Movies Like Mrs. Soffel
If you liked Mrs. Soffel (1984), a drama and romance movie directed by Gillian Armstrong, 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.
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Cool Hand Luke (1967)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaWhen 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…
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Brubaker (1980)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaThe new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
★ 8.7/10Also dramaImprisoned 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…
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The Mustang (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaWhile 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…
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Nowhere to Run (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaEscaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
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My Fault: London (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets William’s son, bad-boy Nick, and soon discovers there is an…
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White Heat (1949)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaSan Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates…
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Cleveland Abduction (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
★ 7/10Also dramaA 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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Prison Break: The Final Break (2009)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaMichael and Sara wed, but the happiness is short-lived when the Feds apprehend her for the murder of Michael's mother, Christina. Once a hit is ordered on Sara, the team reunite to break out the increasingly vulnerable…
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Midnight Express (1978)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaBilly 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…
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Prisoners (2013)
★ 8.1/10Also dramaAfter his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search…
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Room (2015)
★ 8/10Also dramaHeld captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
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South Central (1992)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaDuring 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…
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Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018)
★ 8/10Also dramaOn the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old 'Lisa McVey' is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive and is raped. She manages to talk her attacker into releasing her, but when she returns…
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The Unforgivable (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA 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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Bronson (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also dramaA 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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Cape Fear (1991)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaSam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape…
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Sleepers (1996)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaTwo 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.