Shows Like Escape at Dannemora

If you liked Escape at Dannemora (2018), a drama and crime series, here are 20 shows with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Wentworth (2013)
★ 8/10Also drama and crime
Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
2
Time (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime
Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.
3
I Will Find You (2026)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and crime
Wrongfully imprisoned for murdering his own son, a father sets out on a desperate rescue mission after learning the boy may still be alive.
4
Black Bird (2022)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and crime
As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a…
5
Prisoner (1979)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
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Jett (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
Fresh out of prison, world-class thief Daisy ”Jett” Kowalski is forced back into doing what she does best by dangerous and eccentric criminals determined to exploit her skills for their own ends.
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Oz (1997)
★ 8/10Also crime and drama
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their…
8
The Patient (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime
A psychotherapist finds himself held prisoner by a serial killer with an unusual request: curb his homicidal urges.
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Goliath (2016)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and drama
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman…
10
The Hunting Party (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and crime
A small team of investigators are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that's not supposed to exist.
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American Gigolo (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and crime
Julian Kaye has always been an object of desire, so much so that people are willing to destroy him in order to have him. Exonerated, after 15 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit, he now faces the challenge of…
12
Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
★ 8/10Also drama and crime
In a small Michigan town where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry, the McClusky family are the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians in a city…
13
Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and crime
The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.
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Interrogation (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and crime
Based on a true story that spanned more than 30 years in which a young man was charged and convicted of brutally murdering his mother. Each episode is structured around an interrogation taken directly from the real…
15
Painkiller (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and crime
The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.
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Good Behavior (2016)
★ 7/10Also drama and crime
Letty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife…
17
The Night Of (2016)
★ 8/10Also crime and drama
After a night of partying with a female stranger, a man wakes up to find her stabbed to death and is charged with her murder.
18
The Lincoln Lawyer (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and crime
Hotshot LA defense attorney Mickey Haller will do whatever it takes to win as he navigates the criminal justice system from his trademark Lincoln.
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MINDHUNTER (2017)
★ 8.1/10Also drama and crime
An agent in the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
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Prison Break (2005)
★ 8.1/10Also crime and drama
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out…