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 7.6
 223
Black Sash (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Black Sash is an American action adventure drama television series starring Russell Wong. It ran from March 30, 2003, to June 1, 2003. Including pilots, a total of eight episodes were made, however only six episodes were aired on The WB.
Style: disturbing, captivating
Plot: martial arts, ex convict, uncover truth, family relations, master warrior, fight, fighting crime, crime investigation, investigation, sleuth, father daughter relationship, crime solving ...
Place: san francisco
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Oh, the Mysterious (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Il Seung was wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned, and has spent ten years on death row. He manages to break out of prison and somehow becomes a fake cop, then sets out to find a hidden stash of 100 billion won (nearly 100 million dollars) on ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, semi serious, entertaining
Plot: ex convict, investigation, personality change, money problems, criminal, new identity, escapades, hidden identity, escaped prisoner, male female relationship, money, police officer ...
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 8.4
 79
Ugly Alert (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Gong Joon-soo is a man who's had a rough life and early on had to fend for himself. He takes the blame for a murder his younger sibling commits and serves time in prison. There he learns to sew and acquires a trade. With his newly acquired ...
Style: captivating, sincere, dorama
Plot: ex convict, romantic relationship, relationships, love and romance, fall in love, couple relations, love affair, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coworker, accused of murder, love story ...
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 6.7
 6K
Outside In (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, compassionate, suspenseful, cult classic
Plot: ex convict, small town, infidelity, unemployed, school teacher, socially awkward, love, family drama, male female friendship, fall in love, complex characters, life philosophy ...
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Spenser Confidential (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Spenser, a former Boston patrolman who just got out from prison, teams up with Hawk, an aspiring fighter, to unravel the truth behind the death of two police officers.
Style: action comedy, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: police corruption, tough guy, one against many, conspiracy, police, ex convict, ex-cop, corrupt cop, organized crime, revenge, corruption, drug smuggling ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: boston
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 8.0
 1K
Crimi Clowns (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Wesley Tersago is a student at the movie academy of Amsterdam. When he get suspended after 4 years. Then he goes to his father who is the head of a criminal gang. After a robbery of an electro store he's filming the illegal activities of the ...
Style: realistic, rough, humorous, not serious
Plot: criminal heroes, family relations, double life, artists and showbiz, thief, gang, disorder, lifestyle, profanity, mob boss, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: amsterdam, europe, holland
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 6.8
 14K
Red Road (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jackie is a CCTV operator. Each day, she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she hoped ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: voyeurism, stalking, video surveillance, revenge, couples, couple relations, female nudity, voyeur, vengeance, danger, dishonesty, ex convict ...
Time: year 2006
Place: glasgow scotland, britain, europe, scotland
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 7.2
 16K
City of Men (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Style: tense, bleak, harsh, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, street gang, slum, betrayal, coming of age, favela, relationships, best friend, character study, brutality, storytelling, adaptation ...
Time: year 2008, year 2007, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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Les Misérables (2000)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 400 min.
TV show
Story: The scene is set during the French Restoration at the beginning of the 19th century. Jean Valjean, a galley slave who was sent to prison for stealing food, is now released after serving nineteen years. At first he only encounter mistrust and closed ...
Style: suspense, emotional, melancholic, serious, touching ...
Plot: redemption, justice, injustice, depression, mayor, on the run, thief, haunted by the past, ex convict, napoleonic era, revolution, manhunt ...
Time: 19th century, regency period, 1830s
Place: europe, paris france, france
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 7.5
 345K
Les Misérables (2012)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.
Style: inspirational, epic, emotional, period piece, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, adult
Plot: rebellion, redemption, orphan, suicide, parole, historical character, revolution, adaptation, broadway, father daughter relationship, dying man, prostitute ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s, year 2012, 1800s, 18th century ...
Place: france, paris france, seattle, europe
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 5.8
 10K
Waist Deep (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ex-convict (Tyrese) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
Style: hood, intense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, hip hop, gangster, chase, african american, urban, african american gangster, revenge, car chase, ghetto, black, ex convict ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 5.2
 507
The Marker (2017)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman's ghost.
Style: psychological, bleak, captivating, enigmatic, neo noir ...
Plot: ex convict, redemption, ghost, regret, guilt, murder, sex scene, machete, kidnapped girl, electroshock therapy, female nudity, caress ...
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 6.2
 674
Downriver (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: James has served time for drowning a little boy when he was a child, although the body was never found in the river. A visit from his victim's mother upon parole sends him on a quest to find the truth. With little time and danger at every turn, ...
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, queer cinema
Plot: gay interest, gay teenager, gay, child murder, cover up, lgbt, gay sex, masturbation, gay son, ex convict, dysfunctional family, uncover truth ...
Place: australia
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 5.5
 356
Road Dogz (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: "Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) are lifelong friends who have spent their days ...
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: latinx lead, ex convict, tragedy, murder, criminal, robbery, drug dealer, friend, money, ghetto, prison, gang ...
