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The Gospel of the Flesh (2013)
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Original name: El Evangelio de la Carne
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Three lives in search of redemption intersect in the streets of Lima: undercover cop Gamarra’s desperate attempts to save his wife from a terminal illness gets him into trouble; bus driver Felix wants to be accepted into a religious sect after his involvement in a tragic traffic accident; and imperiled soccer club leader Narciso tries to secure his younger brother’s release from prison.
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy
Plot:
redemption, undercover, family relations, life is a bitch, hopes, society, law enforcement, terminal illness, multiple storylines, confession, soccer, urban, siblings relations, religions or cults, violent content, prison, lawyer, violence, murder, hospital, coma, tattoo, soccer fan, money problems, human nature ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
latin america, peru
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Most similar movies to The Gospel of the Flesh
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and emotional films with plots about family relations, life is a bitch, society, hopes, redemption, siblings relations and parents and children mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Gospel of the Flesh: Victorio (2008), Days of Santiago (2004), Like a Puppet Out of Strings (2006), The Visit (2000), The Mulberry Tree (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A story of redemption, drama and action, where only love can overcome all obstacles.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, captivating, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
redemption, hopes, gang, going straight, fall in love, gangster, love and romance, family relations, chance, forbidden love, urban, mature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Santiago returns home from the Peruvian army ill-prepared to cope with the realities of life. Haunted by his violent military past, he is conflicted by his desire for education and his temptation to join his comrades in a decadent life of crime.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, homecoming, moral dilemma, society, life is a bitch, working class, family relations, family problems, post traumatic stress disorder, ex soldier, urban, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, latin america
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two Brothers; Tom and Felipe, have moved up the ranks of the street gangs because they have no greater devotion than the protection of each other. Luis, former gang member, is now a cop, his life having been turned around by Angelica, a female cop. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, going straight, gang, society, redemption, law enforcement, youth, urban ghetto, murder, brother brother relationship, family relations, hopes ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
92%
297
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, redemption, destiny, society, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, hopes, family life, parents and children, black, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
87%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A drama centered on a young man working in Rhode Island's state corrections system and his relationship with a convicted murderer who is dying of AIDS and spending his remaining days on hospital detail.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, hospital, redemption, life is a bitch, hopes, one more chance, family relations, estrangement, life sentence, haunted by the past, terminal illness, murderer ...
Place:
rhode island, usa
Similarity:
79%
372
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, parents and children, life is a bitch, teenage life, redemption, shoplifting, mistaken identity, society, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A New York City-set drama of interlocking stories which occur over a 36-hour period.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot:
human nature, city life, estrangement, redemption, introspection, hopes, addiction, unfulfillment, lifestyle, multiple storylines, family problems, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
66%
392
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Brothers Yaki and Shaul live with their parents in Petah Tikva, a satellite town of Tel Aviv. Yaki is doing military service. As for all other 18-year-old Israelis, this means he is allowed to carry a gun. This weapon gives the brothers the power to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
family problems, kidnapping, family relations, unemployment, society, working class, parents and children, teenage life, dysfunctional family, soldier, youth, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
63%
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129
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Everyone falls into self destructive habits. Automatic lets us view a small cross-section of the lives of six characters as they struggle to break free from the automatic behavior that drives their lives.
Style:
contemplative, captivating, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
couples, family problems, human nature, couple relations, love and romance, sexual relations, destiny, hopes, fall in love, crumbling marriage, womanizer, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference, where their lives are forever changed by God's message for them.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, art house, christian film ...
Plot:
self discovery, family problems, redemption, hopes, society, friendship, biopic, christian, faith, religions or cults, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Ginko’s younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, human nature, family problems, bittersweet, redemption, family feud, unfulfillment, brother sister relationship, problem solving, brother, living together, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Argentina
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
During a stopover in Buenos Aires on her way to Chile, 31-year-old Maria recognizes a nursery rhyme. Maria doesn't speak a work of Spanish, but without understanding what she is singing, she remembers the Spanish lyrics. Disturbed and thrown ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
self discovery, redemption, family relations, protecting from truth, parents and children, uncover truth, adoption, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, hopes, society, monkey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
missionary, couples, redemption, self discovery, life is a bitch, youth, working class, terminal illness, disorder, family relations, tragic hero, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
53%
535
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the midst of a midlife crisis of faith, a man finds hope where he least expects it – his hometown. James Moore (Golden Globe nominee Corbin Bernsen) is a former pastor who returns home to discover a family new to the area has been killed in a ...
