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Agnus Dei (1997)
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Original name: Nonnebørn
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.
Style:
religious drama, bleak, intense, art house, period drama
Plot:
nun, convent, religion, catholicism, children, catholic church, young girl, female protagonist, moral dilemma, coming of age, identity crisis, claustrophobia, isolation, ritual, sacrifice, oppression, guilt, moral ambiguity, spiritual awakening, mysticism, silence, rebellion, redemption, school, mother ...
Place:
denmark
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Most similar movies to Agnus Dei
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out intense, art house, period drama and bleak films with plots about isolation, psychological drama, female protagonist, religion, coming of age, guilt and moral ambiguity mostly in Drama, History and Comedy genres. Some movies like Agnus Dei: The Great Silence (2022), Sister Mary (1980), In This House of Brede (1975), The Runner Stumbles (1979), Act of the Heart (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Alma lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a contemporary Catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows as a nun, her older brother Erik unexpectedly shows up. He is a recovering alcoholic and clearly depressed, ...
Style:
religious drama, disturbing, suspenseful, dramatic, serious ...
Plot:
family secret, family tragedy, brother sister relationship, convent, alcoholic, catholic, siblings, catholicism, nun, undercover, monastery, brother ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Nunsploitation from Japan. Part of the Shûdôjo series.
Style:
controversial, dark, intense, erotic drama, sensual ...
Plot:
sexploitation, convent, nun, female protagonist, hypocrisy, religion, sin, sexual repression, moral ambiguity, repression, temptation, female sexuality ...
Similarity:
92%
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.
Style:
religious drama, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
faith, abbess, sacrifice, introspection, commitment, spiritual journey, character study, monk, loss, identity crisis, platonic, celibacy ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
london
Similarity:
67%
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.
Style:
religious drama, emotional, atmospheric, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
nun, convent, priest, small town, character study, moral ambiguity, false accusation, scandal, investigation, working class, poverty, isolation ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s, year 1979
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
Style:
religious drama, melancholic, bleak, poignant, independent film ...
Plot:
self destructing, faith, obsession, crisis of faith, female protagonist, clergy, character study, guilt, choir, unrequited love, isolation, catholicism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
montreal, canada
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
In a Jewish Orthodox village in Israel, Tamar, a twelve-year-old girl, prepares for her Bat-Mitzvah (confirmation), which will take place on Passover. Becoming convinced that she is impure, and growing increasingly scared and depressed, she forces ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, bleak, dark, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, jewish girl, orthodox jew, religion, obsessive compulsive disorder, ritual, religious, girl, self discovery, self acceptance, teenage girl, adolescence ...
Place:
israel
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Magnificat is a 1993 Italian drama film directed by Pupi Avati. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
dark, grim, brutal, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
abbey, torture, religious, mature, catholicism, convent, moral ambiguity, medieval, clergy, monastery, sin, haunting ...
Time:
middle ages, 10th century
Similarity:
62%
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:
religious drama, suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
nun, trance, convent, mother superior, abbess, religious, religious conversion, character study, spirituality, religious fundamentalism, religion and supernatural, belief in god ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Portugal, 1917. The country is experiencing a great political and social agitation and it is said that in Fatima the virgin appeared to three little shepherds.
Salomé, a young lady from the province, is one of the many girls who cheers Lisbon ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
religion, female protagonist, miraculous event, religious faith, belief in god, faith, christian faith, religious, moral ambiguity, female exploitation, prostitution, character study ...
Time:
year 1917
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
59%
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:
intense, political thriller, dark, suspenseful, grim ...
Plot:
male nudity, nun, torture, interrogation, interrogation room, abuse of power, political repression, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, guilt, obsession, confession ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It is the early 20th century on a dystopian Greek island. Hadoula, a widow who lost her husband, loannis Fragkos, at a young age, is a woman who has learned how to survive in a male-dominated and extremely patriarchal society. Hadoula carries a ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, grim, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, greek island, guilt, moral ambiguity, redemption, literary, remote island, moral dilemma, religion, survival, isolation, widow ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
58%
649
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avoid contamination. Here she finds a difficult situation, in fact her stepmother and her half-sisters ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, historical drama, melancholic, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cholera, nun, forbidden love, female protagonist, religious conflict, forbidden romance, young love, unrequited love, tragedy, coming of age, literary, madness ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
48%
103
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Close-up to the man who censored films during the military dictatorship in Argentina, slightly inspired by the infamous Miguel Paulino Tato.
