Movies and TV shows like Locked Up

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Locked Up (2015)
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Locked Up (2015)
Original name: Vis a vis
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, disturbing, clever, suspenseful, queer cinema
Plot: lesbian, women's prison, female prisoner, prison guard, prison, life is a bitch, women in prison, female homosexuality, corruption, jail, false accusation, brutality, prisoner, dishonesty, female protagonist, prison life, confined, lgbtq, accusation, guilty verdict, framed for a crime, fraud, sapphic, con artists, tragic love ...
Place: new mexico

Most similar movies to Locked Up

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, disturbing and captivating films and TV series with plots about prison, life is a bitch, prison life, jail, women's prison, female nudity and women in prison mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Locked Up: Wentworth (2013), Bitter Daisies (2018), Bangkok Hilton (1989), Black Mama White Mama (1973), Bad Girls (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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 ⇓
80%
Bitter Daisies (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: While investigating the disappearance of a teen girl in a tight-knit Galician town, a Civil Guard officer uncovers secrets linked to a loss of her own.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, police detective, child abduction, justice, rescue, parents and children, danger, hopes, race against time, police officer, supernatural, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ 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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 1K
Locked Up (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When an American teenager gets bullied at her school in Southeast Asia, she fights back--and gets sent to a reform school. But the "school" is more like a prison, and the young teenager must fend off predatory guards and menacing gangs to ...
Style: scary, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: women in prison, female bully, bullying, death threat, prison, boxing training, evil woman, women's prison, violence against women, suicide, violence, manipulation ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Black Mama White Mama (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight ...
Style: grindhouse, realistic, serious, rough, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: women in prison, blaxploitation, prostitute, prison, female prisoner, female exploitation, lesbian, racial tension, jungle, women's prison, sexual desire, injustice ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Stolen Away (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Searching for his kidnapped daughter, Antonio sets off a series of events affecting scores of people when he maneuvers to be sent to prison in Colombia.
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot: prison, desperation, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, male protagonist, dishonesty, brutality, twists and turns, couples, police, heroes, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
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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 ...
⇓ 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 ⇓
63%
 4.1
 998
Prison Heat (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Four American babes on vacation in the Middle East run into trouble when they are imprisoned by corrupt army officials and that's where the fun begins.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, erotic, grindhouse ...
Plot: women in prison, women's prison, depravity, lesbian rape, false accusation, injustice, sexual relations, frame up, female prisoner, law enforcement, life is a bitch, confined ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Inhuman Resources (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Alain Delambre, unemployed and 57, is lured by an attractive job opening. But things get ugly when he realizes he’s a pawn in a cruel corporate game.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, new job, job offer, unemployed, unemployment, job seeking, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, fish out of water, family relations, loss of job ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
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 3K
Lockdown (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, hood ...
Plot: prison riot, prison life, life is a bitch, family life, dishonesty, vengeance, prison, false accusation, murder, confined, redemption, black ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Block B - Under Arrest (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: "Block B - Under Arrest" is the story of Bea Kroeger, who is charged with attempted murder of her husband. During the pre-trial detention in the prison Tempelhof they must fight for their place in the pecking order among the inmates ...
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: prison, prison sentence, imprisoned, jailed, jail, women in prison, prison life, framed for murder, life is a bitch, accused of murder, female protagonist, accusation ...
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27%
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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 ⇓
23%
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The Convict (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Successful judge Alicja Mazur, who is known for her severity towards criminals. The woman is unexpectedly accused of a murder she did not commit. She is sent to prison, where she has to survive among the women she previously condemned herself. She ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: criminal, prison, women's prison, women in prison, jail, false accusation of murder, framed for murder, jailed, prison life, frame up, judge, female protagonist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Carandiru: The Series (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: A doctor volunteers to carry out AIDS prevention work at the largest prison in Latin America, Carandiru, in São Paulo. There he lives with reality behind the bars, which includes violence, overcrowding of cells and poor facilities. But despite all ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: volunteer, prisoner, prison, doctor, jailed, prison violence, jail, doctors and patients, confined, prison gang, prison life, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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 ⇓
21%
The Detention Girls (1969)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A pretty young college student is arrested during a demonstration. She is taken to a notorious detention center, where she is subjected to sexual harassment by lesbian inmates and guards, and becomes the target of a sadistic, bullwhip-wielding ...
Style: independent film
Plot: female prisoner, female warden, prison, women in prison, nudity, corruption, sadism, violence, doctor, rape, women's prison, female nudity ...
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21%
West of Liberty (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 261 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the novel by Thomas Engström, a former Stasi double agent is asked by his old CIA contact to work one more case.
Style: sincere, tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: danger, adaptation, violence, escapades, life is a bitch, friendship, police, destiny, disorder, brutality, murder, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Buried (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Buried is a British television drama series, produced by World Productions for Channel 4 and originally screened in 2003. The programme starred Lennie James as Lee Kingley, who is serving a long prison sentence in order to protect a member of his ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, prison life, survival, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, confined, false accusation, warden, criminal psychologist, dishonesty, psychologist, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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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 ⇓
19%
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Symmetry (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dwudziestosześcioletni Łukasz, niesłusznie posądzony o napad na starszą kobietę, trafia do aresztu śledczego. Adwokat wynajęty przez matkę bezskutecznie próbuje go stamtąd wydostać. Pod wpływem dramatycznych wydarzeń w celi ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, disturbing
Plot: prison, prison life, immorality, miscarriage of justice, jail cell, prisoner, criminal, innocence, murder, coincidence, jail, false accusation ...
Time: year 2003
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
19%
Butterfly in Grey (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Dao returns home and finds her fiance in bed with another woman. She shoots them dead on the spot. She is sentenced to 10 years in prison. She gets out eventually and stays with a friend who runs an escort service and learns that women are even ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense
Plot: women's prison, prison, murder, prison guard, changing lives, confined, confinement indoors, female protagonist, female prisoner, murderer, women in prison, jail ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Longest Night (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 268 min.
TV show
Story: Armed forces surround a psychiatric prison in order to abduct an incarcerated serial killer — but aren't prepared for the battle that ensues.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: criminal, murder, prison, serial killer, siege, assault, prison gang, surrounded, jail, resistance, jailed, mentally unstable ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Fine Dead Girls (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Croatia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Iva and Maria, a young lesbian pair, rent a favorable, nice dwelling in a less good area of Zagreb, Croatia. But unfortunately, included in the rent are the neighbors, the neighbors from hell. The curious landlady, foreigners flogging nationalists, ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, lgbt cinema, suspense ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, woman in danger, society, life is a bitch, family problems, injustice, couples, lgbtq, lesbian sex, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.9
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Prison 77 (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. Manuel, a young accountant, imprisoned and awaiting trial for embezzlement, faces a sentence of 6 to 8 years, a disproportionate punishment for the crime committed. Together with his cellmate Pino, he joins forces ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, realistic ...
Plot: conflict, bureaucracy, prison, male nudity, prison sentence, guilty verdict, framed for a crime, money problems, accusation, jail, nazi, gulag ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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