Movies like Angels with Dirty Faces
24 films close to Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
catholic, catholic priest, juvenile delinquent · Drama
juvenile delinquent, based on novel or book · Drama, Crime
catholic, film noir, black and white · Drama, Crime · Warner Bros. Pictures
gangster, reform school, juvenile delinquent · Drama, Crime
gangster · Drama, Crime
based on novel or book, gangster · Drama, Crime
based on novel or book · Drama, Crime
based on novel or book · Drama · Warner Bros. Pictures
Also Michael Curtiz · film noir, black and white · Drama · with Humphrey Bogart · Warner Bros. Pictures
Drama, Crime · Warner Bros. Pictures
based on novel or book · Drama, Crime
based on novel or book · Drama · Warner Bros. Pictures
based on novel or book · Drama, Crime
catholic · Drama
Drama, Crime · Warner Bros. Pictures
based on novel or book, reform school · Drama
Close on feel · Drama, Crime
catholic, based on novel or book · Drama
Drama · Warner Bros. Pictures
Drama · Warner Bros. Pictures
black and white, based on novel or book · Drama
gangster · Drama, Crime
based on novel or book · Drama
catholic · Drama, Crime
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.