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Jackson County Jail (1976)
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Jackson County Jail (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This is a powerful drama about a young woman who stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, road movie, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, women in prison, murder, prison rape, injustice, escape, rape and revenge, rape and murder, rape, car theft, hitchhiker, car, exploitation, roadblock, psychotic, cross country trip, blaxploitation, hicksploitation, on the road, chase, police corruption, thief, female protagonist, jail, shootout ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: new york, los angeles, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, deadly, escape, dishonesty, violence, law enforcement and revenge mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Jackson County Jail: Nightmare in Badham County (1976), The Hunted (2003), Black Moon Rising (1986), Caged Heat (1974), Framed (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two UCLA coeds have engine trouble in small Southern town. When they spurn the local sheriff's advances he arranges for them to be taken to the women's prison on trivial charges (the judge is a cousin), where they must endure atrocities at ...
Style: crying, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, women in prison, women's prison, lesbian rape, rape, brutality, cruelty, raped woman, sexploitation, murder, brutal rape, small town ...
Time: 70s
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100%
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The Hunted (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallum. Former Special Operations instructor, L.T. Bonham is approached and asked to apprehend Hallum, his former student, who has 'gone rogue' ...
Style: suspense, intense, brutal, slasher, psychological ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: manhunt, wilderness, survival, commando, one man army, homicidal maniac, assassin, conspiracy, hitman, chase, murder, violence ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oregon, kosovo, portland oregon, usa, british columbia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Black Moon Rising (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, chase, fbi, revenge, law enforcement, vengeance, brutality, twists and turns, murder, on the run, crime gone awry, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Caged Heat (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A girl is caught in a drug bust and sent to the hoosegow.
Style: grindhouse, sensual, cult classic, action thriller, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, women in prison, sexploitation, women's prison, rape, exploitation, sexual abuse, prison escape, brothel, prisoner, escape attempt, female pubic hair ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Macon County Jail (1997)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After she leaves her cheating husband, Susan Reed (Ally Sheedy) embarks on a cross-country road trip where she falls victim to a series of mishaps that land her behind bars in the redneck Macon County Jail. Once inside, she's subjected to ...
Style: independent film
Audience: adult
Plot: unfaithful, on the run, murder, hitchhiker, rape and revenge, revenge, rape, heterosexuality, sex toy, girl, woman, prison break ...
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100%
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Framed (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler that always seems to loose his big scores. Framed by the film's villains ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, exciting, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, false accusation, political corruption, frame up, police corruption, dirty cop, explosions, nightclub, vengeance, violence, wrongful imprisonment, murder ...
Time: year 1975, 50s
Place: tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
An Innocent Man (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is ...
Style: tense, suspense, intense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, police corruption, gang, frame up, gunfight, mistaken identity, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, prison life, prison escape ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Chained Heat (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after drink driving and killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption and sleaze, where the other female inmates are sadistic crack-selling ...
Style: sexy, grindhouse, psychotronic, erotic, neo noir ...
Plot: women in prison, prison, rape, rape and revenge, women's prison, sexual abuse, big breasts, sadism, prison rape, female prisoner, sex, voyeur ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Marked Man (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A jailed auto mechanic must run for his life after he witnesses the murder of a fellow inmate by two prison guards.
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: frame up, murder, wrestling, chase, law enforcement, dishonesty, chases and races, on the run, life is a bitch, confined, criminal heroes, wrongfully committed ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Girls in Prison (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by ...
Style: tense, disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: women in prison, prison, women's prison, lust, wrongful conviction, lesbianism, female prisoner, female nudity, lesbian, lgbt, exploitation, murder ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Mad Dog Killer (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sadistic no-count killer Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums escape from prison. The foul foursome embark on a savage rape, murder, and robbery spree. Vitali even abducts and defiles frightened hapless lass Giuliana Caroli. ...
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, cult classic, slasher, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, police, police officer, guy, criminal, rape, murder, heist, psychopath, hostage, gang, escape ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Prison Heat (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Four American babes on vacation in the Middle East run into trouble when they are imprisoned by corrupt army officials and that's where the fun begins.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, erotic, grindhouse ...
Plot: women in prison, women's prison, depravity, lesbian rape, false accusation, injustice, sexual relations, frame up, female prisoner, law enforcement, life is a bitch, confined ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Escapist (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, prison, tough heroes, violence spree, heroes, murder, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, gang, revenge, escape, fugitives ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Black Caesar (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, hood, crime drama, grim ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, gangster, black, mafia, tough guy, mobster, exploitation, organized crime, gang, ghetto, blues, african american gangster ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1965, year 1972 ...
