Movies like Brute
If Brute's mix of prison, farewell and new love stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Brute's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Midnight Express
1978 · Directed by Alan Parker · 121 min7.4
Why you'll like itWith John Hurt · Shares: prison · Also drama and crime
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison.
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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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Scum
1979 · Directed by Alan Clarke · 96 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward.
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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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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 · Directed by Steven Spielberg · 115 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: farewell, operation
An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliott who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliott, his brother, and his little sister Gertie…
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Prison Break: The Final Break
2009 · Directed by Brad Turner · 89 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: prison
Michael and Sara wed, but the happiness is short-lived when the Feds apprehend her for the murder of Michael's mother, Christina. Once a hit is ordered on Sara, the team reunite to break out the increasingly vulnerable…
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Eastern Promises
2007 · Directed by David Cronenberg · 100 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: orphan
A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
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Suddenly, Last Summer
1959 · Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz · 114 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: operation
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
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Starred Up
2014 · Directed by David Mackenzie · 106 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prison
19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and…
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Requiem for a Dream
2000 · Directed by Darren Aronofsky · 102 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso crime and drama
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.