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 6.5
 18K
Night Shift (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, talky, intense ...
Plot: pimp, prostitution, friendship, sex club, nightlife, cons and scams, misfit, nightclub, anger, elevator, argument, gangster ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 6.6
 22K
Summer School (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a "bonehead" English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand of teaching fun field trips begins to connect with ...
Style: funny, laugh out loud, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: teacher, summer, summer school, teenager, high school, teacher student relationship, teaching, teenage girl, gym teacher, dyslexia, underage drinking, chainsaw ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
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 7.8
 442K
Ghostbusters (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, monster, nerd, transformation, paranormal investigation, giant monster, chase, imagination, accountant, friendship, librarian ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, year 2016, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, nova scotia, usa
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 6.9
 100K
Another Earth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
Style: surreal, artsy, psychological, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot: parallel universe, parallel world, tragedy, guilt, grief, outer space, nasa, mysterious planet, space travel, solar system, cosmology, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Place: usa, mojave desert, boston, new haven connecticut, connecticut ...
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Fraternity Vacation (1985)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A nerd gains the friendship of two of his frat brothers when his dad offers them his condo for the week in Palm Springs, and also offers the fraternity a hot tub and jacuzzi if they can help his son find a girl. They meet two guys from a rival ...
Style: sex comedy, erotic, funny, independent film, not serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vacation, college, friendship, prank, loss of virginity, rivalry, party, college student, deception, jail, lust, voyeur ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: palm springs california, california, usa, iowa
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 7.7
 273K
First Blood (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo ...
Style: cult classic, serious, suspense, exciting, bloody ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: gunfight, one man army, vietnam war, manhunt, soldier, tough heroes, tough guy, danger, police brutality, escape, bad cop, lone wolves ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place: vietnam, washington state, usa, arizona
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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, clever ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: mistaken identity, fish out of water, farce, obsession, female protagonist, intrigue, adultery, magician's assistant, amnesia, women, on the run, feminist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city
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14 Days to Life (1997)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts. As a public relations gag, he hasn't paid his parking fines for two years and now insists on being ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, rough
Plot: prisoner, prison guard, jail, lawyer, law, courtroom, prison life, male rape, imprisonment, cocaine, small community, warden ...
Time: 90s
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 8.3
 4K
Karagar (2022)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: A prisoner appears in Akashnagar Central Jail's Cell No.145, which has been shut for 50 years, and claims immortality. Who is this mystery man, and what secrets does he hold inside him?
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot: prisoner, jail cell, jail, mysterious man, prison, undercover, secret, riddles and clues, problem, killer, mysterious character
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 6.8
 342
Il re (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Bruno applies his own personal idea of justice inside his prison while outside of it his life is far from ordered. When his kingdom unexpectedly comes under threat, he finds himself fighting the most difficult war of his life.
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, tense, captivating
Plot: corruption, jail, reformatory, prison life, prison warden, prison fight, jail cell, prison riot, prison guard, problem, jailed, prison brawl ...
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A Woman's Way (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story: George is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village. He spends his first night out in a cheap downtown hotel in Athens. There he meets Strella, a young transsexual prostitute. They ...
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: transsexual, incest, gender, prostitute, starting over, love and romance, hopes, greek, jail, gay, haunted by the past, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: greece, europe, athens greece
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 5.6
 17K
Wedding Daze (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of ...
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: wedding, couple relations, couples, proposal, fall in love, marriage proposal, eccentric family, marriage, jail, love and romance, hopes, prison escape ...
Time: year 2006
Place: atlantic city, new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
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 5.4
 716
Bright Angel (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.
Style: road movie, serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: destructive relationship, family problems, on the road, jail, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, teenage life, siblings relations, parents and children, brother, marital problem, hidden treasure ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, montana, wyoming
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Love, Cheat & Steal (1993)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The beautiful Lauren gets married with an older man. She is unexpectedly confronted with her ex, an escaped criminal.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, femme fatale, betrayal, dishonesty, jail, power relations, frame up, fight scenes, female nudity, watching sex, striptease, attempted rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: caribbean
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 6.1
 21K
In Hell (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
Style: harsh, stylized, brutal, emotional, intense ...
