Movies like Prison Song
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Prison Song (2001)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, sentenced to a minimum of fifteen years, the young man must find a way to keep his soul alive behind bars or turn into a hardened bitter criminal.
Style:
sincere, rough, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
prison, injustice, hip hop, prison life, redemption, juvenile delinquency, musician's life, criminal heroes, youth, murder, life is a bitch, society, life sentence, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, convict, gangsters, black cast, blaxploitation, graphic violence, coming of age, child as adult, disagreement, hopes, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
africa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and bleak films with plots about life is a bitch, society, gangsters, gang, violence, black and african american mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Prison Song: South Central (1992), Boyz n the Hood (1991), LUV (2012), Gang Tapes (2001), Dog Pound (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.
Style:
captivating, sexual, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
gang, urban ghetto life, gangsters, african american, african american gangster, ghetto, drug dealing, blaxploitation, hip hop, organized crime, society, coming of age ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, africa, usa, south central los angeles
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, tense, brutal, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, african american, ghetto, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, juvenile delinquency, street gang, coming of age, gangsters, rapper, rap ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, california, cuba, usa, south central los angeles ...
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89%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Over the course of one day, a shy 13-year-old forms a bond with his troubled uncle.
Style:
serious, captivating, touching, realistic, rough
Plot:
family relations, odd couple, dysfunctional family, friendship, orphan, life is a bitch, african american, boy, coming of age, hip hop, hip hop culture, ex convict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
Style:
rough, serious, tense, realistic
Plot:
gang, tough heroes, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, social decay, found footage, criminal heroes, teenage life, going straight, society, youth, kids in trouble ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Style:
serious, sincere, tense, realistic, social ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prison, juvenile delinquency, juvenile prison, sodomy, male nudity, teenage protagonist, prison life, youth, going straight, teenage boy, reformatory, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ty, Hector, and Bao are close friends in a tough section of Boston, where they're called "the PG-13 crew." They're 14, decent kids with few skills who've bailed out of school. A small gang of older tough guys, led by Marcus ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
gang, gangsters, gas station, realism, kids in trouble, optimism, friends, urban ghetto, youth, drug dealing, criminal heroes, dealing with death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style:
realistic, brutal, melancholic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, brutality, police, police investigation, vengeance, gangsters, hip hop, murder, lone hero, teenage life, youth, on the run ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materialize, he finds himself employed in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically gunned down, ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic
Plot:
desire for fame, hopes, rivalry, family relations, criminal heroes, youth, single parent, life is a bitch, working class, siblings relations, basketball, hip hop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence ...
Style:
uplifting, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
prison, gangsters, death row, violence, brutality, justice, adaptation, hopes, human spirit, redemption, journalism, life is a bitch ...
Time:
future, 80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
crime boss, gangsters, prison gang, prison, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, prison life, life is a bitch, dishonesty, drug dealing, gang, urban ghetto ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Once in the life (of drug dealing and organized crime), can anyone get out? During a brief jail stay, two half-brothers, who have rarely seen each other while growing up, connect. One of them, called 20/20 Mike because he can sense people nearby, ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot:
prison, gangsters, heist, friendship, crime gone awry, law enforcement, gang, addiction, siblings relations, life is a bitch, best friends, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.
Style:
realistic, tense, bleak, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
prison, friendship, gang, drugs, prison escape, adaptation, depression, redemption, survival, human nature, prison rape, prison warden ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, california, new jersey, pennsylvania, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", ...
Style:
intense, bad ending, entertaining, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gang, gangsters, street gang, prison, prison gang, drug abuse, drug addiction, violence spree, destiny, jail, police shootout, corruption ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, ecuador, guatemala ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, the girlfriend wants her new boyfriend to kill him. Only trouble is the boyfriend knows that the fault was ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, murder, friendship, haunted by the past, dishonesty, drug dealing, gang, gangsters, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, infidelity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Movies similar to Menace II Society
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyality and friendship.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious
Plot:
student athlete, murder, friendship, high school, american football, social relations, kids in trouble, friends, small town life, teenage life, small town, high school life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, african american, gangsters, blaxploitation, downbeat ending, hip hop culture, villain, hip hop, african american gangster, racism, drug dealing, social decay ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, prostitute, african american, gangsters, city, pimp, police officer, graphic violence, drug abuse, cons and scams, isolation, city life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Now serving a life sentence for murder, James "Animal" Allen returns to fighting for cash in order to help his troubled son on the outside. However, with his newfound fame as a fighter, Animal uncovers a jailhouse conspiracy that threatens ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
prison, martial arts, false accusation, prison life, murder, courtroom drama, frame up, rivalry, jail, gangsters, muscleman, criminal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's ...
Style:
serious, captivating, rough, bleak, social ...
Plot:
street kid, youth, homeless, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, poverty, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, friendship, society, vengeance, gang ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Style:
funny, serious, realistic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, exploitation, gangsters, african american, tough guy, mafia, black history, cult, drugs, pimp, prostitute, urban ghetto ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just ...
Style:
sincere, bleak, emotional, harsh, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
baby, poverty, gangsters, urban ghetto life, society, criminal, slum, friendship, childhood, coming of age, murder, street life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa, boston, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying to lay down a demo tape with cut-rate studio time. To pay the bills, he and Gage run ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
hip hop, rap, gang, friendship, musician's life, lifestyle, social decay, addiction, down on your luck, artists and showbiz, juvenile delinquency, going straight ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A child of a middle class home with solid moral values is lured into a world of crime and corruption.
Style:
rough, realistic, bleak, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, friends, drug dealing, police investigation, urban ghetto life, fighting crime, betrayal, juvenile delinquency, working undercover, criminal heroes, going straight, law enforcement ...
Place:
usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, blaxploitation, rape, gangsters, sex crime, organized crime, exploitation, city, criminal justice, bullying, gay slur ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The life of a beautiful rising female recording star is placed in jeopardy when she witnesses the drive-by shooting of a rival rap-star in Las Vegas. Wanted by both the killers and the corrupt police, the young woman must go into hiding while three ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
rivalry, frame up, musician's life, vengeance, youth, best friends, drug dealing, hip hop, murder, manipulation, siblings relations, city life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
632
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.
Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
vengeance, juvenile delinquency, society, criminal heroes, youth, working class, life is a bitch, small town, homecoming, murder, gangsters, teenage pregnancy ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
306
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An emotional and thrilling tale of life and death behind the walls of a maximum security prison. From the acclaimed director of 'Bonnie and Clyde', and featuring a powerful international cast.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, talky ...
Plot:
prison, political prisoner, apartheid, prisoner, racism, disintegration, politics, political intrigue, prison life, political unrest, discrimination, false accusation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, blaxploitation, boxing, sport, black history, martial arts, false accusation, prison sex, escape, manhood, tough heroes, injustice ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wife because she was cheating on him with another man. Nagya (Nagesh Kukunoor), a man angry with the whole world, is arrested for ...
Style:
serious, tense, bleak, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
introspection, confined, prison life, prison, hopes, redemption, criminal heroes, death row, twists and turns, murder, family problems, prisoner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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