Movies like Prison
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Prison (1987)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.
Style:
slasher, atmospheric, disturbing, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, cult film ...
Plot:
prison, ghost, revenge, prisoner, prison life, electric chair, jail, house, exploitation, supernatural, prison fight, night, convict, prison warden, imprisonment, prison guard, investigation, murder, afterlife, life is a bitch, supernatural ability, frame up, rivalry, wiretap, false accusation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
wyoming
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Most similar movies to Prison
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, rough and scary films with plots about murder, deadly, danger, prison, confined, violence and suspense mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Prison: Bones (2001), Born American (1986), Furnace (2007), Death Row (2006), Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Over 20 years after his death by a gunshot, Jimmy Bones comes back as a ghost to wreak revenge on those who killed him and to clean up his neighborhood.
Style:
scary, bloody, stylized, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
blaxploitation, afterlife, betrayal, ghost, vengeance, dog, supernatural, revenge, haunted house, gangsters, haunted by the past, brutality ...
Time:
70s, 90s, 2000s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three American students vacationing in Finland, cross the border into Russia for fun of it. When they are spotted by the Russian soldiers who are shooting to kill, it's not fun anymore. Captured and thrown in jail, they find it's not fun ...
Style:
stylized, harsh, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
prison, torture, violence, suspense, kgb, stereotypes, politics, false accusation, confined, life is a bitch, state affairs, prison life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
russia, finland, new jersey, ussr, helsinki finland
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
prison, ghost, suspense, murder, confined, rivalry, supernatural, investigation, police detective, violence, paranormal, escape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
717
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Haunted Prison - AKA Death Row - a horrifying live action film based on the short story by Kevin VanHook-takes place at Isla de la Roca Penitentiary. Rumor has it the Devil himself spat up the place out of the depths of hell, and man turned it into ...
Style:
serious, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
prison, supernatural, confined, criminal heroes, ghost, prison life, gang, death row, escape, burned alive, wiretap, fugitives ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
Style:
rough, scary, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
ghost, prison, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, frame up, captivity, found footage, amateur detective, contests and competitions, golden years, game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, rivalry, supernatural, survival, confined, escapades, ancient mystery, woman in danger, destiny, cons and scams, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A group of catholic school girls are victimized by a sadistic and jealous nun, "Sister Ursula". The girls drown the nun in a pool of "holy" water. Eighteen years later circumstances arise in which the nuns spirit is released to ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, bleak, rough, slasher ...
Plot:
ghost, evil nun, supernatural, ritual murder, suspense, curses spells and rituals, curse, vengeance, haunted by the past, boarding school, religions or cults, supernatural ability ...
Place:
barcelona, spain, europe
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24%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a haunted death row cellblock, a deranged female serial killer reads a trio of twisted tales to her executioner.
Style:
slasher, queer horror, dark fairy tale, scary, serious ...
Plot:
prison, serial killer, biker, woman with a gun, ghost, supernatural ability, vengeance, confined, gang, rivalry, supernatural, zombie ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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 ...
Style:
intense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, prison warden, corruption, prison life, suspense, revenge, torture, tough guy, self sacrifice, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
prison, gang, prison riot, prison life, false accusation, life is a bitch, redemption, confined, murder, family life, dishonesty, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Action, 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:
disturbing, tense, rough, brutal, exciting ...
Plot:
prison, maximum security prison, drugs, revenge, kidnapping, prison guard, murder, prison warden, prisoner, fight, violence, tough guy ...
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22%
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 ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, rough, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, friendship, injustice, juvenile delinquency, hopes, human spirit, social decay, prison life, fighting the system, life is a bitch, misfit, legal ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Veteran Boogey Man and Zodiac Killer director Ulli Lommel continues his long tradition of delivering tense thrills with this relentless look at the life of the elusive, Kansas-based serial killer known to authorities only as "B.T.K." ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murderer, psychopath, police investigation, chase, investigation, mind game, life is a bitch, police detective, law enforcement, violence, serial murder ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, scary
Plot:
prison, psychopath, prison life, serial killer, survival, confined, life is a bitch, murder, death row, all male cast, danger, deadly
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20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A 12 year old cold case is reopened when three teens are missing in an old abandoned road where a gruesome murder is left undiscovered for three decades.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, road trip, murder, missing person, vengeance, supernatural, youth, investigation, abduction, redneck, time loop, terror ...
