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Plot Summary:
A Sense of Freedom is a 1979 British crime film directed by John Mackenzie for Scottish television. The film starred David Hayman and featured Hector Nicol & Fulton Mackay, is a based on the book of the true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 602
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Silent Scream (1990)
Plot Summary:
A biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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G.B.H (1983)
Plot Summary:
Superstar bouncer Steve Donovan is pulled back into the world of gang violence when he accepts the role of door protector at an upmarket club in Manchester.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: offbeat
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Johnny Firecloud (1975)
Plot Summary:
An American Indian war veteran avenges the hanging of his grandfather by local thugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, tension, grindhouse, suspense
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Acts of Violence (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man named Flyn (Il Lim) is on a mission on killing the men who raped his wife Olivia (Leelee Sobieski). He finds himself living a double life as a killer and a husband. He finds an unexpected friend, a priest (Ron Perlman), as he deals with the gravity of his acts. The story comes to a climactic end when Flyn finds out he is in a battle he has already lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Villain (1971)
Plot Summary:
It tells the story of ruthless East End gangster Vic Dakin and his plans for an ambitious raid on the wages van of a plastic factory. This is a departure from Dakin's usual modus operandi, and the job is further complicated by his having to work with fellow gangster Frank Fletcher's firm. As Dakin plots, Wolfe wheels and deals and MP Draycott gets caught in a web of his own iniquity.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, cult classic, independent film, banned, cult film
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Prison (1987)
Plot Summary:
After Charles Forsyth was sent to the electric chair for a crime he didn't commit, he forever haunts the prison where he was executed. Flash forward several years when the prison is reopened, under the control of its new warden Eaton Sharpe, a former security guard who framed Charlie. When prisoners are ordered to break down the wall to the execution room, they unknowingly release the angry spirit of Charles Forsyth, a powerful being distributing his murderous rage to all, leading up to the Warden himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slasher, atmospheric, retro, disturbing, cult classic, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Female Prisoner No. 701: Sasori (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nami Matsushima, prisoner #701 is sent to a Woman's Prison for attempted murder. Nami is brought into Number 2 community cell, where suicides and unnatural deaths occurred one after another. In the punishment cell, Nami begins to look back in her past. Nami had a lover named Sugimi, who was a successful company owner in the IT business world. After dealing with her horrible experiences, Nami seeks to escape from prison. Who will survive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexploitation film
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Blood in the Streets (1973)
Plot Summary:
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, retro, cult classic, action thriller, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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The Detention Girls (1969)
Plot Summary:
A pretty young college student is arrested during a demonstration. She is taken to a notorious detention center, where she is subjected to sexual harassment by lesbian inmates and guards, and becomes the target of a sadistic, bullwhip-wielding warden.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Reform School Girls (1986)
Plot Summary:
Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: disturbing, surreal, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, entertaining, cult classic, grindhouse, sexual
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Scum (1991)
Plot Summary:
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. Luckily the regime has changed since this TV film was made. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. Banned by the BBC for 14 years, the original television version of 'Scum' was finally aired in July 1991.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, controversial, independent film, banned film, banned
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Fight for Your Life (1977)
Plot Summary:
A minister dispenses justice on three convicts who take his family hostage.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, terrifying, independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Bonded by Blood 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the shadow of the Range Rover murders, drugs, violence and revenge continue to reign in a criminal underworld even darker and deadlier than before as a new generation of Essex Boys begin to carve their bloody mark.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Face (1997)
Plot Summary:
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Alcatraz (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of prisoners, led by an armed robber and a gangster, attempt to escape from the infamous Alcatraz Island.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
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Felon (2008)
Plot Summary:
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: brutal, realistic, tense, emotional, serious, sincere, social, grindhouse, cerebral, rough
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Cell 211 (2009)
Plot Summary:
The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the young guard trapped in the revolt, who poses as a prisoner in a desperate attempt to survive the ordeal.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, psychological, intense, tricky, rough, bleak, clever, dramatic, realistic
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Starred Up (2013)
Plot Summary:
19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already volatile relationship with his father is pushed past breaking point — Eric is approached by a volunteer psychotherapist, who runs an anger management group for prisoners. Torn between gang politics, prison corruption, and a glimmer of something better, Eric finds himself in a fight for his own life, unsure if his own father is there to protect him or join in punishing him.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, depressing, suspenseful, harsh, intense, captivating, rough, brutal
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McVicar (1980)
Plot Summary:
John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, independent film, cult film
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Bronson (2008)
Plot Summary:
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 139000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, stylized, harsh, bloody, rough, realistic, serious, art house, grindhouse, cerebral
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Bundy and the Green River Killer (2019)
Plot Summary:
A police detective consults with incarcerated serial killer Ted Bundy to help him catch The Green River Killer. Based on terrifying true life elements which inspired Silence of the Lambs. In 1984, police in Washington State are investigating a spate of serial murders committed by a mysterious man known as The Green River Killer. With no leads to go on, the detective in charge of the case consults with psychologists in an attempt to get inside the mind of the killer. But when that doesn't produce a positive result and the killings continue, the detective realizes that the only way to understand what makes a serial killer tick is to meet one. So he visits the imprisoned Ted Bundy, one of the most notorious serial killers in American history.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological, atmospheric, clever, suspense, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful
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Gangster No. 1 (2000)
Plot Summary:
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak, stylized, dark, neo noir, dramatic, controversial
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Bonded by Blood (2010)
Plot Summary:
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Scum (1979)
Plot Summary:
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. The film was originally made as a BBC play but it was banned before ever being shown.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, rough, tense, serious, controversial, offbeat, depressing, art house, grindhouse, cult classic
Similar in 77%
Midnight Express (1978)
Plot Summary:
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: disturbing, realistic, suspense, depressing, psychological, serious, tense, controversial, grim, bleak
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Brubaker (1980)
Plot Summary:
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspense, factual, harsh, serious, captivating, political, tense, psychological, edutainment
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Hunger (2008)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, political, sincere, depressing, art house, lyrical, rough, serious, visual
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The Experiment (2001)
Plot Summary:
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 prematurely when the experimenters lost control.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, thought provoking, tense, disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller, cerebral
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Shot Caller (2017)
Plot Summary:
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: clever, suspense, harsh, twist ending, crime thriller, hood, crime drama, tense, inspirational, sincere
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Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Plot Summary:
Escape from Alcatraz tells the story of the only three men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz. In 29 years, the seemingly impenetrable federal penitentiary, which housed Al Capone and "Birdman" Robert Stroud, was only broken once - by three men never heard of again.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, motivational, inspirational, neo noir, non fiction, crime drama