Films like The Stanford Prison Experiment
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.
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Escape from Sobibor
Film · 1987 · also drama and thrillerThe true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
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Land of the Blind
Film · 2006 · also drama and thrillerA soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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Lockdown
Film · 2000 · also drama and thrillerAvery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bo...
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Dead Man's Shoes
Film · 2004 · also drama and thrillerA soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.
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Lost Highway
Film · 1997 · also drama and thrillerA tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a pri...
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Stranger on the Third Floor
Film · 1940 · also drama and thrillerNewspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.
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Chopper
Film · 2000 · also drama and thrillerThe true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.
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Triumph of the Spirit
Film · 1989 · also drama and historyDuring World War II, Salamo Arouch, a passionate boxer, is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. Soon, he is forced to box against his fellow prisoners for the sake...
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Suburbia
Film · 1984 · also drama and thrillerWhen household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each...
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The Nightingale
Film · 2018 · also drama and thrillerIn 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed...
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