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10 Best Movies Like '71

If you loved '71, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
In the Land of Saints and Sinners

In the Land of Saints and Sinners

2023★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to '71 for fans of Thriller & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the land of saints and sinners, some...

#2
Maze

Maze

2017★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to '71 for fans of Thriller & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II....

#3
Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday

2002★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to '71 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops....

#4
Fifty Dead Men Walking

Fifty Dead Men Walking

2008★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to '71 for fans of Thriller & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

It's 1989, and in a Belfast torn apart by conflict and terrorism, petty criminal Marty McGartland is recruited by the British police to infiltrate the IRA. Guided by Special Forces...

#5
The Foreigner

The Foreigner

2017★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to '71 for fans of Thriller & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish R...

#6
Hunger

Hunger

2008★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to '71 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status....

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