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Penitentiary II (1982)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.
Style:
rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, prison, boxing, sport, martial arts, murder, heroes, life is a bitch, fugitives, prison life, injustice, vengeance, rivalry, ambition, confined, contests and competitions, underdog, haunted by the past, family in danger, criminal's revenge, athlete's life, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry, wrongfully committed, tough heroes ...
Time:
80s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about rivalry, martial arts, prison, sport, boxing, fight and contests and competitions mostly in Drama, Sport and Crime genres. Some movies like Penitentiary II: Penitentiary (1979), Penitentiary III (1987), The Escapist (2002), Green Street Hooligans 2 (2009), Body and Soul (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting midget called Thud.
Style:
psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
prison, blaxploitation, boxing, martial arts, sport, midget, little people, prisoner, racial stereotype, duel, boxing match, murder ...
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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, ...
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boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, prison, violence spree, vengeance, confined, murder, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, tough heroes, gang, heroes, revenge ...
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36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When the top players of the Green Street Elite are imprisoned following a deadly battle with their archenemies Millwall every day becomes a fight for survival. On the inside, rival firms and prison guards will stop at nothing to make their lives a ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, gang, sport, lifestyle, mob violence, buddies, confined, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, society, gangsters, suspense ...
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to become a boxing champ, but success blinds him. It is only through the love of his girlfriend that he is brought back to reality.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, sincere, rough
Plot:
boxing, power relations, rich and poor, love affair, love and romance, ambition, hopes, athlete's life, rivalry, underdog, sport, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison fight, martial arts, prison, kickboxing, boxing, mixed martial arts, jail, contests and competitions, sport, fight, capoeira, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Champion boxer Artyom Kolchin climbed all conceivable heights and became a national hero. He does not enter the boxing ring any more, rather choosing a coaching job and wild high life, including continuous TV appearances, hanging out and love ...
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Plot:
boxing, athlete's life, ambition, contests and competitions, athlete and trainer, rivalry, power relations, uncover truth, graphic violence, sport, car chase, boxer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Sequel to the 2002 film. This time, Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers (White) is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka (Adkins) ...
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Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
boxing, martial arts, prison, kickboxing, jail, sport, tournament, prison life, challenge, contests and competitions, prison escape, convict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, california, new jersey, russia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus kills. As he exits Arizona State Penn after twenty-one long years, Wilson has only one thing on the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, frame up, cons and scams, vengeance, criminal's revenge, going straight, false accusation, suspense, brutality, life is a bitch, bully, escape ...
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Years ago, Dirk Longstreet walked away from The Circuit, the merciless underground fight club with no rules, where money changes hands as men are killed. But now gangsters have got his brother, and only one more journey inside the ring will save his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts tournament, martial arts, underground fighting, tough heroes, haunted by the past, one man army, rivalry, ambition, contests and competitions, vengeance, gangsters, athlete's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On the inside, there are no rules. See what happens when Prison Officials Profit from Illegal fights.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, frame up, contests and competitions, criminal heroes, police investigation, track down, criminal's revenge, martial arts, jail, fight, competition, undercover ...
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31%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Jobless, besieged by creditors, and abandoned by his wife, the once silver medalist Tae-shik has sunk to street hustling, becoming a human punching bag. Meanwhile, young Sang-hwan's delinquent ways land him behind bars. Both men look to boxing ...
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juvenile delinquency, ex athlete, ambition, confined, rivalry, contests and competitions, society, athlete's life, prison life, underdog, sport, opponent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a ...
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Plot:
blaxploitation, revenge, lawyer, exploitation, martial arts, criminal's revenge, gangsters, lone wolves, criminal heroes, rivalry, vengeance, murder ...
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Place:
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29%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
contests and competitions, life is a bitch, gambling, down on your luck, unemployment, working class, athlete's life, lifestyle, rivalry, boxing, illegal fistfight, mixed martial arts ...
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Place:
scotland, england
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, the girlfriend wants her new boyfriend to kill him. Only trouble is the boyfriend knows that the fault was ...
Style:
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Plot:
crime gone awry, murder, friendship, haunted by the past, dishonesty, drug dealing, gang, gangsters, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, infidelity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Prisoners are dying at the Ogden Correctional Institution, a prison where a corrupt Warden has taken justice and business into his own hands. In the bowels of this prison, an underground fighting society has been formed. The Circuit is flourishing ...
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Audience:
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27%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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boys' night
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
On these streets everyone is fighting for a way out, but after a lifetime of hard knocks, a down-on-his-luck cage fighter gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is chosen to compete against the MMA world champion during a massive competition. ...
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
Style:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, rough, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
fugitives, prison, on the run, criminal heroes, starting over, confined, couple relations, couples, prison life, destiny, society, escape ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Time:
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