Style:
bleak, melancholic, intense, art house, political thriller ...
Plot:
military dictatorship, repression, authoritarianism, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, character study, guilt, regret, introspection, redemption, human rights, realism ...
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
15-year-old David lives with his family and around another hundred Jacobins in a closed community in Germany. The monotonous life of this early Christian community consists of pray.
Style:
emotional, intense, thought provoking, tense, dark ...
Plot:
religious community, isolation, alienation, coming of age, loss of innocence, teen angst, persecution, identity crisis, mysticism, nude young male, gay, nudity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
David Bowers is a teenager who runs away from home to join a quasi-religious cult. His sister Janet is determined to find him, but almost winds up getting brainwashed by the cult herself.
Style:
intense, psychological thriller, emotional, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
brainwashing, indoctrination, manipulation, family drama, sibling relationship, religion, cult leader, rescue attempt, rescue mission, identity crisis, religious fanaticism, obsession ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A tough nun (Anna Massey) demands belief and obedience from convent schoolgirls (Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch) in World War II England.
Style:
melancholic, dark, period drama
Plot:
nun, world war two, convent, power, obedience, repression, boarding school, religion, catholicism, faith, coming of age, abuse of power ...
Time:
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Place:
england
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Style:
controversial, emotional, tragic ending, grim, disturbing ...
Plot:
clown, holocaust, nazi, auschwitz, concentration camp, oppression, innocence lost, accomplice, haunting, tragedy, guilt, prison ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young girl is forced by her father to become a nun. But soon she finds out that dark secrets are hiding behind the convent walls and that she's there to serve lustful human masters and not God.
Style:
disturbing, religious drama, psychological horror, art house
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
Style:
dark, emotional, bleak, intense, grim ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, runaway, loss of innocence, coming of age, youth, female protagonist, sexploitation, manipulation, street life, abuse, danger, urban ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, harsh, brutal, controversial, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
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
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Tension between a jealous husband, his wife who's attracted to his friend and the friend is rising as their small, deeply catholic, Mexican village is deciding who will be Christ during the possibly dangerous reenactment of the Crucifixion.
Style:
religious drama, intense, suspenseful, independent film, christian film
Plot:
catholicism, small town, love triangle, tradition, jealousy, sin, sexual repression, jealous husband, guilt, obsession, ritual, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1988
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, intense, tense, powerful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
religion, disco, dance, identity crisis, spiritual journey, doubt, identity, female protagonist, control, conformity, power, mental health ...
Similarity:
36%
432
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Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two men bond as one recovers from an attack and the other deals with the impending death of his grandmother.
Style:
religious drama, emotional, existential, intense, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, loneliness, crisis of faith, christianity, spirituality, mourning, grief, compassion, character study, doubt, moral dilemma, soul searching ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
redemption, rape, sexual abuse, revenge, attempted rape, sexualized violence, violence, rape and revenge, trauma, guilt, violent, criminal ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.
Style:
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Plot:
rape, self destructing, female protagonist, rape victim, trauma, secret, life is a bitch, problem, social problems, violence, survival, isolation ...
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Country: Costa Rica, Colombia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young girl gets involved in a family drama when she starts a secret friendship with a prison inmate.
Style:
emotional, psychological, tense, intense, realistic
Plot:
prisoner, family drama, prison, family conflict, confined, young girl, secret relationship, taboo, prison life, moral dilemma, female protagonist, empathy ...
Place:
costa rica
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Life of San Juan de la Cruz.
Style:
historical drama, dark, thought provoking, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
solitary, catholic church, mysticism, symbolism, persecution, convent, haunting, christianity, catholic, poet, temptation, sanity ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A strikingly bold portrait of oppression and high tension in suburban America. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman in a California wedged between two distinct worlds, haunted by memory and bount by ...
Plot:
gender roles, family conflict, female protagonist, claustrophobia, female empowerment, isolation, identity crisis, patriarchy, female nudity, coming of age, moral ambiguity, family relations ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Ela, 15, has a love affair, which results in her being sent to a re-education center.
Style:
tension, intense, realistic
Audience:
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Plot:
female protagonist, teenager, coming of age, young love, forbidden romance, resilience, loss of innocence, teen angst, hopes, empathy, character study, rebellion ...
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal of a young writer's descent into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Perrin retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and ...
Style:
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Plot:
alienation, psychoanalysis, neurosis, mental illness, existentialism, guilt, family conflict, mental breakdown, identity crisis, isolation, domineering mother, electroshock therapy ...
Place:
italy
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