Movies like Shepherds and Butchers: 20 to watch next
If you loved Shepherds and Butchers (2017) — a drama film directed by Oliver Schmitz — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Shepherds and Butchers most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like death penalty, based on novel or book and south africa. 5 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Escape from Pretoria 2020★ 7.2
Shares: Drama
South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Disgrace 2008★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his cherished daughter. After having an affair with a student, he moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Monster 2021★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Papillon 2017★ 7.3
Shares: Drama
Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Sometimes in April 2005★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Rampage 1987★ 5.9
Shares: Drama
Liberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, though, and starts killing again.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Mustang 2019★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
While participating in a rehabilitation program training wild mustangs, a convict at first struggles to connect with the horses and his fellow inmates, but he learns to confront his violent past as he soothes an especially feisty horse.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Reversal of Fortune 1990★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Dry White Season 1989★ 6.7
Shares: Drama
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Stream in India on MGM Plus Amazon Channel
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Kiss of the Spider Woman 1985★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Green Mile 1999★ 8.5
Shares: Drama
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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All Day and a Night 2020★ 6.3
Shares: Drama
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Cool Hand Luke 1967★ 7.7
Shares: Drama
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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No Escape 1994★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Sarafina! 1992★ 6.2
Shares: Drama
A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Truth & Treason 2025★ 8.1
Shares: Drama
In 1941 Nazi Germany, 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener begins questioning the regime after learning the truth about the war and seeing his Jewish friend persecuted. With two friends, he secretly listens to banned foreign broadcasts and distributes leaflets exposing Nazi lies. As the Gestapo closes in, the teenagers face mounting danger for choosing conscience over obedience. Based on the true story of one of Germany’s youngest resistance fighters.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Point Blank 1967★ 7.1
Shares: Drama
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile 2019★ 7.0
Shares: Drama
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Stream in India on Zee5
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The Trials of Cate McCall 2013★ 6.4
Shares: Drama
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Runaway Jury 2003★ 6.9
Shares: Drama
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now