Movies like The Nun 1966

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The Nun (1966)
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The Nun (1966)
Original name: La Religieuse
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
Style: art house, sensual, historical drama, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, controversial ...
Plot: nun, religion, convent, lgbt, catholic, monk, nunsploitation, swing, priest, suicide, communism, fetish, literary, monastery, lesbian, unrequited love, submissive woman, lesbian relationship, village, youth, society, strong female presence, coming of age, clergy, gender ...
Time: 18th century, year 1966
Place: france, europe
Keyword: new wave

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and sincere films with plots about society, catholic, religion, religions or cults, clergy, catholic church and nun mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Nun: Novitiate (2017), My Life to Live (1962), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), Therese (1986), Here Below (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Nun (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: religion, lesbian, convent, power relations, clergy, strong female presence, society, celibacy, lesbian nun, women's rights, abuse of power, humiliation ...
Time: 18th century
Place: france, europe
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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
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My Life to Live (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Style: art house, philosophical, intellectual, black and white, visual ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, gunfight, pimp, street prostitution, shootout, lack of money, women, european, great ending, solitude, existentialism ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france
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The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, brutal, controversial, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nun, convent, life is a bitch, human spirit, corporal punishment, mistreatment, catholic church, evil nun, religion, sexual harassment, humiliation, catholic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 2002
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
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Therese (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: spiritual, slow cinema, aesthetic, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: saint, catholic, nun, spirituality, convent, christian, religion, girl, erotica, catholic saint, spirit, bible ...
Time: year 1986, victorian era, 80s
Place: france, europe
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Here Below (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The true story of a nun who betrayed a network of Resistance fighters after having a passionate but doomed love affair with a priest during the Second World War.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, gloomy
Plot: impossible love, catholic church, nun, german occupation, forbidden love, love affair, wartime life, fall in love, dishonesty, betrayal, society, clergy ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, france
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Hadewijch (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A troubled young woman is thrown out of a convent and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.
Style: thought provoking, touching, psychological, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: religious faith, convent, religions or cults, self discovery, love, muslim, human nature, clergy, friendship, youth, hopes, koran ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, middle east, europe
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Beyond the Hills (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Belgium
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A drama centered on the friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.
Style: disturbing, sincere, realistic, bleak, depressing ...
Plot: convent, nun, belief in god, friendship, culture clash, exorcism, religion, traditional versus modern, society, danger, clergy, lgbt ...
Time: year 2012
Place: romania, transylvania, europe
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In Memory of Me (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Investigates the life a young man who has decided to enter a Jesuit monastery in Venice, but is then overcome by agonizing doubts before his ordination.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious
Plot: monastery, introspection, lifestyle, teaching the ways of the world, hopes, clergy, society, starting over, religions or cults, obedience, christianity, self doubt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: venice, europe, italy
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Bernadette (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Evocation of the life of Bernadette Soubirous, the eldest of four children, who, at the age of fifteen, experiences the Virgin Mary appearing to her at the Massabielle grotto near Lourdes. Or in her own words, "a lady dressed in white, more ...
Style: grindhouse, realistic, serious, emotional, sexual ...
Plot: asthma, asthmatic, catholic, saint, girl, profanity, village, miraculous event, village life, mental institution, unemployment, social relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: france, australia
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Viridiana (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Style: controversial, black and white, surreal, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: religion, satire, dark humor, nun, catholic, morality, voyeurism, idealism, rape, loser, farm, priest ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place: spain, madrid, europe
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Lourdes (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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.
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: religion, disability, envy, clergy, self discovery, volunteer, religions or cults, redemption, society, healing power, female protagonist, pilgrimage ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Ida (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Denmark, France, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 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.
Style: black and white, art house, emotional, melancholic, visually stunning ...
Plot: nun, world war two, faith, family secret, anti semitism, judaism, holocaust, religion, character study, orphan, suicide, self discovery ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, year 2014, year 2013, year 2016 ...
