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The Nun (2013)
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Original name: La Religieuse
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. Although a kind and understanding Mother Superior helps her to learn the convent’s daily routine, Suzanne’s desire for freedom remains unabated. When the Mother Superior dies, Suzanne finds herself faced with reprisals, humiliation and harassment at the hands of the new Abbess and the other Sisters. For many years, Suzanne is subjected to bigotry and religious fanaticism. (Berlinale.de)
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious, erotic, psychological, sincere, independent film, period drama
Plot:
lesbian, religion, convent, clergy, power relations, society, strong female presence, celibacy, women's rights, humiliation, abuse of power, confession, lgbt, monk, unrequited love, lesbian interest, revenge, sexual perversion, nude girl, coming of age, gender, sexual repression, monastery, innocence lost, lawyer ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1700s
Place:
france, europe
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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, family relations, coming of age, hopes, clergy, female nudity and priest mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Nun: The Magdalene Sisters (2002), Therese (1986), Novitiate (2017), My Little Princess (2011), Brides of Christ (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, harsh, brutal, controversial, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
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nun, convent, catholic church, life is a bitch, corporal punishment, evil nun, human spirit, punishment, religion, catholic orphanage, sexual harassment, violence against women ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, latin america
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
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Style:
sensual, sexual, art house, historical drama, contemplative ...
Plot:
nun, lesbian, catholic, convent, religion, lgbt, monastery, monk, nunsploitation, unrequited love, impossible love, bible ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
slow cinema, spiritual, aesthetic, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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, costume drama, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
nun, catholicism, catholic church, lesbian, mother superior, priest, flagellation, confession, lgbt, altar boy, coming of age, sexual repression ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her ...
Style:
serious, sad, erotic, sensual, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
traumatic childhood, mother daughter conflict, pedophilia, innocence lost, art, eccentric family, mother daughter relationship, female nudity, macabre, making love, sex scene, adult film industry ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK, Ireland
Duration: 55 min.
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Story:
Diane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its followers are struggling with huge changes. The Pope has died, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere
Plot:
nun, convent, teachers and students, clergy, monk, bishop, radical, friends, church, family relations, religions or cults, power relations ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Norway, Germany, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, intellectual
Plot:
religion, confession, small town, social relations, religions or cults, idealism, clergy, small town life, hopes, society, belief in god, priest ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1956, 1950s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
28%
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:
serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
monastery, introspection, lifestyle, teaching the ways of the world, religions or cults, society, clergy, starting over, hopes, obedience, christianity, self doubt ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, venice, italy
Similarity:
28%
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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, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
religious faith, convent, hopes, koran, love, muslim, religions or cults, self discovery, clergy, human nature, youth, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, usa, france, boston
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, obsession, youth, family relations, teenage love, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, friendship, society, problem child, arson ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, ireland
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, contemplative, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
maid, friendship, rich and poor, society, writer's life, master and servant, power relations, strong female presence, world war two, political intrigue, totalitarian state, european ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
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Similarity:
25%
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Country: France, Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sexual, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film centers around a young French widow and her two adolescent children attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930's. Their efforts are hampered each year ...
Style:
sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
nudity, corruption, dam, lack of money, landowner, social differences, righting the wronged, fighting the system, parents and children, interracial relations, teenage life, rich and poor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
cambodia, indochina, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
social differences, friendship, family relations, hopes, family life, unfulfilled love, power relations, friends, master and servant, introspection, women, lesbian ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
europe, france, normandy
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, faith, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, grandfather, religion, belief in god, crisis of faith, catholic, religious faith, absent father, death of grandfather ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brittany, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, family problems, unfulfillment, single parent, haunted by the past, spouse leaving, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, husband wife conflict, skinny dipping, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, south of france
Similarity:
23%
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:
romantic drama, historical drama, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
medieval times, 14th century, middle ages
Place:
europe
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
surreal, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
bible, children, devil, symbolism, philosophy, angel, coming of age, religions or cults, obsessive quest, heroes, ancient history, time ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
ancient greece, athens greece, france, paris france, prague ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Though its aftertitles detailing the history of French nuke experiments suggest otherwise, writer/director Marion Hänsel’s Black Ocean is not a political treatise or a history lesson, instead taking advantage of the remote, isolated environments ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
military life, friendship, ship, soldier, power relations, partner, crew, nuclear, nuclear testing, gay subtext, coming of age, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe, pacific ocean
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
hopes, cheating boyfriend, starting over, self discovery, redemption, musician's life, friendship, dysfunctional couple, male female relationship, deception, father daughter reunion, new life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, france, europe, brittany, naples italy ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, car accident, family secret, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Every afternoon Noelí, a young Dominican woman, hangs out on the beach at Las Terrenas. With her boyfriend, Yeremi, they look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the hundreds of tourists there. However Noelí also has a steady ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, serious, realistic, queer cinema
Plot:
moral dilemma, love and romance, rich and poor, cons and scams, gays and lesbians, dishonesty, society, lgbt, island, lesbian, infatuation, woman woman relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
22%
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, captivating, realistic, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
homosexuality, seminary, catholic, religion, celibacy, priest, suburbs, gay, friendship, wine, mentor, idealism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
connecticut, new jersey
Similarity:
22%
193
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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