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 5.0
 1K
Brain Dead (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of six people caught in the unusual (except in horror films) predicament of being stranded in a deserted fishing lodge with a host of alien-infected, mutant amoeba-controlled zombies at their doorstep.
Style: semi serious, scary, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: zombie, danger, supernatural, gory, lesbian, fishing, lake, skinny dipping, preacher, violence, evil alien, meteorite ...
Time: 21st century
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's ...
Style: road movie, funny, dark comedy, slapstick comedy, surreal ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: prison escape, blues, on the run, treasure hunt, small town, music, great depression, obsessive quest, country music, on the road, runaway, dark humor ...
Time: 1930s, year 2000, 20th century, y2k, 2000s ...
Place: mississippi, ancient greece, america, greece, persia ...
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 5.9
 9K
Wedlock (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner.
Style: suspense, dark comedy, black comedy, fast, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, conspiracy, dystopian future, prisoner, on the run, heist, distopia, cyberpunk, fugitives, manhunt, prison escape, bad guy ...
Time: future, near future
Place: los angeles, california
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I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, blaxploitation, escape, guillotine, raft, shark, bad cop, brutality, escaped prisoner, leper, forced labor, homosexuality ...
Time: 1910s
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 7.9
 28K
The Red Circle (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a ...
Style: neo noir, tense, stylized, suspense, noir ...
Plot: heist, gangster, robbery, caper, organized crime, nightclub, mafia, great ending, thief, prison, gunfight, existentialism ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, marseille, france
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The McKenzie Break (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A German U-Boat commander and 600 prisoners plan a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, war, captivity, military, soldier, battles, british soldier, prison life, survival, nazi officer, gay soldier, wartime life ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: ireland, london, scotland
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Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Count Dracula and his wife capture beautiful young women and chain them in their dungeon, to be used when they need to satisfy their thirst for blood.
Style: psychotronic, gothic, gothic horror, suspense, classic horror ...
Plot: vampire, dungeon, dracula, werewolf, supernatural, tomb, lycanthropy, monster, photographer, castle, serial killer, beach ...
Time: 60s
Place: california, usa, arizona
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 7.7
 296K
The Goonies (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of ...
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, intense, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, childhood, treasure, pirate, treasure map, children, mischievous children, pirate ship, group of friends, map, friendship, cave ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: oregon, astoria oregon, usa
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 8.0
 138K
Papillon (1973)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Style: inspirational, psychological, grim, realistic, depressing ...
Plot: prison escape, prison, escape, life philosophy, runaway, human spirit, prisoner, escape attempt, brutality, prison break, prison life, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 1973, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: persia, latin america, atlantic ocean
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 6.6
 166K
The Running Man (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: dystopian future, distopia, chase, cyberpunk, chases and races, dystopic future, danger, prison, prison escape, tough heroes, stephen king, game of death ...
Time: future, 80s, 20th century, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: los angeles
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 6.7
 917
The Secret (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: gloomy, mysterious, tense, poliziottesco, eurospy
Plot: secret, conspiracy theory, unhappy ending, escape, persecution, prison escape, roadblock, escaped prisoner, strangled to death, isolated house, murder disguised as suicide, isolation ...
Time: 70s
Place: south of france, france
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 6.6
 161K
Happy Death Day (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A college student relives the day of her murder over and over again as she tries to discover her killer's identity.
Style: slasher, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, murderer, college, college student, mystery killer, dying repeatedly, murder, repeated event, masked killer, surprise birthday party, alternate timeline ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: arizona
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Rites of Passage (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When lawyer DJ Farraday discovers his father has been having an affair, the two drive out to the remote family cabin to talk things over. What neither expects is that DJ's estranged gay brother Campbell will already be there, apparently ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: gay, gay slur, father son relationship, criminal, parents and children, estrangement, hostage, manipulation, family problems, father son estrangement, isolation, family in crisis ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, san francisco
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 7.7
 13K
Don (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: A ruthless gangster named Don is killed during a scuffle with the police. Since only DSP DeSilva knows of this incident, he recruits another person named Vijay who is a spitting image of Don. Vijay is planted in Don's place in Don's gang ...
Style: fast, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: dual role, gangster, gang, undercover, on the run, mistaken identity, lookalikes, underworld, undercover cop, indians, rebel, revenge ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, asia, bombay india
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A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons ...
Style: tense, melancholic, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: father son relationship, tough cop, two man army, bomb, car chase, cia agent, 007, terrorism, spy, violence, agent, american abroad ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: russia, seattle, new york, langley virginia, moscow russia ...
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 7.7
 455K
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph ...
Style: humorous, 3d animation, sweet, not serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: imaginary, obsessive quest, friendship, prejudice, disguise, hacker, master of disguise, medal, heroes, chases and races, danger, good versus evil ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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 6.7
 28K
Stakeout (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Two cops are given the 'dirty' job of staking out the home of an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend. Chris and the beautiful girlfriend accidentally meet and fall in love. Just as Chris' confesses, the convict appears, but will she ...
