Movies like Sing Sing
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Sing Sing (2023)
28K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group with other incarcerated men.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, inspirational, f word
Plot:
prison, theater, african american, jail cell, prison life, jailed, problem, jail, false accusation, false accusation of murder, framed for murder, prison sentence, accused of murder, falsely accused, theatre play, friendship, actor, playwright, male camaraderie, hamlet, rehabilitation, wrongful imprisonment, male friendship, dancing, prisoner ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, tense and realistic films with plots about prison, prison life, jail, confined, life is a bitch, redemption and friendship mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Sing Sing: The Hammer (2017), Block B - Under Arrest (2015), A Mother's Testimony (2001), Silent Grace (2001), Banshee Origins (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When prison boxer George "The Hammer" Martin is offered freedom for fighting in the 1984 Olympics, he says no in order to protect the woman he loves, forcing his best friend to learn the true meaning of loyalty.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, heartfelt, emotional ...
Plot:
boxing, friendship, faith, prison, boxer, best friend, sacrifice, loyalty, love, boxing champion, life sentence, jail ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
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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:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
prison, imprisoned, women's prison, jailed, women in prison, jail, prison sentence, prison life, problem, framed for murder, accusation, female protagonist ...
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92%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An ex-convict's mother's worst suspicions about her son are confirmed when he is implicated in a murder
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot:
ex convict, social problems, problem, family problems, life is a bitch, relationships, prisoner, family relations, murder suspect, prison, jail, murder trial ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1976 the British Government put an end to the special category status of prisoners from the Provisional Irish Republican Army, no longer treating them as prisoners of war, but as common criminals. Mairéad Farrell - on whose life much of the film ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
ira, prison, anglo irish relations, cell mate, women's prison, female prisoner, jail cell, protest, resistance, hunger, problem, jailed ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland, northern ireland
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Banshee: Origins is a series of webisodes based on the American drama television series produced by Cinemax called Banshee. The series offers flashbacks in-between the time where Lucas Hood was arrested and when Sheriff Lucas Hood first arrived in ...
Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, thrilling, exciting ...
Plot:
prison, prison guard, prison sentence, prison life, imprisonment, jail, liberation, prison warden, released from prison, jail cell, jailed, vigilante ...
Similarity:
64%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.
Style:
realistic, suspense, disturbing, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prisoner, friendship, jailed, urban, prison life, realism, convict, confined, social problems, maximum security prison, jail ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
How Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified "imprisonment" where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture.
Style:
captivating, psychological, political, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
biopic, prison life, prison, injustice, human rights, jailed, confined, military prison, jail cell, prison violence, prisoner, jail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mentally challenged, mental patient, prison, innocent, parent child relationship, prison sentence, mental disorder, father daughter relationship, lovers, soul mate, arrest, mental illness ...
Time:
2010s, year 1983, year 2004
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in the Philippines, Takashi Miike’s “The Guys from Paradise” weaves together the stories of several real-life criminal cases. Young up-and-coming salary man Kohei Hayakawa is sent to Paradise prison on false drug charges, and assumes his ...
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, organized crime, corruption, jail, imprisoned, problem, lifestyle change, changing lives, criminal underworld, gangster, false accusation ...
Place:
japan, the philippines
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, Caesar Must Die (Cesare Deve Morire), the scripted documentary shows inmates at a prison in Rome rehearsing for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, talky, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, hopes, shakespeare, human spirit, actor's life, audition, introspection, confined, criminal heroes, rehearsal, convict ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
53%
297
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, redemption, destiny, society, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, hopes, family life, parents and children, black, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
prison guard, confined, prison, prison life, lgbt, white trash, jailed, social misfits, society, life is a bitch, jail, prison sentence ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style:
clever, uplifting, inspirational, touching, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, kids, family friendly ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, freedom, friendship between men, hopes, friendship, corruption, human spirit, justice, prison life, life, stephen king ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 90s, year 1994, 2010s ...
Place:
usa, maine, columbus ohio, persia, iran ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Finland, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, she allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark, intense ...
Plot:
trauma, opera, theater, female protagonist, theatre director, repression, theatre group, theatrical producer, problem, stage actress, theatre play, character study ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
44%
2K
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, realistic ...
