Movies like Civil Brand

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Civil Brand (2002)
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Civil Brand (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Forced to work under slave-like conditions in a "prison for profit" program, the inmates of a mostly-African-American female prison, Whitehead Correctional, try to take over the institution. At the core of the story is Frances, who finds herself in prison after being falsely convicted of murder, and who is told that her baby has been murdered, sparking her to lead her fellow inmates in the protest
Style: tense, rough, bleak, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood, independent film ...
Plot: prison, friendship, injustice, human spirit, prison life, juvenile delinquency, social decay, hopes, racism, misfit, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, fighting the system, legal, rivalry, criminal heroes, women of color, african american, women, black cast, urban, woman with a gun, die hard, rebellion, escape ...
Time: year 2002, contemporary
Keyword: take over

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Most similar movies to Civil Brand

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about life is a bitch, prison, confined, violence, society, murder and prison life mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Civil Brand: Girls in Prison (1994), Felon (2008), Brubaker (1980), Locked Up (2017), Reform School Girls (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Girls in Prison (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by ...
Style: tense, disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: women in prison, prison, women's prison, lust, wrongful conviction, lesbianism, female prisoner, female nudity, lesbian, lgbt, exploitation, murder ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 83K
Felon (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
Style: brutal, realistic, tense, emotional, serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: prison, fighting the system, prison life, prison riot, life is a bitch, prison escape, prison gang, organized crime, life turned upside down, rivalry, murder, brutality ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 19K
Brubaker (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Style: realistic, factual, suspense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: prison, corruption, prison warden, prison escape, abuse of power, undercover, brutality, fighting the system, abuse, justice, liberal, murder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place: louisiana, arkansas, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.8
 1K
Locked Up (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When an American teenager gets bullied at her school in Southeast Asia, she fights back--and gets sent to a reform school. But the "school" is more like a prison, and the young teenager must fend off predatory guards and menacing gangs to ...
Style: scary, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: women in prison, female bully, bullying, death threat, prison, boxing training, evil woman, women's prison, violence against women, suicide, violence, manipulation ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Reform School Girls (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
Style: disturbing, surreal, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, women in prison, women's prison, sex, lesbian, erotica, sexual desire, vixen, brutality, justice, adolescence, exploitation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Black Mama White Mama (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight ...
Style: grindhouse, realistic, serious, rough, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: women in prison, blaxploitation, prostitute, prison, female prisoner, female exploitation, lesbian, racial tension, jungle, women's prison, sexual desire, injustice ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 998
Prison Heat (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Four American babes on vacation in the Middle East run into trouble when they are imprisoned by corrupt army officials and that's where the fun begins.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, erotic, grindhouse ...
Plot: women in prison, women's prison, depravity, lesbian rape, false accusation, injustice, sexual relations, frame up, female prisoner, law enforcement, life is a bitch, confined ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 3K
Chained Heat (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after drink driving and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling ...
Style: sexy, grindhouse, psychotronic, erotic, neo noir ...
Plot: women in prison, prison, rape, rape and revenge, women's prison, sexual abuse, big breasts, sadism, prison rape, female prisoner, sex, voyeur ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.5
 180K
A Time to Kill (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style: sincere, suspense, serious, thought provoking, political ...
Audience: date night
Plot: courtroom drama, racism, court, justice, lawyer, courtroom, murder, trial, small town, rape, injustice, revenge ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, america, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 5K
Jailbait (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gritty coming of age thriller about a young girl sent to juvenile prison for the murder of her abusive step father. The film follows Anna Nix's journey into the dark world of an all girls jail where she discovers complex relationships, drugs, ...
Style: emotional, rough, erotic, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot: women's prison, women in prison, prison, survival, juvenile detention, prison sex, voyeur, female female relationship, teenage life, confined, exploitation, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 3K
Lockdown (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, hood ...
Plot: prison riot, prison life, life is a bitch, family life, dishonesty, vengeance, prison, false accusation, murder, confined, redemption, black ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Stranger Inside (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A mother daughter reunion set in the harsh reality of a women's correctional facility
Style: emotional, disturbing, rough, crime drama, independent film ...
Plot: prison, lesbian, women in prison, life is a bitch, parents and children, family relations, drug dealing, youth, gang, society, juvenile delinquency, confined ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Perfect Witness (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom, witness, law, kidnapping, injustice, power relations, restaurant, murder, prison, law enforcement, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Lust for Freedom (1987)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A former female cop is framed by corrupt police, acting in collusion with the local judge, and has to fight her way out of the pen, alone, against tough inmates, and the people in charge.
