Movies like Maze 2017

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Maze (2017)
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Maze (2017)
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, prison, terrorist, assassination attempt, prison break, male objectification, murder, society, danger, nazi, confined, true crime, mobster, anglo irish relations, football hooligan, confined space, world war, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, political prisoner, troubled marriage, prison riot, hunger, world war two, biopic ...
Time: year 1983, 80s, contemporary
Place: northern ireland, ireland, belfast
Keyword: irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, suspense and realistic films with plots about murder, danger, true crime, society, deadly, prison and biopic mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Maze: The Corrupted (2019), Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008), The Truth Commissioner (2016), Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021), Escape From Pretoria (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Corrupted (2019)
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, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, corruption, murder, society, danger, escapades, small town, rivalry, police, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: year 2012, year 2002, 2000s, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
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: factual, captivating, stylized, tense, political ...
Plot: ira, crime gone awry, storytelling, terrorism, brutality, secret agent, snitch, danger, undercover, state affairs, spy, trouble ...
Time: 80s, year 2008, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, canada, northern ireland, europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
The Truth Commissioner (2016)
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 ...
Plot: politics, ira, intolerance, war crime, ethnic conflict, trouble
Place: ireland, northern ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman (2021)
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: disturbing, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, murder, investigation, murder investigation, murderer, uncover truth, crime investigation, crime solving, murder mystery, fbi agent, serial murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Escape From Pretoria (2020)
Genre: 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 escape, apartheid, prison, political activism, escape, political prisoner, prison break, human spirit, human rights, freedom, political activist, politics ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa, australia, south australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (2008)
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: scary, psychological, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, prison life, confined, law enforcement, prison, danger, killer, biopic, manipulation, rivalry, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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 13K
Shadow Dancer (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
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, state affairs, betrayal, undercover, family relations, snitch, radical, siblings relations, political unrest, single parent, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 2012, 90s, year 1993, year 1973 ...
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
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: political, sentimental, inspirational, dramatic, factual ...
Plot: prison, terrorist, lawyer, father son relationship, courtroom, terrorism, trial, biopic, legal, justice, politics, courtroom drama ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s, 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, britain, nepal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Trapped (2008)
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, suspenseful, rough, bleak
Plot: ira, terrorism, police detective, moral dilemma, on the run, injustice, life is a bitch, society, rebelliousness, rebellion, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place: ireland, europe, belfast, paris france, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.5
 73K
Hunger (2008)
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: disturbing, bleak, political, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: prison, prison life, ira, suicide, dying, rebellion, idealism, police brutality, resistance, suffering, nudity, male nudity ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 90s, 2000s, year 1981 ...
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Jack (2015)
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, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense
Plot: serial killer, killer, murderer, serial murder, murder, society, going straight, ex convict, prisoner, danger, dishonesty, true crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 3.8
 768
Furnace (2007)
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, murder, danger, rivalry, confined, supernatural, investigation, police detective, violence, paranormal, law enforcer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
No Man of God (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, psycho killer, confession, charm, killer, murderer, relationship problems, criminal, couple relations, male female relationship, sex crime, prison ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Night Stalker (2016)
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, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, police, murder, psychopath, rape, death, true crime, murderer, rapist, serial murder, violence, killing spree ...
Time: year 1980
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015)
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, disturbing, rough, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: nazi, war criminal, mossad, holocaust, shoah, courtroom, world war two, nazi hunter, nazi war criminal, death threat, justice, gay affair ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place: germany, west germany, buenos aires argentina, jerusalem, israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Stavisky, Crook of the Century (2015)
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, suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: con artists, death, murder, corruption, society, money, youth, ambition, millionaire, greed, escapades, young man ...
Time: 20th century
Place: france, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Talvar (2015)
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, tense ...
Plot: murder, investigation, police detective, twists and turns, suspect, police, crime scene, domestic servant, planting evidence, danger, plot twist, murder mystery ...
Time: year 2015, year 2008
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
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 ...
Plot: psychology, prison, experiment, human experiment, social experiment, human nature, university, prison escape, teachers and students, character study, student, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 2010s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The General (1998)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In a twenty-year career marked by obsessive secrecy, brutality and meticulous planning, Cahill netted over £40 million. He was untouchable - until a bullet from an IRA hitman ended it all.
Style: black and white, tense, serious, clever, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, gangster, art theft, mastermind, master criminal, brutality, law enforcement, cons and scams, danger, mafia, organized crime, courtroom ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 50s, 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Beautiful & Twisted (2015)
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, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: murder, femme fatale, danger, couples, husband wife relationship, psychopath, investigation, rivalry, death, true crime, mother in law, strip club ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
I Killed My BFF (2015)
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: suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspenseful
Plot: true crime, murder, police investigation, who done it, love, husband wife relationship, murder mystery, society, uncover truth, partners against crime, revenge, mysterious man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Bad Day for the Cut (2017)
Genre: Action, 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, captivating, psychological, powerful ...
Plot: revenge, murder, farmer, vengeance, death of mother, fighting crime, dark past, criminal, organized crime, chase, danger, gunfight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Jailbreak Pact (2020)
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, disturbing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense
Plot: convict, prison break, danger, death, murder, pursuit, peril, fugitives, conspiracy, escapades, prison, fighting the system ...
Time: 90s
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Preacher (2004)
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: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, controversial ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, dishonesty, assassination, betrayal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, hitman, gunfight, true crime, organized crime, serial killer, mob boss ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place: holland, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Resurrection Man (1998)
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, bleak, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, brutality, psychopath, journalism, investigation, master criminal, uncover truth, ira, trouble, violence, anglo irish relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Operation Mekong (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Chinese narco-cops take their mission to the Golden Triangle following the Mekong River massacre of innocent fishermen by the region's drug lord.
Style: suspense, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: boat, illegal drugs, river, swat team, danger, resistance, fight, crew, ship, murder, soldier, armed forces ...
Place: china, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
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, psychological, realistic, tense, informative ...
Plot: military dictatorship, prison, politics, dictatorship, dictator, released from prison, political prisoner, violence, biopic, rivalry, society, criminal justice ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1973
Place: south america, uruguay, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Swallow, Cat, Rose, Death (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story: What's in a name but murder? Münster comes across the strangled body of a young woman in her home and surprises the murderer who is still on the premises. Though the murderer escapes, a rare book is found at the scene with a dedication by the ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, investigation, police detective, murder mystery, evidence, twists and turns, danger, escapades, witnessing a crime, nypd ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.1
 2K
The Wannabe (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, atmospheric, suspense
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: mafia, uncover truth, wannabe, murder, sex scene, society, crime family, investigation, prison, politics, organized crime, gangster ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)
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: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, taken hostage, hostage situation, hostage, ocean, danger, save the day, chases and races, one man army, race against time, leadership ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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