Most Similar Movies to The Hoodlum Priest (1961)
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Brian Banks (2018), Monster (2003), Veronica Guerin (2003), Machine Gun Preacher (2011), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Conviction (2010), The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Brian Banks (2018)
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.
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Monster (2003)
Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
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Veronica Guerin (2003)
An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.
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Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
Sam Childers is a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers.
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
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Conviction (2010)
A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.
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The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987)
Jobless and desperate, World War I veteran Robert Eliot Burns (Val Kilmer) is arrested for theft and sentenced to work on a prison chain gang. Eager to get away from brutal Warden Hardy (Charles Durning), Burns busts out of jail. Suddenly free, he woos foxy stranger Emily Del Pino Pacheco (Sonia Braga). Soon, though, the romance sours, and, without cover from Emily, Burns is left with nowhere to hide. To his dismay, he might just find himself making a return journey to Hardy's chain gang.
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Citizen Gangster (2011)
WWII vet Eddie Boyd is torn between providing for his young family and an unfulfilled dream of becoming a Hollywood star. He discovers a way to do both, but his dream leads him down a path of danger and tragedy.
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The Vernon Johns Story (1994)
This biopic follows the life of Vernon Johns (James Earl Jones) -- now known as the father of the civil rights movement -- during the years he preceded Martin Luther King Jr. as minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Johns champions the cause of desegregation, clashing with local white authorities; the more cautious members of his own church; his wife (Mary Alice), who fears he'll lose his pulpit; and his children, who fear he will lose his life.
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Shahid (2012)
The account of Human Rights lawyer Shahid Azmi, an ordinary citizen with an extraordinary commitment to justice.
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Malcolm X (1992)
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.
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Bandit Queen (1994)
The story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994.
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Marshall (2017)
The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
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Flash of Genius (2008)
Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.
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The Pardon (2013)
With all the picturesque glamour of the 1940s, "The Pardon" recounts the unlikely true story of Toni Jo Henry. A grisly murder leads to a series of sensational trials in which she pleads her innocence; she was executed in Louisiana, 1942.
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American Gangster (2007)
An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.
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The Dark Horse (2014)
A brilliant but troubled New Zealand chess champion finds purpose by teaching underprivileged children about the rules of chess and life.
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I Want to Live! (1958)
A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence.
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