Movies like Escape from Hell
If Escape from Hell's mix of prison, rape and sadism stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Escape from Hell's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Avengement
2019 · Directed by Jesse V. Johnson · 88 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: prison, prison escape · Also crime and thriller
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
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Chopper
2000 · Directed by Andrew Dominik · 94 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison, brutality · Also crime and thriller
The 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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The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Directed by Jonathan Demme · 119 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: prison, brutality · Also crime and thriller
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for…
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Se7en
1995 · Directed by David Fincher · 127 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: sadism · Also crime and thriller
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison, prison escape
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
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American History X
1998 · Directed by Tony Kaye · 119 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: prison, rape
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader…
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The House That Jack Built
2018 · Directed by Lars von Trier · 152 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: sadism · Also crime and thriller
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for…
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Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017 · Directed by S. Craig Zahler · 132 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also crime and thriller
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in…
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Strange Darling
2024 · Directed by JT Mollner · 97 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: rape · Also crime and thriller
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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Green Room
2016 · Directed by Jeremy Saulnier · 95 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: brutality · Also crime and thriller
Members of a punk rock band and a tough young woman are forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
1986 · Directed by John McNaughton · 83 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: rape · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (1980s)
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
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The Girl Next Door
2007 · Directed by Gregory Wilson · 91 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: rape · Also thriller and crime
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth.