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The Runner Stumbles (1979)
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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, suspenseful, tragic, moody
Plot:
nun, convent, priest, small town, moral ambiguity, character study, investigation, poverty, false accusation, working class, scandal, isolation, forgiveness, courtroom drama, social realism, religion, catholic priest, sexual tension, catholic church, catholic, priest in love, psychological drama
Time:
year 1970, 70s, year 1979
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Most similar movies to The Runner Stumbles
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out period piece, suspenseful, intense and tragic films with plots about isolation, moral ambiguity, character study, psychological drama, small town, investigation and female protagonist mostly in Drama, Horror and Biography genres. Some movies like The Runner Stumbles: The Nun and the Devil (1973), Looking for Angelina (2005), Mariette in Ecstasy (2019), Agnus Dei (1997), The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the ...
Style:
costume drama, grindhouse, naughty, period drama
Plot:
lesbian nun, lesbian, voyeur, lust, nunsploitation, convent, virginity, fondling, forbidden love, young lovers, inquisition, erotica ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
naples italy, italy
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed...
Style:
bleak, historical drama, period piece, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Place:
canada, ontario canada
Similarity:
33%
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:
32%
113
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, art house, intense, period drama
Plot:
nun, convent, catholicism, religion, children, female protagonist, moral dilemma, young girl, catholic church, identity crisis, coming of age, sacrifice ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
Style:
detective, suspense, crime thriller, tense, grim
Plot:
miraculous event, bishop, catholic church, kidnapping, organized crime, investigation, ethical dilemma, suspicion, moral ambiguity, captivity, social commentary, corruption ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When the coffin of Etta Rose Callahan, a charismatic dance student, is uprooted from the earth after days of rain, the small college town of Remington is haunted with questions involving the young girl's sudden suicide. Jeremiah Mouthy, a ...
Style:
suspense, gothic
Plot:
obsession, suicide, small town, tragedy, character study, jealousy, haunting, loss of innocence, mourning, scandal, grief, funeral ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
nun, nunsploitation, evil nun, catholic church, celibacy, biopic, forbidden love, scandal, tragedy, trial, murder, female protagonist ...
Time:
17th century
Similarity:
30%
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:
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her infant daughter.
Style:
sad, tense, suspenseful, grindhouse, period piece ...
Plot:
child abuse, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, family drama, trauma, emotional abuse, child neglect, female protagonist, social issues, character study, domestic violence, social realism ...
Time:
year 1970
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, this film tells the story of Chaplain Andrew Jensen, the only U.S. navy chaplain ever court-martialed on charges of adultery.
Style:
historical drama, thought provoking, serious, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
chaplain, navy, court martial, courtroom, moral dilemma, courtroom drama, reputation, scandal, character study, religion, investigation, conscience ...
Similarity:
28%
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:
26%
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:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A county sheriff is accused by his daughter of having abused her. Her accusation gets more and more elaborate, involving satanic rituals. As nearly everyone around him seems to believe he's guilty, he starts breaking up and questioning his own ...
Style:
serious, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
religion, false memory, false accusation, confession, family drama, miscarriage of justice, interrogation, sheriff, small town, mass hysteria, psychological manipulation, legal investigation ...
Time:
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Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Drama - Vic's days are filled with selling sci-fi collectibles, harassing his fellow antique dealers, and trying to communicate with extraterrestrials. - Charles Brin, Alex Cole, Paul Cram
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
obsession, small town, danger, alien encounter, death, tragedy, delusion, manipulation, emotional manipulation, exploitation, character study, female victim ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sometime after the events in 'Lilies of the Field' (1963) Homer Smith returns to the Church he helped build to find the nuns have taken in a group of homeless children.
Style:
religious drama, uplifting, inspirational, period piece
Audience:
family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
nun, christmas, faith, religious, spirituality, chapel, compassion, selflessness, orphanage, hopes, charity, heartwarming ...
Place:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A mother travels to New York to see her daughter who is awaiting trial for murder. The mother is totally convinced of her daughter's innocence and does all she can to help her. As the trial progresses however, the mother begins to have doubts.
Style:
dramatic, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder trial, mother and daughter, courtroom drama, false accusation, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, family secret, interrogation, defense attorney, investigation, evidence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
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Similarity:
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706
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On a March night in 1964, 37 neighbors in Queens, New York, witness the brutal murder of Kitty Genovese. None of them takes action or calls the police. 37 tells the story of a few of these people and what led up to the night when they unexplainably ...
Style:
independent film, bleak, thought provoking, historical drama, tense ...
Plot:
apathy, guilt, moral ambiguity, social commentary, silence, character study, racial tension, neighborhood, fear, apartment building, realism, family conflict ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When she was raped, Ellen thought it was the worst thing to ever happen to her. What was worse, was the treatment by the hospital staff, police and the court system, when she reported it, and the man was caught.
Style:
period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, courtroom drama, sexual abuse, female protagonist, anger, humiliation, victim, defense attorney, trauma, public humiliation, social realism, family conflict ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This poetic parable is part of Tenghiz Abuladze’s cinematic triptych: “The Supplication” – “The Wishing Tree” – “Repentance”. The place is Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. That’s how director Tenghiz Abuladze ...
Style:
poignant, emotional, melancholic, atmospheric
Plot:
small town life, character study, class conflict, arranged marriage, poverty, bittersweet, isolation, social realism, loneliness, young lovers, forbidden love, tragic romance ...
Time:
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Place:
caucasus, soviet union, georgia, russia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Eddie is no longer living with his wife and their son Noam. One night, he gets mugged and badly injured, and consequently becomes a hero to his son and the victim of a vicious crime to his wife. But when Ahmed, the perfect scapegoat for the attack, ...
Style:
thrilling, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A young woman's birthright hides a dark secret.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
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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:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
female protagonist, forbidden romance, convent, seduction, character study, ethical dilemma, sacrifice, bittersweet, intimate, identity crisis, redemption, switching roles ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In a small mountain valley in Italy, the former criminal Cesare discovers the corpse of his nephew Fausto.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, crime drama, dark ...
Plot:
isolation, murder mystery, investigation, murder, murder investigation, murder suspect, life is a bitch, male protagonist, murderer, criminal, suspicion, suspicion of murder ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The story of three women and the circumstances that led each to get involved in prostitution as call girls.
Style:
realistic, period piece, psychological, intense, retro ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
22%
394
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A little known episode from the life of Stalinist security police office Julia Brystiger. Her nickname Bloody Luna was a reference to her incredibly brutal methods of interrogation. In the early 1960s, she appears in a centre for the blind on the ...
Style:
psychological, political, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalinism, torture, catholic, character study, biopic, faith, physical torture, problem, male female relationship, abuse of power, interrogation, totalitarianism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
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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:
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Time:
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Place:
sicily
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A minor argument between two strangers escalates into a life-altering conflict, exploring how a seemingly insignificant event can drastically alter a person's perception and circumstances.
Style:
emotional, tense, intense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Based on true incidents, Run, Tecato, Run depicts a junkie's efforts to get off heroin in order to reclaim and raise his daughter. Produced for $60,000, the film explores the connections between the Vietnam War, drug addiction and ...
Style:
independent film, period piece, tragic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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