Movies like Screwed 2011
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Screwed (2011)
2K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars James D'Arcy (Master & Commander), Noel Clarke (Kidulthood), Frank Harper (The Football Factory), Jamie Foreman (Layer Cake), Andrew Shim (This Is England) and Kate Magowan (Stardust). The story revolves around former soldier Sam Norwood who takes a job as a prison officer when he returns from Iraq and becomes exposed to the underworld of prison culture - including corrupt guards and drug trafficking.
Style:
rough, disturbing, tense, serious, sincere, bleak, captivating, emotional, realistic, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison life, prison, violence spree, life is a bitch, fish out of water, downfall, misfit, law enforcement, confined, haunted by the past, corrupt officer, estrangement, prison warden, murder, war veteran, prison riot, jail, prison gang, gang, black, football hooligan, interracial relations, drug abuse, violent content, iraq war ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, britain, europe, united kingdom
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Most similar movies to Screwed
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and tense films with plots about prison, murder, life is a bitch, gang, confined, deadly and prison life mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Screwed: Dog Pound (2010), Brubaker (1980), After Life (2002), R: Hit First, Hit Hardest (2010), Offender (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
14K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Style:
sincere, tense, sexy, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile prison, teenage boy, teenage protagonist, accidental killing, male pubic hair, prison life, reformatory, sodomy, juvenile detention, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
montana
Similarity:
100%
21K
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, abuse of power, undercover, prison escape, fighting the system, justice, abuse, liberal, murder, politics ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 60s
Place:
arkansas, louisiana, columbus ohio, southern usa, california ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
terrorist, police corruption, drug dealing, haunted by the past, introspection, moral dilemma, downfall, drug abuse, addiction, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, fugitives ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the ...
Style:
realistic, tense, captivating, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, prison life, male pubic hair, friendship, gang, confined, warden, murder, violence, muslim, racial slur, nordic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
male nudity, robbery, prison life, confined, vigilantism, vengeance, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, chase, urban, prison, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 2150 min.
TV show
Story:
Straightline Productions: All or Nothing. Presented by Transworld Snowboarding (2009)
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
jail, false accusation, prison gang, prison, prison life, prisoner, confined, jailed, corruption, wrongful imprisonment, prison warden, confinement indoors ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
100%
116K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison life, prison, convict, confined, violence spree, rape, gang, gay, gang violence, strong sexual content, prison rape, aryan brotherhood ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
50%
359
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In the summer of 2009, Charlie Ruez made a documentary. 6 months later the footage was seized for evidence by the Metropolitan Police Department. In 2010, the footage was released.
Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, rough, mockumentary ...
Plot:
found footage, gangster, drug dealing, gang, law enforcement, drug abuse, murder, violence spree, hooligan, thug, fighter, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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 highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, independent film
Plot:
prison, prison escape, jail, prison life, criminal, angry, imprisonment, football hooligan, skinhead, shipwreck, gang, tough heroes ...
Time:
year 1980, 60s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In August 1996, bus drivers Marcel Van Loock and Wim Moreels are apprehended by the Moroccan Customs for drug trafficking. Inside their bus, hidden behind a false compartment, they have discovered 700 pounds of hashish. Although the owner of the bus ...
Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, smuggling, survival, danger, prison life, life is a bitch, dishonesty, false accusation, injustice, violent content, warden, confined ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
antwerp, tangier morocco, morocco, africa
Similarity:
29%
206
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Buried is a British television drama series, produced by World Productions for Channel 4 and originally screened in 2003. The programme starred Lennie James as Lee Kingley, who is serving a long prison sentence in order to protect a member of his ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, prison life, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, survival, confined, warden, false accusation, criminal psychologist, dishonesty, violence spree, grudge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Steve Mackleson is a dangerous prisoner, incarcerated for double murder in a maximum security prison. We follow, as he navigates his struggle against redemption the system and his inner turmoil, when a young black gang member becomes his unlikely ...
