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186 Dollars to Freedom (2012)
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186 Dollars to Freedom (2012)
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.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot: prison, prison life, false arrest, survival, frame up, danger, confined, escapades, law enforcement, police corruption, jail, surfer, surf, escape, dishonesty, corrupt officer, nudity, violent content, bullying, male nudity, friendship between men, hare krishna, graphic violence, nude, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: peru

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about confined, dishonesty, danger, prison, prison life, rivalry and law enforcement mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like 186 Dollars to Freedom: Purgatory (1988), Tangier (2006), The Showdown (2011), An Innocent Man (1989), Doing Hard Time (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Purgatory (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two Peace Corps volunteers in Africa are framed and put into an oppressive women's prison.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
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Time: 80s
Place: africa, south africa
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Tangier (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, realistic ...
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: antwerp, tangier morocco, africa, morocco
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The Showdown (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
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Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, tense, exciting ...
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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
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Doing Hard Time (2004)
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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.
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A former kingpin of the streets, Miles “Cain” Skinner is doing life in prison. He is feared and respected among the inmates. When Cain learns that his sentence will be shortened only by brain cancer, his urgency to change his ways goes into ...
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Duration: 74 min.
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Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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Raven Hawk (1995)
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Native-American woman, who was framed for the murders of her parents years before, returns to her reservation to seek revenge.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 108 min.
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Genre: Action, Drama
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Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
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