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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 55% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, the same director and shared genres.
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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GoodFellas (1990)
It has a 50% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres 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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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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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
It has a 47% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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Cool Hand Luke (1967)
It has a 45% 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 43% 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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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 Unforgivable (2021)
It has a 41% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
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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Bad Boys (1983)
It has a 40% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
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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Sleepers (1996)
It has a 40% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
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The Valachi Papers (1972)
It has a 39% 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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Papillon (2017)
It has a 38% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
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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Convict (2014)
It has a 37% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
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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The Informer (2019)
It has a 36% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, its story and themes and shared genres.
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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All the Money in the World (2017)
It has a 35% affinity with The Shawshank Redemption, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, its story and themes and shared genres.
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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