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Nothing But Trouble (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While attempting to seduce gorgeous lawyer Diane Lightson, wealthy gadabout Chris Thorne agrees to drive her to Atlantic City, N.J. But, when some reckless driving draws the attention of a deeply critical cop, they and the flamboyant ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, melancholic, disturbing, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: chase, small town, dysfunctional family, justice, on the run, hip hop, eccentric family, disorder, buddies, nothing goes right, danger, goofy hero ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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 6.3
 23K
Sommersby (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in the south of the United States just after the Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband Jack, believed killed in the Civil War. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he ...
Style: romantic, touching, psychological, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot: mistaken identity, husband wife relationship, village life, love, american civil war, civil war, courtroom drama, war, war veteran, suspicion of murder, haunted by the past, civil war veteran ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, 50s, year 1993, victorian era
Place: tennessee, southern usa, usa
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 6.8
 40K
The Crucible (1996)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The movie is centered around the Salem Massachusetts witch trials of 1692. The movie is based on the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. He also wrote the screen play adaptation.
Style: talky, suspense, disturbing, rough, dramatic ...
Plot: witch, witch hunt, salem witch trial, courtroom drama, witchcraft, colonial america, legal, politics, vengeance, curse, court, manipulation ...
Time: 17th century, 90s
Place: massachusetts, salem massachusetts, usa, new england
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 8.7
 106K
Oz (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies.
Style: rough, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison life, prison, life is a bitch, confined, violence spree, rape, homosexual rape, gay, rapist, strong sexual content, gang violence, racism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york
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 7.8
 17K
12 Angry Men (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices. The film is adapted by Reginald Rose from his own 1957 ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, talky, clever ...
Plot: courtroom drama, jury, legal action, argument, trial, murder, court, courtroom, lawyer, uncover truth, legal, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles
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 8.0
 85K
The Sea Inside (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman ...
Style: sad, thought provoking, emotional, philosophical, touching ...
Plot: disability, euthanasia, biopic, human spirit, death, existentialism, suicide, handicapped, lawyer, depression, character study, life & death ...
Time: year 2004, y2k, 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place: spain, barcelona, europe, galicia, catalonia
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 7.6
 152K
Lost Highway (1997)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Style: surreal, neo noir, mind bending, atmospheric, confusing ...
Plot: insanity, surrealism, murder, doppelganger, parallel universe, transformation, graphic violence, hallucination, dream, time loop, erotica, art ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997, near future
Place: los angeles, persia, north america
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 6.0
 16K
The Chamber (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only ...
Style: suspense, emotional, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: courtroom drama, racism, legal, courtroom, murder, prison, ku klux klan, death sentence, haunted by the past, anti semitism, lawyer, politics ...
Time: 90s, year 1967, 60s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: mississippi, usa
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 7.2
 2K
Karma (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 193 min.
Story: When senior police inspector Vishwa Pratap Singh arrests Dr. Michael Dang, the leader of the international terrorist group PSO, the group blast the jail Dang is lodged in killing huge numbers of inmates including two of Vishwa's sons and his ...
Style: masala, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: revenge, death row, prison, terrorism, false accusation, prison life, disability, vigilantism, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, on the run, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: india
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 5.7
 249
The Ceremony (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man (Robert Walker) has an affair with his condemned brother's (Laurence Harvey) girlfriend (Sarah Miles) while plotting his escape in Tangier.
Style: noir, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, mistaken identity, death row, prisoner, escape, intrigue, life is a bitch, confined, investigation, chases and races, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: tangier morocco
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Letters from a Killer (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man is falsely convicted of the murder of his wife. During his time in jail, he finds comfort from four women with whom he corresponds. After his second court appearance, he is finally freed from prison only to be framed for yet 2 more murders ...
Style: psychological thriller, independent film, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, fugitives, serial murder, stalking, death row, false accusation, frame up, murder, wrongful conviction, best friend, life is a bitch, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: new orleans
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 5.4
 446
Crossed Over (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the book Crossed Over: A Murder/A Memoir by Beverly Lowry, Crossed Over tells the true story of a woman, Beverly Lowry, who after the tragic hit-and-run death of her teenage son, sinks into a deep depression. Lowry and her supportive ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, thought provoking ...
Plot: obsession, family problems, hopes, human nature, life is a bitch, murder, estrangement, redemption, friendship, curses spells and rituals, death in the family, prisoner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, usa, texas
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Paranormal Prison (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A paranormal investigation YouTube channel is getting ready to shut down if they don't have a video that goes viral in time. In this last ditch attempt, a long-time mystery is solved.
Style: scary, psychotronic, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, found footage, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, investigation, chase, danger, peril, supernatural power, rescue, death, friendship ...
Place: usa, idaho
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 3.2
 2K
Alienator (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kol is an evil guy about to be executed on a distant spaceship. He manages to escape on a shuttle and make his way to some woods in America. The commander of the spaceship decides to send out The Alienator to execute Kol at all costs. Kol meets up ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, independent film, exciting, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female bodybuilder, terminator, forest, apocalypse, evil alien, space opera, alien cop, invasion, exploitation, decapitation, prison, death row ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
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 3.7
 2K
Supernova (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 172 min.
Story: A international science conference is held in Australia when Dr. Austin Shepard mysteriously disappears Dr. Shepard's colleague, Christopher Richardson and other people are soon faced with the reality of an impending crisis and an attempt to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, universe, desert, survival, danger, astronomer, heroic mission, save the planet, escapades, natural disaster, violence, military ...
Time: 2000s
Place: australia, africa, taj mahal, tokyo, sydney australia ...
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 4.4
 2K
Army (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Arjun and Geeta are a young couple, who are deeply in love with each other. They get married, and soon are proud parents. Arjun gets in the bad books of a notorious gangster named Nagraj, and is brutally killed. When Geeta finds out she decides to ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: murder, death of husband, good versus evil, revenge, widow, villain, death row, prison, female protagonist, heroine, evil man, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india
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Summer in Bethlehem (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Summer in Bethlahem movie tells the story is all set in a hill station (Ooty) where a rich man comes with his five grand daughters for vacation. The fifth girl Abhirami(Manju Warrier) who is very smart, and she is the favourite of the grandfather. ...
Style: romantic
Plot: country estate, death row, friends, secret admirer, kitten, gift, delivery man, friend, train, prison, farm, convict ...
Time: year 1998
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 3.6
 240
Stuck! (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Beautiful young Daisy feels stuck working as a shopgirl by day and caring for her ailing mother by night. A suicide gone wrong leaves Daisy wrongly imprisoned, while the neighbor whose testimony put her away struggles with guilt. A tongue-in-cheek ...
Style: independent film, neo noir
Audience: adult
Plot: prison, women in prison, lesbian relationship, lesbian, jail, security guard, prisoner, female nudity, guilt, suicide, prison guard, diary ...
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 8.3
 575K
Prison Break (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: prison, fugitives, escape, prison life, conspiracy, determination, confined, fbi, scheme, brother, self sacrifice, siblings relations ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, california, texas, usa
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 6.8
 30K
Dead Again (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hypnosis, murder, memory loss, private detective, dual role, reincarnation, amnesia, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural, mysterious character, nightmare ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: los angeles, san francisco, usa
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Bangkok Hilton (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Kat Stanton (Kidman), an Australian woman searching for her father who, whilst travelling back from London to Australia via Thailand, makes friends with Arkie Ragan (Ehlers), a photographer. Kat is tricked into carrying some luggage ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, detective, disturbing
Plot: prison, escape, betrayal, injustice, interracial relations, heroin, fighting the system, smuggling, false accusation, prison life, women in prison, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Place: thailand, asia, australia, london, bangkok thailand ...
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 8.1
 40K
Raising Hope (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: James "Jimmy" Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his oddball but well-intentioned family for ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, not serious, realistic, hilarious ...
Plot: youth, family life, babies and infants, living with parents, eccentric family, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, single father, family relations, stupidity, parenthood, immature ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Killer by Nature (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos. Having just joined the medical school, he has to move to another town, but he is divided between the ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, nightmare comes true, murder, investigation, who done it, doctors and patients, danger, couples, love and romance, death row, nightmare, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Murder in the First (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story. A petty criminal sent to Alcatraz in the 1930s is caught attempting to make an escape. As punishment he is put in solitary confinement. The maximum stay is supposed to be 19 days, but Henri spends years alone, cold and in ...
Style: dramatic, suspense, emotional, depressing, period piece ...
Plot: prison, courtroom, alcatraz, lawyer, courtroom drama, court, legal, justice, murder, escape attempt, prisoner, politics ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1941, year 1938
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa
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Live! From Death Row (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Convicted killer Laurence Dvorak grants an exclusive last interview to TV newswoman Alana Powers shortly before his scheduled execution. Urbane and unrepentant, he seems almost mild at first. But Dvorak's real intention is revealed when he ...
Plot: serial killer, found footage, execution, death row, death sentence, psychopath, television, hostage, prison, social commentary
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Reversible Errors (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story: A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Plot: legal, false accusation, investigation, frame up, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, lovers reunited, dedicated lawyer, police detective, law enforcement, fighting the system ...
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
Style: serious, scary, grindhouse, psychotronic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, dracula, vampire, frankenstein, mad scientist, missing person, laboratory, frankenstein's monster, experiment gone awry, investigation, rivalry, hidden identity ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: california, las vegas, venice california
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The Bloody Judge (1970)
Genre: Biography, Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain, Liechtenstein
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord Chancellor in England torn by strife between the reigning King James II and William of Orange. ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse, bleak ...
Plot: exploitation, judge, witchcraft, torture, executioner, dishonesty, false accusation, courtroom drama, attempted rape, female nudity, tragic hero, life is a bitch ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england, europe
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Terminal Island (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the wake of a Supreme Court decision to outlaw the death penalty, California passes an initiative that designates San Bruno island as a dumping spot for first-degree murder convicts, free to do what they like except leave. The main camp of ...
Style: independent film, grindhouse, action thriller, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, women in prison, female nudity, convict, island, 666, martial arts, woman with a gun, black, blaxploitation, occult, bare chested male ...
Time: 70s
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 6.5
 105
7 Suns (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A man called "The Black" is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. He wants to quit the smuggling business and claims this is his last trip. His superiors, now suspicious, send Gavilan, a younger ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, disturbing
Plot: desert, injustice, social differences, working class, life is a bitch, society, journalism, border, immigrant, death row, unlikely partners, obnoxious boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, mexico
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