Movies Like Hunger
If you liked Hunger (2008), a drama and history movie directed by Steve McQueen, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Bloody Sunday (2002)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and historyThe dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
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Maze (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and historyInspired 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.
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaA small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
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'71 (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA young British soldier must find his way back to safety after his unit accidentally abandons him during a riot in the streets of Belfast.
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Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaThe story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
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Escape from Sobibor (1987)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaThe true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
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The Last Castle (2001)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.
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Against the Wall (1994)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and historyIn 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.
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The Crying Game (1992)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaIrish Republican Army member Fergus forms an unexpected bond with Jody, a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude and Maguire. Jody makes Fergus promise he'll visit his…
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Bad Boys (1983)
★ 7/10Also dramaMick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile…
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The Wonder (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaHaunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
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Escape from Pretoria (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and historySouth Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.
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The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and historyThree young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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Midnight Express (1978)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaBilly Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The 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…
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Veronica Guerin (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaIn 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…
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Cool Hand Luke (1967)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaWhen 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, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's…
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The General (1998)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe 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…
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Elephant (1989)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaA chilling depiction of a series of violent killings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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Angela's Ashes (1999)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaAn Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
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Nowhere to Run (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaEscaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.