10 Best Movies Like Up the River
If you loved Up the River, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
The Longest Yard
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Up the River for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. His dilemma is that the warden asks him to throw the game in return for an ear...
The Longest Yard
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Up the River for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulative Warden Hazen recruits him to advise the institution's football team of priso...
Mean Machine
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Up the River for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Disgraced ex-England football captain, Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan, is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget e...
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Up the River for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his p...
Fun with Dick and Jane
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Up the River for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation....
Two-Way Stretch
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Up the River 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...