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10 Best Movies Like In the Name of the Father

If you loved In the Name of the Father, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

1994★ 8.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Name of the Father for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski...

#2
Hunger

Hunger

2008★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Name of the Father for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status....

#3
South Central

South Central

1992★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Name of the Father for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the help of Muslim inmate Ali. Up...

#4
Maze

Maze

2017★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Name of the Father for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP Maze, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II....

#5
Cool Hand Luke

Cool Hand Luke

1967★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Name of the Father for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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, Dragli...

#6
GoodFellas

GoodFellas

1990★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to In the Name of the Father for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the gu...

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