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Movies Like Y rester

If you liked Y rester (2024), a drama movie directed by Camilo Mendoza, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Le Trou

    Le Trou (1960)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama

    Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of…

  2. 2Nowhere to Run

    Nowhere to Run (1993)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.

  3. 3She Made Them Do It

    She Made Them Do It (2012)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    "She Made Them Do It" follows the twisted life of Sarah Pender, a charismatic, intelligent young woman who would become one of the country’s most sought after fugitives.

  4. 4Runaway Train

    Runaway Train (1985)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of…

  5. 5Maze

    Maze (2017)

    ★ 5.8/10Also drama

    Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.

  6. 6Cool Hand Luke

    Cool Hand Luke (1967)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    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…

  7. 7A Man Escaped

    A Man Escaped (1956)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.

  8. 8A Perfect World

    A Perfect World (1993)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

  9. 9Papillon

    Papillon (1973)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    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.

  10. 10O.G.

    O.G. (2018)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    Louis Menkins is five weeks away from being released after 26 years in prison. He is faced with the decision to put his own release at risk in order to protect a young man named Beecher from growing gang controversies.

  11. 11The Chase

    The Chase (1966)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

  12. 12Girl in the Bunker

    Girl in the Bunker (2018)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    When Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true story.

  13. 13Choice of Arms

    Choice of Arms (1981)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A former crook is pulled out of retirement when a gang on the run turn to him for shelter after a prison break.

  14. 14All Day and a Night

    All Day and a Night (2020)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.

  15. 15Midnight Express

    Midnight Express (1978)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made…

  16. 16The Defiant Ones

    The Defiant Ones (1958)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

  17. 17Nothing but the Truth

    Nothing but the Truth (2008)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail…

  18. 18Good Time

    Good Time (2017)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.

  19. 19Brute Force

    Brute Force (1947)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's…

  20. 20TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

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