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Starred Up (2013)
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Starred Up (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.
Style: psychological, tense, rough, serious, depressing, suspenseful, harsh, intense, captivating, brutal ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: prison, father son relationship, prison life, violence, juvenile delinquent, male pubic hair, nudity, male nudity, manipulation, character study, therapist, teenage life, family relations, parents and children, family reunited, warden, prisoner, prison guard, public nudity, troublemaker, jail, hot guys, gay, criminal, father ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 70s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: ireland, ethiopia, britain, england
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and tense films with plots about violence, prison, prison life, confined, murder, male nudity and gang mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Starred Up: Dog Pound (2010), Jamesy Boy (2014), Offender (2012), Cell 211 (2009), Felon (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dog Pound (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Style: serious, sincere, tense, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile prison, reformatory, male nudity, teenage boy, sodomy, accidental killing, teenage protagonist, going straight, youth, prison life ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: montana
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Jamesy Boy (2014)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted ...
Style: serious, sincere, rough, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison life, criminal, teaching the ways of the world, confined, jail, gang, drug, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lawyer, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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Offender (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: robbery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, prison life, confined, male nudity, teenage boy, life is a bitch, vengeance, vigilantism, prison, chase, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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86%
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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
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100%
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Felon (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
Style: brutal, realistic, tense, emotional, serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: prison, fighting the system, prison life, prison riot, life is a bitch, prison escape, prison gang, organized crime, life turned upside down, rivalry, murder, brutality ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
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R: Hit First, Hit Hardest (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the ...
Style: tense, realistic, captivating, rough, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, prison life, male pubic hair, friendship, gang, confined, warden, murder, violence, muslim, racial slur, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Brubaker (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Style: realistic, factual, suspense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: prison, corruption, prison warden, prison escape, abuse of power, undercover, brutality, fighting the system, abuse, justice, liberal, murder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place: louisiana, arkansas, southern usa
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100%
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This Is England (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Style: emotional, political, depressing, stylized, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skinhead, racism, childhood, adolescence, neo nazi, coming of age, nationalism, friendship, youth, children, xenophobia, prejudice ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, northern england, europe ...
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100%
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Animal Factory (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.
Style: realistic, tense, bleak, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: prison, friendship, murder, violence, prison gang, transvestite, prison escape, drug, adaptation, depression, redemption, prison rape ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania, paris france, puerto rico
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100%
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Bronson (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
Style: surreal, stylized, harsh, bloody, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: prison, mental illness, prison life, male nudity, violence, society, violence spree, jail, fistfight, crime gone awry, violent, brutality ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 70s, 80s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, united kingdom
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50%
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K-11 (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychological, serious, rough, bleak, tense ...
Plot: prison life, gender, prison, fish out of water, hopes, transsexual, confined, transgender, violence, gays and lesbians, gay, fight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Scum (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, tense, serious, controversial ...
Plot: prison, racism, boy, youth, rebellion, corruption, revenge, riot, rape, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, sadism ...
Time: year 1979, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom
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100%
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A Prophet (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of ...
Style: harsh, tense, bleak, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: prison, mafia, gangster, prison life, cruelty, organized crime, coming of age, prison gang, racial slur, jail, guilt, respect ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, year 2010, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france, marseille
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Carandiru (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Carandiru, a story based on real facts and on the book written by the doctor Drauzio Varella, starts when he decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo, Carandiru, ...
Style: bleak, compassionate, captivating, touching, rough ...
Plot: prison, aids, doctor, prison life, fighting the system, gay, life is a bitch, fighting illness, protest, regret, lgbt, solitary ...
Time: 20th century, year 2003, 90s
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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100%
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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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100%
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Chopper (2000)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The true and intense story of Mark 'Chopper' Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison.
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, cynical, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: prison, brutality, jail, gangster, character study, murder, eccentricity, judge, self destructing, criminal heroes, prison life, notoriety ...
Time: year 2000, 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1986 ...
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
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100%
Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Smitty, a young man sentenced to six months in prison for marijuana possession eventually becomes the sexual subordinate of another inmate, Rocky.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, crying ...
Plot: gay sex, prison sex, homosexual rape, prison, lgbt, gay, men's rights, lgbtq, sex crime, new year's eve, rape, survival ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
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100%
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Bad Boys (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, teenager, youth, juvenile delinquency, violence, bullying, gangster, rivalry, brat pack, confined, society, gang war ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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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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19%
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Joe (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.
Style: touching, dark, atmospheric, depressing, southern gothic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: father son relationship, child abuse, alcoholic, coming of age, friendship, woods, teenage boy, small town, hopes, teenager, character study, loneliness ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: texas, midwest, britain, usa, mississippi
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19%
Midnight Express (1978)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspense, depressing, psychological ...
Plot: prison, torture, brutality, injustice, lawyer, escape, drug, court, escape attempt, trial, prison break, jail ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978, year 1972, year 1975 ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, brooklyn new york city, greece
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19%
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Coldwater (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, re-education, survival, prison life, escape attempt, humiliation, youth, danger, confined, prison, juvenile delinquent, power relations ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa
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18%
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Hunger (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.
Style: disturbing, bleak, political, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: prison, prison life, ira, suicide, dying, rebellion, idealism, police brutality, resistance, suffering, nudity, male nudity ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 90s, 2000s, year 1981 ...
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, europe
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18%
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Calm with Horses (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In darkest rural Ireland, ex-boxer Douglas 'Arm' Armstrong has become the feared enforcer for the drug-dealing Devers family, whilst also trying to be a good father to his autistic five-year-old son, Jack. Torn between these two families, ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, powerful ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mafia, drug dealing, drug dealer, organized crime, murder, criminal, mafioso, murderer, family problems, ghetto, boxing, gangster ...
Place: ireland, united kingdom
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18%
Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The inmates and guards of a modern, clean and efficient maximum security wing are slowly and increasingly brutalized until they erupt in violence. Dark and macabre, and based in truth, the story is told in a traditional dramatic style combined with ...
Style: disturbing, sad, cult classic, independent film, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, men's rights, prison sex, lgbt, sociology, exodus, philosophy, prison life, gay subtext, against humanity, life is a bitch, rebellion ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: australia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.4
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The Experiment (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Style: psychological, rough, tense, disturbing, visually appealing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, prison life, psychology, confined, experiment gone awry, bullying, violence, brutality, gay rape, moral ambiguity, greed, justice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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18%
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Night Zoo (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Marcel (Gilles Maheu) emerges from prison in hopes of a reconciliation with his dying father Albert (Roger Le Bel) in this thrilling crime drama. Raped in prison, Marcel encounters a homosexual cop involved with drug smuggling who presses him for ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: lgbtq, lgbt, men's rights, zoo, gay, parents and children, heist, drug abuse, prison, terminal illness, family life, homecoming ...
Time: 80s
Place: quebec, montreal, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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 ⇓
17%
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Fresh (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a ...
Style: hood, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chess, coming of age, african american, ghetto, drug dealing, drug, hip hop, drug lord, drug addiction, father son relationship, black, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.1
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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
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