Movies like In the Name of the Father

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In the Name of the Father (1993)
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends fifteen years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence.
Style: political, sentimental, inspirational, touching, dramatic, factual, sincere, thought provoking, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: prison, terrorist, lawyer, father son relationship, courtroom, terrorism, trial, biopic, legal, justice, politics, courtroom drama, court, rebellion, prison escape, father, freedom, male nudity, law, hard life, corruption, jail, ira, police corruption, conflict ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s, 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, britain, nepal, europe, london ...
Keyword: irish, gangsters, attack, oldies, life lessons, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspense and thought provoking films with plots about biopic, society, murder, courtroom, lawyer, prison and trial mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres. Some movies like In the Name of the Father: Hunger (2008), Brubaker (1980), Conviction (2010), The Hurricane (1999), Some Mother's Son (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hunger (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.
Style: disturbing, bleak, political, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: prison, prison life, ira, suicide, dying, rebellion, idealism, police brutality, resistance, suffering, nudity, male nudity ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 90s, 2000s, year 1981 ...
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, europe
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Brubaker (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Style: realistic, factual, suspense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: prison, corruption, prison warden, prison escape, abuse of power, undercover, brutality, fighting the system, abuse, justice, liberal, murder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place: louisiana, arkansas, southern usa
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100%
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Conviction (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is ...
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: lawyer, legal, courtroom drama, trial, fighting the system, prison, injustice, false accusation, court, strong female character, freedom, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1995, year 1992, year 2001 ...
Place: massachusetts, rhode island, usa
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100%
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The Hurricane (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Style: thought provoking, touching, inspirational, factual, motivational ...
Plot: prison, boxing, racism, courtroom, prison life, legal, death penalty, injustice, justice, biopic, african american, discrimination ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 80s, 1940s ...
Place: new jersey, africa, toronto ontario canada, canada
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Some Mother's Son (1996)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the ...
Style: political, bleak, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: prison, lawyer, prison violence, terrorist, working class, women, betrayal, politics, ira, british, struggle, trouble ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Snowden (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 134 min.
Story: CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Style: realistic, factual, political thriller, thought provoking, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick
Plot: espionage, journalism, whistleblower, fighting the system, hacking, moral dilemma, internet, surveillance, technology, cia, spying, idealism ...
Time: year 2016, 20th century, year 2015, year 2009, year 2012 ...
Place: hong kong, geneva switzerland, japan, russia, america ...
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100%
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The Sea Inside (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman ...
Style: sad, thought provoking, emotional, philosophical, touching ...
Plot: disability, euthanasia, biopic, human spirit, death, existentialism, suicide, handicapped, lawyer, depression, character study, life & death ...
Time: year 2004, y2k, 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place: spain, barcelona, europe, galicia, catalonia
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100%
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Guilty (2011)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Investigates the corrupt judicial system under which Alain Mar'caux and his wife Edith were arrested on accusations of pedophilia horrific acts they never committed- and the years he spent fighting to get out of prison, clear his name and keep ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: lawyer, prison, legal, courtroom, false accusation, broken family, imprisonment, police brutality, injustice, judge, life turned upside down, courtroom drama ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, flanders
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41%
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Midnight Express (1978)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish 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 ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspense, depressing, psychological ...
Plot: prison, torture, brutality, injustice, lawyer, escape, drug, court, escape attempt, trial, prison break, jail ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978, year 1972, year 1975 ...
Place: turkey, istanbul turkey, brooklyn new york city, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who in his last days forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality as she accompanies him to his execution.
Style: touching, thought provoking, sad, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, death row, death penalty, nun, rape, court, death sentence, murder, confession, lethal injection, execution, justice ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: louisiana, new orleans, united kingdom, southern usa
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40%
Sacco & Vanzetti (1971)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The story of two anarchists who were charged and unfairly tried for murder when it was really for their political convictions.
Style: political, historical drama, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: anarchism, anarchist, italian immigrant, death sentence, lawyer, courtroom, injustice, biopic, anarchy, immigrant, courtroom drama, social commentary ...
Time: year 1971, 1920s, 20th century
Place: usa, massachusetts
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38%
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Shahid (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: This compelling drama tells the remarkable true story of slain human rights activist Shahid Azmi, who became a powerful voice against the intercommunal violence that has engulfed Mumbai since the early 1990s.
Style: realistic, captivating, thought provoking, psychological, tense ...
Plot: human rights, muslim, legal, terrorist, lawyer, courtroom, false arrest, civil rights, life is a bitch, society, hopes, religions or cults ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: india, asia, pakistan, mumbai india, kashmir
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38%
 6.6
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Hoffa (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Jack Nicholson's portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro (Danny DeVito). The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt all the way to a conclusion ...
Style: tense, suspense, factual, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot: labor union, organized crime, gangster, politics, conspiracy, working class, mafia, prison, social activist, corruption, rise and fall, greed ...
Time: 70s, 1940s, 1930s, 60s, 20th century ...
Place: detroit, washington d.c., new york, michigan, usa ...
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Veronica Guerin (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspense, intense, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot: journalism, investigation, strong female character, murder, gangster, justice, corruption, drug lord, police, drug dealing, heroin, journalist ...
