
Movies that feel likeThe Great Escape (1963)
If you loved The Great Escape, the closest films we have are The Guns of Navarone (1961), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and The Battle of Algiers (1966). All three share The Great Escape's epic and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Shame (1968).
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If The Great Escape hit the spot, these will too

Epic where it counts, contemplative underneath

Bleak drama in both cases
The difference: Leans harder into history than The Great Escape does

War built on scale, twice over

Adventure with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The same preoccupation in both: nazi
The difference: Trades the stillness of The Great Escape for an angle of its own

Bleak drama, and it commits to that

Common ground in both: prisoner and escape
The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

Both lean on scale more than on adventure

War with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair



Both are built on the same subject: nazi
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