Movies like Mean Dog Blues
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Mean Dog Blues (1978)
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Former TV documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart tries to inject an acceptable degree of verisimilitude in Mean Dog Blues. A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey (Gregg Henry) finds himself on a Southern chain gang. Captain Omar Kinsman (George Kennedy) snarls a lot as the obligatory sadistic prison guard, but the film's real villains are Victor and Donna Lacey (William Windom and Tina Louise) as the Bonnie-and-Clyde couple who get Henry into trouble. Listed as editor is Housley Stevenson, the son of the late Hollywood character-actor Onslow Stevens.
Style:
tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
prison, escape, false accusation, female nudity, betrayal, graphic violence, life is a bitch, prison life, injustice, confined, dishonesty, power relations, tough heroes, dog, forest, violence, murder, criminal, corruption, homosexuality, prison rape, chain gang, drunk driving, crime, crimes
Time:
70s, 20th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about confined, prison, prison life, murder, life is a bitch, dishonesty and rivalry mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Mean Dog Blues: A Letter from Death Row (1998), Marked Man (1996), The Caged Heart (1984), Blind Injustice (2005), Mistrial (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller that takes you through the mind of convicted killer, Michael Raine, and his experiences on death row. Was he guilty of killing his girlfriend or was he a victim of a conspiracy to frame him for a crime he didn't commit? ...
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Place:
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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.
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Genre: Thriller, Drama
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Duration: 85 min.
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A blind woman finds herself the target of an attacker again after the person originally convicted of her rape is found to be innocent of the crime.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Style:
psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, hostage, injustice, false accusation, murder, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, legal investigation, who done it, police corruption, legal action ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Mina (Priscila Fantin) is arrested for defrauding the Social Security and beyond to defend the other inmates need to escape from the prison director of surveillance (Tuca Andrada). The crime involved a Senator (Antonio Calloni), trying in every way ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young California surfer has to grow up in a hurry when he is thrown into a Peruvian political prison in 1980.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father, the ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Moon (Michael Latimer) is a mercenary who joins forces with two crooked cops in an attempt to steal 90 million dollars in gold from an Arab country decimated by political chaos. Sex, violence and mayhem accompany the group of double-crossing heavies ...
Style:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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51%
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dwudziestosześcioletni Łukasz, niesłusznie posądzony o napad na starszą kobietę, trafia do aresztu śledczego. Adwokat wynajęty przez matkę bezskutecznie próbuje go stamtąd wydostać. Pod wpływem dramatycznych wydarzeń w celi ...
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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