Place: new york, harlem, usa, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Style: controversial, grindhouse, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: blaxploitation, racism, gang, on the run, police corruption, betrayal, chase, prostitute, manhunt, ghetto, vengeance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1971, 70s
Place: los angeles, latin america, usa, california, south central los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Lust for Freedom (1987)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A former female cop is framed by corrupt police, acting in collusion with the local judge, and has to fight her way out of the pen, alone, against tough inmates, and the people in charge.
Style: grindhouse, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: women in prison, adult filmmaking, lesbian sex, prison, false accusation, woman with a gun, police corruption, voyeur, voyeurism, women's wrestling, bondage, 17 year old ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Rolling Thunder (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane ...
Style: grindhouse, neo noir, bleak, stylized, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, violence, murder, home invasion, vietnam war, revenge, exploitation, macabre, complex characters, vietnam veteran, homecoming, gunfight ...
Time: 70s, year 1977
Place: texas, el paso texas, vietnam, asia, san antonio texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for the second time (risking life imprisonment if caught) to make it back to his wife and son. ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: on the run, wrongful conviction, chase, manhunt, injustice, family relations, gang, prison, cattle, rodeo, snake, skinny dipping ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: texas, usa, mexico, latin america, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Manhunt (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young man buys two horses at an Arizona race track but fails to get a receipt. Later, when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson, he's accused of stealing the two horses. Unable to prove ownership, the young man is then sentenced ...
Style: spaghetti western, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, partner, prison life, frame up, false accusation, life is a bitch, heroes, protagonist as suspect, manhunt, fugitives, confined, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Desperate Trail (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Amiable con man Jack Cooper is on a westbound stagecoach, headed for the next batch of suckers who will mistake him for an easy mark. Fiery Sarah O'Rourke rides the same coach, handcuffed to lawman Bill Speakes and headed for the hangman. In a ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: pursuit, manhunt, chase, criminal heroes, old west, on the run, tough heroes, woman in danger, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, civil war, shootout ...
Time: 19th century, year 1994
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Ready 2 Die (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, profanity, gangster, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Death Wish 3 (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paul Kersey returns to New York to visit his friend Charley, who lives in one of the worst parts of New York City. But when Paul arrives at Charley's apartment, he finds Charley dying after a vicious beating by a gang led by Manny Fraker, and ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, neo noir, hood, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: violence, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, gang, gangster, shootout, woman in jeopardy, gang rape, rape victim, sniper, cannon ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Murphy's Law (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A tough police detective escapes from custody handcuffed to a foul-mouthed car thief after being framed for the murder of his ex-wife. He must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
Style: neo noir, tricky, suspenseful, detective, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, chase, police investigation, vigilantism, mafia, false accusation, stalking, femme fatale, revenge, danger, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquent ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
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20%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: manhunt, cia, on the run, conspiracy, frame up, agent, fugitive, tough cop, corruption, car chase, murder, u.s. marshal ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, chicago, kentucky, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Fight for Your Life (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, terrifying, independent film ...
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, rape and revenge, revenge, home invasion, vengeance, violence, prison escape, black, vigilante, martial arts, sex crime ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Mad Bomber (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Los Angeles police detective hunts a rapist and a bomber of public buildings.
Style: independent film, tense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, mental disorder, explosions, rapist, police detective, bomber, psychopath, woman in danger, law enforcement, chases and races, life is a bitch, danger ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes with enough action to incinerate New York City. Packed with machine-gun mayhem and riveting adventure, Hell Up in Harlem is nothing less than a ...
Style: grindhouse, neo noir, grim, hood, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, gangster, black, mafia, gang, murder, mobster, gotham city, underground, ghetto, police corruption ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, los angeles ...
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20%
Northville Cemetery Massacre (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The bikers are the heroes and the lawmen are the villains in this vintage action drama. The Spirits are a motorcycle club who ride the highways and country roads of Michigan; while they look rough, wear beat-up denim and favor Harley Davidsons, the ...
Style: grindhouse, hood, independent film, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biker, motorcycle, bike, gang, small town, serial killer, 666, stoner, occult, shootout, ghetto, gangster ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Street Fighters (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for JACKIE BROWN) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, action adventure, psychotronic, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, jail, home invasion, gangster, vigilante justice, rape, urban, rape and revenge, underground ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Proximity (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When William Conroy (Rob Lowe), a former college professor, is sentenced to life in prison for vehicular manslaughter it seems his life is over. But when a fellow inmate tells him that in the past two years fourteen inmates have died at the prison, ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: prison, false accusation, law enforcement, frame up, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, confined, protagonist as suspect, criminal heroes, anti hero, jail, trial ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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