Movies like Hell's Highway
If Hell's Highway's mix of prison, self sacrifice and southern usa stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Hell's Highway's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
1932 · Directed by Mervyn LeRoy · 92 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison, chain gang, pre-code · From the same decade (1930s)
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
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Brubaker
1980 · Directed by Stuart Rosenberg · 131 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: prison, prison brutality · 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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Lock Up
1989 · Directed by John Flynn · 109 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison, self sacrifice · 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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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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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
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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Shot Caller
2017 · Directed by Ric Roman Waugh · 121 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also crime and drama
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
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Out of the Furnace
2013 · Directed by Scott Cooper · 116 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
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Gangster No. 1
2000 · Directed by Paul McGuigan · 103 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately…
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Avengement
2019 · Directed by Jesse V. Johnson · 88 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
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In Hell
2003 · Directed by Ringo Lam Ling-Tung · 96 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.