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Scrubbers (1982)
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Scrubbers (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two girls escape from an open borstal for two very different reasons; Annetta to attempt to visit her baby daughter, who is being raised in a convent; and Carol, who hopes to be recaptured and sent to a closed borstal where she knows her girlfriend Doreen is being held. Carol's plan works, although she is devastated to find that not only has Doreen found herself a new girlfriend inside (who both taunt and tease Carol), when Annetta is arrested at the convent and sent to the same closed borstal, she assumes it was Carol who "grassed" her up and proceeds to plan her revenge. Carol finds protection in the form of inmate Eddie, while Annetta's constant bullying attempts keep her in solitary confinement; however, Carol's world is turned upside-down when Eddie is released from borstal and her protection is gone... Written by Rhino
Style: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: prison, women's prison, women in prison, survival, dark humor, truck, prisoner, nun, teenage girl, lesbian relationship, monastery, abbey, remorse, punishment, juvenile prison, school, escape, youth, life is a bitch, prison life, fighting the system, gays and lesbians, society, babies and infants, danger ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Keyword: american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and bleak films with plots about prison, prison life, life is a bitch, confined, society, youth and women's prison mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Scrubbers: Reform School Girl (1994), So Evil, So Young (1961), Women's Prison (1988), Women of San Quentin (1983), Tangier (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Reform School Girl (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Donna is sent to a reform school to take the fall for bad boy Vince. Inside, she makes friends and learns about herself.
Style: realistic, serious, sexual, rough, psychotronic
Plot: lesbian sex, lesbian, women's prison, female nudity, prison, fondling, courtroom, scapegoat, lesbian interest, lgbt, erotica, lust ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
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Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two thousand miles from home, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (with baby Clayton) lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow, battling for survival against the elements. Using only meager supplies and resourcefulness, the young ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: snowstorm, survival, frostbite, hypothermia, rescue, wilderness, babies and infants, danger, heroes, isolation, forces of nature, family life ...
Time: 90s
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So Evil, So Young (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A teenage girl is wrongfully accused of theft and is sent away to a harsh reform school.
Style: noir, grindhouse, realistic, serious
Plot: prison, women's prison, juvenile delinquent, tough heroes, gays and lesbians, dishonesty, youth, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency, confined, fugitives ...
Time: 60s
Place: ireland
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32%
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Women's Prison (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, escape, wrongfully committed, false accusation, frame up, bookies, prison life, kids in trouble, law enforcement, rebelliousness, vigilantism, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Women of San Quentin (1983)
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, rough, bleak
Plot: prison, power relations, battle of the sexes, confined, gender, chaos and mayhem, prison life, female warden, women's prison, prisoner
Time: 80s
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29%
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Tangier (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In August 1996, bus drivers Marcel Van Loock and Wim Moreels are apprehended by the Moroccan Customs for drug trafficking. Inside their bus, hidden behind a false compartment, they have discovered 700 pounds of hashish. Although the owner of the bus ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: prison, smuggling, survival, danger, prison life, dishonesty, life is a bitch, false accusation, injustice, bus driver, violent content, warden ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: antwerp, tangier morocco, africa, morocco
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28%
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Fast-Walking (1982)
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, independent film, biting, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: prison, woman with a gun, blaxploitation, murder, corrupt, revolutionary, security guard, stoner, escape, confined, unlikely partners, militant ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: montana, usa, oregon
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26%
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Black August (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The last 14 months of George Jackson's life was an existence under subjective and objective conditions in California's industrial prison complex. George Jackson would spend 11 years in jail (7 of which were in solitary confinement) for a ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, political
Plot: prison, racism, solitary, prison life, confined, against the rules, fighting the system, injustice, militant, price of justice, life is a bitch, society ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Stranger Inside (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A mother daughter reunion set in the harsh reality of a women's correctional facility
Style: emotional, disturbing, rough, crime drama, independent film ...
Plot: prison, lesbian, women in prison, life is a bitch, parents and children, family relations, drug dealing, youth, gang, society, juvenile delinquency, confined ...
Time: 21st century
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25%
School for Unclaimed Girls (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A gold digging man seduces a widow for her money, and also makes a pass at her teenage Daughter, the Daughter plans a terrible revenge
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: women in prison, voyeur, female nudity, lesbian, women's prison, prison, sexual desire, sexual assault, blonde, lesbianism, voyeurism, bare breasts ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england
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24%
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Ghosted (2011)
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: suspenseful, rough, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: prison life, prison, survival, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, danger, confined, twists and turns, prison fight, supernatural, strong violent content, prison rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Buried (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Buried is a British television drama series, produced by World Productions for Channel 4 and originally screened in 2003. The programme starred Lennie James as Lee Kingley, who is serving a long prison sentence in order to protect a member of his ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, prison life, survival, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, confined, false accusation, warden, criminal psychologist, dishonesty, psychologist, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Purgatory (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, women in prison, women's prison, frame up, female nudity, sexploitation, falsely accused, framed for a crime, imprisonment, tough law enforcer, fighting the system, prostitute ...
