Movies and TV shows like Wentworth

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Wentworth (2013)
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Wentworth (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, erotic, sexy, dark, dramatic, thrilling ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: prison, lesbian, women in prison, prison life, women's prison, power struggle, protest, lesbian relationship, life is a bitch, danger, government facility, survival, sadism, convict, lgbtq, female prisoner, warden, lawyer, lgbt, smuggling, racial issues, anti hero, confined, blood, arrest ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: australia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films and TV series with plots about prison, prison life, life is a bitch, confined, female nudity, violence and women's prison mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Wentworth: Bad Girls (1999), Orange Is the New Black (2013), Prisoner: Cell Block H (1979), Locked Up (2015), The Yard (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bad Girls (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and many more throughout the eight-year run. The series ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: lesbian, women's prison, lesbianism, prison, lgbtq, prison sex, gays and lesbians, sex, nypd, pop culture, sapphic, justice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, europe
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82%
Orange Is the New Black (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
Style: humorous, clever, offbeat, realistic, erotic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, strong female character, prison, prison life, lesbian relationship, life turned upside down, lesbian love, women's prison, women in prison, lesbian interest, gender ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: idaho, new york state, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Prisoner: Cell Block H (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison. In the United States and United Kingdom it was billed as Prisoner: Cell Block H, and in Canada as Caged Women. The series was ...
Style: soap opera, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, prison life, lgbt, prison escape, working class, dystopia, harassment, strong sexual content, death sentence, fish out of water, government facility, disorder ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Locked Up (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: Set up to take the blame for corporate fraud, young Macarena Ferreiro is locked up in a high-security women's prison surrounded by tough, ruthless criminals in this tense, provocative Spanish thriller.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough ...
Plot: lesbian, women's prison, female prisoner, prison guard, prison, life is a bitch, women in prison, female homosexuality, corruption, jail, false accusation, brutality ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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The Yard (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: After a fateful domestic clash, a devoted mother finds herself in prison and fighting to survive in hopes of reuniting with her daughter.
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, queer cinema
Plot: women's prison, drug addict, prison life, prison, women in prison, murder, prison gang, courtroom, judge, marriage, trust, drug dealing ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Capadocia (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series. It started on March 2, 2008 and its second season was planned for 2010.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating
Plot: prison, women's prison, prison life, gang war, life turned upside down, dishonesty, corrupt law enforcer, warden, life is a bitch, bribery, uncover truth, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Women in Fury (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The young, pretty and shy Angela Duvall is jailed for murder in some Latin American country. In the prison she gets brutally "initiated" by the other inmates. The nice, honest and handsome prison doctor believe she's innocent and ...
Style: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: women in prison, prison, lesbian rape, lesbian sex, lust, female prisoner, women's prison, erotica, fugitives, exploitation, sex, sexy girls ...
Time: 80s
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Jailbait (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gritty coming of age thriller about a young girl sent to juvenile prison for the murder of her abusive step father. The film follows Anna Nix's journey into the dark world of an all girls jail where she discovers complex relationships, drugs, ...
Style: emotional, rough, erotic, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot: women's prison, women in prison, prison, survival, juvenile detention, prison sex, voyeur, female female relationship, teenage life, confined, exploitation, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Oz (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
Style: rough, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison life, prison, life is a bitch, confined, violence spree, rape, homosexual rape, gay, rapist, strong sexual content, gang violence, racism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
50%
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Prison Break (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: prison, fugitives, escape, prison life, conspiracy, determination, confined, fbi, scheme, brother, self sacrifice, siblings relations ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, california, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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El marginal (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An ex-cop entered a prison as convicted under a false identity in order to infiltrate within a group of prisoners that has just kidnapped the teenage daughter of an important national judge.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, violence, investigation, justice, murder, danger, dishonesty, escapades, chase, life is a bitch, friendship, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Gomorrah (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of ...
