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Movies Like Imprisoned: Survival Guide for Rich and Prodigal

If you liked Imprisoned: Survival Guide for Rich and Prodigal (2015), a comedy and crime movie directed by Christopher Sun Lap-kei, 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. 1Intermission

    Intermission (2003)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

    A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to…

  2. 2Prison on Fire

    Prison on Fire (1987)

    ★ 7/10Also crime and drama

    A veteran inmate takes a newcomer under his wing as the pair confront both other violent inmates and the prison's corrupt wardens.

  3. 3Where the Money Is

    Where the Money Is (2000)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and crime

    Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing…

  4. 4The Unforgivable

    The Unforgivable (2021)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and crime

    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.

  5. 5Small Apartments

    Small Apartments (2012)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and crime

    When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters…

  6. 6Convict

    Convict (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    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…

  7. 7Blindspotting

    Blindspotting (2018)

    ★ 7.3/10Also comedy and crime

    Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two…

  8. 8Bad Boys

    Bad Boys (1983)

    ★ 7/10Also crime and drama

    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…

  9. 9Breaking News in Yuba County

    Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes…

  10. 10Miracles: The Canton Godfather

    Miracles: The Canton Godfather (1989)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and comedy

    A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.

  11. 11Siberian Education

    Siberian Education (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime

    The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against…

  12. 12Thick as Thieves

    Thick as Thieves (1999)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and comedy

    Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing…

  13. 13Things Change

    Things Change (1988)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and crime

    Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two…

  14. 14How to Rob a Bank

    How to Rob a Bank (2007)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and crime

    Caught in the middle of a bank robbery, a slacker and a bank employee become the ones who arbitrate the intense situation.

  15. 15Once a Thief

    Once a Thief (1991)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and crime

    Three orphans grow up to become art thieves under the tutelage of a crime boss. Romance complicates matters when the trio are double-crossed.

  16. 16Above the Rim

    Above the Rim (1994)

    ★ 7.1/10Also crime and drama

    Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

  17. 17Perrier's Bounty

    Perrier's Bounty (2010)

    ★ 5.8/10Also comedy and crime

    A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.

  18. 18Big Stan

    Big Stan (2007)

    ★ 6.6/10Also comedy and crime

    A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.

  19. 19One Last Thing...

    One Last Thing... (2005)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and crime

    Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his final wish, the teen has a surprising request: to meet supermodel Nikki Sinclair. Much to his mother's dismay, Dylan…

  20. 20The Valachi Papers

    The Valachi Papers (1972)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and drama

    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…

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