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A Dream of Passion (1978)
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A Dream of Passion (1978)
Original name: Κραυγή Γυναικών
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime.
Plot: women's prison, women in prison, religious fanatic, choir, rehearsal, diva, mother kills own child
Time: year 1978
Place: greece, ancient greece

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, emotional and gloomy films with plots about female nudity, women's prison, women in prison, prison, family relations, nudity and female full frontal nudity mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like A Dream of Passion: Phaedra (1962), Caged Hearts (1995), Women in Chains (1972), The Trojan Women (1971), Reformatory of the Depraved (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Phaedra (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. In modern Greece, Alexis's father, an extremely wealthy shipping magnate, marries the younger, fiery Phaedra. When Alexis meets his stepmother, sparks fly and the two begin an affair. What will the ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, sexual ...
Plot: greek, stepmother stepson relationship, forbidden love, mythology, myth, girl, affair, love, summer, love triangle, fate, father son conflict ...
Time: 60s
Place: ancient greece, europe, greece, london, paris france
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95%
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Caged Hearts (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kate and Sharon kill a man in self defense and are framed by the justice system. They are put in prison and forced into prostitution. With the help of their defense attorney, they devise a plan to bust out of prison and hopefully expose the group of ...
Style: independent film
Plot: women in prison, women's prison, forced prostitution, nudity, prison, lesbian rape, hotel, execution, secret organization, rough sex, frame up, fight ...
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83%
Women in Chains (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: 1972 ABC Movie of the Week. Lady parole officer goes undercover to investigate prison brutality, but is trapped when the only person on the outside who knows why she's there is killed.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: prison, women's prison, undercover, parole officer, women in prison
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76%
Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Three novels - three dramatic stories in the walls of the women's prison. The first story - a brand new, first went to prison inmates. The second - about a mother whose son has ceased to go to prison for visits. The third - about the ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: women in prison, women's prison, prison, parent child relationship, female nudity, mother daughter relationship, police, flashback, domestic violence, drug, marital abuse, juvenile delinquent ...
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72%
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The Trojan Women (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The women of Troy face enslavement after the fall of their city.
Style: epic, independent film, talky, serious, realistic
Plot: greek mythology, mythology, ancient, myth, antiquity, legends and myths, ancient world, woman, women, greek, female nudity, enslavement ...
Time: ancient times, year 1971
Place: ancient greece, greece
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70%
Reformatory of the Depraved (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The German Frau Gelli runs a school aimed at girls from wealthy families who presented problems of social behavior and challenge the established principles. In order to educate the young, Frau Gelli imposes an iron discipline, in which is assisted ...
Plot: women in prison, prison guard, female prisoner, female nudity, lesbian, lesbianism, women's prison, shower, female full frontal nudity, pornography
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66%
Penthouse Playgirls (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A gang of white slavers lure beautiful young women into prostitution by staging beauty contests in which the "prize" is a Hollywood contract. The "winners" are then drugged and sold to international sex traffickers
Style: sex comedy
Plot: sexploitation, women's prison, female nudity, women in prison, women, young
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Iphigenia (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter ...
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Plot: ancient history, greek mythology, mythology, ancient, myth, ancient world, antiquity, legends and myths, greek, king, sacrifice, tragedy ...
Time: ancient times
Place: ancient greece, greece, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Crime Of Innocence (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two teenage girls are locked up for a minor offence by a harsh judge who thinks a night in jail will do them good. It's a traumatizing experience that includes an assault. Afterwards, one of the girls and her family seek justice against an ...
Plot: women in prison, injustice, degradation, sexual assault, judge, rape, prison, teenage girl, women's prison, corruption, prison rape
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64%
The Greek Tycoon (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.
Style: sexy, realistic, serious, vintage
Plot: yacht, president, u.s. president, mogul, widow, greek, assassination, mistress, wealth, state affairs, dealing with death, love and romance ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: greece, washington d.c., usa, england, new york ...
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56%
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Polk (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Thessaloniki, Greece, 1948. The American journalist George Washington Polk, who works for CBS, walks into a restaurant. During his meal he discovers that he has already been murdered. A journey through the reflections of time and memory begins. The ...
Style: independent film
Plot: journalist, repeated scene, sunset, drinking wine, lobster, eating, undressing
Place: greece
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53%
The Death of Socrates (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: This is the story of the first martyr of free speech. Socrates is on trial for his life. He will be put to death and he knows it. 2500 years later we remember his words. The Death of Socrates was filmed in 10 countries by 23 filmmakers in 7 ...
Plot: philosopher, justice, philosophy
Place: ancient greece, athens greece, greece
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42%
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Electra (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.
Style: spiritual, retro, epic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: greek mythology, ancient history, mythology, ancient, myth, ancient world, antiquity, legends and myths, girl, revenge, greek, bible ...
Time: ancient times
Place: ancient greece, greece, europe
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41%
Within These Walls (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Female prisoners train dogs to aid people with disabilities in a program started by a nun (Laura Dern).
Style: uplifting, sentimental, feel good, touching, serious ...
