Movies like He Got Game

The Hurricane

1999

prison, familiar, admiring · Drama · with Denzel Washington

Malcolm X

1992

Also Spike Lee · prison · Drama · with Denzel Washington · 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

Mo' Better Blues

1990

Also Spike Lee · admiring · Drama · with Denzel Washington and Bill Nunn · 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

Ali

2001

admiring, angry, affectation · Drama

What's Love Got to Do with It

1993

admiring, angry, affectation · Drama · Touchstone Pictures

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

2005

parent child relationship · Drama

Breaking Surface

2020

didactic, admiring, angry · Drama

Transamerica

2005

parent child relationship · Drama

The Specials

2019

didactic, affectation, sympathetic · Drama

Amaran

2024

admiring, affectation · Drama

Dead Poets Society

1989

Drama · Touchstone Pictures

Lorenzo's Oil

1992

parent child relationship · Drama

Lion

2016

familiar, affectation · Drama

Dead Man Walking

1995

forgiveness, prison, angry · Drama

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

prison · Drama

Raymond & Ray

2022

admiring, angry, affectation · Drama

The Great Flood

2025

admiring, sympathetic · Drama

Sing Sing

2024

prison · Drama

The Color Purple

2023

forgiveness · Drama

The Color Purple

1985

prison, angry · Drama

Creed II

2018

angry, sympathetic · Drama

When a Man Loves a Woman

1994

admiring, sympathetic · Drama · Touchstone Pictures

Astral City: A Spiritual Journey

2010

didactic, admiring, angry · Drama

The Banker

2020

familiar, admiring, affectation · Drama