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Starred Up (2014) is a drama movie directed by David Mackenzie. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.

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  1. Fight Club

    1. Fight Club (1999)

    ★ 8.4 · 33,029 votes · Drama, Thriller

    A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

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  2. Bronson

    2. Bronson (2009)

    ★ 6.9 · 2,799 votes · Drama, Action, 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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  3. The Crying Game

    3. The Crying Game (1992)

    ★ 6.8 · 877 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller

    Irish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his girlfriend, Dil, in London, and when Fergus flees to the city, he seeks her out. Hounded by his former IRA colleagues, he finds himself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic, and surprising, Dil.

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  4. American Me

    4. American Me (1992)

    ★ 7.5 · 426 votes · Crime, Drama

    During his 18 years in Folsom Prison, street-gang leader Santana rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, Santana goes back to his old neighborhood, intending to lead a peaceful, crime-free life. But his old gang buddies force him back into his old habits.

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  5. Blood and Bone

    5. Blood and Bone (2009)

    ★ 7.4 · 940 votes · Action, Crime, Thriller

    In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.

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  6. The Substitute

    6. The Substitute (1996)

    ★ 7.0 · 610 votes · Action, Crime, Drama

    When an inner-city Miami schoolteacher gets her knee broken after standing up to the school's gang leader, her mercenary combat specialist boyfriend goes undercover as a substitute teacher to take down the punk. Soon he discovers a conspiracy of criminals at work, and must reassemble his team from his last jungle raid to stop them.

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  7. In Hell

    7. In Hell (2003)

    ★ 6.7 · 646 votes · Action, Drama, Thriller

    A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.

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  8. The Stanford Prison Experiment

    8. The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

    ★ 6.8 · 1,018 votes · Thriller, Drama, History

    In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.

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