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Movies Like What Richard Did

If you liked What Richard Did (2012), a drama movie directed by Lenny Abrahamson, 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.

  1. 1Kill the Irishman

    Kill the Irishman (2011)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's…

  2. 2Kisses

    Kisses (2008)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

  3. 3The Hate U Give

    The Hate U Give (2018)

    ★ 8.1/10Also drama

    Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds…

  4. 4In the Name of the Father

    In the Name of the Father (1993)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    A 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.

  5. 5Veronica Guerin

    Veronica Guerin (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    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…

  6. 6Mammal

    Mammal (2016)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the…

  7. 7The Siege of Jadotville

    The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.

  8. 8The Bikeriders

    The Bikeriders (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his…

  9. 9Bad Boys

    Bad Boys (1983)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Mick 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…

  10. 10Five Minutes of Heaven

    Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    The 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.

  11. 11Braveheart

    Braveheart (1995)

    ★ 7.9/10Also drama

    Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire…

  12. 12A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

    A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y…

  13. 13Convict

    Convict (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the…

  14. 14Beautiful Boy

    Beautiful Boy (2018)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

  15. 15The Crossing Guard

    The Crossing Guard (1995)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.

  16. 16The Football Factory

    The Football Factory (2004)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males…

  17. 17The General

    The General (1998)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    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…

  18. 18Albert Nobbs

    Albert Nobbs (2011)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man, so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most posh hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter…

  19. 19Stuart: A Life Backwards

    Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.

  20. 20The Nest

    The Nest (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban…

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