Movies like Apprentice
If Apprentice's mix of prison, death penalty and hangman stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Apprentice's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Life of David Gale
2003 · Directed by Alan Parker · 130 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison, death penalty
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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Dead Man Walking
1995 · Directed by Tim Robbins · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: prison, death penalty
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
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The Green Mile
1999 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 189 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: death penalty
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments.
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Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Directed by Stuart Rosenberg · 127 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's…
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Felon
2008 · Directed by Ric Roman Waugh · 103 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prison
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 · Directed by Héctor Babenco · 120 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison
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.
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019 · Directed by Joe Berlinger · 111 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison · From the same decade (2010s)
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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The Mustang
2019 · Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre · 96 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: prison · From the same decade (2010s)
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…
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Bronson
2009 · Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn · 92 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: prison
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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In Hell
2003 · Directed by Ringo Lam Ling-Tung · 96 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
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True Crime
1999 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 127 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: death penalty
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly…
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Gangster No. 1
2000 · Directed by Paul McGuigan · 103 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison
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…