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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 older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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The Green Mile (1999)
It has a 58% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and the same director.
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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South Central (1992)
It has a 49% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the help of Muslim inmate Ali. Upon his release, Bobby returns home to find that his young son, Jimmie, has joined the Deuces, his old crew. Tensions rise as Bobby struggles to convince Jimmie to leave the gang that was his only family during the painful years his absent father spent behind bars.
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GoodFellas (1990)
It has a 48% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
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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Cool Hand Luke (1967)
It has a 46% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
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.
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
It has a 44% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
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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Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
It has a 43% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
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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Papillon (1973)
It has a 42% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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The Informer (2019)
It has a 41% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as he tries to survive and protect the lives of his loved ones.
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The Valachi Papers (1972)
It has a 40% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
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The Mustang (2019)
It has a 39% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
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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Bronson (2009)
It has a 38% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
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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The Godfather (1972)
It has a 36% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
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Lola (1981)
It has a 33% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and TMDB relationship signals.
Germany in the autumn of 1957: Lola, a seductive cabaret singer-prostitute exults in her power as a temptress of men, but she wants out—she wants money, property, and love. Pitting a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, Lola launches an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything, and everyone, is for sale. Shot in childlike candy colors, Fassbinder’s homage to Josef von Sternberg’s classic The Blue Angel stands as a satiric tribute to capitalism.
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The General's Daughter (1999)
It has a 32% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by its story and themes, shared genres and country of origin.
When the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.
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Jakob the Liar (1999)
It has a 32% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by its story and themes, shared genres and country of origin.
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
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