Movies like The Last Temptation of Christ
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt. As he is put to death on the cross, Jesus is tempted by visions of an ordinary life married to Mary Magdalene.
Style:
thought provoking, controversial, psychological, dark, epic, melancholic, talky, biblical, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
jesus, spirituality, christianity, desert, religion, temptation, betrayal, redemption, christian, fasting, surrealism, controversy, ancient history, sin, clergy, devil, faith, resurrection, messiah, tragic hero, hopes, loneliness, atheism, transformation, religious ...
Time:
biblical epic, 1930s, 1st century, 30s
Place:
holy land, ancient greece, greece, middle east, jerusalem, israel
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Most similar movies to The Last Temptation of Christ
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, visually appealing, harsh and reflective films with plots about dialogue, storytelling, catastrophe, suprisingly clever, life philosophy, mentor and redemption mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like The Last Temptation of Christ: The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), The Island (2006), The Apostle (1997), King of Kings (1961). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 260 min.
Story:
All-star epic retelling of Christ's life.
Style:
biblical, epic, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
preschoolers
Plot:
jesus, christian, faith, betrayal, desert, redemption, miraculous event, temptation, christianity, torture, human spirit, society ...
Time:
ancient times, biblical epic, 1st century
Place:
holy land, rome italy, ancient greece, jerusalem, egypt
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
"The Passion of the Christ" is a film about the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus. Director Mel Gibson received much criticism from critics and audiences for his explicit depiction of and focus on violence and on christs suffering, ...
Style:
biblical, christian film, rough, controversial, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly
Plot:
jesus, christianity, religion, betrayal, suffering, death, redemption, torture, bible, mission, sacrifice, roman ...
Time:
biblical epic, ancient times, 1st century, 1930s
Place:
holy land, jerusalem, rome italy, ancient greece, middle east
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Genre: Drama, History, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Oscar-nominated film adaptation of the rock opera of the same name, based on the last weeks before the crucifixion of Jesus. The film was directed by Norman Jewison. Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson were nominated for two 1974 Golden Globe Award for ...
Style:
lyrical, stylized, talky, intense, surreal ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
betrayal, dancing, music, life & death, destiny, rock and roll, atheism, christianity, adaptation, greed, creativity, desert ...
Time:
70s, 1st century
Place:
middle east, israel, ancient greece, palestine, holy land
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, breathtaking, cerebral ...
Plot:
christian, redemption, religion, solitude, loneliness, forgiveness, monk, life philosophy, monastery, island, hopes, sin ...
Time:
future
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio.
Style:
biblical, talky, realistic, sexy, christian film ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
christian, religion, preacher, redemption, small town, radio, coma, country, church, runaway, powerful ending, demon ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
texas, louisiana, california, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Style:
biblical, epic, suspenseful, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
jesus, christianity, ancient history, religion, christian, bible, redemption, betrayal, state affairs, tragic hero, political unrest, heroic mission ...
Time:
1st century, biblical epic, ancient times, 1st century b.c.
Place:
rome italy, ancient greece, israel, egypt, middle east ...
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100%
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:
thought provoking, sexy, controversial, visually appealing, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
religion, miraculous event, investigation, priest, catholic church, sacrifice, beautiful scenery, christian, runaway, catastrophe, catholicism, corruption ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, rome italy
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God — only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
Style:
disturbing, surreal, thought provoking, psychological, stylized ...
Plot:
end of the world, religion, mother daughter relationship, group sex, religious conversion, murder, faith, christian, apocalypse, religion and supernatural, religions or cults, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.
Style:
thought provoking, sexy, controversial, atmospheric, poignant ...
Plot:
christian, religion, hospital, redemption, church, philosophy, actor, loneliness, life & death, mentor, idealism, distopia ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, montreal, quebec
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic ...
Style:
talky, sexy, dramatic, intellectual, light ...
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, redemption, violence, catholicism, morality, mentor, revenge, relationships, justice, multiple storylines, secrets ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, europe, italy, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Johnny Cash appears in and narrates this version of the story of Jesus' life, death and resurrection.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, realistic, serious, biblical
Plot:
jesus, faith, hopes, society, unfulfillment, ambition, music, heroes, country, ancient history, righting the wronged, religions or cults ...
Place:
holy land, middle east, israel
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
Style:
biblical, art house, bleak, stylized, sexy ...
Plot:
jesus, religion, christianity, catholic, christian, bible, god, faith, betrayal, christmas, gender bending, liberation theology ...
Time:
60s, biblical epic, 70s
Place:
rome italy, vatican, italy, ancient greece, israel ...
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41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Style:
psychological, art house, emotional, philosophical, depressing ...