Time: 90s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, amsterdam
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37%
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The ...
Style: political, bleak, realistic, intellectual, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: terrorism, anti war, revolution, protest, revolutionary, journalist, prison, politics, idealism, capitalism, assassination, terrorist attack ...
Time: 70s, year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1967 ...
Place: germany, somalia, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, africa ...
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37%
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Serpico (1973)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, neo noir, psychological ...
Audience: date night
Plot: police corruption, corruption, fighting the system, police, whistleblower, undercover cop, police investigation, corrupt cop, mafia, social decay, biopic, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973, 60s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
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37%
 7.6
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Just Mercy (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights ...
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, touching ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, death penalty, injustice, false accusation of murder, defense attorney, african american, perjury, prison, murder, innocence, death row ...
Time: year 1987, 2010s, 80s, year 2019, year 1993 ...
Place: alabama
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36%
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Erin Brockovich (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one nearby town. ...
Style: inspirational, factual, uplifting, touching, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: environmental, lawyer, court, single mother, justice, small town, contamination, investigation, corporate crime, against the odds, lawsuit, corruption ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 2000s, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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36%
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The Boxer (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Nineteen-year-old Danny Flynn is imprisoned for his involvement with the I.R.A. in Belfast. He leaves behind his family and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Maggie Hamill. Fourteen years later, Danny is released from prison and returns to his old ...
Style: political, dramatic, realistic, bleak, romantic drama ...
Plot: boxing, love, boxer, prison, politics, fighter, terrorism, redemption, struggle, trouble, martial arts, conflict ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe, london
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Richard Jewell (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and ...
Style: tense, sad, factual, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: lawyer, false accusation, wrongful arrest, scapegoat, media frenzy, investigation, fbi, terrorist, biopic, federal bureau of investigation, newspaper reporter, friendship between men ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century ...
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia, usa
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36%
A Cry in the Dark (1988)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain: During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claims she witnessed a dingo taking her baby daughter, Azaria, from the family tent. Azaria's body is never found. After investigations ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, tense, emotional, suspense ...
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, trial, prejudice, legal, court, investigation, injustice, false accusation, australian outback, murder, lawyer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place: australia, sydney australia
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36%
Michael Collins (1996)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Ireland, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Style: political, brutal, harsh, intense, factual ...
Plot: politics, terrorism, biopic, revolution, civil war, irish history, ira, fighting the system, freedom, british empire, fight, secret service ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, edwardian era, 90s, 1910s ...
Place: ireland, england, london, northern ireland, europe ...
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36%
The Mauritanian (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, islamic terrorism, al qaeda, prisoner, american politics, brutality, prison, torture, american imperialism, war on terror, imprisonment ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, year 2001, year 2005, year 1990 ...
Place: north africa, jordan, hamburg germany, germany, baltimore ...
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35%
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Find Me Guilty (2006)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
Style: tense, suspense, stylized, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: courtroom drama, mafia, courtroom, lawyer, jury, gangster, court, lone hero, mobster, legal, justice, outsmarting ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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35%
Freedom Writers (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, sentimental, rough ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: high school, teacher, dedicated educator, teachers and students, racism, lifestyle change, teenage life, urban ghetto life, mentor, teenager, strong female lead, idealism ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, year 1993, year 1994, year 1999 ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa, long beach california
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35%
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on Martin McGartland's real life story as a informant for the British Police to spy on the IRA. Taking place from 1987-1991, Martin (Jim Sturgess) works his way up the ranks of the IRA, while keeping his informant with the police Fergis ...
Style: factual, captivating, stylized, tense, political ...
Plot: ira, crime gone awry, storytelling, terrorism, brutality, secret agent, snitch, danger, undercover, state affairs, spy, trouble ...
Time: 80s, year 2008, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, canada, northern ireland, europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Blow (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style: depressing, touching, emotional, serious, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, drug lord, drug abuse, drug dealing, friendship, drug, drug dealer, drug cartel, rise and fall, addiction, gangster, drug use ...
Time: 70s, year 2001, 20th century, 80s, near future ...
Place: latin america, colombia, california, mexico, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.9
 191K
Black Mass (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Style: suspense, factual, intense, brutal, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, corruption, gangster, irish mob, violence, murder, mob boss, true crime, mobster, illness, brutality, organized crime ...
Time: year 2015, 70s, 80s, 2010s, year 2016 ...
Place: boston, peru, usa, massachusetts, santa monica california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Crown Heights (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
Style: realistic, intense, suspense, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: prison, miscarriage of justice, wrongful conviction, friendship, false accusation, husband wife relationship, african american, injustice, lie, fighting the system, black, freedom ...
Time: year 2017
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Whistleblower (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Based on the experiences of Nebraska cop Kathryn Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) who discovers a deadly sex trafficking ring while serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Risking her own life to save the lives of others, she uncovers an ...
Style: rough, political, educational, factual, heartbreaking ...
Plot: un, sex trafficking, rape, corruption, sex crime, politics, conspiracy, gender, investigation, teenage prostitution, brutality, civil war ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2010, year 1999, 21st century
Place: bosnia, bosnia herzegovina, sarajevo, usa, europe ...
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