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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
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Fools' Parade (1971)
Plot Summary:
Homer Grindstaff is a big named banker in Glory and Doc Council is a prison official and they team up to plot to kill Appleyard and his ex-convict friends who were attempting to open up a general store in Stone Coal, West Virginia and then to take the money.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: period piece, serious, realistic, period drama, cult film
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Robin Ince: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People (2010)
Plot Summary:
'Welcome to my folly', declared Robin Ince as he opens Nine Lessons..., his massive sell-out Rationalist Celebration of comedy and science for Christmas. With a star-studded line-up included Richard Dawkins, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Simon Singh, Richard Herring, Gavin Osbourne, Isy Suttie, Ben Goldacre, Andrew Collins, Waen Shepherd, Christina Martin and Philip Jeays - all accompanied by Martin White and his amazing Mystery Fax Machine Chamber Orchestra. What more could you ask for?.... Oh go on then, as it's Christmas there's also interview contributions from Dara O'Briain and Javis Cocker.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
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Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young Jehovah's Witness believes the ultimate punishment will be inflicted upon him for typical teenage activity. His life is rather grim until infatuation with a friend's older sister opens his eyes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
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El profeta Mimi (1973)
Plot Summary:
Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
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Salvation Boulevard (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cynical, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, funny, black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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The Prodigal Song (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mario has to decide how to use his special talent, either use it for God or use his gift for the world.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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All Mistakes Buried (2015)
Plot Summary:
A lone, struggling addict takes on a dangerous underground criminal ring in his small Southern town to retrieve a stolen pendant he believes will save his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, gloomy, independent film
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A Mother on the Edge (2019)
Plot Summary:
A mother is forced to question her sanity when her daughter disappears and she's told that she's been dead for over an year, igniting a chase for the truth in order to save her little girl's life before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, entertaining
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We Have a Pope (2011)
Plot Summary:
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, clever, humorous, witty, tragicomedy, philosophical, sad, buddy comedy, sentimental
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All My Friends Are Funeral Singers (2010)
Plot Summary:
Zel is a fortune teller. She lives and works in an old house at the edge of the woods. The house is crowded with ghosts (including a priest, a bride, a mute child, some washed up vaudevillians and a noisy, sight-impaired group of musicians among others) that have been there for as long as she can remember. When a mysterious light appears in the woods the ghosts realize that they are trapped and begin to rebel. Zel is forced to come to terms with the origins of these spirits and letting go of the only family she has ever known.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, semi serious, surreal, captivating, independent film, uplifting, offbeat, experimental, underground film
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Me Again (2012)
Plot Summary:
Things don't go as expected when a disenchanted pastor wishes for a different life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christian film, feel good, uplifting, humorous, semi serious, spiritual
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The Conspirators (1969)
Plot Summary:
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions. So Cornacchia decides to report Spada to two "Carbonari" (kind of Freemasons) to kill Spada. The two, Montanari (Hossein) and Targhini (Verley) fail to kill him and decide to escape from Rome. But they are arrested and sentenced to death. Cornacchia will spend his last chance to save them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 125 min
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The Gospel According to Vic (1986)
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Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Job (2009)
Plot Summary:
A guy looking to find employment and marry the love of his life, gets in over his head when a fast-talking temp agent lands him a job.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, soap opera
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Almost an Angel (1990)
Plot Summary:
Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car while saving a little girl's life. While in the hospital, he dreams that God visits him and tells him he's an Angel, and must start doing good things to make up for his past life. Not believing it at first, he soon becomes convinced he must be an Angel. Not having any Angel powers yet, he must use his own experiences and talents to make good things happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, surprise ending, detective, hilarious
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Apostasy (2017)
Plot Summary:
A faithful Jehovah's Witness is forced to shun her own sister because of a religious transgression. As the separation draws out, she starts to question the meaning of God's love.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Twist of Faith (1999)
