Movies like Fatima 1997
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Fatima (1997)
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Original name: Fátima
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
1917, a beautiful apparition of Our Lady forever alters the lives of three children: Lucinda, Jacita and Francisco who lived in Villa Fatima in Portugal.
Style:
religious drama, inspirational, emotional, historical drama, melancholic, tension, period piece
Plot:
miraculous event, faith, catholicism, apparition, loyalty, pilgrimage, hopes, spiritual awakening, devotional, mysticism, supernatural, childhood, innocence, faith based, small town life, sacrifice, family conflict, moral dilemma, persecution, religion, forbidden love, motherhood, coming of age, catholic, love ...
Time:
year 1917, 1910s
Place:
portugal
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, period piece, historical drama and melancholic films with plots about sacrifice, faith, moral dilemma, coming of age, religion, intimate and love mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Fatima: The 13th Day (2009), Bendito Corazon (2026), Virgin Mary (1995), The Young Nun (1964), Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In a world torn apart by persecution, war and oppression, 3 children were chosen to offer a message of hope to the world.Based on the memoirs of the oldest Seer, Lucia Santos, and many thousands of independent eye-witness accounts, The 13th Day ...
Style:
spiritual, historical drama, period piece, serious, emotional
Plot:
faith, catholic, apparition, prophecy, mother daughter relationship, secret, children, abduction, pope, miraculous event, virgin mary, hopes ...
Time:
year 1917
Place:
portugal
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The true story of the sacred heart, told by Father Arturo Cornejo.
Style:
religious drama, reflective, inspirational, meditative, emotional ...
Plot:
spiritual awakening, catholicism, loyalty, priest, testimony, voice over narration, redemption, miraculous event, confession, moral dilemma, small town life, sacrifice ...
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74%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Croatia, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In 1981 in Medjugorje (BA), a group of kids claim that Virgin Mary appeared to them on a hill. The local priest believes them and spreads the word. Religious tourism blossoms. The communist government is concerned and arrests the priest.
Style:
religious drama, inspirational, historical drama, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
miraculous event, faith, priest, pilgrimage, spirituality, catholicism, controversy, religious persecution, loyalty, hopes, arrest, political conflict ...
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The life of Antonio suddenly changes when she meets Serena, a young nun who took the veil to escape the hard life of the country and has chosen the provision of assistance to the sick to get out of the convent, which falls in love, moving from the ...
Style:
religious drama, romantic drama, emotional, period piece, psychological ...
Plot:
female protagonist, forbidden romance, convent, seduction, character study, ethical dilemma, sacrifice, bittersweet, intimate, identity crisis, redemption, switching roles ...
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, historical drama ...
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, rich and poor, social differences, love and romance, society, youth, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, class differences ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
saint, religion, faith, healing, nun, catholic saint, miraculous event, religious faith, religious, virgin mary, pilgrimage, tuberculosis ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
43%
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:
disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, period piece ...
Plot:
saint, catholic, religious, faith, religion, franciscan, priest, medieval, catholicism, biopic, loyalty, christianity ...
Time:
13th century
Place:
italy, portugal, europe, africa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Serbia
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Serbian drama "Wounded Eagle" is about true love story of long forgotten romances and some new ones, happening in a very romantic time between two world wars. Young woman and her passion.
Style:
period piece, romantic, emotional, historical drama, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
true love, passion, female protagonist, young woman, bittersweet, tragic romance, longing, lost love, intimate, forbidden love, unrequited love, memory ...
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This is a milestone film that creates bridges of understanding between cultures, with its insightful and intimate portrayal of Hispanic-American life. It is a story about Ramona Garcia, a Hispanic-American mother of four grown children who works ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, touching, heartfelt ...
Plot:
family relations, eccentric family, couples, teenage life, youth, couple relations, rebelliousness, hopes, family drama, religion, faith, catholicism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, mexico
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Growing up, Jenny and Autumn were best friends. However, a choice tore them apart. Now it will take an unthinkable sacrifice to reunite them.
