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Lock Up (1989)
49K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.
Style:
suspense, intense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, brutal, clever, cult classic ...
Plot:
prison, revenge, prison escape, prison warden, corruption, vengeance, prisoner, prison life, tough guy, electric chair, jail, lone hero, self sacrifice, life is a bitch, american football, conspiracy, hate, mechanic, manipulation, prison violence, miscarriage of justice, punishment, cruelty, prison guard, psychological torture ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, rough and realistic films with plots about murder, violence, revenge, brutality, gunfight, vengeance and justice mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Lock Up: Death Warrant (1990), Wedlock (1991), The Last Castle (2001), An Innocent Man (1989), Felon (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Canadian policeman Louis Burke is assigned in a jail to investigate in some murders of prisoners and jailors. When in jail, Lois, using his outstandings martial arts is able to save his life and make himself respected in that violent world. At ...
Style:
exciting, rough, suspenseful, action packed, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
prison, martial arts, undercover, investigation, serial killer, surveillance, brutality, murder, prison guard, prison riot, computer cracker, deception ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, suspense, fast, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, escape, chase, on the run, betrayal, diamond, fistfight, left for dead, prison fight, femme fatale, prison guard, murder ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
california, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A Court Martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.
Style:
intense, tense, exciting, rough, inspirational ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, military prison, military, murder, fighting the system, prison riot, convict, prison escape, manipulation, sacrifice, chess ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west point, iraq, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, 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, prison life, convict, prison riot, jail, aryan brotherhood, prison gang, fighting the system, male nudity, brutality, court, organized crime ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
80%
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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, kids, teen drama
Plot:
prison, vengeance, juvenile delinquent, violence, juvenile delinquency, youth, bullying, prison escape, gangster, rivalry, prison rape, brat pack ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, south america, illinois, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Escape from Alcatraz tells the story of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 years, the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, prison escape, alcatraz, escape, prison life, freedom, jail, island, prison warden, harassment, prison guard, convict ...
Time:
year 1960, 20th century, year 1979, year 1961, year 1962 ...
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, rough, exciting ...
Plot:
prison, revenge, maximum security prison, kidnapping, prison guard, prison warden, murder, prisoner, extreme violence, violence, boxer, police shootout ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the lives of his loved ones…
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, rough, thought provoking ...
Plot:
prison, violence, police, organized crime, undercover, prison gang, murder, kidnapping, betrayal, ex convict, danger, brutality ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, revenge, gangster, vigilante, lone hero, murder, vengeance, jamaican, violence, hand to hand combat, drug lord, voodoo ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
jamaica, usa, chicago, colombia, latin america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gino Felino (Steven Seagal) is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his Partner was someone's mistake, because he's now Out For Justice.
Style:
detective, neo noir, suspense, cult classic, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vigilante, revenge, martial arts, psychopath, gangster, aikido, hitman, organized crime, mafia, car chase, serial killer, hand to hand combat ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, las vegas
Similarity:
100%
81K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
heist, police corruption, betrayal, bank robbery, dirty cop, mafia, corruption, corrupt cop, masked man, police detective, strip club, violent ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, usa, tel aviv israel, boston, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style:
exciting, cult classic, suspense, detective, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, hitman, police officer, one man army, revenge, police, mafia, gangster, chase, police investigation, police corruption, car chase ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
chicago, usa, texas, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
117K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Driver (Dwayne Johnson) has spent the last 10 years in prison planning revenge for the murder of his brother. Now that Driver is free to carry out his deadly plan only two men stand in his way- Billy Bob Thornton plays a veteran cop and Oliver ...
Style:
stylized, brutal, fast, talky, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, girls' night, adult
Plot:
vigilante, revenge, lone hero, ex convict, hotshot, tough heroes, corruption, justice, brutality, vengeance, driver, vigilantism ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
iran, usa, nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style:
hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, gang war, organized crime, ghetto, blaxploitation, mafia, drug, hip hop, chase, urban, drug lord ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
299K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspense, perverse, action adventure ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
gunfight, one man army, manhunt, police brutality, tough guy, vietnam war, soldier, survival, revenge, lone hero, danger, tough heroes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1982, post world war two ...
