Movies Like Trans Prison
If you liked Trans Prison (2018), a romance movie directed by Jim Powers, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The Hot Spot (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also romanceUpon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
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True Romance (1993)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceClarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
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My Beautiful Jinjiimaa (2003)
Also romanceMy Beautiful Jinjiimaa is an emotional romantic drama in a setting few in the U.S. have ever seen. A deaf woman, Jinjiimaa, is raped by the local party Chairman, and shoots her attacker. Her lifelong friend, lame…
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Great Freedom (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also romanceIn post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans Hoffmann is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Nevertheless, over the decades, he…
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Ariel (1988)
★ 7.1/10Also romanceA Finnish man goes to the city to find a job after the mine where he worked is closed and his father commits suicide.
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Walk the Line (2005)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceA chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and…
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The Docks of New York (1928)
★ 7/10Also romanceA blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
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Bringing Up Baby (1938)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceDavid Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.
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The Right to Love (1972)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceThe tragedy of Helene and her husband Pierre, whose life is shattered when Pierre is kept as a political prisoner, while Helene is denied the right to visit him. A growing fear of losing her husband to tuberculosis…
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Chasers (1994)
★ 5.4/10Also romanceMilitary men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip. Toni, an enlistee who's in trouble for deserting her unit, soon…
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Mrs. Soffel (1984)
★ 6/10Also romanceKate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through…
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I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
★ 6.9/10Also romanceMary Marshall, serving six years for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the journey, she meets Zach Morgan, a…
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Quartet (1981)
★ 5.8/10Also romanceWhen her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
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Cupcake (2014)
Also romanceLena and Karin have known each other for six years and have gotten really close to each other. When freedom is coming up for one of them, it's not as happy as it should have been.
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The Night Angel (1931)
★ 4.9/10Also romanceIn this crime drama, a Prague DA must close down a house of prostitution masquerading as a cafe. He sends the owner's daughter to a nurse's home until her mother is released. When the happy day comes, he goes to visit…
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Beneath Clouds (2002)
★ 6.3/10Also romanceThe story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey…
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No Man of Her Own (1932)
★ 6.5/10Also romanceAn on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he's a businessman.
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LUZ (2020)
★ 5.5/10Also romanceRuben and Carlos become cellmates in a minimum-security prison. While Ruben struggles to learn the ropes of daily life and where he falls in the complex hierarchical prison system, Carlos becomes a mentor and then…
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A Drifting Story (1960)
★ 6.5/10Also romanceThis melodrama follows the trials and tribulations of a single mother who dares to love. Hyun Hee (Mun Jeong Suk) makes a living running a coffee house. She has to support her illegitimate daughter and mother, and bear…
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In the Room (2015)
★ 4.6/10Also romanceThis sensitive and sensual film draws together several narratives spanning several decades, all of them transpiring in the same room of the same Singaporean hotel — and all of them involving sex.