20 movies like The Hoodlum Priest, ordered by similarity : Bronson(2008), Papillon(2017), Midnight Express(1978), The General(1998), Birdman of Alcatraz(1962), Loving(2016), Unbroken(2014), The Meanest Man in Texas(2017), Goodbye Bafana(2007), Thank You for Your Service(2017), Sobibor(2018), Suffragette(2015) ...
6.6/10
Biography
USA
1961
101 Minutes
Don Murray Larry Gates Keir Dullea Logan Ramsey Cindi Wood Don Joslyn Sam Capuano Vince O'Brien Al Mack Lou Martini
priest ex-convict reporter gritty somber powerful st. louis slum prison halfway house justice rehabilitation death row crime religion transformation underdog quest rescue 1960s
Based on the life of Fr. Charles Clark, a minister to street gangs.
7.1/10
Biography, Drama
UK|Cayman Islands|Denmark|USA
2008
92 Minutes
Tom Hardy Kelly Adams Luing Andrews Katy Barker Amanda Burton Mark Devenport Paul Donnelly Andrew Forbes Jon House Matt King James Lance
prisoner fighter prison guard promoter wife teacher brutal unrestrained gritty england prison cell solitary confinement prison life michael peterson solitary confinement crime criminal justice system alter ego underdog
A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson.
7.2/10
Adventure, History, Biography, Drama
USA|Czech Republic|Spain
2017
133 Minutes
Charlie Hunnam Rami Malek Roland Møller Nina Senicar Tommy J. Flanagan Eve Hewson Christopher Fairbank Brian Vernel
convict innocent man prison guard prisoner escape artist friend tense bleak thrilling suspenseful incredible intricate prison island prison cell paris french guiana apartment prison prison break
Wrongfully convicted for murder, Henri Charriere forms an unlikely relationship with fellow inmate and quirky convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, in an attempt to escape from the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island.
7.6/10
Biography, Drama
UK|USA
1978
121 Minutes
Brad Davis Randy Quaid John Hurt Bo Hopkins Paul L. Smith Mike Kellin Norbert Weisser Irene Miracle Paolo Bonacelli Michael Ensign Kevork Malikyan
prison guard prisoner police officer girlfriend judge bleak gutsy shocking istanbul prison airport prison life prison break drug trafficking foreign relations torture escape transformation wretched excess 1970s
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
7.3/10
Biography, Drama
UK|Ireland
1998
123 Minutes
Brendan Gleeson Adrian Dunbar Sean McGinley Maria Doyle Kennedy Angeline Ball Jon Voight Eanna Macliam Tom Murphy Paul Hickey Tommy O'Neill John O'Toole
crime boss police detective wife sister-in-law thief gritty fascinating emotional thrilling dublin slum suburbia courtroom poverty crime ring robbery martin cahill crime memory underdog
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
7.8/10
Biography, Drama, Crime
USA
1962
148 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Karl Malden Thelma Ritter Betty Field Neville Brand Edmond O'Brien Hugh Marlowe Telly Savalas James Westerfield Chris Robinson
prisoner warden guard mother wife moving touching leavenworth prison alcatraz island missouri solitude prison new love redemption rise transformation 1960s
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
7.0/10
Biography, Drama, History
UK|USA
2016
123 Minutes
Joel Edgerton Ruth Negga Marton Csokas Nick Kroll Terri Abney Alano Miller Jon Bass Michael Shannon Chris Greene Sharon Blackwood
black woman white man husband wife police officer supreme court justice brooding emotional intense virginia washington, d.c. house prison office courtroom interracial relationship racism bullying courage justice
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a couple whose arrest for interracial marriage in 1960s Virginia began a legal battle that would end with the Supreme Court's historic 1967 decision.
7.2/10
Drama, War, History, Biography
USA
2014
137 Minutes
Jack O'Connell Domhnall Gleeson Garrett Hedlund Miyavi Finn Wittrock Jai Courtney Maddalena Ischiale Vincenzo Amato John Magaro Luke Treadaway Louis McIntosh
athlete olympic athlete crew member air force pilot prisoner of war prison guard uplifting patriotic inspiring japan pacific ocean air force base prison camp berlin world war ii prisoners of war olympic games survival air force airplane crash
After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
4.7/10
Biography, Drama, History
USA|Hungary|Italy|Romania
2017
105 Minutes
Mateus Ward Jamie McShane Alexandra Bard Casey Bond Ben Reed Michael Monks Richard Riehle James Morrison
love interest convict murderer chaplain reformer prison guard emotional brutal intense inspiring touching prison courtroom texas crime scene field reform religious beliefs religious awakening violence
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY is inspired by the existentialist novel of the same name by G.K. Chesterton (1908). The novel is considered a metaphysical thriller, and our film could be ... See full summary »
7.1/10
Biography, Drama, History
Germany|France|Belgium|South Africa|Italy|UK|Luxembourg
2007
118 Minutes
Joseph Fiennes Dennis Haysbert Diane Kruger Faith Ndukwana Terry Pheto Zingi Mtuzula Jessica Manuel Tyrone Keogh
political prisoner prison guard warden militant racist powerful profound cape town prison robben island nelson mandela apartheid political activism change of heart race relations transformation quest 1980s
Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
6.5/10
War, Biography, Drama
USA|India
2017
108 Minutes
Miles Teller Haley Bennett Joe Cole Amy Schumer Beulah Koale Scott Haze Keisha Castle-Hughes Brad Beyer Omar J. Dorsey Jayson Warner Smith Sean Bridgers
soldier commander wife daughter son bomber emotional chilling moving solemn tense raw iraq truck united states house bar veteran's hospital iraq war post-traumatic stress disorder
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
6.4/10
Drama, Biography, War
Russia|Germany|Lithuania|Poland
2018
120 Minutes
Konstantin Khabensky Christopher Lambert Felice Jankell Dainius Kazlauskas Sergey Godin Roman Ageev
prisoner of war soviet soldier concentration camp survivor lieutenant nazi sergeant dark chilling intense disturbing frightening raw poland concentration camp survival nazis prisoners of war world war ii concentration camp uprising
Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky organizes a revolt and mass escape of prisoners from Sobibór extermination camp in October 1943.
