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Bless You, Prison (2002)
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Original name: Binecuvântată fii, închisoare
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the film is a true story, with real events and characters. A young intellectual woman, Nicole is arrested. There follow three months of exhausting interrogation and isolation. Alone in a cell, she undergoes a spiritual experience similar to that of the great mystics.
Style:
uplifting, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, bleak, serious, realistic
Plot:
prison, exhaustion, survival, human spirit, prison life, confined, politics, captivity, society, rebelliousness, religions or cults, stalinism, interrogation, communism, christian, european, anti communism, monastery, state affairs, biopic, torture, bible, jail cell, rebellion, prayer ...
Time:
50s
Place:
europe, romania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, thought provoking and captivating films with plots about society, life is a bitch, confined, politics, injustice, rebellion and prison mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Bless You, Prison: Black August (2007), Attica (1980), The Ditch (2010), The Gate (2014), Cadence (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A behind the scenes look of the 1971 prisoners revolt at the Attica prison.
Style:
political, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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606
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, France, Belgium, South Korea, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The film focuses on the suffering of Chinese who were imprisoned in a forced labor camp called Jiabiangou in the Gobi Desert in winter 1960 under Mao Zedong on the grounds that they were "rightist elements". The film tells of the harsh ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, rough, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot:
politics, cannibalism, desert, captivity, prison life, life is a bitch, confined, against humanity, starvation, re-education, state affairs, society ...
Time:
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Place:
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402
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity.
Style:
disturbing, serious, captivating, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
cambodia, asia
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominately Jewish community of Skokie.
Style:
political, contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, holocaust, civil rights, lawyer, grief, aging, suburbs, injustice, religions or cults, against humanity, politics, state affairs ...
Time:
80s
Place:
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Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
prison, racism, african american, black, time travel, exodus, sergeant, army life, society, hopes, soldier, buddies ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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44%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, thought provoking, uplifting, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Place:
denmark, europe
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44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
How Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified "imprisonment" where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture.
Style:
captivating, psychological, political, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
biopic, prison life, prison, injustice, human rights, jailed, confined, military prison, jail cell, prison violence, prisoner, jail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
prison, confined, uncover truth, courtroom drama, false accusation, dishonesty, law enforcement, society, legal, legal action, prison life, courtroom ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
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Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, uplifting, sincere
Plot:
homeless, biopic, heroic mission, social misfits, state affairs, life is a bitch, legal, politics, fighting the system, society, human spirit, heroes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, captivating
Plot:
false accusation, fighting the system, rebellion, against the odds, youth, dishonesty, society, teenage life, life turned upside down, injustice, computers and web, website ...
Time:
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Place:
madrid, spain, catalonia
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Locked up and isolated, constantly exposed and threatened to be killed, for the first time in his life Lazaro understood that he was a free man.
Style:
psychological, uplifting, serious, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
captivity, human spirit, introspection, freedom, hopes, danger, confined, survival, solitary, faith, kidnapping, free spirit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
43%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
42%
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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730
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Story:
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Style:
captivating, disturbing, serious, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, realistic, epic, retro ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
41%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
41%
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl (Jurnee Smollett) is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. (Clifton Powell) and becomes a devout follower. But her resolution is tested when she joins others in the famed march from Selma to Montgomery. ...
Style:
gothic, realistic, serious, uplifting, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, Caesar Must Die (Cesare Deve Morire), the scripted documentary shows inmates at a prison in Rome rehearsing for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, talky, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, hopes, shakespeare, human spirit, actor's life, audition, introspection, confined, criminal heroes, rehearsal, convict ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, thought provoking, atmospheric, political ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
racism, murder, social differences, introspection, life is a bitch, society, discrimination, social decay, injustice, small town life, small town, murderer ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Cuba, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, serious, atmospheric, thought provoking, surreal ...
Plot:
idealism, fighting the system, self discovery, state affairs, hopes, redemption, rebelliousness, rebellion, society, lifestyle, politics, introspection ...
Time:
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Place:
cuba, japan, latin america, utah, paris france ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
prison, fascism, neo nazi, berlin wall, racism, neo nazism, homosexual rape, teenage boy, friendship, moral dilemma, politics, youth ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
germany, german democratic republic, east germany, europe
Similarity:
41%
336
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender's life. Day Break - based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, contemplative ...
Plot:
prison, death row, prison life, pardon, legal, life is a bitch, society, injustice, legal action, law enforcement, forgiveness, compassion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east
Similarity:
41%
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