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Escapes (1968)
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Original name: Bekstva
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Political prisoners imprisoned in Yugoslavia will try to escape from prison by digging a channel under the ground and join the partisans.
Style:
tense, tension, period piece, suspense, grim, political drama
Plot:
world war two, escape, prison break, prison life, oppression, escape plan, escape attempt, survival, underground, rebellion, risk, sacrifice, conflict, desperation, resilience, solidarity, heroism, guerilla warfare, moral ambiguity, cold war era, hopes, partisan, prison, fight, prisoner ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
former yugoslavia, yugoslavia
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Most similar movies to Escapes
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period piece, bleak, suspense and historical drama films with plots about world war two, partisan, survival, sacrifice, fear, nazi and resistance mostly in War, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Escapes: The Escape (1987), Arrive Before Daybreak (1978), Black Birds (1967), The Bombers (1973), The Demolition Squad (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The tragic story of a group of prisoners, ordinary people, were detained in the camp at Lager in Naise at the beginning of WWII, after that mighty torture and abuse by the Germans, will try escape from the camp. A few succeeded.
Style:
bleak, tense, suspense, period piece
Plot:
world war two, concentration camp, escape, torture, prisoner of war camp, survival, nazi occupation, partisan, resistance, prisoners of war, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, serbia
Similarity:
95%
Genre: War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story of political prisoners, detained in a jail before the start of the WWII, and their torture and attempts to escape, and join a partisan unit.
Style:
historical drama, bleak, intense, dark, realistic ...
Plot:
torture, prison escape, political oppression, survival, sacrifice, courage, solidarity, escape plan, rebellion, wartime, oppression, world war two ...
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
WW2 story about group of prisoners who are trying to escape the death camp, run by local pro-Nazi militia.
Style:
tension, dark, suspense, grim, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, escape, concentration camp, prisoner, survival, oppression, war crime, tragedy, resistance, execution, escape plan, brutality ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two best friends, former Partisans, must face new challenges after the war.
Style:
tension, suspense, political, period piece
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mission, resistance, sabotage, post war, danger, dangerous mission, friendship, brotherhood, bravery, loyalty ...
Time:
post world war two
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The Germans held the strategically important airport, where planes were taking off to bombard partisans positions. Headquarters of one a partisan unit sent a few commandos to blow up airplanes and airport in the air.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, tense, period piece, realistic ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, sabotage, resistance, covert operation, espionage, commando raid, guerilla warfare, sacrifice, loyalty, heroism, weapons ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Four partisans in the mountains and suffering from typhus are slowly destroyed.
Style:
grim, bleak, psychological, intense, melancholic ...
Plot:
typhus, partisan, mountain, survival, suffering, disease, struggle, world war two, death, isolation, realism, illness ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, croatia
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia, Soviet Union
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Beginning in 1943. year. The tragic story of the prisoners... partisans and others who were found in a prison in Montenegro at the time when the Chetniks and the occupiers at all costs they want to crush the uprising in Yugoslavia.
Plot:
partisan, world war two, wedding, shooting, execution, struggle, fascist, tank, murder, nazi, river, fear ...
Time:
year 1943
Place:
former yugoslavia, montenegro
Similarity:
53%
248
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In a Serbian village on Christmas Day in 1943, the Chetniks accept two downed American pilots and give them hospitality. However, finding out that the Germans are looking for pilots, the Chetniks change their attitude towards them.
Style:
historical drama, suspense, black and white, art house, period drama
Plot:
world war two, partisan, christmas, village, betrayal, moral ambiguity, occupation, escape, holiday, deception, cover up, tragedy ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
serbia, balkan, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. Enne 2 is ...
Style:
historical drama, serious, tension, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
world war two, fascism, political conflict, occupation, persecution, moral ambiguity, oppression, betrayal, fear, violence, sacrifice, pursuit ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
milan italy, italy, turin italy
Similarity:
46%
380
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
During the Second World War, following an ambush carried out in a fort by German troops, Eugène, a French soldier, finds himself trapped underground. Now fighting for his survival, his destiny will play out alongside that of another survivor and ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, french soldier, soldier, ambush, survival, military, wound, battles, wartime, fight, war, trap ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
france
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two POWs - Russian and Lithuanian - are trying to escape a German Camp during WWII.
Style:
tension, suspense, period piece, intercultural
Plot:
escape, fear, world war two, escape attempt, survival, imprisonment, pow, military, occupation, oppression, desperation, friendship ...
Place:
lithuania, russia
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War, Western
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
This film predominantly deals with the problems of a young man whom his delusions led into conflict with society. These issues will throw him into an adventure that would be tragic for him, but still helpful for him to see the truth. The story takes ...
Style:
period piece, bleak, poignant, grim, historical drama ...
Plot:
delusion, betrayal, mental illness, social conflict, tragedy, realism, loss, alienation, survival, isolation, family drama, coming of age ...
Place:
kosovo, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?
Style:
tense, intense, serious, suspense, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, cave, trapped, underground, survival, claustrophobia, confined, isolation, darkness, desperation, sacrifice, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
44%
850
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans ...
Style:
epic, crying, epic war, black and white
Plot:
world war two, partisan, mountain, world war, woods, fate, innocence, wounded, nazi collaborator, retribution, dead body, inhumanity ...
Time:
year 1942
Place:
bosnia, balkan, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true story of great transport of Partizans from Vojvodina to Bosnia in 1943.
