Movies and TV shows like Orange Is the New Black

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Orange Is the New Black (2013)
 8.0
 319K
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, sexy, captivating, melancholic, funny, epic ...
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, lesbian romance, confined, suicide, lesbianism, hot and sexy, african american, lesbian sex, lgbtq, first lesbian experience, violence, fish out of water, racial issues, sapphic ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: idaho, new york state, usa, new york
Keyword: russian, feminist film, gangsters, superior, mexican, jewish, retrospective, dope

Most similar movies to Orange Is the New Black

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out queer cinema, realistic, erotic and captivating films and TV series with plots about lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, feminist, sapphic and gay couple mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like Orange Is the New Black: Prisoner: Cell Block H (1979), Wentworth (2013), The L Word (2004), The Yard (2018), Faking It (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
 8.6
 24K
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 ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: prison, lesbian, women in prison, prison life, women's prison, protest, power struggle, lesbian relationship, life is a bitch, danger, government facility, survival ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.7
 29K
The L Word (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, erotic, grindhouse ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, sexual activity, gays and lesbians, lesbianism, female protagonist, cafe, friendship, lesbian mother, lesbian sex ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, indiana, idaho, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.2
 2K
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 ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.3
 15K
Faking It (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: A romantic comedy about two best friends who love each other -- in slightly different ways. After numerous failed attempts to become popular, the girls are mistakenly outed as lesbians, which launches them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by ...
Style: humorous, realistic, teen, sitcom, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, high school, high school life, youth, teenage life, popularity, lesbian relationship, homosexual, gossip and rumors, pretense, sexual identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 5K
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 ⇓
86%
Anyone But Me (2008)
Genre: Short, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Anyone But Me is a live-action, web television drama that first aired in 2008. The show is in serial short-format webisodes, each lasting between six and fifteen minutes, following the lives of a group of teenagers in New York City and Westchester ...
Style: touching, sexual, emotional, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian daughter, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lesbian friend, lesbian teen, lgbt, lgbtq, friends, youth, lesbian couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Outrageous Fortune (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Outrageous Fortune is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series, which ran from 12 July 2005 to 9 November 2010 on TV3. The series followed the lives of the career criminal West family after the matriarch, Cheryl, decided the family should go ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty, sexy
Plot: lawyer, dysfunctional family, criminal, family life, going straight, convict, criminal heroes, right and wrong, doubts and hesitations, manipulation, porn, exploitation ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 36K
Disobedience (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A woman learns about the death of her father. She returns to her Orthodox Jewish home and falls in love with her best childhood friend who is now married to her cousin.
Style: melancholic, depressing, sexy, sincere, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian relationship, forbidden love, infidelity, lesbian sex, female nudity, funeral, orthodox jew, scandal ...
Time: year 2017
Place: london, middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 13K
Saving Face (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Chinese-American lesbian and her traditionalist mother are reluctant to go public with secret loves that clash against cultural expectations.
Style: touching, sexy, humorous, romantic comedy, intercultural ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lgbtq, sapphic, lesbian sex, gay, gays and lesbians, loneliness, marriage ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: indiana, new york, usa, paris france, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 280
Crims (2015)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Straight-laced Luke inadvertently finds himself sentenced to two years in Young Offender Institution Sunnybank View after becoming a bank robber’s getaway driver, along with the bank robber in question, his girlfriend’s brother and so-called ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous
Plot: prison, juvenile delinquency, prison life, fish out of water, youth, unlikely criminals, disorder, young adult, profanity, misfit, friends, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Tipping the Velvet (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the 1890s, Tipping the Velvet tells the lesbian love affair between male impersonator music hall star Kitty Butler and Nan Astley.
Style: costume drama, touching, realistic, serious, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, gender, lesbian romance, performer's life, sexual relations, couples, cross dressing, lgbt, gays and lesbians, sex ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The L Word: Generation Q (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: In this sequel to The L Word, we continue to follow the intermingled lives of Bette Porter, Alice Pieszecki and Shane McCutcheon, along with a new generation of diverse, self-possessed LGBTQIA+ characters experiencing love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks ...
Style: sexy, romantic, erotic, touching, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, gays and lesbians, feminist, lifestyle, female friendship, lgbtq, gay, love and romance, lesbian sex ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.5
 14K
Feel Good (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 315 min.
TV show
Story: Recovering addict and comedian Mae tries to control the addictive behaviors and intense romanticism that permeate every facet of her life. Life is further complicated by a new and all-consuming relationship with her new girlfriend George.
Style: romantic, witty, captivating, semi serious, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian friend, addiction, lesbian romance, gays and lesbians, female comedian, lesbian lover, tomboy, comedy club ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.5
