Movies Like In England's Green and Pleasant Land
If you liked In England's Green and Pleasant Land (1979), a movie directed by Clive Halls, 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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The Unforgivable (2021)
★ 7.4/10A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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Jamesy Boy (2014)
★ 6.4/10Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected…
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The Woodsman (2004)
★ 6.8/10After twelve years in prison, Walter returns home. His family has abandoned him, save for his brother-in-law. Few know he's a sex offender and pedophile. Walter finds an apartment and is regularly visited by his parole…
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A Score to Settle (2019)
★ 5.8/10A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.
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Scum (1979)
★ 7.1/10Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of…
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Dead Man Walking (1995)
★ 7.3/10A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
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Oldboy (2013)
★ 5.9/10A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.
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Lock Up (1989)
★ 6.8/10Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration…
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All Day and a Night (2020)
★ 6.3/10While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
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Killer: A Journal of Murder (1996)
★ 5.9/10Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there, he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram, befriends him, and gets him to write his life story…
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Gangster No. 1 (2000)
★ 6.4/10An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately…
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He Got Game (1998)
★ 6.8/10A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
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Breakwater (2023)
★ 5.9/10A young ex-con risks his newfound freedom to track down the estranged daughter of a fellow inmate, and unknowingly brings a devil from her past straight to her doorstep.
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I Want to Live! (1958)
★ 7/10Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
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There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)
★ 6.8/10A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.
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White Heat (1949)
★ 7.7/10A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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Wild Bill (2011)
★ 6.8/10Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.
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Shockproof (1949)
★ 6.3/10Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
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Lorelei (2020)
★ 6/10A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a lyrical take on love, regret and second chances.
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Return to Sender (2015)
★ 6.1/10A nurse mistakes a stranger who pays her a visit for her blind date and soon, the man rapes her and turns her life upside down. The woman works to reclaim her life and exact revenge on her assailant after he's paroled…