Movies like Praying the Hours

If you like "Praying the Hours" you are looking for spiritual movies about / with travel, time, death, afterlife, eternity, transcendence and magic realism themes of Drama and Mystery genre shot in USA.
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Praying the Hours (2021)
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Praying the Hours (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story: The Traveling Man is hit by a car. Over the 24 hours that it takes to cross over from this life into the next, he visits with each of eight friends. By seeing ordinary life from this view, he realizes that eternity is not something that happens to you after you die, but is a river that flows under the surface of ordinary life.
Style: spiritual
Plot: travel, time, death, afterlife, eternity, transcendence, magic realism, prayer, ensemble, praying

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Most similar movies to Praying the Hours

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, psychological, serious and spiritual films with plots about death, murder, family relations, afterlife, flashback, husband wife relationship and spirituality mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Praying the Hours: Bardo Blues (2017), The Nothing (2011), Come Together (1971), Oceania (2008), Flowers for Fannie (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bardo Blues (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Bardo Blues is the story of a man coming to grips with tragedy by escaping to paradise. Set in Thailand, Bardo Blues follows Jack as he struggles to learn the truth about the mother that abandoned him and his own reason for existing. Weaving ...
Style: independent film
Plot: travel, spirituality
Place: thailand
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95%
 6.9
 51
The Nothing (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The faith of five strangers is put to the test when they awake to find themselves in a mysterious place, with no idea of how they got there... and no way out.
Style: underground film, sincere, psychological, touching, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: faith, cancer, christianity, spirituality, religion, christian, church, dying, death, infidelity, stranger, afterlife ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Come Together (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An American stuntman working on spaghetti westerns in Europe picks up two pretty American tourists and they decide to take a road trip around Europe together. However, things don't turn out exactly as each of them expected.
Style: independent film
Plot: scenery, love triangle, death, travel, hitchhiker, stuntman, tourist
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.5
 24
Oceania (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story: Two teenagers deal with their shattered family-life in a small California coastal town.
Style: bleak, independent film, student film
Plot: family relations, father daughter relationship, redemption, teenage boy, teenage girl, love, death, father son relationship, suicide, parent child relationship, mental illness, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Flowers for Fannie (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Fannie Fairchild locked up her heart when her beloved George was killed in the Great War. But now she faces her own mortality and realizes that she has no one to maintain her grave with flowers.
Style: spiritual
Plot: christian, faith based, widow, christianity, wedding, death, faith, generation, fiancee, multiple time frames
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
A Box for Rob (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rob Spencer's world begins to unravel when a murder takes place in his town, bringing back a flood of disturbing childhood memories. But things only get worse when he's suspected of being the killer.
Style: dark, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, independent film ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, fbi agent, victim, hate, police investigation, death, police, revenge, murder, thrill ride, regret, killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Customer of the Off Season (1970)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Directed by Moshé Mizrahi
Style: suspense
Plot: israeli, loneliness, nazi germany, memory, shooting, thirty something, refugee, manhunt, traveler, extramarital affair, guilt, paranoia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 4.6
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After the Game (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the Game is a crime fiction murder mystery with a theme of "after the game of poker" and "after the game of life." It deals with revenge, deceit, lust and greed, and explores karma and the afterlife. Aging gambler Benny ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: murder, gambling, afterlife, rivalry, dishonesty, vengeance, mind game, female nudity, sex, lesbian, car, money ...
Time: 90s
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Zen Noir (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: spiritual, inspirational, dark comedy, detective, neo noir
Plot: buddhism, zen, spirit, surrealism, amnesia, buddhist, spirituality, buddha, enlightenment, private investigator, consciousness, transcendence ...
Place: tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Somewhere, Tomorrow (1983)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Lori Anderson is trying to deal with the recent tragedy of her father's death. As Lori's mother moves on, Lori finds herself stuck, consumed by grief and anger. With the lingering feeling that something about her father's passing was ...
Style: independent film, serious, surprise ending, eighties
Audience: date night
Plot: true love, time, ghost, family relations, fall in love, supernatural, dealing with death, love and romance, parents and children, afterlife, death in the family, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 1983
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.9
 11
No One Twice (1984)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon ...
Plot: anton chekhov, art exhibition, painting, death, painter, theatre group
Place: lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Lifeforce Experiment (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sciene fiction directed by Piers Haggard.
Plot: afterlife, guard dog, experiment, soul, teenager, death, funeral, computer, dying, spy, scientist, laboratory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 7.3
 4K
Kaili Blues (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the subtropical province of Guizhou, Chen Sheng embarks on a journey to find his nephew.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot: surrealism, countryside, village, mysticism, time, existentialism, dialogue, magic realism, exodus, trippy, dog, doctor ...
Time: future
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.9
 125
Vera (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico, USA, France, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story of an android that raises alive in the deepest caves of the mayan zone in México and meets and old dying man. They will stablish a spiritual bond than enlightens the old mayan and helps him to release himself out of his withered body.
Style: psychedelic, suspense, captivating, scary, dark ...
