If You Liked Down by Love, Watch These Next
Finished Down by Love (2016) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Down by Love, most of them are drama, romance.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.The Mustang(2019)
6.9DramaAlso drama
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 his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
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2.Fire with Fire(1986)
6.2DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
A tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms between them, they must fight the prison authorities, their parents and the law.
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3.Maria's Lovers(1984)
6.0DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.
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5.The Lost Boys(2023)
7.0DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
In a youth correctional facility, Joe is preparing his return to society. But William’s arrival turns his desire for freedom into desire of another kind. Behind fences and cell walls, passions begin to play havoc with the need for liberty.
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6.My Fault: London(2025)
7.4DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets William’s son, bad-boy Nick, and soon discovers there is an attraction between them neither can avoid. As Noah spends the summer adjusting to her new life, her…
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8.My Days of Mercy(2018)
7.3RomanceDramaAlso romance and drama
The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause.
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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.Kiss of the Spider Woman(1985)
7.0DramaAlso drama
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
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11.Convict(2014)
6.5ActionCrimeDramaAlso drama
Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the prison boss has it in for him and does everything possible to break Ray even going after his fiance.
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12.Mrs. Soffel(1984)
6.0DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine…
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13.Jamesy Boy(2014)
6.4CrimeDramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted murderer who becomes his mentor.
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14.On the Edge(2001)
6.7DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
A suicidal young man is committed to a Dublin psychiatric hospital where he meets new friends who greatly influence his life.
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15.Killer: A Journal of Murder(1996)
5.9DramaAlso drama
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzram's past is much more violent than he thought, but also that he's capable of…
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16.Return to Sender(2015)
6.1DramaThrillerAlso drama
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 revenge on her assailant after he's paroled from prison.
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17.The Shawshank Redemption(1994)
8.7DramaCrimeAlso drama
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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18.Dirt Music(2020)
6.3DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol of the excitement she craves. A passionate affair follows that reveals the dark secrets in Lu’s past and forces him to take flight into the blistering heat of the outback. Georgie…
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19.An Affair of Love(1999)
6.3RomanceDramaAlso romance and drama
A man and a woman meet to fulfill her sexual fantasy.
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20.A Journal for Jordan(2021)
6.9DramaRomanceAlso drama and romance
Based on the true story of First Sergeant Charles Monroe King, a soldier deployed to Iraq begins to keep a journal of love and advice for his infant son. Back at home, senior New York Times editor Dana Canedy revisits the story of her unlikely, life-altering relationship with King and his enduring devotion to her and…
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