Movies like Clemency
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Clemency (2019)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.
Style:
psychological, rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, compassionate, dark
Plot:
death row, lethal injection, prison, prison warden, black american, retirement, lawyer, teacher, african american, death sentence, father son relationship, drunkenness, innocence, husband wife relationship, guilt, protest, demonstration, prison guard, women, prisoner, jail, confined, criminal justice, woman, social justice ...
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and suspenseful films with plots about prison, prison life, confined, african american, suspense, death row and society mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Clemency: Just Mercy (2019), Day Break (2005), The Glass House (1972), Short Eyes (1977), One Night in Miami... (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights ...
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lawyer, false accusation of murder, courtroom, defense attorney, prison, murder, perjury, african american, innocence, convict, lie, racism ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender's life. Day Break - based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside ...
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disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, thought provoking ...
Plot:
prison, death row, prison life, confined, pardon, society, life is a bitch, legal, injustice, law enforcement, legal action, compassion ...
Time:
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iran, middle east
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becomes clear. As in the outside world, there is a "system"; and just as on the ...
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prison, prison warden, suicide, young man, moral dilemma, rebellion, society, criminal heroes, introspection, fighting the system, human nature, rebelliousness ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, utah
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.
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tense, captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
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prison, prison life, blaxploitation, rape, gangsters, sex crime, organized crime, exploitation, city, criminal justice, bullying, gay slur ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa
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56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of Cassius Clay's defeat of Sonny Liston in 1964, the boxer meets with Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown to change the course of history in the segregated South.
Style:
uplifting, thought provoking, buddy movie, political, sad
Plot:
racism, african american, fight for justice, inequality, racial injustice, injustice, friendship between men, black history, women, suspense, social injustice, victory ...
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miami, georgia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the wishes of her mother, Alma, and rejects the plea-bargain that would free her from jail, but ...
Style:
serious, rough, sentimental, realistic, sincere ...
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girls' night
Plot:
african american, false accusation, racism, injustice, testimony, courtroom drama, urban ghetto, legal, dedicated lawyer, fighting the system, life is a bitch, single mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, africa, austin texas, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose testimony put her away struggles with guilt. A tongue-in-cheek ...
Style:
neo noir
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
Style:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Reunion movie from the popular TV series reunites most of the original cast from the Los Angeles law firm of McKenzie-Brackman. In the eight years since the series ended, the founding senior partner, Leland McKenzie, has retired and left Douglas ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Duration: 88 min.
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Raymond Saxx Jr., a powerful record producer, wakes from a drug-induced blackout to find himself locked up and classified "K-11." Plunged into a nightmarish world ruled by a transsexual diva named Mousey, Raymond is truly a fish out of ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Kevin Barlow (Roy Dupuis) will die on schedule and according to regulations. Harry Parlington (Serge Houde), director of the Cantos execution facility, intends to make sure of it. However Barlow chooses to go, be it calmly or fighting to the end, ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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