Movies like Release
If Release's mix of prison and gay theme stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Release's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 · Directed by Héctor Babenco · 120 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison, gay theme
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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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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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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Brubaker
1980 · Directed by Stuart Rosenberg · 131 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also crime and drama
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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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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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
2019 · Directed by Joe Berlinger · 111 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime · 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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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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Lock Up
1989 · Directed by John Flynn · 109 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also crime and drama
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge.
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed
2009 · Directed by J Blakeson · 100 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: gay theme · Also crime and drama
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
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Prison Break: The Final Break
2009 · Directed by Kevin Hooks · 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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Starred Up
2014 · Directed by David Mackenzie · 106 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prison · From the same decade (2010s)
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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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…