Movies like House of Women

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House of Women (1962)
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House of Women (1962)
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: tense, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, disturbing
Audience: toddlers
Plot: prison, strong female lead, women's prison, prisoner, bad girl, legal action, gory, family relations, life is a bitch, prison life, injustice, legal, manhunt, rehabilitation, false accusation, confined, strong female presence, rebelliousness, death row, criminal heroes, unlikely partners, wrongfully committed, righting the wronged, lesbian, children ...
Time: 60s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and rough films with plots about prison, confined, life is a bitch, prison life, injustice, murder and false accusation mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like House of Women: The Pursuit of Happiness (1971), Stranger Inside (2001), The Ceremony (1963), Women's Prison (1988), Civil Brand (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
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: realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking, bleak
Plot: prison, escape, college, car accident, manslaughter, courtroom, on the run, fugitive, girlfriend, injustice, stock broker, estrangement ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, canada
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Stranger Inside (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A mother daughter reunion set in the harsh reality of a women's correctional facility
Style: emotional, disturbing, rough, crime drama, independent film ...
Plot: prison, lesbian, women in prison, life is a bitch, parents and children, family relations, drug dealing, youth, gang, society, juvenile delinquency, confined ...
Time: 21st century
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The Ceremony (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man (Robert Walker) has an affair with his condemned brother's (Laurence Harvey) girlfriend (Sarah Miles) while plotting his escape in Tangier.
Style: noir, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, mistaken identity, death row, prisoner, escape, intrigue, life is a bitch, confined, investigation, chases and races, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: tangier morocco
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31%
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Women's Prison (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, escape, wrongfully committed, false accusation, frame up, bookies, prison life, kids in trouble, law enforcement, rebelliousness, vigilantism, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Civil Brand (2002)
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: tense, rough, bleak, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: prison, friendship, injustice, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, social decay, prison life, misfit, life is a bitch, fighting the system, rivalry ...
Time: year 2002
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Screwed (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars ...
Style: rough, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, prison life, violence spree, life is a bitch, downfall, fish out of water, misfit, law enforcement, confined, haunted by the past, corrupt officer, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, united kingdom
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26%
Guilt by Association (2002)
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 ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: false accusation, drug dealing, injustice, wrongful conviction, prison, fighting the system, righting the wronged, protagonist as suspect, society, life is a bitch, hopes, dishonesty ...
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26%
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 ⇓
25%
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Inside (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An emotional and thrilling tale of life and death behind the walls of a maximum security prison. From the acclaimed director of 'Bonnie and Clyde', and featuring a powerful international cast.
Style: independent film, talky, captivating, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, political prisoner, apartheid, prisoner, politics, racism, disintegration, tragic hero, uninhibited rivalry, legal, confined, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1996, 80s
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
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24%
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story (2002)
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, suspenseful, emotional, serious ...
Plot: prison, confined, uncover truth, fighting the system, false accusation, courtroom drama, society, life is a bitch, legal, legal action, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, texas
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24%
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Three Walls (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wife because she was cheating on him with another man. Nagya (Nagesh Kukunoor), a man angry with the whole world, is arrested for ...
Style: serious, contemplative, tense, bleak, touching ...
Plot: prison, introspection, prison life, criminal heroes, hopes, redemption, twists and turns, murder, death row, family problems, prisoner, escaped prisoner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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24%
R: Hit First, Hit Hardest (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the ...
Style: tense, realistic, captivating, rough, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, prison life, male pubic hair, friendship, gang, confined, warden, murder, violence, muslim, racial slur, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
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24%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective
Plot: murder, courtroom, lawyer, advocate, intelligence agency, false accusation, frame up, legal action, courtroom drama, legal, rivalry, army investigation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
School for Unclaimed Girls (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A gold digging man seduces a widow for her money, and also makes a pass at her teenage Daughter, the Daughter plans a terrible revenge
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: women in prison, voyeur, female nudity, lesbian, women's prison, prison, sexual desire, sexual assault, blonde, lesbianism, voyeurism, bare breasts ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england
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23%
Sins of the Father (2002)
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, emotional, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: racism, investigation, moral dilemma, introspection, haunted by the past, legal, rebellion, society, injustice, parents and children, hopes, civil rights ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
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23%
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Prison Song (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, rough, hood ...
