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The Prison (2017)
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The Prison (2017)
Original name: 프리즌
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An imprisoned ex-police inspector discovers that the entire penitentiary is controlled by an inmate running a crime syndicate and becomes part of the crime empire.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, crime drama
Plot: prison, prison violence, jailed, gang, prisoner, crime boss, prison life, prison gang, jail, syndicate, outlaw gang, criminal, confined, law and order, prison warden, prison guard, prison sentence, lawlessness, criminal syndicate, revenge, hunting, organized crime, asian, gangster, crimes
Keyword: gangsters, korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, tense and disturbing films with plots about prison, criminal, jail, gang, jailed, prison life and criminal gang mostly in Crime, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like The Prison: Convict (2014), Project Wolf Hunting (2022), A Violent Man (2022), The 4th Company (2016), Escape from Death Block 13 (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Convict (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and ...
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense, crime drama
Plot: prison, prison violence, prison gang, convict, humiliation, male objectification, gang, prisoner, prison life, jailed, confined, criminal ...
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Project Wolf Hunting (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story: While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, scary, dark fantasy ...
Plot: ship, prison, criminal, violence, fight, virus, brutality, violent, gunfight, survival, disorder, apocalypse ...
Time: 2020s, year 1943, 1940s, year 2017
Place: pacific ocean, the philippines, korea, manila philippines
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A Violent Man (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Steve Mackleson is a dangerous prisoner, incarcerated for double murder in a maximum security prison. We follow, as he navigates his struggle against redemption the system and his inner turmoil, when a young black gang member becomes his unlikely ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: prison, jailed, prison life, gang, father daughter relationship, criminal gang, prison fight, jail, prison violence, prison warden, jail cell, prison riot ...
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The 4th Company (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Zambrano is a young criminal with the only hope of joining the legendary prison American football team known as The Dogs of Santa Martha. His hopes end up involving him with organized crime since The Dogs, who are also known as The 4th Company, a ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot: prison, football, juvenile delinquency, football player, criminal, football team, teenager, teenage life, prison life, confined, jail, jailed ...
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59%
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Escape from Death Block 13 (2021)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After the death of his brother, Mick travels to America to seek Justice. Wrongly convicted of extortion and attempted murder, Mick is sent to Pleasant Hill Penitentiary's notorious death block 13. Seething with revenge after discovering the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: prison life, prison, prison fight, prison riot, revolt, jail, wrongful conviction, prison brawl, rebelliousness, prison gang, jail cell, maximum security prison ...
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Riot (2015)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Copper Jack Stone purposefully orchestrates a bank robbery in order to be thrown into prison with the notorious Russian kingpin Balam. Balam is more than just a mob criminal; he's a very cunning and dangerous lord who controls the police force ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison riot, prison, russian mafia, murderer, vengeance, jailed, murder, confined, mafia, bandit, criminal gang, mafioso ...
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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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47%
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P Storm (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Liu Yue Ping reports to the ICAC about a rich 2G Cao Yuen Yuen who bribed officers of the Hong Kong Correctional Services (HKCS) from inside the prison. William Luk decides to infiltrate the prison as an inmate to conduct his investigation, while ...
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: revenge, undercover, prison life, witness protection, torture, jail, prisoner, investigation, corruption, conspiracy, crime investigation, bribery ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Tomb of the River (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An action film about the ambitions, conspiracy, and betrayal of different organizations surrounding the life-changing project of building the largest resort in Gangneung.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: conspiracy, betrayal, gang war, crime boss, gangster boss, gangster, criminal, blind ambition, gang, greed, criminal gang, ambition
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46%
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A Special Lady (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Hyeon-jeong, a used-to-be prostitute, is now the NO.2 of the gang which turns into a leading enterprise. Sang-hoon who has been picked up by Hyeon-jeong, becomes the top killer in the gang. Hyeon-jeong is the reason why he bears all the dirty works ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, neo noir
Plot: criminal syndicate, gang, criminal gang, killer, gang member, social relations, criminal, fighting the system, gang leader, bandit, syndicate, organized crime ...
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Eun-ha (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Eunha, who is a stateless person, is imprisoned for charged with murder. A warmhearted, coolheaded correctional officer goes through turbulent changes of his emotions after he meets the woman. The movie depicts the extraordinary love between the two ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot: jail, prison life, love story, male female relationship, confined, love affair, relationships, prisoner, prison warden, prison sentence, tragic love, jailed ...
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44%
Enemies of the State (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Crime thriller inspired by the story of Jiri Kajinek, which is considered the first bounty hunter in the Czech Republic. Thanks to his escape from the prison fortress Mirov it became a legend and the most wanted man in Europe. Five weeks while ...
Style: suspense, captivating
Plot: prison, jail, prison escape, lawyer, court, law and order, legal, prison fight, prison life, crime boss, jailed, criminal ...
Time: 2000s
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I Am Vengeance: Retaliation (2020)
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A former special-forces soldier is given the opportunity to bring the man who betrayed his team on their final mission in Eastern Europe several years ago - to justice.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: ex special forces, soldier, traitor, betrayal, hitman, prison, criminal gang, criminal, jailed, murderer, gang, fight ...
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The Camp: A Prison Story (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 2150 min.
TV show
Story: Straightline Productions: All or Nothing. Presented by Transworld Snowboarding (2009)
Style: suspense, tense
Plot: jail, false accusation, prison gang, prison, prison life, prisoner, confined, jailed, prison warden, falsely accused, maximum security prison, prison sentence ...