Plot: surrealism, marriage, dying, transformation, death, village, cave, girl, mysticism, cocoon, fire, running ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.0
 24K
Get Low (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
Style: touching, emotional, talky, sentimental, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: solitude, small town, funeral director, character study, life philosophy, death, uncover truth, gossip and rumors, haunted by the past, unfulfillment, mysterious character, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, year 1938, 1930s
Place: tennessee, usa, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
An Interview with God (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An up-and-coming journalist finds his world and faith increasingly challenged when he's granted the interview of a lifetime – with someone who claims to be God.
Style: christian film, psychological, philosophical, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: god, religion, journalist, interview, troubled marriage, self discovery, christian, husband wife relationship, marital separation, social issues, human relationship, interviewer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Room (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Julia Barker, an over-worked, middle-aged Texas woman is haunted by psychic visions which drive her to New York in search of the Room.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, serious, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: room, hotel, midlife crisis, housewife, loneliness, journey, family relations, city, self discovery, uncertainty, wandering, anxiety ...
Place: new york, usa, texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot: small town, childhood, coming of age, single mother, childhood memory, friendship, stephen king, mysterious stranger, childhood friend, father figure, parents and children, selflessness ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: virginia, new york, usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Interstate 84 (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, touching ...
Plot: police investigation, uncover truth, life is a bitch, introspection, murder, law enforcement, misfit, small town life, redemption, mysterious character, small town, addiction ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Murder Without Conviction (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin Gene, Christine becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder mystery surrounding ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot: murder, twins, uncover truth, who done it, mental illness, dishonesty, society, police investigation, injustice, family relations, mental retardation, mental institution ...
Time: year 1973, year 1960, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.7
 46K
Proof (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may ...
Style: psychological, emotional, inspirational, clever, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, mathematics, insanity, prodigy, university, paranoia, schizophrenia, illness, older woman younger man relationship, grief, life, character study ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Wander Darkly (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.
Style: touching, suspenseful, sweet, sentimental, non-linear
Audience: toddlers
Plot: afterlife, family problems, encounter, family in crisis, death, life & death, secret, impossible love, love, bittersweet, supernatural, unfulfillment ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Kill Me (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ozan and Atilla are two colleagues who travel from village to village making a TV program about local life and foods. They come a mysterious village in Dikili. Ozan drinks Aunt Emine's fruit juice and his life changes.
Style: dark comedy
Plot: suicide attempt, blind child, cemetery, travel, trapped, old man, immortality, old woman, potion, afterlife, cameraman, village ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Sixth Sense (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, ghost, psychology, plot twist, psychiatrist, death, life & death, psychic, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place: usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
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43%
 6.6
 1K
Siddhartha (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: India, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin and his search for a meaningful way of life. His journey takes him through periods of harsh asceticism, sensual pleasures, material wealth, self-revulsion and eventually to the oneness and harmony that he ...
Style: spiritual, philosophical, road movie, surreal, dramatic ...
Plot: buddhism, zen, buddhist, religion, buddha, self awareness, coming of age, conspiracy, saint, spirituality, blaster, antiquity ...
Time: year 1972, 6th century
Place: tibet, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 1K
Delusion (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three years after the death of Frank's wife a mysterious woman appears. As their attraction grows Frank struggles with reality and his loss. He tries to start over not knowing his choices could lead him to his own downfall.
Style: spiritual, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: mystery woman, death, starting over, tragedy, downfall, attraction, supernatural, psychic, husband wife relationship, delusion, supernatural power, murder ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.6
 8K
Agnes of God (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough ...
Style: atmospheric, intense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot: nun, mental illness, psychiatrist, murder, investigation, clergy, religion, trial, convent, life is a bitch, women, psychiatry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: montreal, quebec, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.1
 22
Currency (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Part drama, part mystery with a dash of film noir, Currency weaves together a web of simple stories about the complex questions we all ask. We all ask why. We all die.
Style: neo noir, spiritual, rough, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: loss of loved one, science, biology, death of loved one, loss of friend, catholicism, betrayal, money, murder, suicide, death, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Dante (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: "Leave out any hope of salvation, now you're getting in, to never leave again" (Hell - Canto III) It's been years since Beatrice died. Dante, now lonely, has lost control of his life and nothing on Earth is able to help him. Is a ...
Style: educational
Plot: hell, literature, travel, purgatory, paradise
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Messenger (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Messenger is the story of Jack’s last melt down: a story of frustration and guilt, love and betrayal, family and blame. Unwillingly becoming embroiled in the unfinished business of Mark, a journalist brutally murdered in the local park and his ...
Style: enigmatic, captivating, psychological, tense, thrilling ...
Plot: afterlife, murder investigation, death, paranormal phenomena, father son relationship, police detective, mental health, psychiatrist, alcoholic, ghost, danger, couples ...
Place: northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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