Style: grindhouse, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: women in prison, adult filmmaking, lesbian sex, prison, false accusation, woman with a gun, police corruption, voyeur, voyeurism, women's wrestling, bondage, 17 year old ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Guilt by Association (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Life is good for Susan, her two children and new boyfriend Russell. But life abruptly changes when she discovers her perfect boyfriend is a drug dealer. Realising the danger this could bring to her family she tells him to leave. Suddenly her house ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: false accusation, drug dealing, injustice, wrongful conviction, prison, fighting the system, righting the wronged, protagonist as suspect, society, life is a bitch, hopes, dishonesty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Escape from Hell (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is dealt with swiftly and savagely. The camp doctor is ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: adult
Plot: jungle, prison, women in prison, female whipping, punishment, exploitation, murder, death, brutality, captivity, prison life, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fight for Your Life (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, terrifying, independent film ...
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, rape and revenge, revenge, home invasion, vengeance, violence, prison escape, black, vigilante, martial arts, sex crime ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.3
 100
Women's Prison (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, escape, wrongfully committed, false accusation, frame up, bookies, prison life, kids in trouble, law enforcement, rebelliousness, vigilantism, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 5.2
 2K
The Klansman (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be black, and place the blame on Garth, a young black man. Assuming that the men in ...
Style: political, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: ku klux klan, racism, redneck, blaxploitation, swing, white supremacy, interracial relations, false accusation, small town, social relations, injustice, rally ...
Time: 70s
Place: alabama, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Shot in the Heart (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: AND YOU'RE TO BLAME! Honey, you give love a bad name. (The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.)
Style: disturbing, realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: murder, death row, tragic hero, prison, courtroom drama, dysfunctional family, prison life, mormon, parents and children, society, juvenile delinquency, redemption ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Reversible Errors (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story: A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Plot: legal, false accusation, investigation, frame up, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, lovers reunited, dedicated lawyer, police detective, law enforcement, fighting the system ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at ...
Style: crying, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, women in prison, women's prison, lesbian rape, rape, brutality, cruelty, raped woman, sexploitation, murder, brutal rape, small town ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.4
 304
Black August (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, political
Plot: prison, racism, solitary, prison life, confined, against the rules, fighting the system, injustice, militant, price of justice, life is a bitch, society ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 6.2
 320
Inside (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An emotional and thrilling tale of life and death behind the walls of a maximum security prison. From the acclaimed director of 'Bonnie and Clyde', and featuring a powerful international cast.
Style: independent film, talky, captivating, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, political prisoner, apartheid, prisoner, politics, racism, disintegration, tragic hero, uninhibited rivalry, legal, confined, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1996, 80s
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Higher Learning (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Malik (Omar Epps) is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge (Ice Cube), a ...
Style: realistic, hood, intense, serious, emotional ...
Plot: racism, lesbian, college, politics, hip hop, university, college life, skinhead, violence, prejudice, black, stereotypes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Jackson County Jail (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This is a powerful drama about a young woman who stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, road movie, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, women in prison, murder, prison rape, injustice, escape, rape and revenge, rape and murder, hicksploitation, car, exploitation, blaxploitation ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.0
 16K
The Chamber (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only ...
Style: suspense, emotional, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: courtroom drama, racism, legal, courtroom, murder, prison, ku klux klan, death sentence, haunted by the past, anti semitism, lawyer, politics ...
Time: 90s, year 1967, 60s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Detention: The Siege at Johnson High (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A former high school student, Jason Copeland, returns to his school to take his revenge on the teachers for failing him out of school.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: school shooting, serial killer, killer, captive, held captive, hostage, vengeance, school, high school, psychopath, power relations, confined ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.2
 17K
Bad Boys (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, teenager, youth, juvenile delinquency, violence, bullying, gangster, rivalry, brat pack, confined, society, gang war ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.8
 350
Villa Captive (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A young actress seeking a life away from adult movies moves to Florida insearch of a new identity. Her newfound peace is shattered when local thugsrecognize her.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, serious, realistic, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: murder, rape, sexual abuse, danger, life is a bitch, woman in danger, violence spree, death, revenge, violence, sexual assault, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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