Plot: martial arts, revenge, prison, prison violence, murder, vengeance, redemption, prison escape, prison life, corruption, violence, warden ...
Time: year 2003
Place: russia
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 8.1
 188K
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, rough, intense ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: prison, escape, freedom, prison break, rebelliousness, death, prison escape, dignity, escape attempt, prison life, fugitive, prisoner ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1967, 60s
Place: florida, southern usa
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 7.7
 55K
Down by Law (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison escape, on the road, pimp, swamp, misfit, fight, character study, gangster, crime gone awry, escape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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 7.5
 73K
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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 7.6
 22K
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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 6.1
 47K
Big Stan (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Rob Schneider writes and stars in this comedy about a nerdy con man whose swindling ways land him a stiff prison sentence. Terrified at the prospect of being raped in prison he enlists the aid of a mysterious kung-fu expert to teach him how to fight.
Style: funny, entertaining, humorous, absurd, parody ...
Plot: martial arts, prison, prison life, corruption, mentor, justice, revolution, fight scenes, master warrior, guru, warden, jail ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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One of Us Is Lying (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The story of what happens when five high schoolers walk into detention and only four make it out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Audience: teen drama
Plot: lgbt teen, high school, detention, young adult, jail, gang, jailed, partners in crime, prison violence, criminal, teenager, whodunit ...
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 8.2
 561K
Green Book (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line relied on ...
Style: road movie, feel good, uplifting, funny, captivating ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: racism, road trip, travel, musician, interracial friendship, driver, friendship, racial prejudice, on the road, journey, black american, friend ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 1962, 20th century
Place: bronx new york city, southern usa, america, new york, nebraska ...
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 6.0
 101K
Lockout (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, space station, secret service, hotshot hero, outer space, rescue mission, hostage, lone hero, heroic mission, space, maximum security prison, prison fight ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, new york
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 7.7
 96K
The Experiment (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence—a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, rough, suspense ...
Plot: experiment, prison, torture, aggression, psychology, social experiment, isolation, degradation, abuse, sociology, violence, survival ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: germany, canada
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 6.9
 317K
Con Air (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When the government puts all its rotten criminal eggs in one airborne basket, it's asking for trouble. Before you can say, "Pass the barf bag," the crooks control the plane, led by creepy Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom. Watching ...
Style: exciting, suspense, serious, action packed, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: airplane, prison, hijacking, master criminal, aviation, law enforcement, machismo, convict, colombian drug cartel, fugitives, die hard, confined ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: utah, las vegas, usa, north america, nevada
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father ...
Style: political, sentimental, inspirational, dramatic, factual ...
Plot: prison, terrorist, lawyer, father son relationship, courtroom, terrorism, trial, biopic, legal, justice, politics, courtroom drama ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s, 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, britain, nepal ...
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The Great Escape (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners ...
Style: epic, suspenseful, suspense, clever, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly, family outing, manly, kids ...
Plot: world war two, prison, nazi, prison escape, motorcycle, pow, freedom, army, war, military, soldier, chase ...
Time: 1940s, year 1963, 20th century, 1900s
Place: germany, america, europe, switzerland, alps
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Street Fighters (1982)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for JACKIE BROWN) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, action adventure, psychotronic, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, jail, home invasion, gangster, vigilante justice, rape, urban, rape and revenge, underground ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: new york, usa
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Gloves of Stone (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Abner is trapped in the rough life of Mexico City. His escape? Boxing. Dr. Frank Irwin (Martin Sheen) and his son Jimmy, a pro boxer, come together to teach Abner that the heart fuels the punches we throw in life.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, jail, athlete's life, rise to the top, ambition, parents and children, once promising, athlete and trainer, rivalry, lifestyle, hopes, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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 7.7
 245K
Primal Fear (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, tense, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, trial, courtroom drama, psychology, lawyer, murder, courtroom, psychopath, corruption, manipulation ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
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