Movies like Breaking Out

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Breaking Out (1999)
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Breaking Out (1999)
Original name: Vägen ut
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The enthusiastic Reine is forced to take a job as a social worker at Kumla prison.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: prison, thoughtful, escape, prisoner, theater, escape plan, prison life, confined, social relations, innocence lost, career change, artists and showbiz, murder, director, role playing, play
Time: 90s
Place: europe, eastern europe
Keyword: sweden

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and independent film films with plots about prison, prison life, confined, society, disorder, artists and showbiz and friends mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Breaking Out: Gossip (2000), Trust Me (2010), The Ketchup Effect (2004), Across the Moon (1994), The Prison Shift (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gossip (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Ten actresses test films for the title role of a remake of "Queen Christina".
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: filmmaking, actor's life, artists and showbiz, strong female presence, lesbian, female protagonist, producer, rivalry, director, actress, actor, unfaithfulness ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
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95%
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Trust Me (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A comical fresco on human misdemeanors and betrayals... A film about our right to not be perfect.
Style: semi serious, humorous, atmospheric, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: love affair, actor's life, disorder, theater, betrayal, nordic, strong female presence, artists and showbiz, love and romance, rehearsal, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, unfaithful boyfriend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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93%
The Ketchup Effect (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager's reputation is destroyed when she falls asleep drunk at a party and some boys take provocative photos of her.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, light, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, high school, social relations, friendship, teenage life, first sex, sexual relations, coming of age, party, reconciliation, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe, europe
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72%
Across the Moon (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving time at the nearby state prison.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching
Plot: prison, female bonding, prisoner, desert, social relations, friends, on the road, small town, friendship, working class, small town life, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, beverly hills
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66%
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The Prison Shift (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
TV show
Story: Sequel to 'The Night Shift' and 'The Day Shift'.
Style: humorous, tragicomedy, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
Plot: prison, friends, social misfits, misfit, warden, confined, prison life, rules and policies, buddies
Time: 21st century
Place: iceland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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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60%
Anyway, He's Definitely Dead (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A comedy about two men who meet in a detached house in the Stockholm archipelago to write a play, hunt roe dear, hava a sauna and relax. But a tabloid got a news story about the authors and sends a journalist to take photographs and bug their ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: sauna, deer hunting, wiretap, investigative reporter, disorder, island, journalism, media, domestic disturbance, artists and showbiz, mother, corpse ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Rest is Silence (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible screen adaptation of the real Independence War ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, breathtaking, touching
Plot: filmmaking, obsessive quest, ambition, society, career change, showbiz, director, european, partner, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, starting over ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: hungary, romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Dewey (Tim Conway) and Wallace (Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, parody, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, disorder, criminal heroes, confined, undercover, working undercover, small town life, prison life, small town, partner, escape ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Doing Time for Patsy Cline (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Following a passion for country music, Ralph leaves his father’s sheep farm in a remote Australian town, armed with a guitar and a plane ticket to Nashville, Tennessee. He hopes to hitchhike to Sydney Airport where his take-off into a successful ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching ...
Plot: country music, hitchhiker, jail, partner, love and romance, rise to the top, nothing goes right, obsessive quest, lifestyle, odd couple, artists and showbiz, innocence lost ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, nashville tennessee
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48%
The Mozart Brothers (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story: This is a comedy about people who work in the theater, live for the theater, think of nothing but the theater. The director seems crazy, the art director has idiotic ideas, and the acting coach is eccentric: they even look like brothers, related by ...
Style: experimental, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: opera, disorder, ghost, obsession, workplace, artists and showbiz, music, musician's life, workplace situations, culture clash, chaos and mayhem, singer ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Adam & Eva (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Adam and Eva have been married for four years. But the romance has disappeared from their relationship and has been replaced by boredom and old routine. When Adam meets his brother's baby-sitter, Jackie, he is immediately attracted to her. They ...
Style: sentimental, witty, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love and romance, love affair, infidelity, rescue, family problems, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, battle of the sexes, love triangle, breakup, bittersweet ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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48%
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Pardon (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Based on a true event, Pardon tells the tragicomic story of three friends who end up in prison when they are mistaken as members of a terrorist organization. Ibrahim's fear of uniforms makes him runaway whenever he sees one. Because of this, ...
Style: cynical, sentimental, touching, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: prison, friendship, confined, mistaken identity, prison life, false accusation, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, disorder, dark humor, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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44%
Release the Prisoners to Spring (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who has commited crimes should be locked up. One day their own house is burgled by Harald. He is sentenced to prison. Acting in ...
