Movies like Doing Time
If Doing Time's mix of prison and prisoner stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Doing Time's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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In Hell
2003 · Directed by Ringo Lam Ling-Tung · 96 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison, prisoner · From the same decade (2000s)
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
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The Longest Yard
1974 · Directed by Robert Aldrich · 121 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also comedy and drama
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an early release, but he is also concerned…
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Bad Boys
1983 · Directed by Rick Rosenthal · 123 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile…
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Bronson
2009 · Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn · 92 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: prison · From the same decade (2000s)
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
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Lock Up
1989 · Directed by John Flynn · 109 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison
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.
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Nowhere to Run
1993 · Directed by Robert Harmon · 94 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: prisoner
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.