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The Torpedoes (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Sonny is released from prison where he got a romantic relationship with one of the employees Camilla. He is getting ready to live a normal life and move in with her, but a last minute bid on the house is getting in the way.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, tense
Plot: career criminal, starting over, going straight, criminal heroes, hopes, fish out of water, couple relations, couples, disorder, criminal underworld, social worker, criminal gang ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, stockholm sweden
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 5.1
 8K
Dangerous (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man returns home for his brother's wake on a remote island that comes under siege during his stay there.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fbi investigation, gold, death of brother, ex convict, island, uncover truth, sociopath as protagonist, crime solving, sleuth, crime investigation, loss of brother, murder mystery ...
Time: 2020s
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Mad Dog Morgan (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.
Style: period piece, mockbuster, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, outlaw, exploitation, british empire, manhunt, unhappy ending, on the run, chase, toxic, gang, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, 1860s, year 1865, 1850s ...
Place: australia, new south wales
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 5.8
 8K
The Comedian (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A look at the life of an aging insult comic.
Style: captivating, melancholic, light, romantic comedy, entertaining ...
Plot: comedian, aging, insult, stand up comedy, comeback, comedy club, brother brother relationship, jail, judaism, ghost hunter, hunter, fish ...
Time: year 1985
Place: somalia, new york, italy, wisconsin, africa ...
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 14K
The Mustang (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
Style: realistic, exciting, social, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Plot: horse, convict, animal training, freedom, redemption, loyalty, transformation, society, punishment, nature, fear, law enforcement ...
Place: nevada
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 6.2
 8K
Tough Guys (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of ...
Style: entertaining, road movie, funny, light, humorous ...
Plot: prison, aging, gangster, police investigation, partner, unlikely friendships, odd couple, nothing goes right, elderly, dishonesty, stalking, buddies ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, year 1956
Place: bolivia, mexico
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 6.9
 2K
The Boys (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day ...
Style: disturbing, grindhouse, independent film, tense, realistic ...
Plot: prison, murder, dysfunctional family, psychopath, redemption, drinking, violence, caper, exodus, australian aboriginal, prison sex, family relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia, oceania
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Trapped in Paradise (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Firpo Brothers can get away with anything. They just can't get away!
Style: entertaining, humorous, light, funny, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: christmas, small town, snow, redemption, holiday, bank robbery, nothing goes right, disorder, partner, chases and races, crime gone awry, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa
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 4.9
 3K
Reach Me (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Each member of a group of people has a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.
Style: touching, feel good, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot: redemption, self discovery, human spirit, rising to stardom, hopes, human nature, journalist, police, recluse, art, profanity, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, southern california, los angeles
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 6.1
 350
House of Women (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, bleak ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: prison, strong female lead, bad girl, prisoner, women's prison, unlikely partners, legal action, manhunt, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, legal ...
Time: 60s
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 6.9
 127
Custody (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A story of a young woman arrested by police on the day of her wedding for embezzlement, and promptly sentenced to life. She is already pregnant and has her baby in prison. Immediately after birth they are separated and only later Klara finds out ...
Plot: lesbian, prison, life sentence, baby, choir, female nudity, suicide, public humiliation, wedding, women's prison, released from prison, motherhood ...
Time: 60s
Place: poland
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 7.7
 15
The Way (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young Latino boy grows up in a poor barrios of Los Angeles. "Ramon Sanchez" lives with his single mother, a sister, a grandfather and his mother's abusive and violent boyfriend. When Ramon sees that his mother can't pay the ...
Style: hispanic, crying
Plot: drug, ex convict, gang, lap dance, parole, drug dealing, affair, doom, tragedy, earth, social worker, job ...
Time: future
Place: california
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The Killing Zone (1991)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Convict is recruited from a chain gang to help capture a Mexican drug lord.
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, violent content, nudity, tough heroes, rivalry, criminal's revenge, drug dealing, good versus evil, vengeance, heroes, law enforcement, violence spree ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, arizona
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Children of Chaos (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: "Les Enfants Du Désordre " depicts a lost generation ,a distraught youth who finds comfort in drugs .Marie ,an unwed young mother, a former junkie- prostitute, is in a reformatory school :she has been a misfit for most of her life. If ...
Plot: teenager, theatrical troupe, studying, reformation, medical examination, female prisoner, female doctor, prostitute, female nudity, women's prison, theater, new life ...
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Steal This Movie (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
Style: stylized, melancholic, talky, serious, captivating ...
Plot: politics, fighting the system, justice, conspiracy, depression, biopic, revolution, mental illness, injustice, conspiracy theory, on the run, drug abuse ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1968
Place: new york, usa, chicago, manhattan new york city, pentagon ...