Place: russia, moscow russia
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Corrective Measures (2022)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set in San Tiburon, the world's most dangerous maximum-security penitentiary and home to the world's most treacherous superpowered criminals, where tensions among the inmates and staff heighten, leading to anarchy that engulfs the prison ...
Style: disturbing, tense, exciting, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: prison, jail, prison violence, prison riot, super villain, prison guard, supernatural power, prison gang, prison life, villain, super powers, jailed ...
Time: future
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Breakout Brothers (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Triad leader Roller and life-sentence inmate Scar maintain the balance of power as the bosses of the prison they're incarcerated at. Life at the prison gets disrupted by the arrival of new inmate Mak, who has run-ins with both Scar and Roller. ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, light
Plot: bandit, escape, prison life, jail, prison gang, jailed, escape from custody, prison escape, prison, attempted escape, organized crime, criminal ...
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35%
For the Emperor (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Yi-Hwan is a former professional baseball player. He was involved in fixing games and lost everything. Gang boss Sang-Ha runs a money lending business and a gambling location. He makes Yi-Hwan work for him. Meanwhile, Yi-Hwan falls for bar owner ...
Style: exciting, tense, contemplative, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: baseball player, greed, murder, gang war, casino, gangster, criminal heroes, heroes, pride and honor, vengeance, revenge, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: busan
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The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Financial tycoon and former triad member Yu Shun-tin tries to eradicate the drug market while 'Jizo' aims to singlehandedly take over Hong Kong's drug exchange as the number one drug lord. Meanwhile, Lam Ching-fung, a cop from the ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: police officer, swat team, criminal's revenge, gang leader, gang war, crime boss, gang, manhunt, murderer, gang member, criminal gang, bandit ...
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In Cheonan, a serial murder case takes place, but the case becomes more and more of a mystery. Only Tae-suk, a cop, immediately senses that all the cases are by the same killer and starts investigation. One day, Dong-soo, a gang boss, got attacked ...
Style: suspense, twisted, factual, tense, crime thriller ...
Plot: gang, serial killer, murder mystery, mafia, gangster, police, revenge, investigation, forensics, street gang, murderer, murder investigation ...
Time: year 2005
Place: south korea
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Imprisoned: Survival Guide for Rich and Prodigal (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: This is a story in jail. A story about learning a "new life”…
Style: entertaining, captivating, semi serious
Plot: prison life, prison, jailed, jail, prison sentence, lifestyle, prison fight, prison riot, prison warden, prison guard, prison gang, jail cell
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32%
Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman (2021)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Morgan Freeman explores real-life prison breaks that have captured the attention of the public, showcasing an up close and personal view of what the prisoners are faced with in executing their break outs.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: prison escape, jail, jail cell, prison, running from police, escape, escape from custody, escape attempt, escape plan, prisoner, prison life, escaped prisoner ...
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32%
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 ...
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Bala Ko... Bahala Sa 'yo (2001)
Genre: Action
Country: Philippines
Story: Jeric Raval is Dias Del Fuego. An anti-organized crime cop who does the beat with a dark side of the law demeanor. The kind that loves to fight fire with fire and that which keeps the violent underworld under check. After being meted an indefinite ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: police officer, syndicate, extortion, organized crime, tough cop, criminal gang, partners against crime, bandit, crime boss, gang, forensics, criminal ...
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29%
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Essex Boys Retribution (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Twenty years after Britain's most notorious gangland murders, the next generation of Essex Boys vie for control as revenge is sought by all sides.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: murder, gang war, violent, crime boss, gang, organized crime, murderer, revenge, criminal's revenge, bandit, criminal gang, criminal ...
Place: england
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29%
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, kidnapping, maximum security prison, revenge, prison guard, murder, extreme violence, prison warden, prisoner, boxer, fight, violence ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
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28%
We Still Steal the Old Way (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The explosive follow-up to We Still Kill The Old Way (2014). Regarded as the best in the business, The Archer Gang is an aging criminal outfit who carry out a daring robbery, but are caught mid-heist. They are sentenced to do time in Britain's ...
Style: unusual plot structure, tense, captivating, contemplative, suspense
Plot: heist, gang, prison, criminal heroes, partner, friendship, hacking, violence, heroes, revenge, chase, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe
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28%
Guilt by Design (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film centers around a juror on a high-profile case who is blackmailed into fixing the verdict after his daughter is kidnapped.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: legal action, manipulation, kidnapped child, kidnapped daughter, child abduction, blackmail, crime boss, abduction, court, gang, bandit, criminal ...
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Fatal Blade (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: East meets West as the Japanese Yakuza battle drug lords and the LAPD in the streets of Los Angeles...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, exciting, crime drama
Plot: martial arts, yakuza, hitman, organized crime, drug, criminal underworld, criminal gang, gang war, japanese mafia, bandit, drug dealer, gang ...
Place: japan, los angeles
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Gangster High (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sang-ho is an ordinary high school student. His dream is to enter the military academy under the influence of his father who is an army colonel. As entering high school, he became friends with Jae-gu, Chang-bae, Kyung-chul, Hong-kyu and Sang-sik. ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: teenager, gang, gang war, gangster, school, lifestyle, youth, fight, school club, friends, schoolboy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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28%
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Grasshopper (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Movie contains the stories of three people: Suzuki (Toma Ikuta), Kujira (Tadanobu Asano) and Semi (Ryosuke Yamada). Suzuki is a former middle school teacher. His girlfriend was killed, which led him to quit his job and attempt to take revenge on ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating
Plot: outlaw gang, criminal gang, revenge, hitman, street gang, bandit, murderer, gang, criminal, murder, gang member, novel
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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