Plot:
existentialism, religion, suicide, winter, art, isolation, small town, priest, faith, loss of faith, midlife crisis, apocalypse ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
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41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had ...
Style:
atmospheric, reflective, philosophical, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
philosophy, art, existentialism, dream, obsession, insanity, memory, writer's life, redemption, culture clash, poetry, runaway ...
Time:
80s, 18th century
Place:
russia, rome italy, ussr, europe, italy ...
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50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A visual social examination in the form of ten conversations between a driving woman and her various pick-ups and hitchhikers.
Style:
talky, thought provoking, melancholic, intense, light ...
Plot:
character study, car, solitude, relationships, driver, society, life is a bitch, passenger, sibling relationship, hopes, human nature, love and romance ...
Place:
iran, tokyo, middle east, tehran iran, tehran ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Albany, New York, Halloween, 1938. Francis Phelan and Helen Archer are bums, back in their birth city. She was a singer on the radio, he a major league pitcher. Death surrounds them: she's sick, a pal has cancer, he digs graves at the cemetery ...
Style:
emotional, touching, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, homeless, mental illness, redemption, halloween, couple relations, rich and poor, parents and children, life is a bitch, human nature, buddies, best friends ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
new york, usa
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36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
Style:
realistic, philosophical, sincere, depressing, surprise ending ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
depression, human nature, social problems, multiple storylines, child prodigy, introspection, dysfunctional family, loneliness, coincidence, drugs, drug addiction, death ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 60s, 50s, 1910s
Place:
los angeles, california
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36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An old married man leaves his wife for a younger woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner.
Style:
intense, art house, biting, talky, sexy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, suspense, prostitute, sex, male nudity, women, time travel, social outcast, feminism, melancholy, nude, cheating ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Carol, a typical upper middle-class housewife, begins to complain of vague symptoms of illness. She "doesn't feel right," has unexplained headaches, congestion, a dry cough, nosebleeds, vomiting, and trouble breathing. Her family ...
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, thought provoking, bleak, cerebral ...
Plot:
allergy, psychiatrist, psychology, isolation, environmental, environment, paranoia, mental disorder, suburbs, contamination, housewife, retreat ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, surreal, depressing ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, swimming, nudist, neighbor, swimmer, existentialism, life philosophy, character study, social relations, neighborhood, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style:
psychedelic, disturbing, psychological, surreal, cerebral ...
Plot:
hallucination, drugs, surrealism, addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, cockroach, insect, homosexuality, drug abuse, giant insect, insanity ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, year 1953
Place:
usa, new york, canada, north africa
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36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, atmospheric, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
hallucination, mental illness, hospital, redemption, medical, ambulance, crime gone awry, rescue, haunted by the past, patient, dealing with death, misfit partners ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, South Africa, Norway, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear ...
Style:
bleak, stylized, melancholic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
desert, survival, stranded, isolation, culture clash, rescue, life is a bitch, human nature, dogma, shakespeare, bus, tragedy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, new jersey, australia, namibia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take ...
Style:
art house, road movie, psychological, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
suicide, existentialism, death, car, muslim, desert, depression, art, brutality, life, life & death, life philosophy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, tokyo, tehran iran, middle east, tehran
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35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old religious woman. Although only a few words are spoken, love grows.
Style:
art house, meditative, melancholic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
solitude, depression, suicide, life philosophy, runaway, village, artist, suicide attempt, widow, farm, sexual desire, love of one's life ...
Place:
mexico, argentina, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A US politician visits his poet friend in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medieval island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja, a scientist in recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen ...
Style:
philosophical, psychological, talky, sexy, intellectual ...
Plot:
philosophy, politics, isolation, island, scientist, environment, technology, science, life, art, mentor, internet ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
france, europe
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, West Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, disturbing, art house, thought provoking ...
Plot:
childhood, ghost, christmas, children, emotional abuse, brother sister relationship, grief, coming of age, abusive stepfather, child abuse, domestic violence, christmas eve ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century, turn of the century, 90s, 1910s
Place:
sweden, tokyo, eastern europe, scandinavia
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, society, catastrophe, end of the world, distopia, brutality, survival, chaos, countryside, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Place:
tokyo
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here portrayed as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience ...
Style:
talky, realistic, clever, sentimental, sexy ...
Plot:
writers, coming of age, friendship, adoption, dysfunctional family, world war two, family relations, father daughter relationship, culture clash, betrayal, life philosophy, adolescence ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, tokyo, france, new england, europe
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35%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Brad (Michael Shannon) has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place; Based on a true ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, murder, psychopath, obsession, crazy, paranoia, memory, family relations, family problems, law enforcement, delusion, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, new orleans, peru, usa, san diego california
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35%
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