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Movies like Midnight Express

Loved Midnight Express (Alan Parker, 1978)? Here are the titles the community finds closest.

Updated October 5, 2026

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01
Bronson
2009 · Movie · Nicolas Winding Refn · 1h 32m
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A 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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Chopper
2000 · Movie · Andrew Dominik · 1h 34m
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The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.
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Lost Highway
1997 · Movie · David Lynch · 2h 14m
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A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
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Land of the Blind
2006 · Movie · Robert Edwards · 1h 50m
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A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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Requiem for a Dream
2000 · Movie · Darren Aronofsky · 1h 42m
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The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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The Valachi Papers
1972 · Movie · Terence Young · 2h 05m
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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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Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017 · Movie · S. Craig Zahler · 2h 12m
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After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
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Coffy
1973 · Movie · Jack Hill · 1h 30m
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After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
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Until Death
2007 · Movie · Simon Fellows · 1h 46m
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Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
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Foxy Brown
1974 · Movie · Jack Hill · 1h 34m
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A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
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Escape from Sobibor
1987 · Movie · Jack Gold · 2h 49m
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The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
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12
King of New York
1990 · Movie · Abel Ferrara · 1h 43m
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A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
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According to the MovieLike community, Bronson is the closest, followed by Chopper and Lost Highway.

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