Movies like The Experiment
If The Experiment's mix of prison, journalist and rape stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Experiment's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Cool Hand Luke
1967 · Directed by Stuart Rosenberg · 127 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison, imprisonment, dramatic
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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Papillon
2017 · Directed by Michael Noer · 134 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: prisoner, critical, baffled
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis…
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Directed by Jonathan Demme · 119 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: prison, scientific study · Also thriller and drama
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for…
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Escape from Alcatraz
1979 · Directed by Don Siegel · 113 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: prison, defiant · Also drama and thriller
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island.
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The Mauritanian
2021 · Directed by Kevin Macdonald · 129 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: prisoner, torture · Also drama and thriller
The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release.
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Nothing But the Truth
2008 · Directed by Rod Lurie · 108 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: prison, journalist · Also drama and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 · Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez · 122 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison, experiment · Also thriller and drama
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand.
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison, prison cell
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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Twelve Monkeys
1995 · Directed by Terry Gilliam · 129 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: prison cell, critical
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground…
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Midnight Express
1978 · Directed by Alan Parker · 121 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison, torture
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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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 · Directed by David Fincher · 158 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: journalist, rape
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 · Directed by Héctor Babenco · 120 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison, torture
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.