20 best movies like The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

List of the best movies like The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015): The Experiment, Snowden, Compliance, Colonia, Changeling, The Front Runner, The Photographer of Mauthausen, Parkland, The Walk, Compulsion.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryFrance, Germany, USA, United Kingdom
Duration02:23

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

    Sandra is the manager at a fast-food restaurant, and Becky is her teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day, a police officer telephones and accuses Becky of stealing money from a customer’s purse, which Becky vehemently denies. Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officer’s orders to detain Becky, beginning a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience, prudence, legality and reason.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryGermany, France, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:05

    A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:18

    Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:21

    Spanish photographer Francesc Boix, imprisoned in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp, works in the SS Photographic Service. Between 1943 and 1945, he hides, with the help of other prisoners, thousands of negatives, with the purpose of showing the freed world the atrocities committed by the Nazis, exhaustively documented. He will be a key witness during the Nuremberg Trials.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, drama, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    November 22nd, 1963 was a day that changed the world forever — when young American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. This film follows, almost in real time, a handful of individuals forced to make split-second decisions after an event that would change their lives and forever alter the world’s landscape.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:28

      The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      When Sarah lucks into a sweet one-bedroom at Asilo Del Mar Apartments in Los Angeles, she think she's hit the jackpot. It's got plenty of space, friendly tenants, group BBQs and even a cute neighbour next door. All is not what it seems: loud noises start keeping her awake at night; her cat is missing; everyone seems to be a little too helpful and friendly, except for the weirdo, Lester. Soon, Sarah learns she didn't choose this apartment — it chose her.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, documentary, crime, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:39

      It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. Disoriented and quivering with fear, he divulges his shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not what it seems. Sure, he has the same tattoos, but he looks decidedly different, and he now speaks with a strange accent. Why doesn't the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It's only when an investigator starts asking questions that this astounding true story takes an even stranger turn.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography, history
      CountryUSA

      The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to make public what many in power sought to keep hidden.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA

      A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany

      The story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. Based on real events.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrethriller, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      Journalist Christine Pelisek helps law enforcement investigate the alleged serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:14

      The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1974.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:34

      A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:22

      A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:38

      In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:50

      On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae (Park Won Sang) is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, history, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:31

        Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:27

        Drama documentary based on Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's 2012 non-fiction book "Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot". It follows the parallel lives of John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald from the winter 1959-1960 to those fatal days in Dallas in November 1963, when they both died within two days after each other and were buried on the same day - John F. Kennedy in a state funeral in Washington D.C., broadcast live both to Europe and the Pacific, while Oswald was buried in Forth Worth at a small funeral where the attending reporters were asked to act as pallbearers.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, biography
        CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
        Duration01:48

        Wife and mother Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts) has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her vocation from family and friends. Her husband, Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), writes a controversial article in The New York Times, refuting stories about the sale of enriched uranium to Iraq, Then Valerie's secret work and identity is leaked to the press. With her cover blown and other people endangered, Valerie's career and personal life begin to unravel.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
        CountryUSA, Sweden
        Duration02:21

        Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in 1969 that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, drama, biography
        CountryUSA, France
        Duration01:54

        Adapted from the 1951 non-fiction account by psychoanalyst Georges Devereux, “Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian,” the film follows the true story of Picard (Del Toro), a Plains Indian of the Blackfeet nation, as he returns from WWII and begins experiencing unexplainable symptoms shortly thereafter. He travels to the famous Winter Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, where he meets Devereux (Amalric), thus beginning a professional and personal friendship guided by compassion and understanding of Native American culture.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, China
        Duration01:37

        The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography, history
        CountryChile, Argentina, France, Spain, USA
        Duration02:00

        It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genredrama, biography, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:10

          Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genredrama, crime, biography, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:29

          Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrethriller, drama, detective, biography, history
          CountryAustralia

          As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign correspondent Roger East is lured to East Timor by the young and charismatic José Ramos-Horta to tell the story of his country and investigate the fate of the missing men. As East's determination to uncover the truth grows, the threat of invasion intensifie

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:45

          The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military, biography, history
          CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, France
          Duration02:24

          In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:38

            Hitchcock follows the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous film "Psycho" - and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genredrama, biography, history
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:58

            Based on the book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change focuses on the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, when candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists. Directed by Jay Roach, who previously directed the HBO film Recount and the Austin Powers movies, Game Change premiered on HBO on March 10th, 2012.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
            CountryUSA, Italy, United Kingdom, China
            Duration02:08

            The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrethriller, drama, history
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:19

            Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
            CountryCanada
            Duration01:43

            A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genreaction, drama, military, biography, history
            CountryGermany, France, Austria
            Duration02:00

            The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
            CountrySouth Korea

            The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:41

            In 1934, Frank Hamer and Manny Gault, two former Texas Rangers, are commissioned to put an end to the wave of vicious crimes perpetrated by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a notorious duo of infamous robbers and cold-blooded killers who nevertheless are worshiped by the public.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genredrama, military, biography, history
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:36

            April 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment, our nation was forever changed. This is the most dramatic and resonant crime in American history: the true story of the killing of Abraham Lincoln. From Executive Producers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, and narrated by Tom Hanks, National Geographic Channel's first ever docudrama, Killing Lincoln, based on the New York Times bestseller, combines re-creations with historical insight in a thrilling chronicle of the final days of President Lincoln and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrethriller, drama, military, biography, history
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:48

            Based on Mariane Pearl's account of the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrethriller, drama, family, history
            CountryGermany, France, USA

            Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

            Markimdb: 8.2
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryIndia

            A story based on real-life human-rights and criminal lawyer, Shahid Azmi, who was slain while defending the wrongly accused by the law in terrorist activities.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrethriller, drama, adventure, history
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:05

            In this highly speculative historical thriller, Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, history
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:52

            A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.

            Markimdb: 5.5
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, biography
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:40

            A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrethriller, drama, history
            CountryUSA, Germany, India
            Duration02:39

              During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.




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