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, hood, crime drama, realistic, gloomy, independent film
Plot:
prison, injustice, hip hop, prison life, redemption, juvenile delinquency, musician's life, criminal heroes, youth, murder, life is a bitch, society, life sentence, black, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, convict, black cast, urban, propaganda, blaxploitation, profanity, coming of age, child as adult, disagreement ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
africa
Keyword:
gangsters
Most similar movies to Prison Song
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, hood and rough films with plots about life is a bitch, society, gangster, urban, black, african american and gang mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Prison Song: South Central (1992), LUV (2012), Life (1999), Gang Tapes (2001), Before I Self Destruct (2009). 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:
hood, captivating, sexual, crime drama, social ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, ghetto, urban, black, african american, hip hop, criminal gang, drug dealing, blaxploitation, organized crime, black history ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles
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95%
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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, boy, odd couple, friendship, dysfunctional family, black, life is a bitch, danger, orphan, african american, hip hop culture, hip hop ...
Time:
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Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, twists and turns, life sentence, prison escape, prison life, redemption, african american, friendship, black, adaptation, criminal, escape attempt ...
Time:
1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1932
Place:
mississippi, new york, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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, realistic, serious, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
prison, violence, justice, adaptation, brutality, hopes, human spirit, death row, redemption, life is a bitch, journalism, murder ...
Time:
20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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:
serious, rough, hood, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
gang, found footage, ghetto, urban, social decay, tough heroes, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, teenage life, kids in trouble, going straight ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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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:
hood, serious, rough, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
desire for fame, hip hop, life is a bitch, youth, family relations, basketball, hopes, rivalry, urban, gang, black, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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:
disturbing, tense, hood, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, ghetto, african american, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, coming of age, black, african american gangster ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, california, america, south central los angeles, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When Curtis Snow steals a video camera from some college kids during a dope deal, he gives the camera to his best friend, Pancho, and they start documenting their lives. At first its business as usual for Curtis. He robs dope boys, he runs from the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, hood, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
found footage, dealer, drug dealing, filmmaking, introspection, single parent, life is a bitch, urban, rivalry, danger, down on your luck, real life ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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, hood, melancholic, brutal, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, brutality, police, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, ghetto, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
347
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:
independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gang, black, gas station, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, realism, friends, optimism, friendship, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, society ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 95 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, urban ghetto life, society, slum, friendship, childhood, coming of age, murder, street life, robbery, african ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, rough ...
Plot:
prison, best friend, heist, friendship, gang, law enforcement, crime gone awry, gangster, siblings relations, addiction, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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, murder, violence, prison gang, transvestite, prison escape, drug, adaptation, depression, redemption, prison rape ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania, paris france, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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:
hood, bleak, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, urban, friends, drug dealing, black, fighting crime, juvenile delinquency, police investigation, betrayal, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, going straight ...
Place:
usa, boston
⇓ 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, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile prison, reformatory, male nudity, teenage boy, sodomy, accidental killing, teenage protagonist, going straight, youth, prison life ...
Time:
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Place:
montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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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:
crime drama, grim, hood, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, prostitute, black, urban, pimp, african american, cop, violent content, isolation, cons and scams, social decay, urban ghetto life ...
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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:
grindhouse, hood, funny, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, urban, black, exploitation, african american, ghetto, black history, gangsta, mafia, tough guy, blues, hip hop ...
Time:
70s
Place:
bay area, usa, california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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:
hood, independent film, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban, gang, black, hip hop, african american, hip hop culture, downbeat ending, blaxploitation, villain, thug life, thug, gangsta ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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:
crime drama, serious, realistic, tense, crying
Plot:
student athlete, evil child, high school, murder, friendship, american football, abusive husband, high school football, best friend, friends, social relations, kids in trouble ...
Time:
90s
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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, hood ...
Plot:
hip hop, gang, friendship, lifestyle, musician's life, down on your luck, social decay, addiction, drug dealing, going straight, juvenile delinquency, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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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:
serious, realistic, hood, crime drama
Plot:
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86%
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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:
rough, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, hood ...
Plot:
vengeance, juvenile delinquency, working class, criminal heroes, youth, life is a bitch, society, small town, homecoming, murder, teenage pregnancy, ghetto ...
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Peter, a frustrated suburban teenager, prefers to hang out by the railroad tracks with his friends and get rid of boredom. When the young men throw the switch one day just for fun, a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions occurs. A train derails ...
Style:
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Plot:
train, prison, juvenile delinquency, going straight, redemption, confined, teenage life, youth, false accusation, prison life, human spirit, hopes ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute ...
Style:
realistic, talky, serious, hood, cult classic ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, chicano, juvenile delinquency, gang member, teenager, unlikely friendships, drug dealing, urban ghetto, urban, youth, urban ghetto life ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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, entertaining, bad ending, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gang, prison gang, prison, street gang, drug abuse, ghetto, drug addiction, violence spree, destiny, jail, police shootout, survival ...
Time:
20th century, year 1993, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, panama, beverly hills ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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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, rough, bleak, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, friendship, injustice, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, social decay, prison life, misfit, life is a bitch, fighting the system, rivalry ...
Time:
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85%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Style:
tense, bleak, harsh, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, street gang, slum, betrayal, coming of age, favela, relationships, best friend, character study, brutality, storytelling, adaptation ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Slam tells the story of Ray Joshua, an original, gifted young MC trapped in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City. Unable to find a job, Ray copes with the despair and poverty of his neighborhood by using his wits and verbal talent. Written ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Frustrated with being broke, Beans decides that the only way to grasp the American Dream is to take it.
Style:
hood, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, philadelphia, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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