Movies Like Twelve Hours by the Clock
If you liked Twelve Hours by the Clock (1959), a drama and thriller movie directed by Géza von Radványi, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Nowhere to Run (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thrillerEscaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
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The Escapist (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerFrank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an…
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24 Days (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thrillerWhen Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
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A Man Escaped (1956)
★ 8/10Also drama and thrillerA captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
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Kompromat (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and dramaMathieu, a member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realises he is a victim of a Kompromat. With the…
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The Gypsy (1975)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and thrillerTwo thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
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Escape Plan (2013)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerRay Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to…
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Le Trou (1960)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and thrillerFour prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of…
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Brute Force (1947)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and thrillerTimeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's…
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Dark Passage (1947)
★ 7.3/10Also thrillerA man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerA young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
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The Crook (1970)
★ 7.1/10Also thrillerA thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
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Figures in a Landscape (1970)
★ 6/10Also thrillerTwo escaped convicts are on the run in an unnamed Latin American country. But everywhere they go, they are followed and hounded by a menacing black helicopter.
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Papillon (1973)
★ 7.8/10Also dramaA 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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All the Devils Are Here (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerAfter a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.
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Michou d'Auber (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thrillerSet in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older…
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Traitor (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thrillerWhen straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer Samir Horn.
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Madeleine Collins (2021)
★ 6/10Also drama and thrillerJudith leads a double life between Switzerland and France. On the one hand Abdel, with whom she is raising a little girl, on the other Melvil with whom she has two older boys. Little by little, this fragile balance…
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Not Without Hope (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and dramaA group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
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Spy, Stand Up (1982)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller and dramaSebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how…