Movies like The Tempest

20 movies like The Tempest, ordered by similarity : Papillon(2017), Midnight Express(1978), The Old Man & the Gun(2018), Woodpeckers(2017), Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison(1951), The Battleship Island(2017), Alcatraz Island(1937), Hugo(2011), Respiro(2002), The Big House(1930), Heartlock(2018), Disney's Descendants 2(2017) ...

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The Tempest

Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female.

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Papillon

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.

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Midnight Express

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

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The Old Man & the Gun

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.

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Woodpeckers

Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.

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Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

At California's Folsom Prison, escape attempts and riots are on the rise due to the old-school sadistic style of management of a brutal warden.

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The Battleship Island

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.

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Alcatraz Island

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

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Hugo

In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

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Respiro

On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.

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The Big House

A convict falls in love with his new cellmate's sister, only to become embroiled in a planned break-out which is certain to have lethal consequences.

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Heartlock

A rogue love story centered on a female correctional officer whose life is turned upside down by the fleeting affections of her lover - a male convict whose charm is only as genuine as his desire to be free.

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Disney's Descendants 2

When the pressure to be royally perfect gets to be too much for Mal, she returns to the Isle of the Lost. She discovers that Uma, the daughter of Ursula, has taken over as queen, and that her gang is finalizing plans to bring down the barrier.

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with consequences.

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Captain Kidd

The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

A French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.

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Hara-Kiri

When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

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Shinobi

Star-crossed lovers must fight on opposing sides in a battle that will determine the next Shogun.

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12 Years a Slave

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

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The Moonraker

After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish.

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Maze

Inspired by the true events of the 1983 breakout of 38 Irish Republican prisoners from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.

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