Plot Summary:
Vancouver Police Detective Henry Smith is one of those investigating the murder of Roman Catholic Father Martin, who was crucified in his own church.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Mary (2005)
Plot Summary:
Following the shooting of a film on the life of Jesus called This Is My Blood, Marie Palesi (Juliette Binoche), the actress who plays Mary Magdalene takes refuge in Jerusalem in search of the truth behind the myth. The director of the film, Tony Childress (Matthew Modine), who also plays Jesus, can think of only one thing: self-promotion. In New York, television journalist Ted Younger (Forest Whitaker) presents a programme about the life of Jesus.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic
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Blockbuster (2013)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, black and white
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Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, independent film, dark, suspenseful, teen, gloomy
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The Ledge (2011)
Plot Summary:
A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Saudi Arabia, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, emotional, sincere, psychological thriller, inspirational, sexy, sad, suspenseful, surreal
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The Other Side of Sunday (1996)
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The Other Side of Sunday, also known in Norwegian as "Søndagsengler", is a movie that criticizes the small, and often tight, church community. We follow the Preacher's Daughter, Maria, on her journey to liberate herself from the stiff church community and her father.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, sexual, sentimental, road movie, sexy, touching
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Hidden Secrets (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young man finds himself torn between his current girlfriend and an old flame at a funeral of friend where lifestyles and attitudes clash over a long weekend in this faith-based dramedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christian film, sincere, touching, serious, contemplative, indie film, realistic
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Brother White (2012)
Plot Summary:
Synopsis James White (White) is one of dozens of associate pastors at a mega church in Southern California under the tutelage of television evangelist Johnny Kingman (Wise). He always longed to have his own church and jumps at the opportunity to become pastor of the impoverished Divine Faith Apostolic Church in Atlanta. His wife and two children aren’t very enthusiastic about his assignment. Neither is the congregation itself, but they will have to learn to trust each other and pull together to save the church from a corrupt banker anxious to foreclose. It will take a musical miracle, supplied by BeBe Winans himself, to save them all in this heartfelt, family-friendly comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, humorous, semi serious, captivating, christian film, realistic
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One Too Many Mornings (2010)
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Fischer can't remember the last time he woke up without a hangover. He lives in a church: a real one. Where people baptize, marry, pray and die. It's an ideal situation for a young guy with no aspirations: if he locks up the church, he can sleep in the back. Free of charge. 6:00am. Tuesday morning. Fischer's old friend from high school shows up unannounced. Even though they haven't seen each other in years, Peter just drove 10 hours straight because his girlfriend of five years just cheated on him. He's looking for a place to hide. To think. To drink. What better place than Fischer's church? After leaving 50 unanswered voice-mails, Rudy shows up four days later. That's Peter's girlfriend. She didn't cheat on him. She did something much worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, mumblecore, captivating, psychological, light, uplifting, clever, offbeat, realistic
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C.O.G. (2013)
Plot Summary:
A cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. Out of his element, he finds his lifestyle and notions being picked apart by everyone who crosses his path.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, indie film, realistic, independent film, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Catching Hearts (2012)
Plot Summary:
"What happens when a bestselling atheist author Professor Mark Gavin loses his faith in atheism? This intense drama asks tough questions and explores why there is no such thing as coincidence.".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: captivating, christian film, entertaining
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The Milky Way (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, spiritual, road movie, psychedelic, satirical, dark comedy, cult classic, mystical, parody, philosophical
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La higuera de los bastardos (2017)
Plot Summary:
A trigger-happy Nationalist fears retribution from the son of a man he executed. To mollify the boy's anger, he takes a drastic step: he keeps constant watch over the fig tree the boy has planted at his father's gravesite. As the years pass, the man's lonely vigil makes him a tourist attraction, much to the chagrin of his former colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Saved! (2004)
Plot Summary:
Teenage Mary Cummings, who has "been Born Again her whole life," is about to enter her senior year at American Eagle Christian High School near Baltimore with her Fundamentalist Christian friends Hilary Faye and Veronica, the three of whom have formed a girl group called the Christian Jewels. Everything seems perfect—until Mary’s "perfect Christian boyfriend" Dean tells her, as they’re swimming underwater, that he thinks he's gay.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, independent film, witty, humorous, funny, teen, dark comedy, clever, realistic, cult classic