Movies Like Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist (2023)

Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist is a 2023 documentary, history film from Jordi Évole with a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Operation Ogre and Maixabel.

Documentary History

Operation Ogre

1979

Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.

6.9

MagicScore

Maixabel

2021

In the year 2000, Maixabel Lasa’s husband, Juan Maria Jauregi, was killed by ETA. Eleven years later, she receives an incredible request: one of the men who killed Juan wants to meet with her in the Nanclares de la Oca prison in Araba (Spain), where he is serving his sentence after breaking ties with the terrorist group. Despite her reservations and her immense pain, Maixabel Lasa agrees to meet face to face with those who ended the life of the person who had been her companion since she was 16 years old. ‘Everyone deserves a second chance’, she said, when asked why she was willing to confront the man who killed her husband.

7.0

MagicScore

Negociador

2014

Manu Aranguren is a Basque politician who acts as a mediator for the Spanish government in its negotiations with ETA. Far from being a solemn, calculated occasion, unexpected occurrences, slip-ups or misunderstandings soon kick in to influence the dialogue. And the personal relationship between negotiators will be key in solving the conflict.

6.3

MagicScore

Ane Is Missing

2020

Lide works the night shift for the construction company in charge of a new high-speed train network, a project that has attracted protests and violent attacks. One morning she wakes up to discover that her teenage daughter, Ane, is nowhere to be found.

5.4

MagicScore

Undercover

2024

Basque Country, Spain, late nineties. A young policewoman manages to infiltrate the ruthless terrorist gang ETA.

7.2

MagicScore

A German Youth

2015

At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they believed they saw fascist tendencies. This generation included journalist Ulrike Meinhof, lawyer Horst Mahler, filmmaker Holger Meins as well as students Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader.

7.1

MagicScore

Oklahoma City

2017

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history. This documentary explores how a series of deadly encounters between American citizens and federal law enforcement—including the standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco—led to it.

6.9

MagicScore

Oklahoma City Bombing: American Terror

2025

This gripping documentary revisits the shocking 1995 bombing of an Oklahoma City federal building, the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history.

6.8

MagicScore

Smoke & Mirrors

2016

A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.

6.5

MagicScore

#10

Wolf

2004

Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco's dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested because of his connection to some terrorists who have just committed a murder. The secret service see in him an ideal candidate to infiltrate the terrorist band ETA and become a mole, so they try to offer him a deal if he will do so.

6.4

MagicScore

#11

Arlington Road

1999

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begin to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.

7.0

MagicScore

#12

Imperium

2016

Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy. Inspired by real events.

6.5

MagicScore

#13

Check Point

2017

In Port City, North Carolina, a vagrant discovers plans for an invasion. His attempts to warn law enforcement are ignored but when the Sheriff notices odd interactions with other townsfolk, he begins to look into the claim of a sleeper cell living amongst the locals.

6.1

MagicScore

#14

Running Out of Time

1994

Days before committing an attack, Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist gang ETA who has dedicated his life to a cause he no longer believes in, meets Charo, a young drug addict who, despite the sordid environment in which she lives, still retains her innocence.

5.9

MagicScore

#15

Bomb Scared

2017

Somewhere in Spain, four ETA terrorists await a phone call before carrying out a mission, while the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where Spanish soccer team is one of the favorites to win, is being held in South Africa.

5.4

MagicScore

#16

Detective Knight: Independence

2023

Detective James Knight 's last-minute assignment to the Independence Day shift turns into a race to stop an unbalanced ambulance EMT from imperiling the city's festivities. The misguided vigilante, playing cop with a stolen gun and uniform, has a bank vault full of reasons to put on his own fireworks show... one that will strike dangerously close to Knight's home.

5.3

MagicScore

#17

Clandestinos

2008

Xabi, a troubled boy, meets Iñaki, a member of the terrorist gang ETA who becomes his mentor and ideological inspiration. Some time later, Xabi is arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail and confined in a juvenile detention center, where he meets Joel, a Mexican, and Driss, a Moroccan, with whom he manages to flee and reach Madrid with the purpose of finding Iñaki and joining the gang.

4.9

MagicScore

#18

Coven

2020

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of a small fishing village have gone to sea. Judge Rostegui, who has been charged by the king with ridding the country of the devil's wiles, arrests Ana and her friends and accuses them of witchcraft.

6.7

MagicScore

#19

The Front Line

2009

United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima Linea, fugitive couple Sergio and Susanna have become increasingly alienated from the real world. Their luck runs out when Susanna is captured and thrown in jail. Putting his life on the line, Sergio embarks on a radical plan... Loosely based on the memoir by Prima Linea's 'commander' Sergio Segio.

5.9

MagicScore

#20

Confidential Agent

1945

During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.

5.5

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist?

The top films similar to Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist by MovieMagicScore are Operation Ogre (6.9), Maixabel (7.0), Negociador (6.3). Each shares documentary/history themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist worth watching?

Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.0/10 from 27 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist?

Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist (2023) is a documentary, history film directed by Jordi Évole, starring Jordi Évole, Josu Ternera, Francisco Ruiz Sánchez.

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