Style:
tense, realistic, patriotic, melancholic, grim ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, historical epic, convoy, resistance movement, evacuation, guerilla warfare, tragedy, heroism, sacrifice, resilience, woods ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia, eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Croatia
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war ...
Style:
historical drama, bleak, period piece, grim, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, biopic, national identity, historical epic, university student, political intrigue, realism, occupation, fascism, tragedy, moral ambiguity, sacrifice ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
croatia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: War, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Immediately after the war, OZNA insert an outstanding intelligence agent to catch the General Draza Mihajlovic.
Style:
epic
Plot:
world war two, trap, partisan, drinking, wedding, spy, girl, secret, fear, murder, blood, machine gun ...
Time:
year 1945
Place:
former yugoslavia, bosnia, serbia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Tells the story of a very memorable in Warsaw - August 1, 1944. The Germans have been withdrawing for some time, everyone is waiting for the signal of the Polish uprising to start.
Style:
bleak, tension, period piece, suspense, patriotic ...
Plot:
world war two, german occupation, sacrifice, polish history, resistance movement, desperation, bravery, realism, guerilla warfare, last stand, suicide mission, moral dilemma ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
warsaw poland
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The true story of George Tweed, an American sailor who became the only serviceman on the island of Guam to avoid capture by the Japanese during the early years of World War II.
Style:
period piece, tense, suspenseful, grim, educational ...
Plot:
world war two, biopic, survival, island, isolation, military, resilience, heroism, japanese occupation, loneliness, resistance, patriotism ...
Time:
1940s, year 1962
Place:
japan, minneapolis minnesota, pacific ocean, pearl harbor
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Wonderful war stories about Isidor Katanic, officer who spent his working life as a calligrapher writing to various documents. Resignation living at home, living with rampant wife and her son from a previous marriage, sloth. Very soon retire and go ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, fish, pension, master, photograph, drowning, basement, murder, communist, sister, ss ...
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, belgrade
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Destinies of two friends-fighters during WW2.
Style:
bleak, period piece, tense, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, sacrifice, friendship, occupation, resistance, partisan, survival, underground movement, loss, courage, fighter, duty ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
albania, kosovo, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An American pilot escapes from a POW camp and links up with Yugoslav partisans. He’s about to head back to Allied lines when he learns that the Partisans are plotting to assassinate the camp commander. He joins in the plot, aiming for revenge.
Plot:
world war two, partisan, world war, bomb, pow, colonel, timebomb, hunting, fight, underground, night, assassination ...
Place:
former yugoslavia
Similarity:
38%
1K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In this episodic WW II drama, a Yugoslavian youth attempts to escape from German soldiers. In the first scene, he stands amongst a group of refugees waiting for a train. One man, with no identification papers is accused of a petty crime and the ...
Style:
black and white
Plot:
partisan, world war two, black, death, fugitive, revolutionary, nazi, false accusation, wound, execution, cemetery, fight ...
Place:
serbia, balkan, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This movie tells a true story about events in Zagreb in 1941. Nazis and their collaborators organized the great gathering of students on Dubrava stadium. The intention was to publicly separate Jews from them which would lead to future pogrom. The ...
Style:
historical drama, tension, serious, period piece, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, partisan, nazi occupation, political conflict, political repression, student protest, human rights, holocaust, resistance movement, fear, identity, memory ...
Time:
year 1941
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Style:
suspense, historical drama, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
japanese occupation, world war two, mother daughter relationship, sacrifice, courage, resistance, military, arrest, family relations, life is a bitch, occupation, partisan ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story begins in 1941 and shows one of the people who which were actually, very brave and proudly fought against the Ustasha, Germans and other butchers, not related to that ideology was tied. The film is about Dr. Mladen Stojanovic legend of ...
Style:
epic
Plot:
partisan, world war two, doctor, battles, heroes, singing, cold the temperature, fear, girl, prison, escape, machine gun ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Soldier Jack deserts his unit and finds his wife Eva in isolated village in the mountains. She moved there to work in a factory unaware of the cruel owner Bar. Secret police arrives and it seems both Jack and Eva's time is up.
Style:
suspense, tense, tension, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
soldier, survival, danger, fear, oppression, secret police, world war two, military life, star crossed lovers, military officer, love affair, wartime ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, East Germany
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
A final episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance during WWII. The film is set in 1944, when Russian partisans are making progress in their fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lt. ...
Style:
period piece, tense, suspenseful, patriotic
Plot:
world war two, eastern front, behind enemy lines, guerilla warfare, resistance, occupation, sabotage, underground movement, sacrifice, resilience, heroism, patriotism ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, russia, czechoslovakia, poland, ussr
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A journalist (Tom Drake) watches a U.S. colonel (George Montgomery) and Filipino guerrillas smoke out Japanese soldiers.
Style:
tense, historical drama, period piece, grim
Audience:
adult
Plot:
world war two, soldier, jungle warfare, danger, combat, manhunt, survival, violence, camaraderie, investigative journalism, leadership, jungle ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
It is the beginning of 1945 during WW2 in former Austria. 500 Russian prisoners of war who have refused to fight on the side of the Germans against their country were moved to the concentration camp in Mauthausen awaiting execution. They decide to ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, bleak, tension
Plot:
world war two, winter, escape, war crime, manhunt, persecution, survival, fear, barbarism, desperation, holocaust, collaboration ...
Place:
austria
Similarity:
33%
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