6.9/10
History, Biography, Drama
UK|France
2015
106 Minutes
Carey Mulligan Helena Bonham Carter Brendan Gleeson Anne-Marie Duff Ben Whishaw Meryl Streep Natalie Press Romola Garai Geoff Bell Samuel West Morgan Watkins
wife mother political activist woman politician husband brooding emotional intense moving heartwarming powerful england house police station polling place street rally suffrage women's rights
In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
6.9/10
Biography, Drama
West Germany|Czechoslovakia
1986
122 Minutes
Barbara Sukowa Daniel Olbrychski Otto Sander Adelheid Arndt Jürgen Holtz Doris Schade Hannes Jaenicke
marxist lover pacifist philosopher wife politician intricate passionate berlin prison political rally protest world war i social injustice murder imprisonment rosa luxemburg sacrifice underdog 1920s
After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.
7.7/10
Biography, Drama
India
2016
122 Minutes
Sonam Kapoor Shabana Azmi Yogendra Tikku Shekhar Ravjiani Sadh Orhan Abrar Zahoor
young woman mother father terrorist passenger gripping thrilling intense powerful inspiring india city house airplane bedroom cockpit chasing dreams ambition abusive marriage hijacking
Neerja is the story of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
7.6/10
Crime, Drama, Biography
India
1994
121 Minutes
Seema Biswas Nirmal Pandey Manoj Bajpayee Rajesh Vivek Govind Namdeo Saurabh Shukla Raghubir Yadav
bandit criminal young girl husband gritty spirited intense india village crime abuse armed conflict class distinctions ambition sexism revenge rise transformation underdog 1980s
The story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994.
7.2/10
Biography, Drama
USA
2018
99 Minutes
Aldis Hodge Greg Kinnear Sherri Shepherd Melanie Liburd Tiffany Dupont Gino Vento Xosha Roquemore Mystie Smith Jose Miguel Vasquez Dorian Missick Monique Grant
football player convict wrongly accused police officer assistant district attorney family member inspiring emotional confident moving football field house prison courtroom law office wrongfully accused shattered dreams wrongful conviction imprisonment self-confidence
A football player's dreams to play in the NFL are halted when he is wrongly convicted and sent to prison. Years later, he fights to clear his name within an unjust system.
6.3/10
Biography
USA
1940
81 Minutes
Miriam Hopkins Claude Rains Richard Ainley Laura Hope Crews Helen Westley John Litel Victor Jory
actress actor producer socialite ex-husband son melodramatic powerful chicago new york city courtroom theater boarding house divorce child custody adultery theater ambition mother/son relationship love
A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in a ... See full summary »
8.1/10
Biography, Drama
USA
1962
106 Minutes
Anne Bancroft Patty Duke Victor Jory Inga Swenson Andrew Prine Kathleen Comegys Beah Richards Jack Hollander
young girl teacher mother father inspiring emotional incredible uplifting powerful alabama family home blindness deafness daunting task teaching rescue transformation quest 1880s
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
7.0/10
Biography, Drama
Canada|USA
2008
120 Minutes
Greg Kinnear Lauren Graham Dermot Mulroney Jake Abel Daniel Roebuck Tim Kelleher Bill Smitrovich Alan Alda
professor inventor wife child offbeat positive powerful detroit household automotive industry corporate greed justice lawsuit underdog quest 1960s
Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.
8.2/10
Biography, Drama
USA
1980
128 Minutes
Robert De Niro Cathy Moriarty Joe Pesci Frank Vincent Nicholas Colasanto Theresa Saldana Frank Adonis Mario Gallo Frank Topham Lori Anne Flax Joseph Bono
boxer love interest wife young girl competitor friend dark gritty boxing ring prison new york city miami household jealousy boxing self-destruction redemption emotional abuse paranoia fall
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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