Movies like PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad) (2024)
The best movies like PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad) (2024) are 20,000 Species of Bees (2023), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Brute Force (1947). If PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad) hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad)
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLost Highway (1997)7.6/10 from 3,131 votes
- Newest20,000 Species of Bees (2023)Released 2023
- In Spanish20,000 Species of Bees (2023)Also in Spanish
20,000 Species of Bees (2023)
Lucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity alongside the women of her family who at the same time reflect on their own femininity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBrute Force (1947)
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Mustang (2019)
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNowhere to Run (1993)
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRiot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEscape from Alcatraz (1979)
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLost Highway (1997)
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPrison 77 (2022)
Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. A young accountant, awaiting trial for embezzlement with a possible 20 years sentence, joins a group of prisoners demanding amnesty.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMemoria (2021)
After hearing a loud 'bang' at daybreak, a Scottish woman begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Unforgivable (2021)
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Haunting of Alcatraz (2020)
Alcatraz. 1937. A young prison guard working the night shift experiences a string of chilling disturbances culminating in the bizarre death of an inmate at the most famous prison in the world
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaze (2017)
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisPacto de Fuga (2020)
During the last years of Pinochet's military regime, a group of militants from the "Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front" plan a prison break of political prisoners, through a tunnel that will take them 18 months to dig.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPapillon (2017)
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLock Up (1989)
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFelon (2008)
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPoison (1991)
A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual relationship between two prison inmates.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBirdman of Alcatraz (1962)
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGet the Gringo (2012)
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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What are the best movies like PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad)?
The closest matches to PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad) are 20,000 Species of Bees (2023), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) and Brute Force (1947). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad)?
Start with 20,000 Species of Bees (2023), the closest match to PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad).
What is the highest-rated movie like PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad)?
Lost Highway (1997), rated 7.6/10 by 3,131 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad)?
20,000 Species of Bees (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad)?
Yes: 20,000 Species of Bees (2023), Prison 77 (2022) and Memoria (2021).
How are movies similar to PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad) chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside PTPL (Personas Trans Privadas de la Libertad), then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.