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Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage (1991)
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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: youth, drug, prison, children, women's prison, friendship, prisoner, divorce, teenage girl, kindness, women in prison, single mother, mother daughter relationship, frame up, dysfunctional family, birth, financial problem, innocence, wrongful imprisonment, war on drugs, solitary, suicide attempt, menarche, prison visit, puberty ...

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Most similar movies to Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and touching films with plots about prison, mother daughter relationship, youth, family relations, teenage girl, women's prison and teenage life mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Locked Up: A Mother’s Rage: Caged Hearts (1995), Left to Die (2012), Gracie's Choice (2004), Women of San Quentin (1983), Women in Chains (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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95%
 4.2
 183
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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67%
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Left to Die (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With help from U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, Tammi Chase (Rachael Leigh Cook) fights to free her mother (Barbara Hershey) from an Ecuadorean prison.
Style: suspense, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: prison, trafficking, vacation, mother daughter relationship, drug dealer, drug dealing, drug, criminal, illegal drugs, prisoner, family problems, confined ...
Place: ecuador
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62%
Gracie's Choice (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, custody battle, coming of age, youth, custody, adoption, responsibility, parents and children, family values, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Women of San Quentin (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Plot: prison, power relations, battle of the sexes, confined, gender, chaos and mayhem, prison life, female warden, women's prison, prisoner
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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56%
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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56%
Fighting for My Daughter (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Unable to get the police to help, a woman launches her own investigation to save her daughter from a dangerous prostitution ring.
Plot: drug, bare chested male, physical abuse, drinking, mother daughter relationship, jail, sex, prison, male female relationship, nightclub, fight, prostitution ...
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48%
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No One Would Tell (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Laura Collins (Shannen Doherty), single mom to daughter Sarah (Matreya Scarrwener), has had a history of rocky relationships, so when Sarah begins dating the popular and charismatic Rob Tennison (Callan Potter), Laura is thrilled with what she sees. ...
Style: bad ending, rough, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: emotional abuse, physical abuse, abusive boyfriend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, domestic violence, relationships, high school, mother daughter relationship, trial, best friend, brutality, murder ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Conviction of Kitty Dodds (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
Plot: prison, marital abuse, prison escape, murder, women's prison, child abuse, alcoholism
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47%
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The Hammer (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When prison boxer George "The Hammer" Martin is offered freedom for fighting in the 1984 Olympics, he says no in order to protect the woman he loves, forcing his best friend to learn the true meaning of loyalty.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: boxing, boxer, friendship, life is a bitch, jail, jailed, love, prizefighter, faith, boxing champion, prisoner, life sentence ...
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43%
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White Oleander (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Style: intense, touching, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, bad mother, loneliness, dysfunctional family, women's prison, teenage life, murder, mother daughter estrangement, mental illness, teenager, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia, mexico
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42%
 4.3
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Lola (2024)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 19-year-old Lola James is trying to work to save enough money to get her beloved little brother, Arlo, out of their toxic home. Until one tragic night, when her whole world gets uprooted. From that moment on, nothing will ever be the same.
Style: crying
Plot: stripper, mother daughter relationship, dog, singing, fired from the job, friendship, single mother, little boy, gay slur, male female relationship, family relations, mother daughter conflict ...
Time: year 2002
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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40%
Born Innocent (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one ...
Style: grindhouse, controversial, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, prison rape, women in prison, runaway, female psychopath, riot, rape, brutality, psychotic, hell, children, cautionary tale ...
Time: 70s
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38%
Won't Back Down (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Two determined mothers­, one a teacher, look to transform their children's failing inner city school. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy, they risk everything to make a difference in the education and future of their children
Style: touching, realistic, uplifting, serious, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: education, teacher, fighting the system, school, human spirit, hopes, parents and children, teachers and students, youth, society, changing lives, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronciling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty.