Style: serious, tense, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: mafia, mob boss, drug lord, camorra, social decay, society, gang war, life is a bitch, gangster, strong violent content, urban, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, naples italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bangkok Hilton (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Kat Stanton (Kidman), an Australian woman searching for her father who, whilst travelling back from London to Australia via Thailand, makes friends with Arkie Ragan (Ehlers), a photographer. Kat is tricked into carrying some luggage ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, detective, disturbing
Plot: prison, escape, betrayal, injustice, interracial relations, heroin, fighting the system, smuggling, false accusation, prison life, women in prison, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Place: thailand, asia, australia, london, bangkok thailand ...
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32%
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Sons of Anarchy (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, charming. ...
Style: serious, tense, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: biker, motorcycle, motorcycle gang, prison, organized crime, gang, power struggle, group of criminals, criminal, young man, arms dealing, friends ...
Time: 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, northern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Ghosted (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: ‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: prison life, prison, survival, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, danger, confined, twists and turns, prison fight, supernatural, strong violent content, prison rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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38%
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The Wire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between ...
Style: clever, tense, detective, cynical, serious ...
Plot: organized crime, corruption, police detective, police, urban ghetto life, working undercover, life is a bitch, drug dealing, fighting crime, shooting, police investigation, urban decay ...
Time: 2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
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29%
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Celblok H (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Hairdresser Suus ends up in jail after attempting to murder her husband.
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: women's prison, prison, female prisoner, human spirit, jailed, prison sentence, prison life, jail, penal colony, jail cell, women in prison, prison guard ...
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28%
Emmanuelle in Hell (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Emanuelle goes undercover into a prison to expose the corrupted officials who are brutalizing the inmates. Emanuelle is shocked by the horrors and humiliation the prisoners are subjected to, but when her true identity is discovered, she finds ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot: women's prison, women in prison, prison, sexploitation, female masturbation, voyeurism, female exploitation, female nudity, woman in danger, exploitation, hidden identity, working undercover ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Clink (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Women establish a sisterhood as they spend time together behind bars.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: prison, prison life, women's prison, jail cell, women, female protagonist, life is a bitch, women in prison, jailed, criminal, prison sentence, problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Cell 211 (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, intense, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, survival, prison life, confined, prison guard, prison riot, hidden identity, hostage, manipulation, pretense, protest, warden ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Drama set in a women's prison in Germany.
Plot: women's prison, prison, lesbian, prison escape, woman, female nudity, prison guard, danger, brutality, female prisoner, fictitious country, jail cell ...
Place: berlin germany
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28%
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Screw (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Rob Williams' darkly comic crime drama portrays prison as you've never seen it before: through the embattled and inspiring characters who work there.
Style: psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, humorous
Plot: imprisonment, prison, prisoner, prison guard, prison life, prison warden, life is a bitch, problem, jail cell, prison sentence, jail, women
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.3
 381
Killing Time (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Killing Time is an Australian television drama series on TV1 subscription television channel which first screened in 2011. It is based on the true story of disgraced lawyer Andrew Fraser. In New Zealand it screens on Prime Television. The ten part ...
Style: realistic, captivating, tense, psychological, serious
Plot: rise and fall, lawyers and clients, confined, disgraced, legal, prison, ambition, introspection, drug abuse, society, rivalry, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 8.1
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The Fall (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When the Police Service of Northern Ireland are unable to close a case after 28 days, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson of the Metropolitan Police Service is called in to review the case. Under her new leadership, the local detectives must ...
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, female detective, police detective, police investigation, policewoman, forensics, victim, crime investigation, violence against women, police, cop, female protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland, united kingdom, belfast
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Reform School Girls (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
Style: disturbing, surreal, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, women in prison, women's prison, sex, lesbian, erotica, sexual desire, vixen, brutality, justice, adolescence, exploitation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
How to Get Away with Murder (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder mystery, legal, hotshot lawyer, lawyer, murder, law student, defense attorney, court case, college, lgbt, teachers and students, courtroom ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, idaho, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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