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 3.2
 884
The Graveyard (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Six friends go to the Placid Pines Cemetery to play hide and seek in the tombs. When a "harmless" prank ends in the accidental death of one of the group, the prankster goes to prison. Five years later the friends meet up in the cemetery ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, surprise ending, slasher, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prank, vengeance, teenage life, gory, serial killer, blood, violence spree, confined, rivalry, youth, psychopath, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.4
 789
White Mama (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had
Style: uplifting, thought provoking, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: elderly, bondage, aging, poor, survival, neighborhood, friendship, interracial relations, eviction, teenage life, urban ghetto life, friends ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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 6.9
 258
Virgil Bliss (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Fresh out of a long stretch in prison, Virgil Bliss (Clint Jordan) vows to go straight in this gritty, character-driven drama. But finding a job, a wife and a sense of purpose doesn't come easy when you're living in a halfway house ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, independent film
Plot: prostitute, going straight, prison, redemption, downfall, starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, rehabilitation, unlikely criminals, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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Framed (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler that always seems to loose his big scores. Framed by the film's villains ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, exciting, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, false accusation, political corruption, frame up, police corruption, dirty cop, explosions, nightclub, vengeance, violence, wrongful imprisonment, murder ...
Time: year 1975, 50s
Place: tennessee
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Pressure Point (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate (Bobby Darin) with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Style: political, psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: world war two, psychopath, prison, african, colonialism, nazi, therapy, black, blaxploitation, mental disorder, legion, foreign legion ...
Time: 1940s, year 1962, year 1942
Place: madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york
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 5.2
 261
Strange Fruit (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: New York attorney William Boyals has escaped the Louisiana bayou of his childhood, but he must return to investigate the death of a childhood friend who, like Boyals himself, was both black and gay.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: police corruption, racism, murder, small town, fighting the system, investigation, injustice, life is a bitch, society, rebellion, legal, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new york, southern usa
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 7.0
 776
The Five of Us (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In Montreal, the teenagers Manon, Anne, Isa, Claudie and Sophie are friends since their childhood. While spending a couple of days in the cottage of Sophie's parents nearby a lake, the girls decide to give a party, and Manon and Sophie hitch ...
Style: serious, emotional, psychological, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: rape victim, rape, friendship, murder, friends, introspection, haunted by the past, unfulfillment, fear, psychopath, paranoia, little girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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Horatio Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Horatio Homblower, now promoted to Acting Lieutenant, captures the French ship Le Reve off the Spanish coast. The Captain of the French ship is furious that such a youngster has pulled off such a coup. But far more daunting is Hornblower's ...
Style: period piece, feel good, serious, exciting, period drama
Plot: ship, napoleonic wars, sea battle, pirate, sailing, heroes, napoleonic era, sea, swashbuckler, seafaring, fish, royalty ...
Time: 18th century, victorian era, 19th century
Place: europe, england
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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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 6.4
 58K
Stand Up Guys (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After serving 28 years in prison for accidentally killing the son of a crime boss, newly paroled gangster Val reunites with his former partners in crime, Doc and Hirsch, for a night on the town. As the three men revisit old haunts, reflect on their ...
Style: humorous, talky, semi serious, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: aging, friendship, gang, gangster, life philosophy, redemption, mafia, criminal heroes, partners in crime, dishonesty, moral dilemma, revenge ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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 6.1
 2K
Low Down (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The daughter of jazz pianist Joe Albany witnesses her beloved father's struggle -- and failure -- to kick his heroin habit.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, aesthetic ...
Plot: jazz, asthma, music, addiction, heroin, pianist, coming of age, artists and showbiz, daughter, parents and children, family relations, biopic ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2014, 60s, year 1988 ...
Place: usa, los angeles
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 7.1
 35K
The Woodsman (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A paedophile returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
Style: disturbing, independent film, psychological, emotional, harsh ...
Plot: pedophilia, friendship, parole officer, pedophile, sexual perversion, starting over, ex convict, psychology, factory worker, suspicion, anger, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: philadelphia
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Wild in the Country (1961)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.
Style: retro, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
Plot: elvis presley, age-gap relationship, music, oath, doctor, false accusation, raccoon, greaser, going straight, hopes, doctors and patients, aging ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: virginia
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 7.3
 6K
The Eel (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: White-collar worker Yamashita finds out that his wife has a lover visiting her when he's away, suddenly returns home and kills her. After eight years in prison, he returns to live in a small village, opens a barber shop (he was trained as a ...
Style: enigmatic, captivating, psychological, touching, independent film ...
Plot: self discovery, starting over, human nature, social relations, hopes, crimes of passion, haunted by the past, murder, suicide attempt, prison, adultery, obsession ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 80s
Place: japan, asia
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Past Midnight (1991)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man gets out of prison after 15 years for stabbing his wife to death, and his social worker becomes convinced he was innocent. As she researches his case, and interviews other people who were involved, she begins to fall in love with him, as her ...
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: erotica, prison, home invasion, police officer killed, murder, sex scene, starting over, obsession, danger, going straight, fall in love, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, year 1975
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