Style: serious, captivating, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: redemption, sexual abuse, bishop, going straight, youth, prostitute, life is a bitch, hopes, drug abuse, addiction, family problems, family relations ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Untamed Love (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A badly abused girl of 6 is saved from having to be admitted to an institution by a dedicated Special Education teacher whose class she's been placed in until there is an opening in the hospital. In that time they form a strong bond and the ...
Style: tear jerker
Plot: abuse, children, youth, child hero, child abuse, depression, neglected child, psychological abuse, courtroom, anger, father daughter relationship, physical abuse ...
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37%
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To Be Fat Like Me (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Pretty, popular, and slim high-schooler Aly Schimdt had plans of earning a sports scholarship to college but a knee injury ruins her chances. She decides to enter a documentary contest in the hopes of winning money for college. She believes that ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, overweight, female friendship, summer school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, doctors and patients, youth, contests and competitions, working undercover, social experiment, bullying, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
What Girls Learn (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, single mother, stepfather, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, human nature, love and romance, youth, estrangement, couples, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Sex and the USA (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, mockumentary
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, youth, friendship, lifestyle, society, teenage life, coming of age, innocence lost, high school life, teenager, drug, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Augusta, Gone (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children - Augusta and Jack. However, when docile Augusta becomes a teenager, feelings of anger and self-hate cause her personality to undergo a scary transformation, and Martha realizes that this ...
Style: suspense, rough, disturbing, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, rise and fall, single parent, hopes, alcohol abuse, uncontrollable, intrigue, teenage life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 561
Scrubbers (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two girls escape from an open borstal for two very different reasons; Annetta to attempt to visit her baby daughter, who is being raised in a convent; and Carol, who hopes to be recaptured and sent to a closed borstal where she knows her girlfriend ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: prison, women in prison, women's prison, survival, juvenile prison, remorse, dark humor, truck, lesbian relationship, punishment, nun, prisoner ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Noura's Dream (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Belgium, France, Qatar, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story: With her abusive husband in jail and a coveted divorce pending, hardworking Noura can almost grasp a happy, new life with lover Lassaad — but when the best-laid plans are upended, Noura must tap her unshakable will to fulfill her dream.
Plot: prison, prison visit, hospital, male rape, police, adultery, interrogation, assault, children, single mother, labor, divorce ...
Place: tunisia, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Almost a Woman (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico. The transition is difficult due to the many challenges she and her family face.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, hispanic
Plot: immigrant, lifestyle, rise to the top, human spirit, family life, teenage life, parents and children, family problems, single parent, youth, hopes, teachers and students ...
Time: 60s
Place: new york, puerto rico, latin america, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Family Sins (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at sports. As Gordon begins to yell and hit Bryan, Bryan's behavior slips towards the psychotic side and ...
Style: sad
Plot: brother, father son relationship, drowning, dead child, suicide attempt, carbon monoxide poisoning, dysfunctional family, rabbit, therapy, adolescence, underwear
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Scattered Dreams (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: It is about a loving couple which trying to make a living in 1951 Florida. When they are arrested, for a crime they didn't commit. The pair are given long jail terms and ripped from their children, so they begin a stunning fight for justice ...
Plot: abuse of power, cruelty, white supremacist, abandoned by husband, outsider, teenage daughter, lawyer, jail, police corruption, attempted rape, court hearing, trumpet player ...
Time: 1950s, year 1951, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Locked in Silence (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because of the trouble it would cause in ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, disturbing, gloomy
Plot: children, youth, dysfunctional family, mute or deaf, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, doctors and patients, misfit, family problems, power relations, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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32%
In the Custody of Strangers (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing
Plot: prison, self defense, parents and children, custody, prison life, teenage life, unemployment, isolation, family life, alcohol abuse, family problems, injustice ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Kristin (Danica McKellar), daughter of upper middle class parents, can hardly stand the immense pressure to fulfill her mother's (Dee Wallace Stone) dream of success in sports and high school. In this tense situation she gets emotional support ...
Plot: parents, age difference, dilemma, runaway teen, teenage girl, runaway, bare chested male, pregnant teenager, mother daughter relationship, teenage pregnancy
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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