Plot:
prison life, prison, fish out of water, hopes, gender, transsexual, confined, transgender, violence, gays and lesbians, rough sex, gay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
43%
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.
Style:
grim, cult classic, crime drama, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, sex crime, blaxploitation, child molester, racial tension, gay slur, racial slur, prison guard, ethnic slur, pedophilia, rape ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, captivating
Plot:
prison, rehabilitation, redemption, unlikely couple, prison life, hopes, impossible love, murder, love affair, nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teenager, trauma, life is a bitch, teenage life, troubled past, tragic past, confronting the past, moral dilemma, self destructing, redemption, desperation, abuse ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Directed by Arnon Zadok.
Style:
psychological, bleak, uplifting
Plot:
prison, friendship, prisoner, addiction, rehabilitation, drug, bonding, recovery, personal growth, second chance, redemption, character study ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up ...
Style:
independent film, inspirational, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
prison, racism, african american, black, time travel, exodus, sergeant, army life, society, hopes, soldier, buddies ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Similarity:
38%
985
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without paroll, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, gloomy, rough
Plot:
prison, criminal heroes, follow your dream, female nudity, prison escape, redemption, prison life, strong violent content, profanity, writer's life, lifestyle, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An aspiring teacher (Hughley) takes the one job he's offered, a position at a school inside a prison.
Style:
realistic, touching, suspense, captivating, semi serious
Plot:
dedicated educator, prison, idealism, starting over, hardcase students, prison life, rivalry, confined, hopes, rehabilitation, youth, student life ...
Similarity:
37%
1K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The true story of a young man falsely accused of rape and sentenced to six years in a maximum security prison. He must rely on survival skills and an unlikely bond with an infamous inmate to prove his innocence and regain his freedom.
Style:
tense, captivating, crime drama, art house
Plot:
false accusation of rape, rise and fall, prison, maximum security prison, jail, jailed, false accusation, prisoner, accusation, social injustice, falsely accused, framed for a crime ...
Similarity:
37%
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454
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Eliú, a country boy, is incarcerated́ in an experimental minors' centre in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers perform strenuous manual labour and intense ...
Style:
tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
prison life, teenager, guilt, trauma, juvenile detention, prison sentence, teenage boy, confined, jail, prison, prisoner, life is a bitch ...
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After being transferred from juvenile to adult prison, Mel Blight is taken under the wing of both Mark Shepard, Australia’s most despised criminal, and Warren Murfett, a soon to be paroled inmate. As a paternal triangle grows between them, we see ...
Style:
crime drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating, harsh ...
Plot:
prison, jail, jail cell, prison life, prison sentence, jailed, relationships, imprisoned, life is a bitch, moral ambiguity, confined, character study ...
Similarity:
35%
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 ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, rough, bleak, compassionate ...
Plot:
death row, lethal injection, prison, death sentence, prison warden, black american, black, retirement, lawyer, teacher, protest, african american ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
mental illness, coming of age, theatre group, depression, theatre director, husband wife relationship, underage drinking, african american, brother sister relationship, public speaking, job, theater ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
35%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Slam tells the story of Ray Joshua, an original, gifted young MC trapped in a war-zone housing project known as Dodge City. Unable to find a job, Ray copes with the despair and poverty of his neighborhood by using his wits and verbal talent. Written ...
Style:
independent film, hood, psychological, talky, uplifting ...
Plot:
prison, gang, hip hop, profanity, art, urban, bittersweet, ghetto, black, blaxploitation, hip hop culture, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, california, africa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, unusual plot structure, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
african american, friendship, male nudity, black, black lives matter, racism, blaxploitation, rivalry, society, friends, one against many, courage ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s
Place:
san francisco, california, north america
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An execution scheduled to be carried out in 12 years creates a hostile and stifling atmosphere among guards in one jail. This has profound effects on the dehumanization of Jae-kyoung, a young, newly appointed guard who nonetheless happens to find ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
prison, security guard, prison warden, execution, coworker, prison life, workplace situations, death penalty, workplace, life is a bitch, problem, dehumanization ...
Place:
korea, south korea
Similarity:
33%
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