Movies like Down Time
If Down Time's mix of prison stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Down Time'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 itShares: prison · 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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GoodFellas
1990 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 145 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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High Sierra
1941 · Directed by Raoul Walsh · 100 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prison · 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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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019 · Directed by Joe Berlinger · 111 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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Bad Boys
1983 · Directed by Rick Rosenthal · 123 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also crime and drama
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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The Informer
2019 · Directed by Andrea Di Stefano · 109 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the…