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In This House of Brede (1975)
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In This House of Brede (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
Plot: monk, faith, catholic, christian, convent, drastic change of life, female nudity, priest, catholic church, catholic priest, catholicism, loss of child, newcomer, bishop, abbess, mother superior, loss of daughter, japanese girl, nun, novice
Place: london

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, christian film, captivating and thought provoking films with plots about catholic, priest, religion, nun, catholic priest, catholic church and christian mostly in Drama, Biography and History genres. Some movies like In This House of Brede: The Castro's Abbess (1974), Corpus Christi (2019), The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975), Christmas Lilies of the Field (1979), The Runner Stumbles (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Castro's Abbess (1974)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.
Plot: nunsploitation, nun, convent, mother superior, catholic church, catholic, abbess, catholic priest, bishop, middle aged, priest, erotica ...
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Corpus Christi (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The story of a 20-year-old Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation while living in a Youth Detention Center. He wants to become a priest but this is impossible because of his criminal record. When he is sent to work at a carpenter’s ...
Style: sincere, art house, touching, thought provoking, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: catholic church, prison, juvenile prison, ex convict, sex scene, priest, grief, funeral, mayor, fake identity, fake priest, car accident ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: poland, central europe, eastern europe
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The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
Style: detective
Plot: miraculous event, bishop, catholicism, convent, catholic church, catholic priest, mother superior, kidnapping, nun, priest, catholic
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47%
Christmas Lilies of the Field (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Sometime after the events in 'Lilies of the Field' (1963) Homer Smith returns to the Church he helped build to find the nuns have taken in a group of homeless children.
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, nun, black history, christian, convent school, mother superior, catholic orphanage, church, catholic priest, catholic school, chapel, convent ...
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The Runner Stumbles (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Beau Bridges and Tammy Grimes.
Plot: nun, convent, religion, catholic priest, priest, catholic church, catholic, priest in love
Time: year 1979
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35%
Mariette in Ecstasy (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
Plot: nun, trance, convent, mother superior, abbess, religious, religious conversion, faith, religion, religious fundamentalism, belief in god, religious faith ...
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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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31%
The Lady of Monza (1969)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan.
Plot: nunsploitation, nun, monk, catholic, sexploitation, lgbt, priest, female nudity, evil nun, convent, catholic priest, mother superior ...
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Sparrow (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avoid contamination. Here she finds a difficult situation, in fact her stepmother and her half-sisters ...
Style: sensual, erotic
Plot: cholera, religion, love triangle, sister sister relationship, love, priest, volcano, mother superior, catholic priest, catholic church, catholic, nun ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: sicily
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29%
The Assisi Underground (1985)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: catholic, world war two, christian, nazi, pope, holocaust, catholic priest, priest, friendship, bishop, catholic church, monk ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985
Place: italy
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28%
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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26%
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 ⇓
25%
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L'viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life story of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj,
Style: tense, serious, realistic, epic, spiritual ...
Plot: pope, catholic church, politics, clergy, vatican, catholic, catholicism, cold war, state affairs, society, revolution, political unrest ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, china, asia, rome italy, italy ...
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25%
A Time for Miracles (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible ...
Plot: catholic, saint, catholic saint, female protagonist, miraculous event, faith, christmas, priest, historical event, education, catholic priest, nun ...
Time: 18th century
Place: new york
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24%
The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Said convent turns out to be a veritable hotbed of sinful carnality and depravity. Debauched priest Don Arrigone and lecherous womanizer Giampaolo Osio plot to seduce ...
Style: erotic, sexploitation film
Plot: nun, nunsploitation, religion, catholic, lgbt, exploitation, monk, sleaze, male nudity, orgy, female masturbation, female pubic hair ...
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24%
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The Nun (1966)
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, historical drama, sensual, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: nun, religion, convent, lgbt, catholic, monk, nunsploitation, priest, suicide, fetish, swing, communism ...
Time: 18th century, year 1966
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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In His Steps (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a homeless man interrupts the comfortable routine of First Church of Raymond, life will never be the same for the apathetic congregation. Convicted by the vagrant's words, Pastor Henry Maxwell, Rachel Winslow, Virginia Page, Alex Powers, ...
Style: independent film, christian film
Plot: christian, faith, faith based, homelessness, minister, girl, wealth, singer, singing, homeless man, preacher, christianity ...
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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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22%
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The Suspended Vocation (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.
Style: parody, allegory
Plot: fight, religious conflict, priest, painter, catholic priest, art, mural, catholic church, worship, religion, church, dispute ...
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22%
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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21%
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Ave María (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
Style: period piece
Plot: spanish conquest, catholic, myth, religion, misogyny, catholicism, female scientist, sexism, nun, catholic priest, feminist, inquisition ...
Time: 17th century
Place: mexico
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21%
Flame in the Wind (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in the splendor and terror of the Spanish Inquisition, Flame in the Wind tells the story of Carlos, an earnest young nobleman who is faced with a choice: the church system offers safety, protection, and respectability; the Scriptures offer ...
Style: independent film, christian film
Plot: spanish inquisition, faith, christian, catholic, court martial, jail cell, torture, priest, soldier, hiding place, prisoner, monastery ...
Time: 16th century
Place: spain
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20%
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Conflict (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: In the near future, the Catholic church has joined with other western religions in an ecumenical movement that has washed out much of the original message of the religion. A group of Irish monks have begun saying the mass again in Latin and have ...
Plot: religion, catholic, catholic priest, opening a door
Place: ireland
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20%
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The Hoodlum Priest (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Based on the life of Fr. Charles Clark, a minister to street gangs.
Style: neo noir, independent film
Plot: gas chamber, clergy, catholic, christian, catholic priest, jesuit, church, minister, execution, bare chested male, hooligan, death row ...
Time: year 1961
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20%
Karol: The Pope, The Man (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, Poland, Canada
Duration: 155 min.
Story: This highly acclaimed feature film on Pope John Paul II was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. Focusing on the papacy of John Paul and the tremendous impact he had on the Church and the world, Karol: The Pope, The Man stars actor Piotr Adamczyk ...
Plot: catholic, pope, faith, saint, church, myth, christian, bible, religion, clergy, loyalty, respect ...
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20%
Saint Anthony: The Miracle Worker of Padua (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Depiction of the life of St. Anthony, beginning with his initial calling to the priesthood as a young Portugese nobleman, and following him as he becomes a Franciscan monk and preaches across Africa and Europe.
Style: captivating, psychological, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot: catholic, saint, religion, religious faith, priest, religious, belief in god, faith, life, religious fundamentalism, high priest, christian ...
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Surviving Confession (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A disgruntled priest, conflicted with his faith, has his world turned upside down when an unlikely person enters his confessional.
Style: thrilling, satirical, captivating, psychological
Plot: social satire, priest, confession, catholic, religion, christian, faith, satire, lifestyle change, changing lives, religious faith, consciousness ...
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20%
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Thin Ice (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
Story: Vince, a college student, loves the mountains, skiing and fun, so an invitation to Lake Tahoe is a no-brain-er... HOWEVER, the trip includes people from a church group, and six strong sets of opinions about God soon collide. Vince's weekend of ...
Style: christian film
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19%
Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A priest (William Holden) arrives at a mission-post in China accompanied by a young native girl who has joined him along the way. His job is to relieve the existing priest (Clifton Webb), who is now too old and weak to continue with the upkeep of ...
Plot: priest, catholic, church, mission, catholic school, convent school, missionary, nun, catholic priest, catholic church, nun's habit
Place: china
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19%
God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Pastor Dave responds to the unimaginable tragedy of having his church, located on the grounds of the local university, burned down.
Style: christian film, realistic, captivating, psychological, rough ...
Plot: christian, faith, church, religious fanatic, brother brother relationship, christianity, university, protest, arson, doubt, lawyer, jail ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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