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The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, political, period piece ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
psychology, prison, social experiment, human experiment, human nature, university, prison life, experiment, teachers and students, prison escape, character study, student, experiment gone awry, disorder, jail, human rights, cognitive science, power relations, prisoner, manipulation, psychological experiment, teenager, gay, nazi, medicine ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 2010s
Place:
usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and thought provoking films with plots about biopic, prison, storytelling, runaway, corruption, murder and death mostly in Drama, Biography and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Stanford Prison Experiment: The Experiment (2001), The Experiment (2010), Experimenter (2015), Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Colonia (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence—a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his ...
Style:
political, philosophical, cerebral, disturbing, factual ...
Plot:
psychology, science, biopic, social experiment, electric shock, scientist, insanity, experiment, manipulation, couple relations, workplace, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, yale university, connecticut
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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
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, UK, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
chile, peru, germany, south america, italy ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, period piece, emotional, depressing, dark ...
Plot:
prison, courtroom, alcatraz, lawyer, court, courtroom drama, legal, justice, murder, escape attempt, corporal punishment, torture ...
Time:
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Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
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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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 115 min.
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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100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
prison, brutality, torture, injustice, lawyer, escape, prison life, prison escape, drug, drug smuggling, court, violent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1978, year 1975 ...
Place:
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50%
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Country: USA, Indonesia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, captivating, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
indonesia, asia, tokyo
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83%
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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27%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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27%
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Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
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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Country: UK, Germany, USA
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Story:
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
Style:
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Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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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26%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
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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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Style:
disturbing, sadistic, harsh, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
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cerebral, political, sexy, suspense, clever ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
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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Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
As the world teeters on the brink of annihilation, Dietrich Bonhoeffer joins a deadly plot to assassinate Hitler, risking his faith and fate to save millions of Jews from genocide.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, surprise ending, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
journalism, murder mystery, twists and turns, macabre, journalist, courtroom, prison, prisoner, writers, courtroom drama, justice, prison visit ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, oregon, usa, montana, mexico
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25%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
political, emotional, political thriller, thought provoking, talky ...
Audience:
family outing
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
Style:
psychological, heartbreaking, sentimental, tense, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, fighting the system, serial killer, trial, missing child, disorder, missing person, police corruption, uncover truth, society, corruption ...
Time:
1920s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2008, year 1935 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, canada, seattle
Similarity:
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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