Movies like Dayavan
If Dayavan's mix of friendship, prostitute and police brutality stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Dayavan's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Scarface
1983 · Directed by Brian De Palma · 170 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one, gangster · Also action and crime · From the same decade (1980s)
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami.
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Boys Don't Cry
1999 · Directed by Kimberly Peirce · 118 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: love, friends · Also crime and drama
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: friendship, police brutality · Also drama and crime
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
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The Godfather
1972 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 175 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: loss of loved one, gangster · Also drama and crime
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son,…
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Once Upon a Time in America
1984 · Directed by Sergio Leone · 139 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also drama and crime · From the same decade (1980s)
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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Menace II Society
1993 · Directed by Albert Hughes · 97 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also drama and crime
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.