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Movies like The Shawshank Redemption

12 films like The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile, Down by Law, Dreamcatcher among them. They're picked by what the story is about and what each shares with The Shawshank Redemption: its director, cast, franchise or setting.

1994 · 142 min · Drama. After a banker is sentenced to life in Shawshank Prison, he forms an unlikely friendship with a seasoned inmate and clings to hope amid cruelty and corruption.

  1. The Green Mile

    1999 · 189 min · Crime, Drama, Fantasy Also directed by Frank Darabont

    A death row guard learns that a gentle giant in his charge possesses a mysterious gift.

  2. Down by Law

    1986 · 106 min · Comedy, Crime, Drama Also drama

    Two men are framed and sent to jail, where they meet a murderer who helps them escape and leave the state.

  3. Dreamcatcher

    2003 · 134 min · Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi Also stars Morgan Freeman

    Friends on a camping trip discover that the town they're vacationing in is being plagued in an unusual fashion by parasitic aliens from outer space.

  4. Dolores Claiborne

    1995 · 132 min · Crime, Drama, Mystery Also drama

    A big city reporter travels to a small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman for whom she worked as a housekeeper.

  5. The Majestic

    2001 · 152 min · Drama, Romance Also directed by Frank Darabont

    In 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and settles down in a small town where he is mistaken for a long-lost son.

  6. Midnight Cowboy

    1969 · 113 min · Drama Also drama

    A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

  7. The Bucket List

    2007 · 97 min · Adventure, Comedy, Drama Also stars Morgan Freeman

    Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.

  8. Mid90s

    2018 · 86 min · Comedy, Drama Also drama

    Follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

  9. The Killer

    1989 · 110 min · Action, Crime, Drama Also drama

    A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore the vision of a singer he accidentally blinded.

  10. Dead Man Walking

    1995 · 122 min · Crime, Drama Also drama

    A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.

  11. Sleepers

    1996 · 147 min · Crime, Drama, Thriller Also drama

    A reporter and a District Attorney help childhood friends who killed a sadistic guard.

  12. Stand by Me

    1986 · 89 min · Adventure, Comedy, Drama Also drama

    A writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.

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