Movies like Sister Mary Explains It All
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Sister Mary Explains It All (2001)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
As Sister Mary delivers a lecture on sin and its consequences, she's interrupted by several of her former students, who have little positive to say about how a Catholic education has impacted their lives.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, talky, biting
Plot:
society, clergy, religions or cults, church, rivalry, disorder, christmas, nun, catholic school, belief in the afterlife, humour, lifestyle change, school, suspense, satire, boarding school life, gay, religion, catholic church, abortion, homosexuality, catholic, evil nun, flashback, belief in hell ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, realistic and captivating films with plots about society, disorder, religions or cults, family relations, rivalry, religion and satire mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Sister Mary Explains It All: The Priest's Children (2013), The Passion (2010), Don Verdean (2015), Brother White (2012), A Christmas Proposal (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and ...
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satire, priest, pregnancy, mediterranean, suspense, clergy, religions or cults, unwanted pregnancy, village life, dishonesty, society, disorder ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
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humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating ...
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society, celebrity culture, religions or cults, disorder, nothing goes right, lifestyle, celebration, art, religion, artists and showbiz, down on your luck, director
Time:
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Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Biblical archaeologist Don Verdean is hired by a local church pastor to find faith-promoting relics in the Holy Land. But after a fruitless expedition he is forced to get creative in this comedy of faith and fraud.
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semi serious, captivating, exciting, entertaining, funny ...
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archaeologist, rivalry, society, desire for fame, self discovery, track down, ambition, on the road, cons and scams, friendship, suspense, cult ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, holy land
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66%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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 ...
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uplifting, semi serious, touching, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
christian, church, pastor, human spirit, clergy, hopes, save the day, society, fish out of water, social relations, religions or cults, religion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two lawyers dueling over a proposal to turn a quaint mountain town into a ski resort discover they are former childhood sweethearts. Lisa is fighting to protect the hamlet, big city attorney Rick represents the developer who wants to plow it under. ...
Style:
humorous, emotional, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
christmas, rivalry, opposites attract, couples, small town, legal action, save the day, society, friendship, love and romance, legal, christmas season ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, biting
Plot:
murderous pair, unlikely criminals, satire, social decay, society, disorder, vigilantism, escapades, life is a bitch, nothing to lose, partners, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
spain
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
What would Jesus do if he returned to Earth and discovered he could no longer relate to the youth of today?
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semi serious, witty, humorous, captivating, campy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fish out of water, satire, destiny, religions or cults, society, heroes, clergy, disorder, antichrist, messiah, vampire, superhero ...
Time:
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Place:
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47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.
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humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
soccer, obsession, family relations, eccentric family, sport, rivalry, parents and children, youth, sport team, satire, ambition, suburban life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When the lives of Mahmoud, a Muslim Sheikh (Omar Sharif) and Boulos, a Christian Theologian (Adel Imam) are threatened by religious extremists on both sides, the Egyptian government inducts them into a witness protection program that requires them ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot:
on the run, friendship, family relations, assassination attempt, switching roles, culture clash, disorder, society, fall in love, parents and children, fake identity, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, egypt, middle east
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46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ritchie is the epitome of everything wrong with modern man: a pompous, foul-mouthed idiot, driven only to get the latest girl of the week Something changes after his first real relationship that includes Ritchie's two favorite things: frequent ...
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Six men, one woman (and her brother) come together with one goal - to make the play. It would be probably another common story that this theater group is composed of anti-heroes who float lost in time and space, in a town where it seems that the sun ...
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humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, funny ...
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Two pairs of Mormon missionaries from America live in a beaten-up apartment in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Their personalities are distinctly different. Elder Johnson is the District Leader and oversees their efforts. His companion, the vain Elder ...
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
6 gun wielding people are trapped in a NY loft with $4 million in stolen diamonds.
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semi serious, cynical, humorous, realistic, talky ...
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crime gone awry, rivalry, heist, law enforcement, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, betrayal, disorder, suspense, alcohol abuse, brother brother relationship, diamond ...
Time:
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Place:
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40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Kathleen Turner stars as suburban mother and devout Catholic Eileen Cleary, who has always kept up appearances. When she runs for the Catholic Woman of the Year title at her local parish, her final test is introducing her family to the board for the ...
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Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A 35-year-old woman fakes being pregnant to fit in with her friends.
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Audience:
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Plot:
dishonesty, family relations, disorder, life turned upside down, best friends, lie, society, bittersweet, strong female presence, friends, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life ...
Time:
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Place:
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39%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Adan Kundle, CEO of a major advertising agency, is discovered unconscious in front of a wall of TVs. When he wakes in the hospital, Adan can only communicate through advertising slogans.
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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 ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Regina Reynolds is a strong black woman in the truest sense -- but her taste for the good life doesn't necessarily include her husband, Marcus, or her daughter, Monica. It's going to take a mother's unconditional love to pray Regina ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
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Duration: 105 min.
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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Country: USA, Canada
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Duration: 121 min.
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