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10 Best Movies Like Short Eyes

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

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#1
Five Corners

Five Corners

1987★ 5.9

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

A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted idea...

#2
Kiss of the Spider Woman

Kiss of the Spider Woman

1985★ 7.0

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

The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molin...

#3
Cape Fear

Cape Fear

1991★ 7.3

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

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 d...

#4
Eileen

Eileen

2023★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Short Eyes for fans of Crime. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

During a bitter 1964 Massachusetts winter, young secretary Eileen becomes enchanted by Rebecca, the glamorous new counselor at the prison where she works. Their budding friendship ...

#5
The Mustang

The Mustang

2019★ 6.9

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

While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront hi...

#6
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

1967★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Short Eyes for fans of Drama & Crime. 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...

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