Films like The Count of Monte Cristo

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   Papillon

   Film · 2017 · also adventure and drama

   Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, w...

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   Nowhere to Run

   Film · 1993 · also drama

   Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.

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   Maze

   Film · 2017 · also drama

   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 Wa...

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   Land of the Blind

   Film · 2006 · also drama

   A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.

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   Napoleon

   Film · 2023 · also drama

   An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile rel...

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   Papillon

   Film · 1973 · also drama

   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.

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   Man with No Past

   Film · 2025 · also drama

   Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against...

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   China Seas

   Film · 1935 · also adventure and drama

   Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries;...

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   The Unforgivable

   Film · 2021 · also drama

   A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

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    The Shawshank Redemption

    Film · 1994 · also drama

    Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his acco...

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