Plot: prison, injustice, hip hop, juvenile delinquency, musician's life, criminal heroes, redemption, prison life, life is a bitch, society, youth, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
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22%
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
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22%
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Love Child (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, prison, gang, women in prison, prison life, heist, adoption, custody, love affair, infidelity, family relations ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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A Letter from Death Row (1998)
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? ...
Style: independent film, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: death row, execution, murder, injustice, prison, frame up, riddles and clues, destiny, prison life, false accusation, who done it, wrongfully committed ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tennessee
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22%
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Brubaker (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Style: realistic, factual, suspense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: prison, corruption, prison warden, prison escape, abuse of power, undercover, brutality, fighting the system, abuse, justice, liberal, murder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place: louisiana, arkansas, southern usa
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22%
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Tracks (2005)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Peter, a frustrated suburban teenager, prefers to hang out by the railroad tracks with his friends and get rid of boredom. When the young men throw the switch one day just for fun, a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions occurs. A train derails ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, suspense, bleak
Plot: train, prison, juvenile delinquency, going straight, redemption, confined, teenage life, youth, false accusation, prison life, human spirit, hopes ...
Place: usa, new jersey
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22%
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Tangier (2006)
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: serious, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: prison, smuggling, survival, danger, prison life, dishonesty, life is a bitch, false accusation, injustice, bus driver, violent content, warden ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: antwerp, tangier morocco, africa, morocco
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21%
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Carandiru (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Carandiru, a story based on real facts and on the book written by the doctor Drauzio Varella, starts when he decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo, Carandiru, ...
Style: bleak, compassionate, captivating, touching, rough ...
Plot: prison, aids, doctor, prison life, fighting the system, gay, life is a bitch, fighting illness, protest, regret, lgbt, solitary ...
Time: 20th century, year 2003, 90s
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Crime of the Century (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, serial killer, trial, kidnapping, confined, babies and infants, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, rivalry, uncover truth ...
Time: 1930s
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20%
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Prison Girls (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to her pimp even though he beats her, one overcomes her ...
Style: grindhouse, sensual, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: nudity, women in prison, nude fight, female orgasm, female nudity, gang rape, prison, erotica, female sexuality, female prisoner, wife murders husband, pimp ...
Time: 70s
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20%
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Convict (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and ...
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense, crime drama
Plot: prison, prison violence, prison gang, convict, humiliation, male objectification, gang, prisoner, prison life, jailed, confined, criminal ...
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20%
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Sugar Boxx (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Sugar State Women’s Prison. An Everglades hellhole where innocent girls are forced to slave in the swamps by day then turn tricks for the warden by night. A prison camp where corruption, brutality, and sexual abuse are all part of the daily ...
Style: realistic, suspense, psychological, captivating, retro ...
Plot: prison, women in prison, injustice, rivalry, vengeance, secret identity, sexual abuse, investigation, exploitation, journalist, lesbian relationship, lgbtq ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: prison, violence, justice, adaptation, brutality, hopes, human spirit, death row, redemption, life is a bitch, journalism, murder ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Morgan's Ferry (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three escaped convicts hide out in the home a reclusive woman as they wait to catch a ferry.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot: dangerous attraction, on the run, fall in love, criminal heroes, confined, couples, isolation, woman in danger, danger, manhunt, escaped prisoner, farmhouse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Common (2014)
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, thought provoking, realistic, serious, crime drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, legal, courtroom, parents and children, injustice, family relations, false accusation, law, murder mystery, lawyer, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, ireland
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20%
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