Movies like Fast-Walking
If Fast-Walking's mix of prison, guard and revolutionary stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Fast-Walking's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Brubaker
1980 · Directed by Stuart Rosenberg · 131 min7.1
Why you'll like itWith Tim McIntire · Shares: prison · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (1980s)
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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Big Stan
2007 · Directed by Rob Schneider · 109 min6.7
Why you'll like itWith M. Emmet Walsh · Shares: prison · Also comedy and crime
A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.
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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 min8.4
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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The Night of the Hunter
1955 · Directed by Charles Laughton · 93 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also crime and drama
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
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Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Directed by Stuart Rosenberg · 127 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
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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White Heat
1949 · Directed by Raoul Walsh · 114 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also crime and drama
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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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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Bronson
2009 · Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn · 92 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
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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The Longest Yard
1974 · Directed by Robert Aldrich · 121 min6.8
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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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…
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The Green Mile
1999 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 189 min8.5
Why you'll like itAlso drama and crime
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.