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10 Best Movies Like Great Freedom

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

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#1
Bent

Bent

1997★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Great Freedom for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to b...

#2
Bronson

Bronson

2009★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Great Freedom for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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 ...

#3
Convict

Convict

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Great Freedom for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his f...

#4
Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy Sunday

1999★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Great Freedom for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Budapest in the 1930s. Restaurant owner Laszlo hires pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his on...

#5
Asylum

Asylum

2005★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Great Freedom for fans of Drama & Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife....

#6
McVicar

McVicar

1980★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Great Freedom for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the hig...

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