Movies and TV shows like Body & Soul

If you like "Body & Soul" you are looking for period drama movies or TV shows about / with nun, monk, female nudity, mirror, convent, nudity and nude themes of Drama genre shot in UK.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Body & Soul (1993)
 7.9
 328
Body & Soul (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: A nun, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, leaves the convent temporarily to help save her family knitting mill from bankruptcy following the death of her brother. Outside the convent she becomes a fairly shrewd businesswoman and feels attracted to one of the men who work at the mill, and thus begins to feel conflict about her religious vows.
Style: period drama
Plot: nun, monk, female nudity, mirror, convent, nudity, nude, female full frontal nudity, nudity (full frontal - brief)

Movie in categories

nun movies
nun
1159
monk movies
596
mirror movies
2551
convent movies
302
nudity movies
10196
nude movies
14196

Most similar movies to Body & Soul

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period drama, captivating, disturbing and historical drama films and TV series with plots about female nudity, nun, female full frontal nudity, convent, religion, catholic and charles dickens mostly in Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Body & Soul: Black Narcissus (2020), Teresa Raquin (1980), Lost Empires (1986), A Dance to the Music of Time (1997), Women in Love (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Black Narcissus (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
Story: Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, powerful, period drama
Plot: nun, convent, forbidden love, religious faith, religion, new life, female protagonist, women, catholic, apocalypse, interwar period, distopia ...
Time: 1930s
Place: himalaya, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.0
 228
Teresa Raquin (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 173 min.
TV show
Story: In order to be together, lovers Therese and Laurent plot to kill Therese's husband, Camille, but find themselves haunted by their deeds and Madame Raquin's silent judgment.
Style: period piece, period drama
Plot: female nudity, destiny, adultery, murder, female full frontal nudity
Time: victorian era
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.5
 350
Lost Empires (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 420 min.
TV show
Story: In 1913, young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the enchanted world of the British music hall. Traveling from one city to the next, assisting at conjuring acts and disappearing acts, Richard comes to know ...
Style: costume drama, entertaining, period drama
Plot: narration, female nudity, theater, showbiz, world war one, coming of age, uncle, magician, nephew, vaudeville, costume, female full frontal nudity
Time: 1910s, year 1914
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.
Style: stylized, serious, realistic, captivating, period drama
Plot: world war two, world war one, post war, love, high society, social relations, power relations, couples, lifestyle, society, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.2
 600
Women in Love (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Combining some elements of The Rainbow with Women in Love, this adaptation focuses on the lives of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, as they struggle with their own loves, desires and passions. The drama follows their relationships with two ...
Style: captivating, sexy, historical drama, period drama
Plot: sister sister relationship, relationships, life, family relations, desire, sisters, passion, female nudity, horse trainer, naked in public, male nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time: edwardian era, year 1914
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.3
 357
Oliver Twist (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of the novel by Charles Dickens.
Style: period drama
Plot: charles dickens, child, children
Time: 1830s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.9
 133
Cicadas (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Six friends are just starting their adult life. They fall in love, dream, and make plans for the future. When a tragedy strikes troubling issues and secrets are revealed, and their parents wonder if they know their children at all.
Plot: female nudity, female full frontal nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Me and the Others (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Something is different for Tristan: his pregnant girlfriend has disappeared, and a mysterious taxi driver picks him up and explains that he can make wishes come true for him. All the people who meet him behave differently--if he wishes.
Plot: female nudity, female full frontal nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Movie in collections
Great Expectations (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mini-series based on the novel by Charles Dickens.
Style: period drama
Plot: charles dickens, victorian england, rags to riches, orphan, benefactor
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.7
 96
The Monk (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. But when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions ...
Plot: spanish history, spanish inquisition, temptation, woman dressed as man, female nudity, inquisition, torture, monk, nun, convent, monastery
Time: 17th century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Nun and the Torture (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Chief of Police Rui, a happily married man of principles, is in charge of investigating Joana, a teacher who's accused of political crimes. After some false starts, he manages to arrest her, but is startled to learn that she's also a nun. ...
Style: detective
Plot: oral sex, female nudity, nun, male nudity, prison, nudity, gay rape, prison rape, cunnilingus, gun, labia, dildo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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, christian, catholic, convent, drastic change of life, japanese girl, newcomer, catholicism, loss of daughter, mother superior, priest ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.3
 3K