Place: los angeles, california
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Manhattan Chase (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After six years as a guest of the state, mob hit man Jason Reed wants nothing more than to get an honest job and spend time with his young son, Tommy. He is not ten steps outside of the prison before being greeted by Keither, an old crony anxious to ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: martial arts, abusive husband, ex convict, kidnapping, drug, released from prison, drug deal, fight, father son reunion, policewoman, father son relationship, murder ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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 8.1
 3K
The King (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A 35-year old man, just released from jail, decides to make a clean break from the big city and his troubled past. He retreats to the abandoned village his father came from and moves into an old, collapsing house. Alone, far from the bigger village ...
Style: touching, suspenseful, sincere, psychological, tension
Plot: drug addict, ex convict, prisoner, stranger, isolation, fight, rejection, farmhouse, pariah, gang, danger, community ...
Place: greece, athens greece, hellas
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 6.8
 363
Magic Mirror (2005)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Portugal
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Luciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy Alfreda. He was surprised when she told him that her greatest desire was to see the Virgin Mary. Now comes this rich land owner with her sublime ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, disturbing, offbeat
Plot: dull life, society, obsession, religions or cults, dishonesty, social differences, cons and scams, estate, ex convict, released from prison, religion, virgin mary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal, europe, venice
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 5.9
 89K
Analyze That (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, stylized, not serious ...
Plot: mafia, organized crime, mob hit, prison, psychiatrist, going straight, introspection, family problems, hopes, doctors and patients, buddies, job seeking ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 5.7
 538
Broken Law (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Dave Connolly is a respected member of the Garda Síochána but his loyalty to the law gets tested by his ex-convict brother Joe who is in desperate need of his help.
Style: psychological, suspense, realistic, serious, crime drama
Plot: ex convict, brother, loyalty, homelessness, police corruption, twists and turns, family problems, brother brother relationship, dark past, tragic hero, justice, family drama ...
Place: ireland
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 6.3
 171
Délivrez-Moi (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After spending a decade in prison, Annie returns to her hometown, and tries to reconnect with her now-adolescent daughter Sophie.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious
Plot: released from prison, child custody, murder, mother daughter relationship, women's prison, ex convict, small town, island, nudity, sex, flashback, female nudity ...
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Ash Is Purest White (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: China, France, Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him.
Style: captivating, touching, exciting, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: criminal underworld, violence, murder, ex convict, friendship, love and romance, danger, couples, woman with a gun, love hurts, smoking, asian ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: china
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In the Aisles (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: After losing his brick laying job, Christian begins to work at a supermarket.
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, sincere, clever ...
Plot: supermarket, christmas, ex convict, suicide, birthday, tattoo, cemetery, funeral, partner, shyness, workplace, fall in love ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany, central europe
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 5.6
 2K
Getaway Plan (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A thief expert with blowtorch is hired by a group of the Russian mob for a bank assault.
Style: serious, suspense, tense, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: friendship, love interest, ex convict, husband wife relationship, police, raid, tunnel, money, agent, heist, cop, female nudity ...
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A Few Hours of Spring (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship to rise to the surface. Alain then discovers that his mother has a fatal illness. In the last ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, gloomy
Plot: suicide, euthanasia, family relations, last wish, disease, estrangement, life is a bitch, elderly, parents and children, deadend life, mother, mercy killing ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, switzerland, europe
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 2.8
 416
Bloodbrothers (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 30-year-old Jon is released after seven years in prison and decides to put all his criminal activities behind him and start a new life.
Plot: released from prison, starting over, ex convict, one last job, art theft, cocaine, heist, library, brother brother relationship, criminal, prison
Place: eastern europe
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The Law of the Weakest (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In Liège, a group of men gathers every day in a café situated near the steel factory which once reigned supreme. They play cards in a warm atmosphere but that hardly masks their quiet desperation. All unemployed, either because they can't ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: crime gone awry, life is a bitch, couple relations, friendship, down on your luck, factory, working class, ex convict, desperation, plan, murder, hostage ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
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 5.4
 1K
The Code (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, going straight, gang, betrayal, dishonesty, crime gone awry, drug dealing, prison, ex convict, organized crime, friendship between men ...
Time: year 2002
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 6.4
 7K
Levity (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the paroled man attempts to find ...
Style: touching, emotional, melancholic, philosophical, psychological ...
Plot: murder, prison, friendship, robbery, justice, gang, going straight, haunted by the past, human nature, rehabilitation, ex convict, parole ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
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 5.8
 771
Coastlines (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An ex-con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local sheriff.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: infidelity, going straight, vengeance, starting over, couples, family problems, human nature, dishonesty, rehabilitation, love and romance, friendship, love affair ...
Place: florida, usa
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 5.9
 2K
Arang (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A salt storehouse near the sea may be haunted. A penniless ex-con dies a gristly death in a house he can ill afford. The detectives assigned the case are Min, newly reinstated after a suspension, and Lee, a new transfer from forensics. Min has ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, afterlife, murder, sexual abuse, law enforcement, supernatural, rivalry, danger, grudge, ex convict, revenge, disappearance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seoul, asia, korea, south korea
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