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Guilt by Association (2002)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Life is good for Susan, her two children and new boyfriend Russell. But life abruptly changes when she discovers her perfect boyfriend is a drug dealer. Realising the danger this could bring to her family she tells him to leave. Suddenly her house is raided and Susan is arrested as a co-conspirator in Russell's drug business. Her situation goes from bad to worse when she finds herself behind bars with violent criminals. How will she ever prove her innocence when the system seems against her? Guilt By Association is a disturbing story based on true events.
Style:
sincere, captivating, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, bleak, serious, crying
Plot:
false accusation, wrongful conviction, injustice, drug dealing, prison, righting the wronged, life is a bitch, legal, society, dishonesty, hopes, protagonist as suspect, wrong place wrong time, legal action, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, women's prison, justice, legal system, courtroom drama, wrongfully committed, drug dealer, lesbianism, anger, telephone call, sadness ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and rough films with plots about life is a bitch, legal, society, courtroom drama, injustice, dishonesty and false accusation mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Guilt by Association: The Wronged Man (2010), The Pursuit of Happiness (1971), Deliberate Intent (2000), Heavens Fall (2006), Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Janet Gregory, a single mother with a haunting past, is a paralegal struggling to overcome doubts about Calvin Willis, an African-American husband and father wrongfully accused of raping a neighborhood girl. Eventually convinced of his innocence, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
african american, false accusation, hopes, court, injustice, society, courtroom drama, legal, dishonesty, uncover truth, moral dilemma, dignity ...
Time:
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100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tracy Thurman was married to a man who abused her. But he continues to harass her after she gets a restraining order, and the police do little to help. When he brutally beats her and slashes her throat in front of police, she sues the city and the ...
Style:
non fiction, serious, realistic, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot:
abusive husband, domestic violence, woman in danger, marital abuse, abusive relationship, feminism, strong female presence, society, legal action, fighting the system, life is a bitch, domestic disturbance ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, psychological, serious, bleak
Plot:
escape, prison, on the run, college, law, college student, alienation, murder, prisoner, accident, car accident, manslaughter ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, contemplative, sexual ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teacher student sex, female sexual predator, pregnancy, forbidden love, love and romance, against the rules, unlikely couple, sexual abuse, teachers and students, life is a bitch, legal, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., seattle
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The lives of Escondido, California residents Cheryl and Stephen Crowe change one morning when they find their twelve year old daughter Stephanie Crowe stabbed to death in her bedroom. As procedure dictates, the police take each member of the ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
police investigation, murder, dishonesty, false accusation, uncover truth, suspect, coming of age, injustice, law enforcement, fighting the system, teenage life, courtroom drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san diego california
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how-to manual the book company published. They set out to put the company on trial for providing ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot:
murder, hitman, courtroom, courtroom drama, price of justice, rebellion, rivalry, society, false accusation, dedicated lawyer, hopes, righting the wronged ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
Style:
serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
courtroom, false accusation, racism, interracial relations, discrimination, injustice, human spirit, politics, hopes, society, against the odds, fighting the system ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, alabama, new york
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of ...
Style:
political, depressing, serious, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
preschool
Plot:
courtroom drama, lawyer, courtroom, pedophilia, law, trial, criminal justice, journalism, politics, gender, pedophile, sex crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tahiti, los angeles, california
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After the apparent suicide of her daughter, a woman tries to prove that her son-in-law killed her.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot:
legal investigation, murder, protagonist as suspect, legal action, couple relations, false accusation, dedicated lawyer, dishonesty, society, legal, injustice, clergy ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is asked to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial. But if he doesn't do it, the judge will have him disbarred.
Style:
suspense, realistic, disturbing, cynical, clever ...
Plot:
courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, fighting the system, legal, rape, corruption, court, law, justice, trial, hotshot lawyer ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, maryland, baltimore
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film is set in the Tricity in 2003, ten years after the end of communism in Poland. The plot, apparently based on the real-life experiences of Kraków businessmen Lech Jerzorny and Paweł Rey, is about three young, talented businessmen who open ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot:
false accusation, corporate crime, dishonesty, rise and fall, cons and scams, political corruption, justice, injustice, uncover truth, legal investigation, law enforcement, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, political, thought provoking, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, death penalty, frame up, justice, political corruption, murder mystery, lawyer, male victim, court, conspiracy theory, false accusation ...
