psychological, scary, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, confined, psychopath, prison life, prison, law enforcement, killer, biopic, killing spree, manipulation, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison…
Style:
political, suspense, tense, atmospheric, dramatic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, apartheid, prison escape, escape, political prisoner, political activism, political activist, politics, human spirit, prison break, rebelliousness, political persecution ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
south africa, africa, cape town south africa, adelaide south australia, australia ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, powerful ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, farmer, vengeance, death of mother, fighting crime, chase, gunfight, danger, criminal, organized crime, dark past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
59%
158
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way.
Style:
psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, murderer, murder, serial murder, society, going straight, prisoner, danger, ex convict, dishonesty, true crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A hardened cop deals with three conflicting perspectives involving a brutal double murder. The case is complicated as the prime suspects are the parents who supposedly killed their teenage daughter.
Style:
suspense, suspense thriller, social, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, renaissance, suspect, police detective, twists and turns, planting evidence, crime scene, danger, police, domestic servant, investigation, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2008
Place:
india
Similarity:
56%
220
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970's Ireland is a radically different place to the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
ira, terrorism, police detective, on the run, moral dilemma, injustice, law enforcement, rebellion, rebelliousness, society, love and romance, danger ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
ireland, europe, belfast, paris france, dublin ireland
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
psychology, prison, social experiment, human experiment, human nature, university, prison life, experiment, teachers and students, prison escape, character study, student ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 2010s
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of the rise of Alexander Stravisky, a brilliant and seductive crook, in Paris of the roaring twenties. But unchecked greed and corruption does not go unpunished. The political decadence he feeds off will also cause his downfall.
Style:
cynical, tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
friends, dishonesty, corruption, obsession, young man, murder, millionaire, rags to riches, death, couple relations, greed, ambition ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
france, israel
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Uruguay, Spain, Argentina, France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Uruguay, 1973. Having been crushed by the military dictatorship, surviving members of the Tupamaro guerillas are imprisoned and tortured. They must find a way to endure the coming 12 years.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, inspirational ...
Plot:
military dictatorship, politics, prison, released from prison, dictatorship, dictator, political prisoner, violence, biopic, society, rivalry, based on real people ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1983, year 1972, 20th century ...
Place:
south america, uruguay, latin america
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The Victoriastadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage, head-responsible for the Olympic Games in Stockholm, dies with it. Why did someone destroy the stadium and why is Christina murdered? The police desperately seek for ...
Style:
tense, rough, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorist, journalism, terrorism, female reporter, female protagonist, bomb, media, danger, murder, journalist, newspaper, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.
Style:
psychological, tense, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
police, serial killer, murderer, psychopath, death, true crime, murder, serial murder, rapist, killing spree, brutality, maniac ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
california
Similarity:
48%
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804
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, ghost, danger, murder, supernatural, rivalry, confined, investigation, police detective, violence, paranormal, law enforcer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, psycho killer, killer, charm, confession, death row, murderer, criminal, couple relations, male female relationship, relationship problems, true crime ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s, year 1986, year 1987
Place:
florida
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The true story of the infamous prison break of Gary Tison and Randy Greenwalt from the Arizona State prison in Florence, in the summer of 1978.
Style:
serious, tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
escape, prison break, escaped prisoner, true crime, runaway, serial killer, fleeing, jail, criminal, law enforcement, biopic, manhunt ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
arizona
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A friendship between two young mothers results in murder when one develops an attraction to the other's boyfriend.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot:
true crime, murder, police investigation, uncover truth, murder mystery, mysterious man, who done it, heroes, murderer, friends, escapades, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, political corruption, politics, mafia, bank, uncover truth, manipulation, clergy, legal, gangster, cons and scams, bankruptcy ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, london, palermo italy, switzerland ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, danger, couples, psychopath, husband wife relationship, investigation, rivalry, death, skinny dipping, true crime, mother in law ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa, miami
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA, West Germany, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Genua, 3rd October 1985. Together with over 500 other passengers Margot and Pierre Bergeron, a married couple from France, the Serafinis, an Italian family, Anne Higgins, an Englishwoman, Gitta and Helmut Holzer from Germany and an American couple ...
Style:
tense, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hostage situation, taken hostage, hijacking, hostage, ocean, leadership, chases and races, danger, confined, one man army, heroes ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
convict, prison escape, prison break, danger, prison, vengeance, race against time, murder, fugitives, against the odds, death, pursuit ...
Time:
90s, year 1990
Place:
chile
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, violent, dark hero, psychopath, journalism, investigation, master criminal, uncover truth, ira, trouble, violence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, england, europe, california
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Different solution new movie ;-) The Preacher tells the story about the rise and fall off a dutch mafiaboss. The movie is based on the story of Klaas Bruinsma.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, betrayal, assassination, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, hitman, gunfight, true crime, crime family, killing spree, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
holland, amsterdam
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It is the late 1950s. Flourishing under the economic miracle, Germany grows increasingly apathetic about confronting the horrors of its recent past. Nevertheless, Fritz Bauer doggedly devotes his energies to bringing the Third Reich to justice. One ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
nazi, war criminal, mossad, shoah, holocaust, courtroom, nazi hunter, nazi war criminal, world war two, attorney, gay affair, death threat ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
germany, west germany, buenos aires argentina, jerusalem, israel ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
stylized, suspenseful, captivating, atmospheric, realistic
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
britain, poland
Similarity:
40%
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