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10 Best Movies Like Mean Dog Blues

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

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#1
There Was a Crooked Man...

There Was a Crooked Man...

1970★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mean Dog Blues for fans of Western. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot....

#2
Maze

Maze

2017★ 5.8

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

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II....

#3
Avengement

Avengement

2019★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mean Dog Blues for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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....

#4
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

1967★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mean Dog Blues 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...

#5
Public Enemies

Public Enemies

2009★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mean Dog Blues for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fled...

#6
House of Whipcord

House of Whipcord

1974★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mean Dog Blues for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been ...

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