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10 Best Movies Like Visiting Hours

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

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#1
The Mustang

The Mustang

2019★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Visiting Hours 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...

#2
Affinity

Affinity

2008★ 5.8

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

A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her fri...

#3
Return to Sender

Return to Sender

2015★ 6.1

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

A nurse mistakes a stranger who pays her a visit for her blind date and soon, the man rapes her and turns her life upside down. The woman works to reclaim her life and exact reveng...

#4
Down by Love

Down by Love

2016★ 6.0

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

A man, a woman. A prison director, his inmate. An impossible love, a true story....

#5
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Visiting Hours 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...

#6
The Concrete Jungle

The Concrete Jungle

1982★ 5.9

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

An unfortunate and naive girl is set up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survi...

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