20 movies like Van Diemen's Land, ordered by similarity : Papillon(2017), Dunkirk(2017), Burke and Wills(1985), Deliverance(1972), The Desperate Hours(1955), Hell Is a City(1960), Sweet Country(2017), Runaway Train(1985), Animal Kingdom(2010), The Old Man & the Gun(2018), It Always Rains on Sunday(1947), Hounds of Love(2016) ...
6.0/10
Drama, History
Australia
2009
104 Minutes
Oscar Redding Arthur Angel Paul Ashcroft Torquil Neilson Mark Leonard Winter Thomas M. Wright John Francis Howard Greg Stone
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The true story of Alexander Pearce, Australia's most notorious convict. In 1822, Pearce and seven fellow convicts escaped from Macquarie Harbour, a place of ultra banishment and punishment,... See full summary »
7.2/10
Adventure, History, Biography, Drama
USA|Czech Republic|Spain
2017
133 Minutes
Charlie Hunnam Rami Malek Roland Møller Nina Senicar Tommy J. Flanagan Eve Hewson Christopher Fairbank Brian Vernel
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Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
7.8/10
War, Drama, History
UK|Netherlands|France|USA
2017
107 Minutes
Fionn Whitehead Tom Glynn-Carney Jack Lowden Harry Styles Aneurin Barnard James D'Arcy Barry Keoghan Kenneth Branagh Cillian Murphy Mark Rylance Tom Hardy
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Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
6.1/10
Drama, History
Australia
1985
140 Minutes
Jack Thompson Nigel Havers Greta Scacchi Matthew Fargher Ralph Cotterill Drew Forsythe Chris Heywood Monroe Reimers Barry Hill
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A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
7.7/10
Adventure, Drama
USA
1972
109 Minutes
Jon Voight Burt Reynolds Ned Beatty Ronny Cox Bill McKinney Herbert Coward James Dickey Ed Ramey Seamon Glass
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Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
7.5/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
112 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Fredric March Martha Scott Arthur Kennedy Dewey Martin Gig Young Mary Murphy Richard Eyer Robert Middleton Alan Reed Bert Freed
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Three escaped convicts move in on and terrorize a suburban household.
7.1/10
Crime, Drama
UK
1960
98 Minutes
Stanley Baker John Crawford Donald Pleasence Billie Whitelaw
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In Britain, a Manchester police inspector becomes obsessed with capturing a criminal who escapes from prison.
6.9/10
Western, Drama, History
Australia
2017
113 Minutes
Bryan Brown Matt Day Tremayne Doolan Anni Finsterer Natassia Gorey Furber Gibson John Ewen Leslie Hamilton Morris Sam Neill Thomas M. Wright
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Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
7.2/10
Action
USA
1985
111 Minutes
Jon Voight Eric Roberts Rebecca De Mornay Kyle T. Heffner John P. Ryan T.K. Carter Kenneth McMillan Stacey Pickren
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Two escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a train with no brakes and nobody driving.
7.3/10
Crime, Drama
Australia
2010
112 Minutes
Ben Mendelsohn Joel Edgerton Guy Pearce Luke Ford Jacki Weaver Sullivan Stapleton James Frecheville Dan Wyllie Anthony Hayes Laura Wheelwright Mirrah Foulkes
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A seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
6.7/10
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|UK
2018
93 Minutes
Robert Redford Casey Affleck Sissy Spacek Danny Glover Tom Waits Tika Sumpter Ari Elizabeth Johnson Teagan Johnson Gene Jones John David Washington Barlow Jacobs
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Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
7.2/10
Crime, Drama
UK
1947
92 Minutes
Googie Withers John McCallum Jack Warner Edward Chapman Jimmy Hanley John Carol John Slater Susan Shaw Sydney Tafler Alfie Bass Betty Ann Davies
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An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
6.5/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Australia
2016
108 Minutes
Emma Booth Ashleigh Cummings Stephen Curry Susie Porter Damian de Montemas Harrison Gilbertson Fletcher Humphrys Michael Muntz
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Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.
7.3/10
Drama
France|Canada|Czech Republic
2017
110 Minutes
Dorian Le Clech Batyste Fleurial Patrick Bruel Elsa Zylberstein Bernard Campan Kev Adams Christian Clavier César Domboy Ilian Bergala Emile Berling Jocelyne Desverchere
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In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family once again.
6.2/10
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Australia
2005
95 Minutes
John Jarratt Nathan Phillips Cassandra Magrath Kestie Morassi Andy McPhee Guy Petersen Jenny Starvall Gordon Poole
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Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
6.0/10
Action, Drama, Adventure, History
UK|Spain|USA
2014
150 Minutes
Christian Bale Joel Edgerton John Turturro Aaron Paul Ben Kingsley Sigourney Weaver Golshifteh Farahani María Valverde Ben Mendelsohn Dar Salim Indira Varma
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The defiant leader Moses rises up against Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, setting six hundred thousand slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.
6.6/10
Comedy, War, Drama
UK|USA
1969
101 Minutes
Oliver Reed Michael J. Pollard Karin Baal Wolfgang Preiss Helmut Lohner Peter Carsten
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A prisoner of war working at a zoo gets the chance to escape from the Germans, so he does and he takes with him the elephant that he's been caring for. Together they head for the Swiss border and freedom.
6.5/10
Adventure, Drama
USA|Canada
1993
92 Minutes
Caroline Goodall Russell Crowe Ami Daemion Johnny Raaen Buddy Tyson Gary Amos Murray Chesson John Coles
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When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off of his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.
7.3/10
War, Drama, History
USA|Luxembourg
2006
125 Minutes
Christian Bale Steve Zahn Jeremy Davies Galen Yuen Abhijati "Meuk" Jusakul Chaiyan "Lek" Chunsuttiwat Teerawat "Ka-Ge" Mulvilai Yuttana Muenwaja Kriangsak Ming-Olo Pat Healy Toby Huss
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A U.S. fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
5.3/10
Drama
USA
1929
57 Minutes
William Boyd Owen Moore Carole Lombard Diane Ellis Billy Bevan Phillips Smalley
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A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
5.2/10
Drama
USA
1940
66 Minutes
Warren Hull Isabel Jewell John Dilson Paul Bryar Charles Williams Lyle Clement
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Bill Carver is a young medical-school graduate wrongly confined in prison. He escapes and finds a haven and romance in an Arizona small town. But his hopes of happiness and freedom are ... See full summary »
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