Style:
christian film, psychological, touching, contemplative, sincere ...
Plot:
faith, christian, friendship, love, faith based, female friendship, fall in love, redemption, couple relations, couples, christianity, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Lisa is a young, Christian woman. Bobby, her boyfriend, however, is a street hoodlum. Lisa prays constantly that Bobby will accept God in his life. She soon gets what she wants, but discovers that Bobby's conversion means that she has to get ...
Style:
religious drama, emotional, dramatic, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
church, redemption, christian, faith, street life, urban, evangelist, reformation, forgiveness, coming of age, love, addiction ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young woman lost her fiancé from the plane clash , later she discover that she becomes pregnant with his baby.She question herself what should she do between keep the child safe until she give a birth or she abortion the child.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, heartbreaking, sentimental
Plot:
female protagonist, single mother, women's issues, motherhood, pregnancy, sacrifice, moral dilemma, domestic drama, family secret, illegitimacy, family honor, reputation ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Balamani is the housemaid looking after Unni Amma. There are three more housemaids in the house but it is Balamani's duty to look after them too. Balamani is a devotee of Guruvayoorappan (Lord Krishna of Guruvayoor). But she could never visit ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
forbidden love, religion, class differences, love, loyalty, orphan, hindu, wedding, maid, mother son relationship, family drama, devotional ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
TV-movie version of the Victor Hugo novel.
Style:
historical drama, dark, melancholic, bleak, period piece ...
Plot:
notre dame cathedral, literary, unrequited love, deformity, tragedy, hunchback, social injustice, empathy, forbidden love, character study, prejudice, disability ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
1654, Ottoman Empire, Greece. A Turkish Warrior arrives heavily wounded at a remote Christian female monastery and is nursed by Anthi, a young nun under the oath of silence. They fall in love against all odds. But Anthi is tormented by a dark ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, atmospheric, art house, melancholic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, nun, identity, gay, repression, secret past, sexual awakening, intimacy, religious, character study, longing, moral dilemma ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
ottoman empire, greece
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
THE WAKE OF LIGHT is a romantic drama about a young woman grappling between a deep-felt responsibility in caring for her ailing father and her newfound love for a young man passing through her small town on the way to see the one place his father ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, heartfelt, poignant, thrilling ...
Plot:
choice, travel, love, hopes, parent child relationship, responsibility, sacrifice, female protagonist, love interest, love affair, moral dilemma, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
utah
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Maruthi, a son of a shopkeeper falls in love with Deepika, the only sister of Prathap Reddy, a zamindar and has deep political connections and believes in the caste system. Things take a fatal turn when Deepika accepts Maruthi`s love. Will Maruthi ...
Style:
emotional, romantic, romantic drama, tension, sentimental ...
Plot:
forbidden love, conflict, class conflict, star crossed lovers, young adult, family drama, young lovers, moral dilemma, small town, sacrifice, courage, revenge ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
30%
393
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Anna, a young slave girl, is rescued and adopted by Christians in 2ND Century Smyrna, and befriended by their aged bishop, Polycarp. As Anna is taught by Polycarp and her new family, she struggles to reconcile her beliefs with those of the ...
Style:
christian film, philosophical, historical drama, religious drama, psychological ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A teenage boy, whose mother is terminally ill, and his alcohol-addicted sports teacher set out on a pilgrimage to Czestochowa.
Style:
road movie, emotional, reflective, melancholic, realistic ...
Plot:
alcoholism, pilgrimage, coming of age, terminal illness, religion, spiritual journey, running, teenage protagonist, road trip, faith, grief, loss ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
By God's order, Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his son Isaac on the mountain of Moriah. While traveling to the place of the sacrifice, alongside Isaac and two servants, Abraham is flooded with vivid memories from the years he and Sarah ...
Style:
biblical, exciting, thought provoking, serious, christian film ...
