Movies like The Killing Yard
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The Killing Yard (2001)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Lawyers must defend a prisoner accused of murdering two of his inmates during the Attica prison riots in 1971.
Plot:
blaxploitation, prison, murder, helicopter, massacre, false accusation, prison riot, courtroom, political corruption, female director
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and rough films with plots about murder, courtroom, prison, court, false accusation, legal and life is a bitch mostly in Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like The Killing Yard: The Conviction of Kitty Dodds (1993), Only God Can Judge Me (2005), My Son Is Innocent (1996), One Angry Juror (2010), What Happened to Bobby Earl? (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
Plot:
prison, alcohol abuse, prison escape, marital abuse, women's prison, child abuse, murder
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Film from Tody Walker
Plot:
murder, prison, courtroom, redemption, jury, court
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93%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The sequel to "A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story" in which Betty Broderick is on trial for the murder of her ex-husband and his new wife.
Plot:
love, true crime, lawyer, revenge, courtroom, murder, divorce, lifetime
Place:
san diego california
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84%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After a brutal nighttime attack on a woman alone in her suburban home, police investigators zero in on teenager Eric Sutter. When the victim identifies Sutter as her attacker, the legal system closes in on the boy as friends, neighbors and the media ...
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rape, falsely accused, imprisonment, police investigation, police interrogation, false accusation, mistaken identity, courtroom, police station
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72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Sarah Walsh, a tough New Orleans attorney who serves on a murder trial jury and does some investigating of her own.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, tense
Plot:
murder, courtroom, courtroom drama, false accusation, investigation, uncover truth, legal, dishonesty, life is a bitch, dedicated lawyer, court, prosecutor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, usa
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69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
True life drama about a working mum (Henner) whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her (Savant) and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, evil man
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64%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly Hills, allegedly for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
murder, courtroom, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, parents and children, courtroom drama, life is a bitch, legal, family problems, family relations, patricide, false accusation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, beverly hills, california
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63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Rose Earl is proud as a peacock when Bobby, her eldest, whom she raised, like his kid brother Michael, to become moral men an model citizens, is the first member of the modest family ever to get accepted at college. It will take a while till she ...
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college, missing person, murder, brother brother relationship, courtroom, deception, court, caucasian, fraternity, insurance fraud, burglary, arson ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the ...
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disturbing, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
prison, confined, fighting the system, uncover truth, false accusation, courtroom drama, society, legal, life is a bitch, dishonesty, law enforcement, legal action ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
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57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A female is harassed and takes the case to court.
Plot:
stalker, sexual harassment, court, courtroom, true crime, legal, creep
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Randy commits a crime that would normally get him probation and a hefty fine, but in the "three-strikes" world of justice, he finds himself locked up for 25 years. His cellmate Jake is a congenial yet remorseless lifer who casually informs ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious
Plot:
prison, gay, power relations, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, prison life, fighting the system, confined, going straight, murder, false accusation, sexual abuse ...
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53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of Greg Yance. In the film, Yance (Epps) is a hood who goes to jail for possession of drugs. He is given a choice: 5 years in jail or a couple of months in boot camp. He chooses boot camp and finds out it is tougher than ...
Style:
inspirational, tense, realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
boot camp, prison, gangsters, blaxploitation, drug dealing, drug dealer, hopes, society, juvenile delinquency, youth, life is a bitch, going straight ...
Time:
90s
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53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
Style:
political, realistic, serious, cynical, biting ...
Plot:
prison, blaxploitation, woman with a gun, murder, corrupt, security guard, revolutionary, suspense, escape, militant, stoners, confined ...
Time:
80s
Place:
oregon, usa
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51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
"Prosecuting Casey Anthony" reveals Florida prosecutor, Jeff Ashton’s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony’s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
court, courtroom drama, investigation, murder, dedicated lawyer, obsession, legal, courtroom, life is a bitch, true crime, criminal, one last case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
Plot:
prison, car accident, corruption, adoption
Time:
80s, 70s, 60s
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A white ex-GI goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a black soldier who died in Vietnam. When he arrives there he encounters hostility and trouble from all sides.
Plot:
blaxploitation, vietnam war, ghetto, soldier, hostility, violence
Place:
vietnam
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48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Prompted by a just-published book that holds ex-lieutenant Ben Tyson accountable for a hushed-up massacre committed by his platoon in a Hue hospital 18 years before, the army recalls Tyson to stand trial for murder. Tyson, confronted by an army ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, vietnam war, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, law enforcement, society, life is a bitch, legal, army investigation, dedicated lawyer, rebellion ...
Place:
vietnam, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, a 14 year-old boy is accused of raping and murdering a little girl
Plot:
court, rape, murder, male nudity, female nudity, rape accusation, teenager
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canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the killing and signs a statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking
Plot:
courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, aborigine, racism, illiteracy, injustice, fighting the system, legal investigation, social differences, false accusation, price of justice, society ...
Time:
50s
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without paroll, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.
Style:
realistic, serious, gloomy, rough
Plot:
prison, criminal heroes, follow your dream, prison escape, prison life, redemption, optimism, hopes, artists and showbiz, confined, lifestyle, journalism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed...
Plot:
court, courtroom drama, murderer, courtroom, murder, canadian, legal action
Place:
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45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A half-cast used cars salesman wants anything from the white society and is ready to do anything to get it. But when he is accused of murdering his half-sister who was killed with his rifle, he flees to an indian village. He doesn't feel any ...
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half sister, car salesman, detective sergeant, murder, false accusation, native american
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on the landmark civil rights case Sipes vs. McGhee, The Color of Courage chronicles the friendship between a white woman and a black woman whose family, the McGhees, has moved into a previously all-white neighborhood. A McGhee granddaughter, ...
Style:
inspirational
Plot:
civil rights, racism, blaxploitation, segregation, neighbor, african american, supreme court, civil rights movement, interracial relations
Time:
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44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Plot:
prison, power relations, gender, battle of the sexes, confined, prison life, chaos and mayhem, female warden, prisoner, women's prison
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The true story of John Hawkins as featured on America's Most Wanted.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A murder is committed in a small village of Andalusia.
Plot:
murder, marijuana, mafia, plantation, drugs
Place:
andalusia
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42%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony that bolstered his claims of innocence were suppressed.
Style:
realistic, emotional, compassionate, thought provoking, factual ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The gory ax-murder of one mousy, suburban Texas housewife by another is nearly as shocking as the excuse offered by the bespectacled defendant's attorney: self-defense. Could it be so?
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
self defense, murder, lawyer, serial killer, manipulation, couples, uncover truth, dishonesty, vengeance, legal, law enforcement, legal investigation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Namibia
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation is a 2007 epic film on the Namibian independence struggle against South African occupation as seen through the life of Sam Nujoma, the leader of the South-West Africa People's Organisation and the first ...
Plot:
weapons, racism, police, air raid, helicopter, letter, death, wedding, torture, massacre, church, violence ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
africa, namibia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On a March night in 1964, 37 neighbors in Queens, New York, witness the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese. None of them takes action or calls the police. 37 tells the story of a few of these people and what led up to the night when they unexplainably ...
Style:
sad
Plot:
woman, murder, rape, apathy, loss of innocence, indifference, racism, witness
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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