Movies like Dead Man Out

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Dead Man Out (1989)
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Dead Man Out (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior during that time got more and more erratic is still mentally fit to be executed.
Plot: prison, death row, murderer, murder, psychiatrist, mental illness, convict, prison guard, multiple murder, death penalty, serial killer, death sentence

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and bleak films with plots about prison, murder, prisoner, death row, prison life, convict and death penalty mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Dead Man Out: Manners of Dying (2004), Reflections on a Crime (1994), The Quare Fellow (1962), Convicts 4 (1962), Hard Choices (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Manners of Dying (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Kevin Barlow (Roy Dupuis) will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington (Serge Houde), director of the Cantos execution facility, intends to make sure of it. However Barlow chooses to go, be it calmly or fighting to the end, ...
Plot: prison, death row, multiple storylines, battle of wits, death penalty, execution
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95%
Reflections on a Crime (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Seven years ago, Regina (Mimi Rogers) was tried for the death. On the night before she becomes the first woman in over 40 years to be executed in a federal penitentiary, she befriends the lone, curious prison guard Colin Reeves (Billy Zane), who has ...
Style: independent film
Plot: death row, prison, exploitation, jail cell, confession, love, electrocution, death, murder, poison, drowning, divorce ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
The Quare Fellow (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human ...
Style: independent film
Plot: prison, infidelity, death sentence, gay subtext, ethics, death penalty, hypocrisy, convict, passion, pub, jealousy, prison life ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 196 min.
Story: Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "The Rock". Michael Beck plays the real-life Clarence Carnes, an Oklahoma Choctaw ...
Plot: prison, alcatraz, convict, escape, robbery, murder, criminal, armed robbery, prison life, prisoner, spanking
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Dead Man Walking (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who in his last days forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality as she accompanies him to his execution.
Style: touching, thought provoking, sad, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, death row, death penalty, nun, rape, court, death sentence, murder, confession, lethal injection, execution, justice ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: louisiana, new orleans, united kingdom, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Convicts 4 (1962)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This movie is about the progression of John Resko's (Ben Gazzara) character as he is commuted from the death sentence for killing a man to life in prison. Not only is he transferred to a new facility, but his guard (Stuart Whitman), who ...
Style: black and white, independent film, semi serious, realistic, psychotronic ...
Plot: prison, death row, prisoner, transformation, journalism, prison life, murder, biopic, redemption, confined, hopes, going straight ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1930s
Place: new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.2
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Hard Choices (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is convicted of murder and sent to prison. A female ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: prison, escape, on the run, murder, kids in trouble, drug dealing, love and romance, law enforcement, fall in love, youth, chases and races, society ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Women in Prison (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from the warden Dessombes (Marie-Christine Barrault). The ...
Plot: prison, women's prison, female prisoner, nudity, prison guard, teddy bear, jail cell, female nudity, solitary, women in prison
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Prison Song (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, rough, hood ...
Plot: prison, injustice, hip hop, juvenile delinquency, musician's life, criminal heroes, redemption, prison life, life is a bitch, society, youth, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Too Young to Die? (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.
Style: emotional, retro, cult classic, neo noir, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage prostitute, death penalty, death row, murder, revenge, teenage prostitution, teenager, lawyer, prison, teenage girl, serial killer, age difference ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
She Made Them Do It (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: "She Made Them Do It" follows the twisted life of Sarah Pender (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) a charismatic, intelligent young woman who would become one of the country’s most sought after fugitives.
Style: psychological, captivating, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: murder, mind game, manipulation, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, uncover truth, convict, investigation, love, fugitive, prison, true crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 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: uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: prison, violence, justice, adaptation, brutality, hopes, human spirit, death row, redemption, life is a bitch, journalism, murder ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Paul (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story: After 7 years spent in jail Paul (Paul Lyss) is free again. With his old crew he celebrates his return.Nothing really changes and soon he finds himself spaced out drunk at some posh party and eventually ends up wielding a big gun.Hand held Camera ...
Plot: revenge, drunkenness, machine gun, murder, prison, released from prison, prostitute, hooker, alcohol
Place: hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Jacqueline Sauvage: It Was Him or Me (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: On Monday, September 10, 2012, Jacqueline Sauvage shot her husband the back three times. She then learned that their son had just committed suicide. And so the most publicized trial in recent years commenced.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: true crime, domestic violence, prison, justice, female prisoner, life is a bitch, family problems, mother daughter relationship, confined, jailed, family relations, social problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Three Walls (2003)
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, bleak, touching ...
Plot: prison, introspection, prison life, criminal heroes, hopes, redemption, twists and turns, murder, death row, family problems, prisoner, escaped prisoner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 249
The Ceremony (1963)
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, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, mistaken identity, death row, prisoner, escape, intrigue, life is a bitch, confined, investigation, chases and races, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: tangier morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
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A Short Film About Killing (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
Style: disturbing, bleak, contemplative, social, psychological ...
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Place: poland, eastern europe, warsaw poland
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Deathrow (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A neglected and unloved orphan raised by poor relatives in the slums of Manila is wrongfully convicted of murder that resulted from a heist he was compelled to join. Unable to prove his innocence and his minor age, he is thrown into the cruel, ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Plot: prisoner, jail, juvenile delinquent, murder, lawyer, death sentence, prison life, teenage boy, danger, death row, prison, male nudity ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Duration: 96 min.
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Style: serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Style: dark comedy, experimental, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal ...
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Audience: family friendly
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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