Lambs of God (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: A dark, gothic tale about three nuns, each a generation apart, living in an isolated convent by the coast, and an unwelcome visitor who enters their lives and changes their world forever.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, gothic, odd ...
Plot: convent, priest, female nudity, nun, danger, fear, female protagonist, macabre, young girl, religion, dark secret, vice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Nicholas Nickleby (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 330 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Style: period drama
Plot: charles dickens, injustice, obese woman, embezzlement, director, teacher, simpleton, male female relationship, eye patch, one eyed man, caning
Time: victorian era, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
All Passion Spent (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 158 min.
TV show
Story: his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals ...
Style: period drama
Plot: old woman, mother daughter relationship, moving, jewelry, elderly woman, loss of husband, pearl, wallpaper
Time: edwardian era, 1930s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Brides of Christ (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK, Ireland
TV show
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, sincere, emotional, touching
Plot: nun, convent, clergy, monk, abortion, bishop, radical, family relations, church, friends, power relations, religions or cults ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Barchester Chronicles (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 385 min.
TV show
Story: When a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires, scandal taints the cosy community of Barchester when their local church becomes the object of a scathing, investigative report.
Style: costume drama, historical drama, period drama
Plot: chubby, literary, church of england, henpecked husband, cathedral, cello, bishop, costume, slapping
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Movie in collections
 5.6
 171
Monte Carlo (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: An American writer on the Riviera courts a Russian singer who is spying on Nazis for revenge.
Style: period drama
Plot: world war two, spy, nazi, gambler, singer
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Marquis de Sade's Justine (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one supremely sadistic monk. It's a twisted tale of strange ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, erotic, sadistic, sexual ...
Plot: nun, sexploitation, convent, catholic school, sex, rape, prostitution, mother son incest, erotica, sadism, murder, lesbian sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
David Copperfield (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of the Dickens novel.
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: charles dickens, david copperfield, youth, compassion, childhood memory, oppression, orphan, coming of age, survivor, affection, writing
Time: 19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.0
 166
Act of Will (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: Act of Will is a 1989 mini-series directed by Don Sharp. It the third mini series based on a Barbara Taylor Bradford novel he had directed and was an early lead role for Elizabeth Hurley.
Style: family saga, period drama
Plot: black ops, orphan, career woman, fashion, death of child, ambition, female protagonist, nurse, wedding, extramarital affair, dance, forbidden love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Young American Bodies (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Young American Bodies is an American web series, which originally premiered on Nerve.com and currently airs on IFC and at IFC.com in the United States. Each short episode looks into the intersecting love lives of six twenty-somethings in ...
Style: mumblecore, hot
Plot: female nudity, male nudity, male female relationship, explicit sex, gay, sex scene, nudity, male pubic hair, twenty something, male objectification, strong sexual content, pubic hair ...
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Movie in collections
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Studs Lonigan (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min.
TV show
Story: Story of the Irish-American Lonigan family between 1918 and 1930. The story centers on young Studs who is growing into adulthood in a city full of temptations.
Style: period drama
Plot: immigrant, coming of age, irish american
Time: 1920s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Dwelling Place (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Adaptation of Catherine Cookson's novel. Set in the 1830s, the film tells the story of 16-year-old Cissie Brodie after the death of parents, and the repossession of the family home. She finds a barren place to live and care for her younger ...
Style: period piece, period drama
Plot: rape, baby, aristocrat, pregnancy, age difference, grandfather, pregnant from rape, drunken man, pregnant woman
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1830s
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Great Expectations (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 303 min.
TV show
Story: Phillip Pirrip, known as Pip, meets a convict or two in a graveyard and sets into motion a series of events that lead him from a comfortable life in his brother-in-law's forge to a mysterious inheritance and his acquaintance with the eerie Miss ...
Style: historical drama, period drama
Plot: charles dickens, victorian england, rags to riches, adoption, literature, inheritance, orphan, costume
Time: 19th century, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.7
 99
Agnus Dei (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision.
Plot: children, girl, school, convent, nun, catholicism, religion, mother, female nudity, menstruation, world, young ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Anglo Saxon Attitudes (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 229 min.
TV show
Story: Three part miniseries about Gerald Middleton, an aging historian, who reflects on his youth, relationships (especially the one with his best friend's girl), career (shadowed by a scandal), and current issues, like his marriage and kids.
Plot: 007, infidelity, excavation, introspection, husband wife relationship, historian, scandal, professor, female nudity, topless
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie