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10 Best Movies Like Reformatory

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

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#1
Two-Way Stretch

Two-Way Stretch

1960★ 6.7

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

#2
The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950★ 7.0

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

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

#3
The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy

1931★ 7.2

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

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street ...

#4
Cry of the City

Cry of the City

1948★ 6.7

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

Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another cri...

#5
Wrong Cops

Wrong Cops

2013★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Reformatory for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A group of bad cops look to dispose of a body that one of them accidentally shot....

#6
House of Bamboo

House of Bamboo

1955★ 6.2

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

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals....

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