Movies like Levity
If Levity's mix of prison, robbery and police stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Levity's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itWith Morgan Freeman · Shares: prison, redemption · Also drama and crime
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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Shot Caller
2017 · Directed by Ric Roman Waugh · 121 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison, gang, criminal · Also crime and drama
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
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Faster
2010 · Directed by George Tillman Jr. · 98 min6.4
Why you'll like itWith Billy Bob Thornton · Shares: police, revenge · Also crime and drama
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.
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Johnny Handsome
1989 · Directed by Walter Hill · 94 min6.3
Why you'll like itWith Morgan Freeman · Shares: prison, robbery · Also crime and drama
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his…
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Avengement
2019 · Directed by Jesse V. Johnson · 88 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison, robbery, revenge
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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American Me
1992 · Directed by Edward James Olmos · 125 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: prison, gang · Also crime and drama
During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful,…
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High Sierra
1941 · Directed by Raoul Walsh · 100 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prison, robbery · Also crime and drama
Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.
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Gangster No. 1
2000 · Directed by Paul McGuigan · 103 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison, revenge · Also drama and crime · From the same decade (2000s)
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately…
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Drive
2011 · Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn · 100 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: robbery, revenge · Also drama and crime
Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio.
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Bound by Honor
1993 · Directed by Taylor Hackford · 190 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: gang · Also crime and drama
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A.
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The Unforgivable
2021 · Directed by Nora Fingscheidt · 112 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: redemption · Also drama and crime
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.
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Se7en
1995 · Directed by David Fincher · 127 min8.4
Why you'll like itWith Morgan Freeman · Shares: police
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…