Movies like In the Name of the Father (1993)

Name: Movies similar to In the Name of the Father (1993)
Director: Jim Sheridan
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Released: 1993-12-12
Duration: 133 Min
Rating: 8.1
Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite

In the Name of the Father (1993)

United StatesR133Min

8.1 ( 192K Votes )

94 %

An Irish man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. Meanwhile, a British lawyer fights to clear their names and free them. Story of Gerry Conlon, purported ringleader of the Guildford Four, a group of three Irishmen and one English woman wrongly imprisoned for the 1974 IRA bombing of a pub in Guildford, England, that left five people dead. Conlon's father Guiseppe was subsequently imprisoned along with six other Conlon relatives who became known as the Maguire Seven.