Place:
vietnam, washington state, usa, north america, arizona ...
Similarity:
100%
74K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Style:
tense, psychological, clever, intense, tricky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, survival, prison life, hostage, convict, prison guard, confined, prison escape, manipulation, danger, criminal heroes, rebelliousness ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, basque country, south america, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Paul Kersey returns to New York to visit his friend Charley, who lives in one of the worst parts of New York City. But when Paul arrives at Charley's apartment, he finds Charley dying after a vicious beating by a gang led by Manny Fraker, and ...
Style:
cult classic, perverse, neo noir, hood, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, violence, revenge, vigilantism, gang, gangster, sniper, gang rape, rape victim, sexual assault, woman in jeopardy, vigilante justice ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
siege, police station, police corruption, shootout, unlikely partners, criminal's revenge, survival, sniper, attempted murder, danger, machine gun, swat team ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
114K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And ...
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, sexy, intense, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, corruption, nypd, dirty cop, police, police corruption, internal affairs, sheriff, organized crime, justice, investigation, corrupt cop ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california ...
Similarity:
100%
23K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
Style:
harsh, stylized, brutal, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
revenge, martial arts, prison, prison escape, prison violence, fight to the death, warden, fight, fighter, brutality, murder, prison rape ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
russia, california, ireland, latin america, new jersey ...
Similarity:
29%
269K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, clever, twist ending, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick
Plot:
prison, prison escape, revenge, outsmarting, escape plan, betrayal, resourceful, escape, prisoner, maximum security prison, prison break, lone hero ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
morocco, usa, miami, new orleans, colorado ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Someone in a prison run by a corrupt warden fakes the deaths of convicts to later use them as expendable assassins. A police officer is sent into the prison to gather evidence of the corruption.
Style:
action adventure, cult classic, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, gunfight, jail, karate, prison, guard dog, kung fu, prison violence, conspiracy, undercover, heroes, murder ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
30K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
hostage, revenge, chase, violence, police officer, hostage negotiator, bank robber, negotiation, murder, sniper, swat team, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
tahiti, san francisco, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
343K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led by Deputy Samuel Gerard, a determined detective who will not rest until ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, detective, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot:
on the run, conspiracy, betrayal, escape, framed for murder, fugitives, death row, manhunt, doctor, murder, uncover truth, corruption ...
Time:
20th century, year 1993, 90s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, washington d.c.
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten ...
Style:
suspense, talky, intense, stylized, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
prison, violence, fight, boxing, prisoner, african american, prison fight, hip hop, mafia, tough guy, martial arts, gangster ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, mojave desert, las vegas, nevada, california ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An international terrorist has New York in a grip of panic and it's up to Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva to take him down.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, suspense, harsh, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, undercover, hostage, chase, tough law enforcer, stewardess, terrorist, master criminal, danger, fighting crime, working undercover, violence ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, north america, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
85K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A tough-on-crime street cop must protect the only surviving witness to a strange murderous cult with far reaching plans.
Style:
breathtaking, perverse, suspense, intense, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, tough law enforcer, vigilante, killer, violence, murder, one man army, car chase, chase, police investigation, violent, hostage ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, south america, california, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Style:
brutal, entertaining, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, outsmarting, prisoner, thief, prison gang, prison escape, resourceful, lone hero, prison life, mafia, vengeance, gangster ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, usa, tijuana mexico, san diego california
Similarity:
17%
120K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught ...
Style:
action comedy, intense, detective, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
police detective, reluctant partners, prison, buddy, buddy cop, prisoner, law enforcement, prison escape, police, organized crime, gunfight, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
16%
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