10 Best Movies Like Rats
If you loved Rats, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Brute Force
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rats for fans of Crime. 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 ...

Two-Way Stretch
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rats for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perfect alibi by returning to jail...

The Shawshank Redemption
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rats for fans of 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...

Riot in Cell Block 11
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rats for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly....

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

20,000 Years in Sing Sing
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rats for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him....