20 movies like The Farm: Angola, USA, ordered by similarity : Cocaine Cowboys II: Hustlin' With the Godmother(2008), Papillon(2017), Woodpeckers(2017), Love Crimes of Kabul(2011), South Central(1992), Maze(2017), The Prisoner or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair(2006), The Raid 2(2014), Standard Operating Procedure(2008), The Thin Blue Line(1988), Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer(1992), Capturing the Friedmans(2003) ...
7.4/10
Documentary
USA
1998
93 Minutes
Jonathan Stack
prisoner warden parole officer fascinating shocking prison louisiana imprisonment justice race relations human nature transformation quest 1990s
Documentary depicting day to day life in Angola Prison mostly from an inmate's perspective. Interviews are with several inmates including one with a life sentence who is about to die.
6.7/10
Documentary, Crime, Drama, History
USA
2008
101 Minutes
Nelson Andreu Raul Diaz Bob Palumbo Al Singleton
drug dealer son convict woman drug addict police officer gripping fascinating dark oakland, calif. prison miami ghetto drug trade crime ring partnership investigation griselda blanco charles cosby temptation
Set in 1991 on the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine dealer Charles Cosby has his life changed forever when he writes a fan letter to the "Cocaine Godmother" Griselda ... See full summary »
7.2/10
Adventure, History, Biography, Drama
USA|Czech Republic|Spain
2017
133 Minutes
Charlie Hunnam Rami Malek Roland Møller Nina Senicar Tommy J. Flanagan Eve Hewson Christopher Fairbank Brian Vernel
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Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Jean Jean Ramón Emilio Candelario Judith Rodriguez Jose Cruz Manuel Raposo Karina Valdez Aleja Johnson Carlota Carretero Keunis Álvarez Orestes Amador
prison guard prisoner prisoners messenger gangsters love interest romantic interest romantic rival rival dark disturbing emotional engaging gripping intense moving passionate powerful raw tense
Incarcerated in the Dominican Republic, an inmate uses sign language to communicate with his imprisoned girlfriend at an adjacent institution.
6.9/10
Documentary
USA
2011
72 Minutes
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LOVE CRIMES OF KABUL is an intimate portrait of three young Afghani women accused of committing "moral crimes" such as premarital sex and running away from home. As we follow them from ... See full summary »
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1992
99 Minutes
Glenn Plummer Byron Keith Minns Lexie D. Bigham Vincent Craig Dupree LaRita Shelby Kevin Best Allan Hatcher Christian Coleman Ivory Ocean Starletta DuPois Carl Lumbly
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A former gangster fresh out of prison wants to change his life for the better and must save his 10 year old son who has already chosen a gang life.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2017
92 Minutes
Martin McCann Niamh McGrady Tom Vaughan-Lawlor Barry Ward Eileen Walsh Andy Kellegher David Coakley Seán T. Ó Meallaigh Aaron Monaghan James Browne Ross McKinney
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Inspired by the true events of the 1983 breakout of 38 Irish Republican prisoners from the Maze prison in Northern Ireland.
6.8/10
Documentary
Germany|USA
2006
54 Minutes
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A freedom-loving Iraqi journalist is mistaken as Tony Blair's would-be assassin and sent to Abu Ghraib Prison where he discovers the true meaning of liberation.
8.0/10
Crime, Sports & Fitness, Drama, Action
Indonesia|USA
2014
148 Minutes
Iko Uwais Yayan Ruhian Arifin Putra Oka Antara Tio Pakusadewo Alex Abbad Julie Estelle Cok Simbara Cecep Arif Rahman Very Tri Yulisman Ryuhei Matsuda
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Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.
7.4/10
Documentary, War, Crime, Drama
USA
2008
116 Minutes
Megan Ambuhl Graner Javal Davis Ken Davis Anthony Diaz Tim Dugan Lynndie England
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Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.
8.0/10
Documentary
USA
1988
106 Minutes
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A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
Documentary
1992
87 Minutes
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Nick Broomfield explores the media circus surrounding the case of America's first textbook female serial killer.
7.7/10
Documentary, Biography
USA
2003
107 Minutes
David Friedman Jesse Friedman
father son brother mother victim police officer creepy emotional family home great neck, n.y. suburbia prison child molestation family wretched excess fall mystery 2000s
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
7.6/10
Biography, Drama
UK|USA
1978
121 Minutes
Brad Davis Randy Quaid John Hurt Bo Hopkins Paul L. Smith Mike Kellin Norbert Weisser Irene Miracle Paolo Bonacelli Michael Ensign Kevork Malikyan
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Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
8.2/10
Drama
USA
1932
93 Minutes
Paul Muni Glenda Farrell Helen Vinson Preston Foster Edward Ellis Allen Jenkins Noel Francis Berton Churchill
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Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
7.9/10
Documentary, Crime, Drama
New Zealand|USA
2012
150 Minutes
Michael Baden Jason Baldwin John Mark Byers Lorri Davis Johnny Depp
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An examination of a failure of justice in the case against the West Memphis Three.
7.6/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
98 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Hume Cronyn Charles Bickford Yvonne De Carlo Ann Blyth Ella Raines Anita Colby Sam Levene Howard Duff Art Smith Roman Bohnen
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At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.
7.4/10
Drama
Brazil|USA
1985
119 Minutes
William Hurt Raul Julia Sonia Braga José Lewgoy Nuno Leal Maia Antonio Petrim Denise Dumont Milton Gonçalves Patricio Bisso Herson Capri Nildon Parrente
political prisoner gay man woman convict warden fascinating tender prison argentina politics imprisonment homosexuality fantasy storytelling unlikely friendship transformation discovery 1980s
A gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.
6.5/10
Drama
Singapore|Germany|France|Hong Kong|Qatar
2016
96 Minutes
Firdaus Rahman Wan Hanafisu Mastura Ahmad Boon Pin Koh Nickson Cheng Crispian Chan Gerald Chew
prison guard prisoner executioner apprentice sister father brooding emotional intense prison apartment execution chamber market car street prison execution guilt anger acceptance
Inevitably, a transfer to a maximum security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.
7.1/10
Biography, Drama
UK|Cayman Islands|Denmark|USA
2008
92 Minutes
Tom Hardy Kelly Adams Luing Andrews Katy Barker Amanda Burton Mark Devenport Paul Donnelly Andrew Forbes Jon House Matt King James Lance
prisoner fighter prison guard promoter wife teacher brutal unrestrained gritty england prison cell solitary confinement prison life michael peterson solitary confinement crime criminal justice system alter ego underdog
A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.
6.1/10
Drama, Crime, Mystery & Thriller
Canada
2020
125 Minutes
Antoine Pilon Josh Hartnett Stephen McHattie Jim Gaffigan Cory Lipman Don McKellar J.C. MacKenzie Amanda Crew Rose-Marie Perreault Frank Schorpion Lanisa Dawn
drug addict prisoner canadian bleak shocking tense thailand prison canada imprisonment investigative journalism drug trafficking true crime false accusations discovery fall transformation rescue 1990s
In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.
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