If You Liked Papillon, Watch These Next
Finished Papillon (2017) 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 Papillon, most of them are adventure, crime, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
3.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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4.The Green Mile(1999)
8.5FantasyDramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
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5.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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6.Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile(2019)
7.0DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
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7.The Count of Monte Cristo(1934)
6.8DramaAdventureAlso drama and adventure
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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8.Convict(2014)
6.5ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and 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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9.Lord of the Flies(1990)
6.4AdventureDramaThrillerAlso adventure and drama
When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.
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11.GoodFellas(1990)
8.5DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
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12.Point Blank(1967)
7.1CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and drama
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
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13.The Card Counter(2021)
6.1DramaThrillerCrimeAlso drama and crime
William Tell just wants to play cards. His spartan existence on the casino trail is shattered when he is approached by Cirk, a vulnerable and angry young man seeking help to execute his plan for revenge on a military colonel. Tell sees a chance at redemption through his relationship with Cirk.
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14.The Unforgivable(2021)
7.4DramaCrimeAlso drama and crime
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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15.Silverton Siege(2022)
6.3ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
After a failed sabotage mission, a trio of anti-apartheid freedom fighters ends up in a tense bank hostage situation. Based on a true story.
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16.Bad Boys(1983)
7.0CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
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17.Lock Up(1989)
6.8ActionCrimeDramaAlso crime and drama
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees…
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18.The Silence of the Lambs(1991)
8.3CrimeThrillerDramaAlso crime and drama
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and…
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20.Undisputed II: Last Man Standing(2006)
7.4ActionCrimeThrillerAlso crime and drama
Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka in a battle to the death. This time he is not fighting for a title, he is fighting for his life!
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