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10 Best Movies Like Brubaker

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

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#1
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

1967★ 7.7

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

#2
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

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

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 ski...

#3
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

1932★ 7.8

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

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and se...

#4
Mrs. Soffel

Mrs. Soffel

1984★ 6.0

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

Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brothe...

#5
The Mustang

The Mustang

2019★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Brubaker 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
Brute Force

Brute Force

1947★ 7.3

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

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how ...

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