Time:
year 1988, 21st century
Place:
the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Films like Villa Captive
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A strange funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mortician, afterlife, evil doll, child abuse, murder, funeral home, supernatural, hip hop, brutality, drugs, gangsters, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her. .
Style:
serious, scary, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
ghost, vengeance, haunted by the past, supernatural, forest, urban legend, rivalry, murder, violence, suspense, survival, fashion model ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, mount fuji, asia, tokyo
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20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A horror film based on a real-life mass murder that took place in 1966. Richard Franklin Speck was a mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966.
Style:
slasher, tense, disturbing, rough, bloody ...
Plot:
serial killer, sexual abuse, murder, psychopath, violence spree, confined, hostage, journalism, maniac, misogynist, brutality, psychiatrist ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Blood drenched terror grips the beautiful city of San Diego as mutilated bodies begin to surface. Lead Homicide Detective Mason "Nostradamus" Brannigan believes it to be the signature of methodical killer Dante: The Inferno Killer who ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, disturbing, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, serial murder, psychopath, brutality, violence, masked killer, death, violent, woman in danger, uncover truth, maniac ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california
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20%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A screenwriter who travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
Style:
scary, bleak, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, mental breakdown, mentally unstable, isolation, woman in danger, haunted by the past, confined, mind game, writer's life, uncover truth, haunted house ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Films like Eastern Promises
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler that always seems to loose his big scores. Framed by the film's villains ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, false accusation, frame up, police corruption, political corruption, vengeance, nightclub, violence, wrongful imprisonment, gambler, revenge, murder ...
Time:
50s
Place:
tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style:
slasher, disturbing, splatter, scary, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, violent, torture, murder, exploitation, violence, macabre, extreme violence, disturbed individual, weirdo, maniac, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Inheritance tells the tale of sinister old lady Lillian Baker (Marjorie Nelson) & her kind hearted, good natured carer Abigail Nielsen (Jen Taylor). Abigail feels sorry for Lillian & does her best to keep her happy, however one ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary
Plot:
afterlife, ghost, haunted by the past, uncover truth, supernatural, mental illness, mentally unstable, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, golden years, schizophrenia, suspense ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Julie McConnell is one of a dozen camp counselors working to re-open a summer camp when a series of murders and disappearances begin commited by a hockey masked killer who may be the urban legend killer Trevor Moorehouse. When Julie looks into the ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, queer horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, teenage life, vengeance, confined, rivalry, mind game, survival, lake, murderer, isolation ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Elliott Gast (Jason Behr) is quickly climbing the corporate ladder of international commerce, negotiating deals to generate large fortunes for giant corporations. His success makes him the target for political extremists who kidnap him and broadcast ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
confined, missing person, isolation, captivity, terrorism, prison life, internet, torture, survival, suspense, hostage, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
Style:
slasher, serious, disturbing, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, obsession, psychopath, woman in danger, violence spree, killer, villain, human nature, male female relationship, deadly, gory
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa
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19%
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, psychological, intense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
prison, gang, police corruption, frame up, gunfight, suspense, mistaken identity, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, prison life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, san francisco, new jersey
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19%
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:
campy, tense, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
women in prison, prison, lust, wrongful conviction, women's prison, lesbian, exploitation, lgbt, sex, murder, prison riot, false accusation ...
Time:
50s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, survival, haunted by the past, confined, criminal heroes, twists and turns, prison fight, prison rape, supernatural, strong violent content, jail cell ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
As a child, Lenore was tormented by nightmares and obsessed with the dark poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe. As the lead singer in a Los Angeles band, the adult Lenore (Jillian Swanson) finds herself, friends and colleagues haunted by a murderer ...
Style:
slasher, scary, realistic, serious, psychotronic
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, music band, haunted by the past, woman in danger, murder, rivalry, supernatural ability, afterlife, good versus evil, supernatural, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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