Style:
suspense, intense, disturbing, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
maximum security prison, prison warden, prison, character study, redemption, prison life, jailed, jail, jail cell, prison sentence, prison fight, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
racism, murder, iraq war, urban ghetto, haunted by the past, homecoming, family problems, gang, society, war veteran, profanity, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
Similarity:
24%
13K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
Style:
hood, rough, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, vengeance, society, drug addict, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, criminal's revenge, youth, life is a bitch, ghetto, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, britain, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is ...
Style:
tense, suspense, intense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
prison, police corruption, vengeance, gang, survival, frame up, lone hero, gunfight, mistaken identity, drug dealing, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
california, new jersey, san francisco
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, South Korea, Brazil, Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Julia, a 25 year-old university student, two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, is sent to prison. Julia murdered the father of her child. This story addresses maternity, jail and Justice; confinement, guilt and solitude; but above all it ...
Style:
touching, serious, rough, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, rebellion, murder, confined, human spirit, fighting the system, parents and children, life is a bitch, single parent, mother son relationship, latinx lgbt ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wife because she was cheating on him with another man. Nagya (Nagesh Kukunoor), a man angry with the whole world, is arrested for ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, tense, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
prison, introspection, prison life, criminal heroes, hopes, redemption, family problems, twists and turns, murder, death row, prisoner, escaped prisoner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man (Robert Walker) has an affair with his condemned brother's (Laurence Harvey) girlfriend (Sarah Miles) while plotting his escape in Tangier.
Style:
noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, mistaken identity, death row, prisoner, escape, rivalry, chases and races, assassination, life is a bitch, heroes, investigation ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
tangier morocco
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hooligan boss Billy Evans has it all - a successful business, a beautiful family and respect on the terraces. But when he clashes with gangster Mickey over a backstreet proetection racket, Billy soon finds himself out of his depth as they look to ...
Style:
rough, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
downfall, rivalry, ambition, blind ambition, gang, criminal heroes, unfulfillment, football hooligan, hooligan, criminal, football, nationalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
gang, hooligan, football, destructive relationship, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, troublemaker, violence spree, life is a bitch, buddies, unemployment ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, britain, liverpool
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, tough heroes, manhunt, violence spree, gang, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, murder, heroes, revenge, fugitives, prison escape ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.
Style:
tense, realistic, bleak, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, prison, violence, gang, murder, transvestite, prison gang, marijuana, survival, prison rape, drug, mentor protege relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania, paris france, puerto rico ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The tale of a gang killing near a south-east London council estate.
Style:
realistic, rough, slasher, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
gang, chaos and mayhem, life is a bitch, injustice, city life, estate, teenage life, gang violence, murder, investigation, loss, street life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, bleak, crime drama ...
Plot:
redemption, death row, prison, gang, gangster, brutality, justice, adaptation, human spirit, hopes, journalism, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, future, 80s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.
Style:
tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
law enforcement, police investigation, murder, perfect crime, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, dirty cop, crooked cop, male pubic hair, male nudity, politics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
22%
791
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A famous writer is violated in a sex-movie-theatre. He had a date with Roos, a young student who works also as a prostitute. Quickly it becomes clear that more students are active in the prostitution. Enough reason for Hannah and her team to go ...
Style:
tense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, police investigation, haunted by the past, gain trust, parents and children, law enforcement, college, prostitution, rivalry, danger, urban, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ghent, europe, belgium
Similarity:
22%
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:
realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
prison, prison riot, escape, dishonesty, fighting the system, juvenile delinquency, law enforcement, youth, rivalry, society, vigilantism, one man army ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After living in Australia for the past decade, Fitz and Judith return to Manchester in 2004 for their daughter Katie's wedding. Drinking too much at the reception, Fitz stumbles through a rambling toast, which only embarrasses the bride. ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
british police, police procedural, murder, police investigation, who done it, tough law enforcer, mentally unstable, unlikely criminals, haunted by the past, gambling, investigation, casino ...
Place:
england, northern ireland, manchester, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, violent, dark hero, psychopath, journalism, investigation, master criminal, uncover truth, ira, trouble, violence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, england, europe, california
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
women's prison, prison, pregnancy, women in prison, doctor, riot, tough girl, strong female lead, prisoner, bad girl, injustice, righting the wronged ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
21%
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