Style: not serious, realistic, biting, humorous, offbeat
Plot: prison, farce, satire, escape, society, confined, prison life, baker, isolation, jail cell, prison guard, criminal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
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42%
The Elusive Corporal (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: world war two, explosions, prisoner, partner, escape, prison, military life, danger, nothing goes right, buddies, soldier, military ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: paris france, france, europe
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41%
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Son of Morning (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young copywriter becomes the most famous man on the planet, overnight, when he is mistaken as the next messiah.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, futuristic
Plot: ambition, hopes, journalism, society, danger, miraculous event, workplace, lovers reunited, environmentalism, save the planet, church, catastrophe ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
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40%
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Doing Time (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, clever ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, prisoner, escape, anti hero, partner, friends, disorder, troublemaker, buddies, confined, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, europe
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40%
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Mind the Gap (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two girls of different background, one a immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl that needs to get out of her fathers shadow both apply to the police academy were they become close friends.
Style: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: girls' night
Plot: police, starting over, lifestyle, friendship, social differences, academy, officers and cadets, hopes, fish out of water, family life, society, culture clash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Cowboys (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Six men, one woman (and her brother) come together with one goal - to make the play. It would be probably another common story that this theater group is composed of anti-heroes who float lost in time and space, in a town where it seems that the sun ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, funny ...
Plot: theater, showbiz, stage play, cowboy, small town, homecoming, culture clash, society, rivalry, rules and policies, small town life, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: croatia
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37%
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The Passion (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Style: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: society, celebrity culture, nothing goes right, disorder, lifestyle, religions or cults, celebration, art, filmmaking, religion, artists and showbiz, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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37%
Betsy & Leonard (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When DJ Alex is placed under house arrest, he is forced to live together with his ex-girlfriend Karen.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, independent film
Audience: date night
Plot: reluctant partners, couples, disorder, couple relations, drug dealing, isolation, radio dj, gain trust, house arrest, probation, friendship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe
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36%
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Sukiyaki (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Kenta Kurihara (Tasuku Nagaoka) is sent to prison for battery. In his cell he is referred to as the "newcomer." Meanwhile, Kenta is bummed out with simple meal offerred in prison. The four other prisoners in his jail cell have no problems ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, satirical, captivating, funny
Plot: food, prisoner, prison, jail cell, prison life, prison sentence, jail, satire, conversation, humour, superhero, new year ...
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35%
A Little Thing Called Murder (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fast forgery without mistakes. Shoplifting under pressure. Effective body disposal. The ability to multitask various felonies. These are just a few of the "talents" that mother-and-son grifters Sante and Kenny Kimes possess. Based on ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, humorous
Plot: prison, obsessive quest, parents and children, cons and scams, dishonesty, gang, murder, death in the family, serial killer, trial, jail, true crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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35%
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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 ...
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34%
Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully accused of murder and his relationship with his lovingly adorable 6 year old daughter.
Style: touching, emotional, semi serious, sad, feel good ...
Plot: mentally challenged, prison, innocent, father daughter relationship, parents and children, friendship, life is a bitch, false accusation, asian, court, prison escape, child ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: korea, east asia, south korea, asia
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34%
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Doin' Time (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.
Style: independent film, parody, slapstick, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: prison, boxing, wrongful imprisonment, ethnic stereotype, reformatory, nudity, criminal heroes, dishonesty, confined, society, false accusation, frame up ...
Time: year 1985, 80s, 20th century
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33%
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Quitters (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, independent film
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, youth, family life, disorder, social relations, high school life, innocence lost, girl man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Gangs from Rosario (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story: City of Rosario. After three decades in prison together in the same cell, Tito and Castor are released. Outside the youth's friends await, as well as mines, tango, nights of drunkenness and a suitcase full of money hidden in the Parana River. ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting
Plot: tough heroes, dishonesty, lone wolves, confined, gang, friends, heist, prison life, prison, friendship, friend, graphic violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Waiters (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Taylor Starks and his co-workers, all aspiring actors, toil in a Los Angeles restaurant while "waiting" for their big break.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: restaurant, ambition, follow your dream, dream, actor, disgruntled worker, artists and showbiz, struggling artist
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Weeds (1987)
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: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, rough
Plot: prison, criminal heroes, follow your dream, prison escape, redemption, prison life, confined, hopes, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, journalism, writer's life ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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