Movies like Chopper
If Chopper's mix of prison, australia and prostitute stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Chopper's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Hit
1984 · Directed by Stephen Frears · 98 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping, gangster, criminal · Also drama and thriller
Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the way, whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
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Midnight Express
1978 · Directed by Alan Parker · 121 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison, brutality · 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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The Nightingale
2018 · Directed by Jennifer Kent · 136 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: australia, brutality · Also drama and thriller
In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family.
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Strange Days
1995 · Directed by Kathryn Bigelow · 145 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute, criminal · Also crime and thriller
In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute.
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Avengement
2019 · Directed by Jesse V. Johnson · 88 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison, gangster · Also crime and thriller
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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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison, delinquent · 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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Trainspotting
1996 · Directed by Danny Boyle · 94 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: nightclub · Also drama and crime
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride.
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Menace II Society
1993 · Directed by Albert Hughes · 97 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also drama and crime
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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Cape Fear
1991 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 128 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape…
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Assault on Precinct 13
1976 · Directed by John Carpenter · 91 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: brutality · Also thriller and crime
A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.
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Cleveland Abduction
2015 · Directed by Alex Kalymnios · 88 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping · Also crime and drama
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
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A Prayer Before Dawn
2018 · Directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire · 116 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also drama and crime
The amazing true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand’s most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to escape is to fight his way out in prison…