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10 Best Movies Like A Prayer Before Dawn

If you loved A Prayer Before Dawn, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Convict

Convict

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Prayer Before Dawn for fans of Drama & Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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 f...

#2
Jawbone

Jawbone

2017★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Prayer Before Dawn for fans of Drama & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A former youth boxing champion, Jimmy McCabe is a man in search of hope but looking in all the wrong places. When he hits rock bottom he turns to his childhood boxing club and the ...

#3
Blood and Bone

Blood and Bone

2009★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Prayer Before Dawn for fans of Drama & Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend....

#4
Bronson

Bronson

2009★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Prayer Before Dawn for fans of Drama & Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted ...

#5
Until Death

Until Death

2007★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Prayer Before Dawn for fans of Action & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wa...

#6
Gotti

Gotti

1996★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Prayer Before Dawn for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in Am...

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