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Plot Summary:
The story of a 20-year-old Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation while living in a Youth Detention Center. He wants to become a priest but this is impossible because of his criminal record. When he is sent to work at a carpenter’s workshop in a small town, on arrival he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of the young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened there.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, art house, thought provoking, touching, ambiguous ending, christian film, psychological, philosophical, suspense, social
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The Weaver of Miracles (1962)
Plot Summary:
Arnulfo is a man weaving baskets. Remedios has given birth in front of the house of a woman and her aid, but the village is spread the word that the child born as a child God and an atheist would think exploit to their advantage the "miracle ".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
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Enough Praying (1972)
Plot Summary:
Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called "worker-priests." This Chilean film tells the story of how one man became a "worker-priest" and won the trust of the poor.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 80 min
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The Maneater (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jezebel is a nihilistic artist who hides her fragility by living a fast-paced, promiscuous lifestyle. After attending her father's funeral, the sultry temptress finds herself attracted to David, a handsome, earnest young priest. While David wrestles with the earthly desires elicited by this new temptress, jaded Jezebel tries to comprehend his deeply-rooted faith.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, erotic, sexual, sexy
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The Fire That Burns (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
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Stations of the Cross (2014)
Plot Summary:
Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she’s at home with her family she follows the teachings of the Society of St. Pius XII and their traditionalist interpretation of Catholicism. Everything that Maria thinks and does must be examined before God. And since the Lord is a strict shepherd, she lives in constant fear of committing some misconduct.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, melancholic, art house, spiritual, surreal, disturbing, crying, sincere
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Perfect Obedience (2014)
Plot Summary:
The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his film through the largely uncomprehending, wondering eyes of 13-year-old Julián, who travels from the arms of his loving pastoral family into the austere, hallowed halls of the seminary. Singling out the boy as his intimate disciple, installing him in his palatial private quarters and redubbing him “Sacramento Santos,” Father Ángel begins Julian’s instruction into the mysteries of “perfect obedience,” whose cardinal rule is: Never question a superior’s actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing
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The Third Miracle (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: biblical, controversial, sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film, psychological, sentimental
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Lourdes (2009)
Plot Summary:
In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, serious, christian film, psychological, atmospheric, slow cinema, aesthetic, gloomy
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The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Plot Summary:
Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L'viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life story of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj,.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: tense, epic, serious, realistic, christian film, retro, spiritual
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In This House of Brede (1975)
Plot Summary:
A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Pieces of Dreams (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young priest (Robert Forster) questions his faith after he falls in love with a social worker.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: uplifting, thought provoking, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Calvary (2014)
Plot Summary:
After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: meditative, atmospheric, psychological, melancholic, captivating, cerebral, independent film, dark comedy, black comedy, visually stunning
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90 Minutes in Heaven (2015)
Plot Summary:
A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: christian film, captivating, disturbing, psychological, sincere, uplifting, thought provoking, philosophical, spiritual
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Therese (1986)
Plot Summary:
The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the little way" to God are shown clearly, using plain modern language. A sense of angelic simplicity comes across without fancy lights, choirs, or showy miracles.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 978
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spiritual, slow cinema, aesthetic, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Hadewijch (2009)
Plot Summary:
A troubled young woman is thrown out of a convent and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, touching, psychological, sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, multicultural, slow cinema, aesthetic, serious
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Invisible Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s. The life of Guida and Euridice Gusmão, raised to be invisible in the eyes of the Brazilian society of that time, like all the other women of that generation.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, erotic, political, stylized, art house, existential, visual
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Au Hasard Balthazar (1966)
Plot Summary:
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: depressing, art house, cerebral, philosophical, black and white, spiritual, heartbreaking, disturbing, thought provoking, touching
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Ida (2013)
Plot Summary:
Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, Denmark, France, UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: black and white, art house, emotional, melancholic, visually stunning, bleak, depressing, serious, independent film, cerebral
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Novitiate (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, social, sad, controversial, costume drama, queer cinema
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Boy A (2007)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, heartbreaking, disturbing, emotional, touching, suspense, compassionate, tense, brutal, melancholic
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The Cleaner (2015)
Plot Summary:
Just out of prison, Tomáš, a taciturn loner, takes a job cleaning houses where people have recently died. Things take an alarming turn when he begins putting in overtime: hiding behind closet doors after hours to secretly watch the homes’ residents. His voyeuristic ways soon lead to a romantic obsession with a woman in distress—but in order to help her, Tomáš will have to come out of the shadows.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, ambiguous ending, crying
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United States of Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland, Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, contemplative, social, visually appealing
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Do it Right (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his mates at the big Parisian high school he goes to. There’s no reason for that to change. His two lives, his home life and his school life, must be kept separate at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, semi autobiographical
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Winter Light (1963)
Plot Summary:
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: philosophical, psychological, depressing, art house, emotional, black and white, cerebral, christian film, spiritual, existential
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The Promised Land (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Polish film based on the book of the same name by Wladyslaw Reymont. Taking place in the nineteenth century town of Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An exceptional portrait of rapid industrial expansion shown through the eyes of one Polish town.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: epic, serious, realistic, biting, crying, suspense
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We (2018)
Plot Summary:
During a scorching summer in a Belgian-Dutch border village, eight teenagers play games of discovery to break the listless monotony. They challenge each other and themselves and pretty soon, their sexual curiosity starts to blur the lines between right and wrong. As innocence is crushed in depraved games and sexual exploitation, the teenagers soon turn into ruthless predators.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychological, light, sexy, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, avant garde, cult classic, twisted
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The Hunt (2012)
Plot Summary:
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 355000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: bleak, thought provoking, psychological, depressing, sad, disturbing, controversial, emotional, intense, captivating
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The Son's Room (2001)
Plot Summary:
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, emotional, depressing, sad, meditative, lyrical, psychological, realistic, philosophical
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The Great Beauty (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: philosophical, art house, visually stunning, stylized, breathtaking, visually appealing, visual, absurd, cerebral, talky
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The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Plot Summary:
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: bleak, disturbing, brutal, controversial, harsh, depressing, suspense, factual, compassionate, rough