Plot:
faith, sacrifice, god, bible, son, father, father son relationship, belief in god, human sacrifice, bible story, victim, obedience ...
Time:
ancient times
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An aspiring television journalist comes to a crossroads when he is forced to choose between the love of his life or the love of his father and his career. SINSITIVITY is the story of Trent, a preachers son who falls hard and madly in love with ...
Style:
emotional, tension, intense, sensual, independent film
Plot:
exotic dancer, parent child relationship, moral dilemma, family conflict, religion, sacrifice, secret past, temptation, forbidden love, scandal, love triangle, guilt ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
As the Easter holiday approaches a woman rediscovers a blessing bracelet that helps restore her faith and renew her belief in love.
Style:
uplifting, inspirational, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
easter, religion, faith, hopes, spiritual awakening, holiday, changing lives, lifestyle change, love and romance, religious conversion, religious, religious faith ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Challenging the burden of family traditions, the young Amel and Mashir live a secret and passionate love story. An arranged marriage between him and Amel’s new best friend will put their relationship in danger. Tearing apart social conventions ...
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, romantic, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, family tradition, family drama, secret relationship, relationships, romantic relationship, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, romancing partners, love story, male female relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
belgium, brussels
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In Nazareth in Galilee, at the time of Roman emperor Augustus and of the king of Jews Herod, lives a simple young woman, Mary, between the love of her parents, of her fiancé Joseph the carpenter, and of her fellow citizens. One day, a dazzling ...
Style:
biblical, historical drama, inspirational, uplifting, period piece ...
Plot:
jesus, bible, religious, faith, divine intervention, miraculous event, spiritual journey, christian, devotional, faith based, roman empire, prophecy ...
Time:
1st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman stops waiting for her med student boyfriend and marries a rich man so she can pay her grandmother's medical bills.
Style:
emotional, period piece
Plot:
marriage of convenience, female protagonist, family drama, sacrifice, love triangle, first love, stepdaughter, resilience, motherhood, disability, divorce, longing ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, london
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Germany 1982: The country is divided into two parts. Nele, coming from West-Germany, travels to East-Germany where she meets Captain, singer of a band. They fall in love with each other, but the regime "takes care" of their relationship, ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, historical drama, poignant, melancholic ...
Plot:
stasi, berlin wall, punk rock, punk, forbidden love, communism, subculture, separation, loss, political oppression, longing, cold war ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
east germany, west germany, berlin germany, german democratic republic, west berlin west germany
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The beautiful daughter of the Roman governor during a time of fierce Christian persecution is a nonbeliver. But when a slave raised alongside her like a sister is condemned to death for her Christian faith, she valiantly attempts to save her.
Style:
historical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, dramatic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, saint, christianity, female protagonist, religious, lifestyle, relationships, religious faith, changing lives, relationship problems, faith, family disapproval ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 227 min.
Story:
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Style:
historical drama, period piece
Plot:
world war two, religion, working class, family drama, economic crisis, social realism, catholicism, poverty, depression era, sacrifice, illness, small town life ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
quebec, canada
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A talented singer leaves the Atlanta music scene and starts over in small-town Tennessee, where she finds love and new purpose but can't escape the past.
Style:
romantic drama, uplifting, inspirational, emotional, heartfelt ...
Plot:
music industry, small town, second chance, faith based, motherhood, slice of life, love, life, parents
Place:
tennessee, atlanta georgia, southern usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The Woman with the Issue of Blood, or as we call her in our film, Maria. She was arguably the most well-known, nameless figure in the bible. A woman who suffered for 12 years with an incurable disease. 12 years of doctors telling her that they can ...
Style:
religious drama, serious, inspirational, emotional, reflective ...
Plot:
faith, miraculous event, hopes, faith healing, faith based, redemption, spiritual journey, compassion, sacrifice, forgiveness, urban, perseverance ...
Similarity:
24%
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