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10 Best Movies Like Street Angels

If you loved Street Angels, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

2003★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Street Angels for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she ...

#2
Scum

Scum

1977★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Street Angels for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders....

#3
Boy Wonder

Boy Wonder

2010★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Street Angels for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-...

#4
Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

2005★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Street Angels for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young ...

#5
Short Term 12

Short Term 12

2013★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Street Angels for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior b...

#6
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Street Angels for fans of TV Movie & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

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