Time: 80s
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
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 ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, serious ...
Plot: prison, confined, uncover truth, fighting the system, false accusation, courtroom drama, society, life is a bitch, legal, legal action, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Fuehrer Ex (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ingo Hasselbach, whose parents were Communist Party members in East Germany during his childhood, has lived at both ends of the political seesaw. The question of how people reach a change of heart is a profound one; Hasselbach describes the external ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, realistic ...
Plot: prison, berlin wall, neo nazi, racism, fascism, friendship, teenage boy, jail, politics, moral dilemma, escape, prison life ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: germany, german democratic republic, east germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Jailbait (2004)
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, serious, realistic
Plot: prison, homosexual rape, gay, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, power relations, prison life, fighting the system, confined, going straight, murder, false accusation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Everyday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Wild Ones (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Five juvenile delinquents break out of jail and attempt to make their way to a house in the Mendoza foothills of Argentina.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, bleak
Plot: survival, getting home, juvenile delinquency, hopes, escapades, society, human nature, youth, wilderness, social decay, disintegration, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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In the Custody of Strangers (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing
Plot: prison, self defense, parents and children, custody, prison life, teenage life, unemployment, isolation, family life, alcohol abuse, family problems, injustice ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Born Innocent (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one ...
Style: grindhouse, controversial, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, prison rape, women in prison, runaway, female psychopath, riot, rape, brutality, psychotic, hell, children, cautionary tale ...
Time: 70s
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21%
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Capadocia (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series. It started on March 2, 2008 and its second season was planned for 2010.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating
Plot: prison, women's prison, prison life, gang war, life turned upside down, dishonesty, corrupt law enforcer, warden, life is a bitch, bribery, uncover truth, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
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21%
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Rollercoaster (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In pursuit of fantasy, five teenagers hop the fence of a now defunct amusement park. While apparently a mindless diversion, for two of them the park is the setting for a more fatal bid at escape.
Style: offbeat, independent film, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: youth, canuxploitation, glbt, lgbt, amusement park, gay slur, gay subtext, gay youth, human nature, juvenile delinquency, gays and lesbians, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, vancouver
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21%
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Vendetta (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A sexy stuntwoman gets herself thrown into prison to avenge the death of her sister.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: women in prison, women's prison, prison, lesbianism, female nudity, female protagonist, heroin, lesbian, female exploitation, murder, nudity, exploitation ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
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21%
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Lilet Never Happened (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot: life is a bitch, kids in trouble, social decay, youth, prostitute, danger, society, sexual abuse, child prostitute, prostitution, social worker, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: manila philippines, asia, the philippines
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21%
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Attica (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A behind the scenes look of the 1971 prisoners revolt at the Attica prison.
Style: political, captivating, thought provoking, realistic, serious ...
Plot: prison, black, serial killer, prison riot, hostage, rebellion, fighting the system, tough heroes, society, criminal heroes, state affairs, misfit ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: new york, usa
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21%
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Day Break (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender's life. Day Break - based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside ...
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, contemplative ...
Plot: prison, death row, prison life, pardon, legal, life is a bitch, society, injustice, law enforcement, legal action, compassion, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iran, middle east
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21%
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Jailbirds (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In order to save the man she loves from jail, Mathilde takes his place by helping his break-out. While she exclusively relies on him to survive in this prison setting, Mathilde has not heard from him since her imprisonment. Isolated, with her son as ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental
Plot: doctor, suicide, female nudity, prison life, women's prison, prison, mother son relationship, salvation, self sacrifice, rivalry, danger, fighting the system ...
Time: 21st century
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21%
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Ombline (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ombline, a 20-year-old woman, is sent to prison for three years after committing a violent assault on a police officer. Just when she has lost all hope for the future, she discovers that she is pregnant. The law allows her to rear her newborn for ...
Style: serious, touching, bleak, realistic, gloomy
Plot: newborn baby, prison, single parent, hopes, family problems, life is a bitch, babies and infants, confined, starting over, family relations, prison life, released from prison ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
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20%
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Small Faces (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging ...
Style: realistic, bleak, independent film, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: working class, dysfunctional family, coming of age, gang, youth, subculture, artist, violence, children, british gangster, angry, boy ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: scotland, europe
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The Wee Man (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
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Audience: boys' night
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