20 best movies like The Island (2010)


List of the best movies like The Island (2010): The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Kill the Messenger, The Cokeville Miracle, Budapest Noir, A Field in England, The Time in Between, Three Identical Strangers, The Cut, The Two Escobars, Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, detective, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrethriller, drama, family, detective, history
CountryUSA

On May 9, 1986, a small ranching community in Wyoming experiences a divine intervention when a couple detonates a bomb inside a crowded classroom.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective, history
CountryHungary

A murder mystery set in 1936 Budapest, just as Hungary was preparing to align itself with Hitler. A beautiful young girl is found dead and nobody wants to investigate—except Gordon, a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that things are not what they seem.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, drama, detective, history
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:30

During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, detective, history
CountrySpain

Sira Quiroga is a young Spanish dressmaker engaged to a solid suitor when a suave typewriter salesman upends her life. Spain is being upended by a civil war and the new regime's growing alliances with Nazi Germany. Sira, smart, gutsy and resourceful with a Scarlett O'Hara-like ability to whip up designer duds on a moment's notice, Sira has spunk. Sira gains and loses a small fortune, is dumped by her cad of a lover in Morocco, runs guns to get the cash to start her life anew and becomes couturier to the Nazi wives stationed in Madrid. Urged on by her friend, the real-life British spy Rosalinda Fox, Sira, too, aids the British cause.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, documentary, detective, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:08

New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, adventure, detective, military, history
CountryGermany, France, Italy, Russia, Poland, Canada, Turkey, Jordan
Duration02:19

In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genredrama, documentary, crime, detective, biography, history, sport
CountryUSA, Colombia
Duration01:40

Pablo Escobar was the richest, most powerful drug kingpin in the world, ruling the Medellin Cartel with an iron fist. Andres Escobar was the biggest soccer star in Colombia. The two were not related, but their fates were inextricably-and fatally-intertwined. Pablo's drug money had turned Andres' national team into South American champions, favored to win the 1994 World Cup in Los Angeles. It was there, in a game against the U.S., that Andres committed one of the most shocking mistakes in soccer history, scoring an "own goal" that eliminated his team from the competition and ultimately cost him his life. The Two Escobars is a riveting examination of the intersection of sports, crime, and politics.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, crime, detective, history
CountryIndia

In 1950, a young woman named Manikyam was found dead in the village of Paleri. Around 52 years later, Haridas, a private investigator, tries to unravel the truth about her death.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, crime, detective, history
CountryFrance, United Kingdom
Duration01:42

Black comedy about 15th-century Paris lawyer Richard Courtois (Firth) who decides to apply his trade in the country, only to find things stranger than he can imagine. His first case turns out to be defending a pig that's accused of murdering a child. The pig is owned by the beautiful gypsy Samira (Annabi), who, the idealistic lawyer finds himself falling in love (or lust) with. A Gothic tale with religion, superstition, power struggles, and ignorance as a backdrop.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, detective, history
CountryGermany, France, Italy, Austria
Duration02:24

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, detective, biography, history
CountryItaly
Duration01:56

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed, one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially, he died of a flight accident. Actually, many journalists explored other plausible reasons for the untimely landing of the small aircraft.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

Mark
Genredrama, detective, history
CountryRussia

The events in the film are current in 1935. The scene of action is the polar scientific station on Wrangel Island, the USSR outpost in the far north. Here comes the hero of the film - Inspector of the Administration of the Glavsevmorputi Nikolai Zherdev. The reason for his arrival - the tragedy that occurred at the station - the death of Dr. Wolfson, which occurred as a result of an accident.

Markimdb: 6
Genremelodrama, drama, detective, military, biography, history
CountryIsrael, USA

The story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective, biography, history
CountryFrance
Duration02:02

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, detective, military, history
CountryJapan

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration01:23

Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, detective, history
CountryHungary

The story of three women - a famous prostitute, her housekeeper and their new maid - living in Budapest of 1910s, whose passionate, bizarre and complex relationship can only lead to one thing: murder.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama, detective, history
CountryUnited Kingdom

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime, detective, history
CountryItaly

Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, history
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden
Duration01:33

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.




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