Time:
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Place:
china, asia, california
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Forced to work under slave-like conditions in a "prison for profit" program, the inmates of a mostly-African-American female prison, Whitehead Correctional, try to take over the institution. At the core of the story is Frances, who finds ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, friendship, injustice, social decay, juvenile delinquency, hopes, racism, misfit, legal, rivalry, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 2002
Similarity:
25%
730
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T. Harduvel was one of the best F-16 pilots the U.S. had to ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, serious, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
aviation, hopes, politics, state affairs, heroes, law enforcement, righting the wronged, danger, uncover truth, military, rivalry, investigation ...
Similarity:
25%
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, emotional, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
prison, confined, uncover truth, courtroom drama, false accusation, dishonesty, law enforcement, society, legal, legal action, prison life, courtroom ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Multi-award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern's brand new film based on the UK's controversial joint enterprise law. Jimmy McGovern's gritty drama stars Nico Mirallegro as guileless 17 year old Johnjo O'Shea, who goes from innocent ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, thought provoking, crime drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
murder, courtroom drama, courtroom, legal, parents and children, injustice, family relations, false accusation, lawyer, law, murder mystery, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
england, ireland
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, serious, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
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24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The promise of a better life is pivotal in ten-year-old Fee’s decision to travel from her home in Romania to Germany. But she falls victim to child traffickers and is forced to work as a prostitute in a Berlin sex club. She is freed, however, ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, rough, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
sex maniac, police investigation, dishonesty, injustice, danger, society, life is a bitch, law enforcement, conspiracy, child prostitution, child in peril, strong female presence ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of Johnson Whittaker, one of the first African-American cadets admitted to West Point. Tied down and beaten by his fellow cadets
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
courtroom drama, racism, courtroom, american civil war, lawyer, interracial relations, military life, false accusation, discrimination, injustice, power relations, rebellion ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 90s
Place:
west point
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story of Carl Upchurch who experiences jail as a young adult. While in prison, a compassionate teacher helps turn his life around through education and religion. He in turn is inspired to help other troubled youths.
Style:
realistic, sincere, captivating, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In 1965 a bomb was planted in a Church in Alabama, killing four black girls. Thirty years later, Tom Cherry breaks his silence to discredit his father's alibi for the night in question.
Style:
realistic, rough, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
racism, investigation, moral dilemma, introspection, haunted by the past, rebellion, legal, society, injustice, parents and children, hopes, civil rights ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, birmingham alabama, alabama
Similarity:
23%
490
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
false accusation, protagonist as suspect, fighting the system, hotshot lawyer, frame up, dishonesty, legal investigation, legal, rivalry, law enforcement, dedicated lawyer, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
women's prison, prison, pregnancy, women in prison, doctor, riot, tough girl, strong female lead, prisoner, bad girl, injustice, righting the wronged ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Personal injury attorney Stuart Pepper faces the challenge of his young career when he takes on a controversial case of wrongful death in small town Iowa. Kevin Thacker's body was found in the alley outside the Marshalltown Police Department ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mysterious death, corruption, investigation, legal, rivalry, law enforcement, legal action, dishonesty, life is a bitch, small town life, truth, suspicion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iowa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Christie Dawson always wanted to be the "cool" teacher. But her world is shaken up after a pupil's crush spirals out of control and he sexually assaults her. Suddenly, her colleagues, neighbors and even her hubby are wondering whether ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, teen, thought provoking
Plot:
sexual assault, older woman younger man relationship, false accusation, deception, price of justice, righting the wronged, power relations, youth, life is a bitch, legal action, legal, courtroom drama ...
Time:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, investigation, injustice, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, legal, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, bounty hunter, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be black, and place the blame on Garth, a young black man. Assuming that the men in ...
Style:
political, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
ku klux klan, racism, redneck, blaxploitation, interracial rape, swing, white supremacy, false accusation, small town, interracial relations, social relations, injustice ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, southern usa, alabama
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jake DeMitro cannot maintain his relationship with his girlfriend Kelly Francini or concentrate on his prestigious position with the Prosecutor's Office. He suffers from an obsessive-compulsive personality and fights on a regular basis with his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, introspection, hotshot lawyer, moral dilemma, courtroom drama, injustice, life is a bitch, drug dealing, rivalry, obsession, legal, parallel world ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, South Korea is torn by student protests over the lack of representation in the government. Song Woo-Seok is a successful attorney in Busan specializing in tax law. His views regarding civil liberties are changed by student ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, thought provoking
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, fighting the system, against the odds, hotshot lawyer, false accusation, lawyer, rivalry, dedicated lawyer, righting the wronged, injustice, legal action ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
south korea, busan, korea
Similarity:
22%
709
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of Kim Kyung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal against unfair dismissal.
Style:
thought provoking, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, mathematics, life is a bitch, courtroom drama, legal investigation, dedicated lawyer, society, legal action, injustice, courtroom, law, archer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea, south korea
Similarity:
21%
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