Movies like The Green Mile

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Also Frank Darabont · based on novel or book · Drama, Crime · Castle Rock Entertainment

The Legend of Bagger Vance

2000

1930s, great depression, based on novel or book · Drama, Fantasy

The Lovely Bones

2009

based on novel or book · Drama, Fantasy

Just Mercy

2019

electric chair, death penalty · Drama, Crime

A Christmas Carol

1999

based on novel or book · Drama, Fantasy

Into the Abyss

2011

capital punishment, death penalty, death row · Crime

It's a Wonderful Life

1946

great depression, magic realism · Drama, Fantasy

Les Misérables

1998

based on novel or book · Drama, Crime

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

2005

Drama, Crime · with Barry Pepper

Scrooge

1951

based on novel or book, supernatural · Drama, Fantasy

The Color Purple

2023

southern usa, 1930s, based on novel or book · Drama

Doctor Sleep

2019

based on novel or book, supernatural · Fantasy

Dead Man Walking

1995

death penalty, death row · Drama

Angels with Dirty Faces

1938

based on novel or book · Drama, Crime

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

great depression, based on novel or book, jail · Drama

A Little Princess

1995

based on novel or book, magic realism · Drama, Fantasy

Macario

1960

torture, based on novel or book · Drama, Fantasy

FX's A Christmas Carol

2019

based on novel or book · Drama, Fantasy

The Boy and the Heron

2023

supernatural · Drama, Fantasy

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2008

1930s, great depression, magic realism · Drama, Fantasy

A Christmas Carol

2009

based on novel or book · Drama, Fantasy

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

2022

based on novel or book · Drama, Fantasy

A Christmas Carol

1984

based on novel or book · Drama, Fantasy

The Phantom Carriage

1921

based on novel or book · Drama, Fantasy