Films and TV shows that feel like You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison by My Chemical Romance
A frantic, bitter, darkly funny lash of desperation and menace, the sound of a doomed young man in a cell fighting to hold onto his sense of self.
- Oz (1997): Brutal, claustrophobic prison life where every inmate is under constant threat.
- A Prophet (2009): A young man forced to survive and adapt inside a violent prison.
- Fight Club (1999): Male rage, self-destruction and dark humour channeled into violence.
- Scum (1979): Raw, bleak and savage portrayal of life behind bars.
- Hunger (2008): Intense, suffocating prison drama of defiance and bodily endurance.
- Orange Is the New Black (2013): Prison culture with sharp humour and constant tension underneath.
- Green Room (2016): A punk band trapped in a violent, no-way-out situation.
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994): Dread of incarceration paired with a stubborn will to survive.