Plot: prison, dog, rehabilitation, starting over, drug abuse, prison life, addiction, disability, hopes, society, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
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41%
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Antigone (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Thebes in ancient Greece, King Oedipus kills his father and marries his mother Jocasta, having two sons - Eteocles and Polyneices - and two daughters - Ismene and Antigone. King Oedipus dies a beggar in the exile after gouging out his own eye, ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot: greek mythology, ancient world, mythology, ancient history, legends and myths, myth, ancient, greek, girl, knight, time machine, peplum ...
Time: ancient times, year 1961, 60s, 1920s
Place: ancient greece, greece, rome italy
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39%
Johnny Greyeyes (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Johnny GreyEyes is a girl from an injun family. Since her childhood she was abused by her father and one day she killed him. She was arrested and convicted by the court to a long term in local prison. Where she finds the woman, another inmate, who ...
Plot: lesbian, women in prison, native, thirty something, prison, female nudity, lesbianism, robbery, women's prison, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, brother ...
Place: toronto ontario canada
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39%
Against Their Will: Women in Prison (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Behind prison walls, corruption, sex and power make criminals out of the guards and heroes out of the guarded. For more than a decade, the lawless guards inside a maximum security women's prison have reigned with impunity - rape, sex for money ...
Plot: women in prison, prison, women's prison, wrongful conviction, crooked lawyer, caught having sex, corruption, strait jacket
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38%
Caged Beauties (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tells the story of an oppressive revolutionary government randomly arresting unsuspecting citizens. The men are used to target practice and the women become prostitutes.
Plot: making love, male female relationship, sexual abuse, prostitution, degradation, violence, women in prison, sex, female nudity, women's prison, nudity, rape ...
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37%
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The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer, who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, yet another of his ...
Style: cult classic, tense, sexual, serious, realistic ...
Plot: monopoly, storytelling, radio, death, depression, hotel, drinking, radio station, daydreamer, jail, sexuality, mental disorder ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: philadelphia, new jersey, hawaii, usa, tokyo ...
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37%
Electra, My Love (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Reminiscent of the latter works of Bela Tarr, Miklos Jancso's "Beloved Electra" is comprised of a series of extremely slow and extremely long takes (there are just eight principal shots, each lasting an entire reel of film). More ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, atmospheric
Plot: ancient history, female nudity, revenge, strength, surrealism, murder, rivalry, vengeance, danger, state affairs, obsession, legends and myths ...
Place: greece, ancient greece
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35%
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Providence (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Clive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot: aging, dysfunctional family, family relations, father son relationship, writers, terminal illness, unfulfillment, human nature, crumbling marriage, writer's life, couple relations, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1977
Place: france
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35%
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Nunzio (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn. He lives a life marked with torments from the gang of deadbeats at the corner, overbearing concern from his mother and older brother, ...
Plot: urban setting, sex, brother brother relationship, seduction, priest, rescue, neighborhood, saving a life, widow, paraplegic, bully, mentally challenged person ...
Time: year 1978
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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35%
Pieces of a Woman (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Hungary, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A grieving woman embarks on an emotional journey after the Ioss of her baby.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: loss of child, couples, birth, midwife, pregnancy, grief, grieving, dog, mother in law son in law relationship, marriage, husband wife relationship, death ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Medea (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 77 min.
Story: It is an adaptation of the Greek tragedy Medea from Euripides, a version where the Gods willing and intervations are absent. Medea is the tragic character that after helping Jason in the Voyage of the Argonauts (myth says that she has even ...
Style: serious, art house, visual, spiritual, mythical ...
Plot: legends and myths, mythology, horse, vengeance, myth, boat, antiquity, intrigue, yacht, time machine, spirituality, greek ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: ancient greece, greece, nebraska, europe, denmark
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34%
Two Men in Town (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Algeria, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A convict is released from prison in a small town in New Mexico. 18 years ago he killed a deputy. The then-and-now sheriff seeks revenge.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: sheriff, haunted by the past, starting over, going straight, small town, friendship, society, redemption, parole, convict, arrest, mexican american border ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
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33%
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Madonnas (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.
Plot: woman, prison, women's prison, runaway, released from prison, independence, conflict, empowerment, army, freedom, social issues, society ...
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32%
Lovers of Devil's Island (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.
Style: erotic, sexploitation film
Plot: women in prison, prison, lust, flashback, corruption, women's prison, promiscuous woman, wrongful conviction, sexual desire, prison escape, sexual abuse, murder ...
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31%
Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: This women in prison drama tells us a story about the mother of three children, who was falsely accused for a crime she did not commit (drug dealing), arrested and locked up behind bars.
Plot: drug, youth, prison visit, trial, suicide attempt, solitary, learning the truth, divorce, women in prison, friendship, single mother, war on drugs ...
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30%
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
Style: touching, sentimental, intense, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dysfunctional family, mental illness, american south, playwright, estrangement, women, mother daughter relationship, friendship, relationships, female protagonist, family relations, family problems ...
Time: year 2002
Place: louisiana, new york, usa
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30%
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, mental illness, junkie, drug, depression, dream, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: new york, america, britain, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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30%
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