Movies like Congo
If Congo's mix of prison, politics and norway stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Congo's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Max Manus: Man of War
2008 · Directed by Espen Sandberg · 118 min7.1
Why you'll like itWith Aksel Hennie · Shares: norway · Also a Norwegian historical drama
Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union.
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Utøya: July 22
2018 · Directed by Erik Poppe · 92 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: norway · Also a Norwegian historical drama · From the same decade (2010s)
A teenage girl fights for survival and to locate her young sister during the 2011 terrorist attack at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
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 accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
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GoodFellas
1990 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 145 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Directed by Stuart Rosenberg · 127 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's…
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22 July
2018 · Directed by Paul Greengrass · 143 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: norway · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (2010s)
On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo.
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019 · Directed by Joe Berlinger · 111 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime · From the same decade (2010s)
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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Bronson
2009 · Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn · 92 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
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Narvik
2022 · Directed by Erik Skjoldbjærg · 108 min6.8
Why you'll like itAlso a Norwegian drama
April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine.