Movies like Clemency
If Clemency's mix of prison, death row and lethal injection stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Clemency's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Dead Man Walking
1995 · Directed by Tim Robbins · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: prison, death row, lethal injection
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 Life of David Gale
2003 · Directed by Alan Parker · 130 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison, death row
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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Murder in the First
1995 · Directed by Marc Rocco · 122 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prison, death row
A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.
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Brubaker
1980 · Directed by Stuart Rosenberg · 131 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prison, prison warden
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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Lock Up
1989 · Directed by John Flynn · 109 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison, prison warden
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 Green Mile
1999 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 189 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: death row
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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Law Abiding Citizen
2009 · Directed by F. Gary Gray · 109 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
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Scum
1979 · Directed by Alan Clarke · 96 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prison
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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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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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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Hang 'em High
1968 · Directed by Ted Post · 115 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: prison
Marshall Jed Cooper survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his oath for vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman.