Movies like Judgment

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Judgment (1990)
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Judgment (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
Style: crying
Plot: altar boy, childhood sexual abuse, pedophile priest, child molester, youth, catholic church, coming of age, bare chested male, lawsuit, rape, lawyer, religion, doll, priest, swimming, doctor, sexual abuse, church, boy, family relations, singing, christianity, child abuse, catholic, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: louisiana

Most similar movies to Judgment

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and crying films with plots about youth, society, religion, family relations, catholic, catholic church and priest mostly in Drama, Biography and Crime genres. Some movies like Judgment: The Boys of St. Vincent (1992), The Fire That Burns (1997), Perfect Obedience (2014), Karadima Forest (2015), Our Fathers (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Boys of St. Vincent (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
Style: realistic, disturbing, bleak, sad, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pedophilia, child abuse, catholic priest, child molestation, man boy relationship, catholic orphanage, pedophile priest, homosexual rape, orphanage, child molester, childhood, underage sex ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: canada, newfoundland
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The Fire That Burns (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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.
Plot: altar boy, coming of age, gay, boys' school, lgbt, lgbtq, childhood, youth, boyhood, glbt, catholic, school ...
Time: pre world war two, 1930s
Place: france, paris france
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100%
Perfect Obedience (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspense, disturbing
Plot: pedophile priest, punishment, child abuse, teenager, bullying, pedophile, catholic church, catholic priest, child sexual abuse, gay interest, corporal punishment, obedience ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Karadima Forest (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Based on true events, involving powerful Catholic priest Fernando Karadima, who committed crimes of child abuse and pedophile between 1980's-2000's. The struggle of his victims, to be able to reveal the truth and look for justice.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, art house, suspense
Plot: pedophile, religion, gay, catholic priest, sexual abuse, investigation, cover up, uncover truth, catholic, child abuse, heretic, pedophile priest ...
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Our Fathers (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal Law, also indicted, and the diocese was aware of the actions of these men of the church and was kept secret for years, until the victims decide ...
Style: thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: church, sexual abuse, pedophile, clergy, legal investigation, social decay, courtroom drama, sexual harassment, dishonesty, fighting the system, legal, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, europe, france
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42%
Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An 11 year old girl accuses her father of incest.
Style: historical drama, independent film, crying
Plot: child abuse, boy, anal rape, father daughter incest, incest, father daughter relationship, repressed memory, accusation, trial, court, liar, father ...
Place: canada
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40%
Pieces of Dreams (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young priest (Robert Forster) questions his faith after he falls in love with a social worker.
Style: uplifting, thought provoking, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot: forbidden love, church, hospital, celibacy, couples, religions or cults, family relations, clergy, gender, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: albuquerque new mexico
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40%
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Novitiate (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: 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.
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot: nun, catholic church, monastery, lesbian, catholicism, vatican, priest, mother superior, confession, catholic, flagellation, lgbt ...
Time: year 1964, year 1954, 60s, year 2017, 90s
Place: tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Stolen Summer (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of the Lord, and not that of the Devil. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: judaism, afterlife, friendship, childhood, coming of age, youth, boy, catholicism, mentor, friendship between boys, family relations, rabbi ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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40%
Something About Amelia (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The movie follows the Bennett family after Amelia tells her school counselor that her father has sexually abused her.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, sincere, sexual
Plot: childhood sexual abuse, sexual abuse, abuse, woman in danger, incest, sexual content, sex maniac, life is a bitch, innocence lost, youth, family problems, kids in trouble ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Perfect Parents (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a violent incident in Lucy's public school, her atheist parents Stuart and Alison decide to find her a safe 'traditional' school. The only one they can afford is St. Mary of the Veil, run by nuns whose 'preference' for ...
Style: crying
Plot: youth, pedophile priest, gay interest, bribe, forgery, dinner, hit and run, knife fight, religious faith, crucifix, nun, faith ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
In the Best Interest of the Children (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fact-based story of a legal battle fought over custody of five siblings.
Style: sad, crying
Plot: adoption, foster parent, children, love, mother and daughter, youth, neglected child, poverty, poor family, adoptive mother, toys, adoptive father ...
Place: iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, depressing ...
Plot: child abuse, pedophile, rape, sex, child molester, sexual abuse, child rape, coming of age, police, psychologist, child molestation, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2004
Place: tennessee, indiana, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Aclà's Decent Into Floristella (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and ...
Style: political, gay cinema
Plot: boy, pedophilia, gay, youth, sex crime, social injustice, childhood, traumatic childhood, boyhood, sea, nudity, frog ...
Time: 1930s
Place: sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
