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Three Walls (2003)
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Original name: 3 Deewarein
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 murdering his wife too, but he claims that it was an accident where she falls off the sidewalk while they were talking. Ishaan (Naseeruddin Shah), a happy-go-lucky man, is also arrested for murder that he commits while in the act of robbery. The prison's custodian is Mohan (Gulshan Grover), who attempts several methods to reform the prison's inmates. A documentary filmmaker, Chandrika (Juhi Chawla) comes to the jail to set a film about these three men. In the process, she finds redemption to her troubled marriage.
Style:
serious, tense, touching, bleak, rough, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, contemplative, offbeat
Plot:
prison, prison life, confined, introspection, twists and turns, murder, family problems, redemption, death row, hopes, criminal heroes, prisoner, escaped prisoner, friendship, friends, isolation, multiple storylines, poetry, flashback, multiple perspectives, bollywood, hindi, deadly, crime, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
india
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, prison, deadly, confined, prison life, criminal heroes and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Three Walls: Pithamagan (2003), The Executioner's Song (1982), Ghosted (2011), R: Hit First, Hit Hardest (2010), Day Break (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama
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Duration: 139 min.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
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Duration: 135 min.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 107 min.
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Place:
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Duration: 99 min.
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Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Duration: 82 min.
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