Place: poland, israel, eastern europe, europe, denmark
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Love Like Poison (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, faith, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, religion, belief in god, crisis of faith, self discovery, teenage love, moral dilemma, clergy, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, brittany, europe
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Mouchette (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style: art house, black and white, depressing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, suicide, adolescence, existentialism, solitude, betrayal, sexual abuse, minimalism, children, child abuse, youth, innocence lost ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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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
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Kristin Lavransdotter (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Kristin Lavransdatter is a 1995 Norwegian film directed by Liv Ullman, featuring Elisabeth Matheson, Bjørn Skagestad, Jørgen Langhelle, Lena Endre and Sverre Anker Ousdal, based on Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset. It was the Norwegian entry ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy, atmospheric
Plot: medieval, viking, scandinavian culture, catholic, convent, strong female presence, injustice, family relations, couples, family in crisis, tragic love, defamation ...
Time: medieval times, 14th century, middle ages
Place: europe
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Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman who was promised to a powerful family's son at birth falls in love with another man, refuses to renounce him, and is sent to a nunnery by her shocked parents. Once there, she first undergoes degradation to acclimatize her to convent ...
Style: naughty
Plot: mother superior, nun, nunsploitation, lgbt, fetish, erotica, exploitation, monk, humiliation, lust, sex scene, bare breasts ...
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The Green Room (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based on the Henry James short story "The Altar of the Dead", in which a man becomes obsessed with the many dead people in his life and builds a memorial to honor them. This film is also based on other short story by Henry James, "The ...
Style: spiritual, emotional, atmospheric, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: death, tragic love, memory, spirituality, love story, reporter, amor, trauma, dying and death, world war one, love and romance, investigation ...
Time: year 1978, 1920s
Place: france
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Within the Convent (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of the institution to enforce strict rules on these unfortunate women. At the same time, a particularly disturbed nun manages to ...
Style: erotic, sensual, romantic, naughty, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: convent, nunsploitation, abbess, nun, erotica, clergy, church, sex scene, scandal, monk, catholic, sensuality ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy
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Lilies of the Field (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: An unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior ...
Style: black and white, christian film, touching, retro, social ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: desert, religion, nun, catholic, farm, friendship, literary, faith, christian, african american, courage, church ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 50s
Place: arizona, usa
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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
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All Good Children (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After experiencing a tragedy, Irish brothers Dara and Eoin move to rural France, where they become friends with young Bella, whose beauty and charm bewitches the emotionally unstable Dara.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, obsession, teenage love, family relations, youth, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, society, friendship, cat, childhood trauma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, ireland
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The Apostle (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Akim, young Muslim will become imam sees his upset when he is touched by the love of Christ ... In a family chaos that opposes his brother identity Akim attempt to be accepted by his family.
Style: realistic, thought provoking, serious, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: family problems, self discovery, society, family in crisis, life turned upside down, religions or cults, cause and meaning, introspection, religion, family conflict, culture clash, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Blame It on Fidel! (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: politics, coming of age, radical, family life, political unrest, family problems, immigrant, hopes, journalism, state affairs, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, cuba, paris france, europe, chile ...
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Young Girls in Black (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Noémie and Priscilla, two teenage girls from working class backgrounds, cultivate the same violence, the same contempt of the world. They are a source of serious concern for family and friends, who sense them capable of going to extremes. Noémie ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, tense, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: human nature, teenage life, family problems, society, youth, dysfunctional family, death, suicidal thoughts, friendship, rebelliousness, coming of age, rebellion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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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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41%
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Gigola (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: George, a charismatic and adventurous young woman, born from an old, catholic family, falls in love, in her teens, with a female teacher named Sybil. Devastated by her lover's eventual suicide, some years later, George embarks on an exciting ...
Style: sexy, controversial, stylized, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: lesbian, prostitute, murder, lifestyle, couples, destructive relationship, sexual relations, nightlife, gangster, lgbt, gays and lesbians, prostitution ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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The Girl on the Train (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The Girl on the Train is a 2009 French drama film directed by André Téchiné. Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: anti semitism, destructive relationship, false accusation, couple relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty, society, journalism, seduction, railway, train, coming of age ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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Stella Days (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Norway, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A priest stationed in Tipperary, Ireland, is eager to return to Rome. Told he cannot do so until he has raised enough money for the building of a new church, he decides to open a cinema in the local town.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, intellectual
Plot: religion, confession, small town, idealism, clergy, religions or cults, social relations, small town life, hopes, society, belief in god, priest ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, year 1956, 1950s
Place: ireland
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