15 Movies Like Amerikatsi
Loved Amerikatsi? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
The Shawshank Redemption
Imprisoned 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. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
Beast
MMA legend Patton James, now a commercial fisherman, is pulled back into the cage when his brother is in danger. Reuniting with his old coach Sammy, he commits to one final fight in one championship against the brutal champion Xavier Grau.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
Blood and Bone
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka in a battle to the death. This time he is not fighting for a title, he is fighting for his life!
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
The Unforgivable
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.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
In Hell
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
Midnight Express
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 by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
The Color of Pomegranates
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Amerikatsi.
The Death of Stalin
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains — just who is running the government?
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
Felon
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
Brubaker
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
A Score to Settle
A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
Bronson
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.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.
Cadence
As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up against the insanely tyrannical and bigoted prison warden.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Amerikatsi.