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10 Best Movies Like Convicts

If you loved Convicts, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
12 Years a Slave

12 Years a Slave

2013★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Convicts for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solo...

#2
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Convicts for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#3
Rosewood

Rosewood

1997★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Convicts for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923....

#4
Glory

Glory

1989★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Convicts for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates....

#5
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

1967★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Convicts for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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, Dragli...

#6
In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood

1967★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Convicts for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of thei...

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