PickFlick
Back Door to Heaven

Back Door to Heaven

Wrongfully Accused! Condemned to Death!

1939•1h 25m•3.7/10
CrimeDrama

Ratings

🎬TMDb
3.7/10(3)

The life of a young kid, who starts stealing small things to fit in with the "cool crowd".

Open in PickFlick

Production

Vernon Steele Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Wallace Ford

Wallace Ford

Frankie Rogers

Patricia Ellis

Patricia Ellis

Carol Evans

Aline MacMahon

Aline MacMahon

Miss Williams

Van Heflin

Van Heflin

John Shelley

Douglas McMullen

Wallace Kischler

George J. Lewis

George J. Lewis

Bob Hale

Bruce Evans

Charley Smith

Stuart Erwin

Stuart Erwin

Jud Mason

Bert Frohman

Bert 'Mouse' Gatto

Georgette Harvey

Georgette Harvey

Mrs. Hamilton

Helen Christian

Mrs. Gladys Smith

Jimmy Lydon

Jimmy Lydon

Young Frankie Rogers

Anita Magee

Young Carol Evans

Raymond Roe

Raymond Roe

Young John Shelley

William Redfield

William Redfield

Young Charley Smith

Kenneth LeRoy

Young Bob Hale

David Johnson

Young Wallace Kischler

William Harrigan

William Harrigan

Frankie's Father

Jane Seymour

Frankie's Mother

Alfred Webster

Sheriff Kramer

Recommended

Knock on Any Door

Knock on Any Door

6.2
1949
Movie

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Knock on Any Door

1949
6.2
Belly

Belly

6.0
1998
Movie

Tommy Bundy and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign last?

Belly

1998
6.0
Above the Rim

Above the Rim

7.0
1994
Movie

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

Above the Rim

1994
7.0
Adulthood

Adulthood

6.2
2008
Movie

After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.

Adulthood

2008
6.2
Winged Creatures

Winged Creatures

5.9
2009
Movie

A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.

Winged Creatures

2009
5.9
The Preppie Connection

The Preppie Connection

6.3
2016
Movie

A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.

The Preppie Connection

2016
6.3
The Unforgivable

The Unforgivable

7.4
2021
Movie

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

The Unforgivable

2021
7.4
Siberian Education

Siberian Education

6.8
2013
Movie

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.

Siberian Education

2013
6.8
Panic

Panic

6.2
2000
Movie

Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.

Panic

2000
6.2
Cass

Cass

5.9
2008
Movie

The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.

Cass

2008
5.9
Mob Town

Mob Town

6.4
2019
Movie

Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the country converged on the sleepy town to discuss upcoming expansion plans. Their plans are foiled when local police trooper Ed Croswell discovers their activities and, consequently, exposes the mob to the American public. Croswell’s actions shed light on the massive web of corruption and changed the face of law enforcement forever.

Mob Town

2019
6.4
True Believer

True Believer

6.2
1989
Movie

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.

True Believer

1989
6.2

Similar Movies

Mahogany

Mahogany

5.8
1975
Movie

An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.

Mahogany

1975
5.8
Once Were Warriors

Once Were Warriors

7.4
1994
Movie

In a violent relationship, it takes a mother’s strength to save herself and her children from the man she loved. Once Were Warriors is a violent love story set against a contemporary urban backdrop.

Once Were Warriors

1994
7.4
Tsotsi

Tsotsi

7.0
2005
Movie

A young South African boy from the Johannesburg ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster, leaves home as a child to get away from his helpless parents. Now a teenage thug, Tsotsi finds a baby in the back seat of a car he's just stolen. He decides that it is his responsibility to care for the infant and in the process learns that maybe the criminal life isn’t the best way.

Tsotsi

2005
7.0
The Young and the Damned

The Young and the Damned

8.0
1950
Movie

A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent life in the infamous slums of Mexico City; among them Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

The Young and the Damned

1950
8.0
Streets of Rio

Streets of Rio

4.1
2008
Movie

Rio de Janeiro. Confronted with the violence that exists in the favela where he lives, Tiago sees the only way out to become a soccer player and, in this way, help his family to have a better life. Although he is the best player in his neighborhood and the chances of being discovered by a scout are good, he faces a number of problems. One of them is Tubarão, the leader of the most powerful gang in the favela, who wants Tiago to work for him as a drug dealer. To complicate matters even more, Tiago falls in love with Juliana, Tubarão's sister.

Streets of Rio

2008
4.1
Dr. Alemán

Dr. Alemán

5.4
2008
Movie

Marc, an unexperienced medical doctor from Germany arrives at the Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia for his internship and soon finds himself in-between a raging gang war in Siloé, a Cali barrio. In the hospital he has to care mostly for shotgun wounds, while in the streets he falls in love with a stall-holder who cares for some of the children involved in drug trafficking and criminal violence. Alienating his colleagues and his host family while befriending the kids, he soon finds himself trapped in the center of the violent conflict between the gangs and has to come to a decision.

Dr. Alemán

2008
5.4
Dodes'ka-den

Dodes'ka-den

7.1
1970
Movie

On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses. Kurosawa crafts a ragged mosaic of hardship, fantasy, and flickers of grace that keep people moving forward.

Dodes'ka-den

1970
7.1
Respect

Respect

6.7
2017
Movie

Hendrix dreams of hip-hop greatness, but he’s spiraling down a rabbit-hole of crime and poverty until he meets Doc, an old poet still haunted by his martial law past. Can they turn each other’s lives around before they’re swallowed by their circumstance?

Respect

2017
6.7
Maaveeran

Maaveeran

7.0
2023
Movie

After a head injury, cowardly newspaper cartoonist Sathya hears a voice in his mind, foretells events and puts him in precarious situations and forces him to take on a corrupt politician.

Maaveeran

2023
7.0
The Paradise

The Paradise

2026
Movie

In 1980s Secunderabad, a marginalized tribe battles discrimination and fights for citizenship under an unexpected leader's guidance, challenging systemic oppression.

The Paradise

2026
Madras

Madras

7.8
2014
Movie

A portrayal of the lives of the people living in North Madras, focusing on the politics inside the slums and how their plight remains the same, despite the political class luring them constantly during elections.

Madras

2014
7.8
The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper

6.8
1937
Movie

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.

The Prince and the Pauper

1937
6.8
PickFlick Assistant
Hi! I'm your PickFlick Assistant. Ask me about movies, TV shows, IPTV sources, or anything about PickFlick.

Powered by CopilotKit