Movies like Control
If Control's mix of prison, death penalty and experiment stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Control's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Life of David Gale
2003 · Directed by Alan Parker · 130 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: prison, death penalty · From the same decade (2000s)
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015 · Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez · 122 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison, experiment
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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GoodFellas
1990 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 145 min8.4
Why you'll like itWith Ray Liotta · Shares: prison
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017 · Directed by S. Craig Zahler · 132 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also action and thriller
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in…
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Lock Up
1989 · Directed by John Flynn · 109 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also action and thriller
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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In Hell
2003 · Directed by Ringo Lam Ling-Tung · 96 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also action and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Directed by Jonathan Demme · 119 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: prison
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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Limitless
2011 · Directed by Neil Burger · 106 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: medicine
The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself.
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Bronson
2009 · Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn · 92 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: prison · From the same decade (2000s)
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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The Experiment
2010 · Directed by Paul T. Scheuring · 96 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: experiment
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.