If You Liked Midnight Express, Watch These Next

Finished Midnight Express (1978) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Midnight Express, most of them are drama, crime.

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18 titles · updated 3rd October 2026

1.Foxfire(1996)
6.0ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama
The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.
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2.Cool Hand Luke(1967)
7.7DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
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, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded…
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3.Eden(2013)
6.5ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. What begins as a night of promise quickly turns into a nightmare when she is abducted and imprisoned outside Las Vegas as a sex slave.
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4.Target Number One(2020)
6.2ThrillerCrimeAlso crime
Ex heroin junkie, Daniel Léger, gets involved in a drug deal with the wrong people for the wrong reasons. When the deal goes sour, Daniel gets thrown into a Thai prison and slapped with a 100-year sentence. While he tries to survive his Bangkok incarceration, the news of his conviction captures the attention of Globe…
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5.The Shawshank Redemption(1994)
8.7DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
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 skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an…
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6.Cape Fear(1991)
7.3DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have…
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7.Snitch(2013)
6.1ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama
Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA…
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8.The Infiltrator(2016)
6.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
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9.Prison Break: The Final Break(2009)
7.5ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama
Michael and Sara wed, but the happiness is short-lived when the Feds apprehend her for the murder of Michael's mother, Christina. Once a hit is ordered on Sara, the team reunite to break out the increasingly vulnerable target.
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10.Nowhere to Run(1993)
6.6ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
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11.Cape Fear(1962)
7.5ThrillerDramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
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12.Bronson(2009)
6.9DramaActionCrimeAlso drama and crime
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 by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
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13.Wasteman(2026)
7.3CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Taylor's hopes for a fresh start post-parole are jeopardised by cellmate Dee's arrival. As Dee takes Taylor under his wing, a vicious attack tests their bond, forcing Taylor to choose between protecting Dee and his own chances at freedom.
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14.All the Money in the World(2017)
6.5CrimeHistoryThrillerAlso crime and drama
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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15.Veronica Guerin(2003)
6.7DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and crime
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without…
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16.White Boy Rick(2018)
6.4CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
The story of Richard Wershe Jr., a teenager who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s, and was ultimately arrested for drug trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
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17.Papillon(1973)
7.8CrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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18.Room(2015)
8.0DramaThrillerAlso drama
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
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