By The Grace of God (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: pedophilia, religion, pedophile priest, child abuse, children, cardinal the priest, church, husband wife relationship, childhood memory, female nudity, sexual abuse, gay ...
Time: year 2014, year 2019, year 2015, year 2016, 2010s
Place: france, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Great Santini (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, independent film
Plot: dysfunctional family, military, vietnam war, family drama, military base, family relations, bittersweet, aviation, basketball, high school, father son relationship, army ...
Time: 60s, year 1979, 20th century, year 1962
Place: california, south carolina, atlanta georgia, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Verdict (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties ...
Style: suspense, tense, atmospheric, intense, thought provoking ...
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, redemption, lawyer, court, legal action, character study, fighting the system, legal, alcoholic, trial, law ...
Time: 20th century, year 1982, 80s
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Keeping the Promise (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A colonial family seeks a better life in Maine's wilderness in this powerful adventure. When William Hallowell leaves behind 13-year-old son Matt to safeguard their claim, the boy relies on his new friendship with the Penobscot Indians for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, historical drama
Audience: family outing, teen drama
Plot: nature, youth, family relations, friends, danger, escapades, orphan, survival, plague, friendship, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 18th century
Place: maine, massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Gardens of the Night (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Style: bleak, serious, sincere, teen, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: kidnapping, child prostitution, child molester, pimp, child molestation, rape, abuse, child abduction, pedophile, haunted by the past, pedophilia, child abuse ...
Place: california, usa, pennsylvania, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Corpo celeste (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive, she joins a catechism class at a local church. However, the games and religious pop songs she ...
Style: touching, sincere, realistic, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: religion, catholic, teenage life, parents and children, journey, society, coming of age, children, life is a bitch, priest, atheism, teenage girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Devil's Playground (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, crying, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, altar boy, gay, youth, catholic school, lgbt, boy, male objectification, boarding school, atheist, philosophy ...
Time: year 1976, 1950s, 70s, year 1953
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Chocolate War (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A surreal portrait of a Catholic Private School and its hierarchy. A new student must submit to the bizarre rituals of his peers and the expectations of the school's administration by selling chocolates.
Style: psychotronic, serious, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, chocolate, coming of age, boy, preparatory school, academician, angst, lonely, catholic school, boxing, catholic, high school ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Third Miracle (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
Style: controversial, biblical, contemplative, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: religion, saint, priest, miraculous event, investigation, catholic priest, philosophy, religious, world war two, gay, catholic church, bishop ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Doubt (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and ...
Style: period piece, sincere, psychological, clever, enigmatic ...
Plot: priest, religion, pedophilia, clergy, nun, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, teacher, catholic, pedophile, catholic church, boy ...
Time: 60s, year 2008, victorian era, 90s, year 1964 ...
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Mass Appeal (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young seminarian rattles the established order at a Catholic parish run by an older pastor. (TCM.com)
Style: talky, psychological, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: gay, religion, homosexuality, priest, suburbs, catholic, church, christian, spirituality, lgbt, celibacy, gay subtext ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Hidden in America (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Story of a man Bill Januson whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will ...
Style: crying, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot: starving child, starvation, youth, doctor, single parent, unemployment, family problems, family relations, human nature, society, life is a bitch, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Red Hook Summer (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: church, family relations, fish out of water, religions or cults, life is a bitch, society, clergy, youth, family life, disorder, coming of age, blaxploitation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Amazing Love (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Teen friends, Steve, Carrie, Cooper, and Gameboy embark on a weekend camping trip lead by their church youth group leader Stuart (Sean Astin) and his wife Beth (Erin Bethea). Joining them is an outsider Ashley, a self-involved rich kid, whose ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, christian film, suspense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot: christian, true love, old testament, faith, church, bible story, storytelling, husband wife relationship, religion, religious, bible, christianity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, emotional, touching, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, coming of age, rape, family relations, dysfunctional family, pedophile, parents and children, life is a bitch, domestic violence, child abuse, children, child rape ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, 1950s, 50s
Place: south carolina, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Clara's Heart (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: David is a teenager whose parents are in a deteriorating marriage after their infant daughter dies. Clara is a chambermaid at a Jamaican resort who's hired to be a housekeeper. She and David develop a close bond, opening his eyes and heart to ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic, serious
Audience: kids
Plot: grief, women, youth, dysfunctional family, friendship, adolescence, black, child hero, sex crime, racism, family relations, couples ...
Time: 80s
Place: jamaica, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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