Style:
realistic, contemplative, captivating, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
clergy, amateur detective, self discovery, uncover truth, redemption, religions or cults, family relations, homecoming, social relations, society, friendship, direction and purpose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, society, life is a bitch, family relations, small town, unemployment, rivalry, social relations, parents and children, down on your luck, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, hokkaido
Similarity:
53%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
love, family relations, multiple storylines, everyday life, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, social misfits, down on your luck, prostitute, taxi driver, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, middle east
Similarity:
50%
123
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Catholic priest, Father Anthony Romano (Nick Chinlund), intervenes with the police when his colleague attacks a drifter named Lil (Georgina Cates). When Anthony reluctantly provides her asylum in his rectory, the brash hustler soon discovers a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
false accusation, prostitute, celibacy, haunted by the past, redemption, lifestyle, clergy, moral dilemma, hopes, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An innocent man framed for murder, and the system that just wants another minority conviction.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
murder, racism, injustice, protagonist as suspect, going straight, redemption, fighting the system, frame up, dishonesty, society, life is a bitch, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south america, texas, usa
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, introspection, society, couples, suburban life, suburbs, friends, unfulfillment, mother daughter relationship, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Dostoevsky’s latter-day opus about the siblings and their father is among the masterpieces of world literature. It asks profound questions about ethics and religion. Is there a God? Does the devil exist? Is everything allowed because we live in a ...
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
theater, lifestyle, hopes, parents and children, society, human nature, performer's life, dealing with death, artists and showbiz, redemption, siblings relations, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, prague, poland, central europe ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Set in small-town rural Georgia, a man returns to his hometown to face the deep-rooted racial tensions of a deep southern town that ages, but never changes.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
interracial relations, homecoming, friendship, disability, family relations, society, hopes, countryside, life is a bitch, love, true love, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Shy, gentle half-wit Dennis, whose only obsession is train-spotting, is released early on account of good behavior after a rape sentence. His parents who run a modest barbershop, skeptic André and Rita, desperately try to keep him out of girl ...
Style:
touching, captivating, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
family relations, misfit, society, life is a bitch, hopes, rehabilitation, parents and children, forced into action, jail, punishment, rape, prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A 48-year-old company chief, Yukihiro Fujiyama (Koji Yakusho) goes to a hospital. There he discovered that he has got terminal lung cancer and will die within half a year. He declines any treatment and decides to go to see some people he has not met ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
life turned upside down, redemption, friendship, couples, family relations, couple relations, terminal illness, life is a bitch, dealing with death, cancer, illness, relationship problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, japan
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fundamentalist sect member BeckyLyn is accused of killing her husband. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her innocence reaches out to her excommunicated son ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
polygamy, murder, false accusation, righting the wronged, society, religions or cults, church, estrangement, uncover truth, arranged marriage, religion, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, utah
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
September 1987. In a shootout with police, Juan Jose Garfia makes a triple murder. Sentenced to more than one hundred years, is a rebel prisoner, clever and elusive that it has nothing to lose and nobody to worry about. In 1991, manages to escape ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, captivating
Plot:
prison, rehabilitation, redemption, unlikely couple, prison life, hopes, impossible love, murder, love affair, nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Madeinusa is a girl aged 14 with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the ...
Style:
captivating, stylized, serious, dark, political ...
Plot:
forbidden love, incest, social differences, religions or cults, family relations, fall in love, against the odds, hopes, village life, religion, vanity, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
peru, latin america, andes mountains
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Gil Garcia is at the end of his life. Wounded and bleeding in a church confessional, he tells an unsuspecting Father Wade his tragic story. At a young age, Gil's father takes him to America in search of a better life, forcing him to leave the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
Plot:
family problems, single parent, orphan, society, betrayal, terminal illness, starting over, murder, family in crisis, church, siblings relations, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a friend. The two get closer and fall in love, but face turmoil.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
city life, couples, society, immigrant, redemption, friendship, youth, love, love story, family relations, age difference, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A call girl goes to a priest to confess a sin she hasn't committed yet: she plans to kill herself on her next birthday. Then she disappears and he goes looking for her, enlisting the help of an ad hoc congregation of troubled souls along the ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
woman in danger, prostitute, priest, forgiveness, redemption, obsession, society, clergy, illegal prostitution, sin, catholic priest, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
poverty, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
35%
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