Movies like Birdman of Alcatraz
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) is a crime movie directed by John Frankenheimer. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Papillon (2017)
★ 7.3 · 2,226 votes · Adventure, Crime, Drama
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
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2. Bronson (2009)
★ 6.9 · 2,800 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. Cool Hand Luke (1967)
★ 7.7 · 1,687 votes · Drama, 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 solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