Style: detective, funny, humorous, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: buddy, police, buddy cop, voyeur, voyeurism, surveillance, presumed dead, criminal, love, hostage, deception, naked woman ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington state, usa, wyoming
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 6.4
 46K
Lock Up (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by ...
Style: suspense, intense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, prison warden, corruption, prisoner, prison life, revenge, torture, tough guy, self sacrifice, electric chair, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
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 5.5
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Eyewitness (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story: Five years after sending a man to jail for the murder of her father and fiancé, Diana returns home to find that he has escaped from prison and has come to confront her. However, the man has not come for revenge, but rather wants her to understand ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: murder witness, dealing with the past, confronting the past, murder of father, tragic past, tragic event, loss of father, family tragedy, life is a bitch, family business, father daughter relationship, troubled past ...
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 7.3
 110K
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, War
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, tense, harsh, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, survival, pow, soldier, jungle, prison escape, camp, wilderness, prison, violence, military, prisoner ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006, 60s, year 1965, year 1966
Place: vietnam, iraq, laos, asia
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 6.4
 13K
Bandit (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewellery stores while being hunted by a rogue task force. Based on the story of The Flying Bandit.
Style: thrilling, captivating, realistic, tense, crime drama ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: bank robber, jewel theft, bank robbery, heist, criminal, robbery, crime boss, burglar, investigation, stealing money, theft, personality change ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, year 1985
Place: canada, vancouver, detroit, ontario canada
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 5.6
 21K
Drop Zone (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A team of skydiving crooks led by DEA-agent-turned-bad Ty Moncrief (Busey) specialize in landing on police roofs and breaking in so their evil computer nerd can steal undercover agents' files and sell them to drug lords. Federal Marshal Pete ...
Style: suspense, exciting, intense, serious, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, parachuting, airplane hijack, terrorist, chase, skydiving, heroes, danger, parachute, hijacking, race against time, prison break ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, washington d.c., miami, florida
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 3.6
 1K
Monsturd (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A serial killer mutates with a chemical inside a sewer, to become a monster made of human waste just as the FBI and police are onto him.
Style: semi serious, scary, suspenseful, humorous, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, monster, deadly creature, mad scientist, laboratory, gory, experiment gone awry, psychopath, mutant, supernatural, danger, toxic waste ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.2
 16K
Breakout Kings (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Driven by the fact that there are few things more dangerous than a prisoner who has just escaped, and tired of following protocol and resorting to outdated methods of law enforcement, veteran U.S. Marshals Charlie Duchamp and Ray Zancanelli are ...
Style: realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious, thrilling ...
Plot: wanted, fugitives, convict, going straight, chase, law enforcement, expert, manhunt, partner, unlikely partners, prison, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 8.1
 30K
Kaththi (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Kathiresan aka Kaththi, a criminal, escapes from the Kolkata prison and comes to Chennai, where he comes across his doppelganger Jeevanandham, fighting for his life after being shot at by unknown men. Kathir decides to pass off as Jeeva and make ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, psychological, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, village, gangster, chase, save the day, corporation, danger, farming, dual role, escaped prisoner, farmer, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
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Mysterious Island (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to ...
Style: exciting, intense, suspenseful, suspense, retro ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: stranded, giant bird, american civil war, island, submarine, survival, civil war, castaway, ocean, monster, balloon, giant monster ...
Time: 19th century, 1900s, 1800s, year 1961, year 1865 ...
Place: fictional island, pacific ocean
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 5.9
 469
We Are Angels (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Italian television series.
Style: buddy comedy
Plot: escaped prisoner, priest, escape, prisoner, forgery, pretending to be someone else, maximum security prison, misadventure
Place: latin america
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 6.1
 471
The Huntress (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Huntress is an American TV series that appeared on the USA Network over subsequent summers of the 2000 and 2001 television seasons. It was inspired by a book about the real bounty hunter, Dottie Thorson, and is also a belated sequel to the 1980 ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, rough, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: bounty hunter, private detective, rivalry, chases and races, justice, fugitive, escaped prisoner, family relations, mother daughter relationship, bounty, reward, criminal ...
Time: 90s
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 8.3
 575K
Prison Break (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: prison, fugitives, escape, prison life, conspiracy, determination, confined, fbi, scheme, brother, self sacrifice, siblings relations ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, california, texas, usa
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 7.5
 42K
The A-Team (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series, running from 1983 to 1987, about a fictional group of ex United States Army Special Forces personnel who work as soldiers of fortune, while on the run from the Army after being branded as ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: mercenary, commando, ex soldier, righting the wronged, vietnam war, van, chases and races, partner, escapades, gunfight, good versus evil, vietnam veteran ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, vietnam
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