 5K
Lip Service (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lip Service was a British television serial drama portraying the lives of a group of lesbians living in Glasgow, Scotland. Production on the show, which stars Laura Fraser, Ruta Gedmintas and Fiona Button, began in summer 2009 in Glasgow. The show ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sexy, semi serious, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, lesbian love, gays and lesbians, love and romance, lesbianism, lifestyle, lgbtq, ex couple relations, lesbian sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, saudi arabia, europe, glasgow scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.9
 117K
Weeds (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan. The central character is Nancy Botwin, a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling cannabis to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. Over the ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, sitcom, witty, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, marijuana, drug dealing, drug dealer, single mother, smuggling, eccentric family, widow, unlikely criminals, family relations, dark humor, family life ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.9
 99K
Dead to Me (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
Style: captivating, disturbing, semi serious, laugh out loud, dramatic ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: friendship, grief, death of husband, guilty conscience, murder, hit and run, female friendship, dishonesty, lesbian, strong female lead, feminist, sapphic ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.4
 4K
Vida (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of Los Angeles who couldn't be more different or distanced from each other are forced to return to their old neighborhood, where they are confronted by the past and surprising truth about their ...
Style: psychological, rough, humorous, touching, erotic ...
Plot: lesbian, u.s. mexico border, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian couple, lesbian threesome, lgbtq, group sex, sister sister relationship, family relations, death of mother ...
Place: indiana, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn't like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she's pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and ...
Style: feel good, sexual, surreal, funny, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, gay, lesbian love, sapphic, gays and lesbians, conversion therapy, cheerleading, lesbian relationship, cheerleader, lesbianism ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 8.7
 106K
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 ⇓
50%
 8.0
 50K
GLOW (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: In 1980s LA, a crew of misfits reinvent themselves as the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
Style: funny, breathtaking, captivating, erotic, entertaining ...
Plot: misogyny, strong female lead, women, lgbtq, feminist, actress, casting, teenage girl, poverty, survival, feminism, lgbt ...
Time: 80s, 2010s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 8.3
 235K
Euphoria (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, realistic, depressing, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, teenager, drug addict, high school, addiction, sex, coming of age, youth, sexuality, lgbt, teenage life, friends ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Tell It to the Bees (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Dr. Jean Markham returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father's medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the ...
Style: sad, psychological, thought provoking, touching, romantic drama ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lesbian romance, lesbian interest, lesbian couple, lesbian sex, lgbtq, female nudity, intolerance, emotional abuse ...
Time: 50s, year 1952, 1950s
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Movie in collections
 7.0
 13K
Trinkets (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A grieving teen finds an unexpected connection with two classmates at her new high school after they all land in the same Shoplifters Anonymous group.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, friendship, shoplifting, teenage girl, lesbian teen, loneliness, high school, lgbtq, female protagonist, society, teamwork, parent child relationship ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.5
 103K
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.
Style: bleak, disturbing, touching, independent film, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, gender, rape, transgender, transsexual, violence, prejudice, lgbt, tragic love, small town, gay slur, lgbtq ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: nebraska, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Teenage Bounty Hunters (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: After joining forces with a veteran bounty hunter, sixteen-year-old fraternal twin sisters Sterling and Blair dive into the world of bail skipping baddies while still navigating the high stakes of teenage love and sex.
Style: detective, feel good, queer cinema
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenager, lesbian, female protagonist, bisexuality, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, sapphic, lgbt, twins, lgbtq, choice, religion ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.8
 24K
The Bold Type (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A glimpse into the outrageous lives and loves of those responsible for a global women's magazine. Their struggles are about finding your identity, managing friendships and getting your heart broken, all while wearing the perfect jeans to ...
Style: feel good, sincere, light, sentimental, queer cinema
Audience: teens
Plot: female friendship, fashion, lesbian, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, career, lgbt, workplace situations, lesbian love, female protagonist, workplace, love and romance, party ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
One Day at a Time (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In a reimagining of the TV classic, a newly single Latina mother raises her teen daughter and tween son with the "help" of her old-school mom.
Style: sitcom, feel good, captivating, humorous, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, feminism, lgbt, family drama, single mother, depression, lgbtq, living together, gay, parents and children, eccentric family, lgbtqi ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
 7.1
 35K
Tangerine (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get ...
Style: harsh, disturbing, talky, dark comedy, grindhouse ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: lgbt, prostitute, christmas, transgender, friendship, transsexual, christmas eve, transsexuality, infidelity, unfaithful boyfriend, hollywood, taxi ...
Time: year 2015, near future, 2010s
Place: los angeles, california, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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