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Good Favour (2017)
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Good Favour (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A teenage stranger is welcomed into a household in a devout Catholic village and gradually reveals his motives and what seem to be magical powers.
Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, psychological, mystical, captivating
Plot: religion, mysterious stranger, village, catholic, teenager, faith, christianity, folklore, mysticism, youth, magical power, male nudity, superstition, male pubic hair, pubic hair, female director
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, ireland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, contemplative and unusual plot structure films with plots about religion, faith, teenager, christian, youth, christianity and church mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Good Favour: The Nothing (2011), The Other Side of Sleep (2011), Jinn (2018), Feathers in My Head (2003), The Kids Aren't Alright (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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95%
The Other Side of Sleep (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young factory worker living alone in a rural Irish community.
Style: surreal, tense, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, obsession, investigation, amateur detective, who done it, small town, insomnia, paranoia, corpse, funeral, sleepwalking, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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87%
 6.0
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Jinn (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Summer is a carefree teenage girl whose world is turned upside down when her mother abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person. At first resistant to the faith, she begins to reevaluate her identity after becoming attracted to a ...
Style: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: woman, coming of age, religious conversion, desire, mother, daughter, teenager, faith, youth, society, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Feathers in My Head (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jean-Pierre (Francis Renaud) and his wife Blanche (Sophie Museur) live a quiet but happy life in their small Belgian town. But their world is shattered when their young son goes missing. In the aftermath of the family tragedy, the couple's own ...
Style: psychological, touching, suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure
Plot: female nudity, coming of age, reality vs fantasy, loss of child, hallucination, insanity, sex scene, female pubic hair, nature, standing sex, reality versus fantasy, incest ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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The Kids Aren't Alright (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Story: Ross is trying to come to terms with the suicide of one of his classmates, as he finds his life falling down around him. Suddenly he finds himself involved in a new friendship with the new girl in school, Róisín. She helps to lead him in the right ...
Style: psychological, lgbt cinema, sincere, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: suicide, school, teenager, youth, homosexuality, love and romance, friends, lesbian, sexual orientation, love, lgbt, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
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72%
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Fremde Tochter (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Seventeen-year-old Lena meets 19-year-old Farid, a young Muslim. She has a clear-cut attitude towards his culture and religion: utter rejection. Despite their differences – or perhaps because of them – they fall in love.
Style: psychological, contemplative, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot: teenage girl, tragic love, religion, pregnancy and birth, teenage protagonist, cultural difference, 17 year old, teenage boy, female protagonist, teenager, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Love Like Poison (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, faith, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, religion, belief in god, crisis of faith, self discovery, teenage love, moral dilemma, clergy, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, brittany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.5
 2K
Retablo (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, Germany, Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Segundo sees silence as his only option for dealing with his father Noé’s secret. The 14-year-old lives with his parents in a village high up in the mountains. Noé is a respected artisan and Segundo’s role model. With loving eye for detail, he ...
Style: psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: gay, father son relationship, teenage boy, lgbt, father son estrangement, teenager, family tradition, painter, machismo, small town, closeted homosexual, gay slur ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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The Apparition (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Jacques is a journalist at a large regional newspaper in France. His reputation as an impartial and talented investigator attracts the attention of the Vatican who recruits him for a special task; taking part of a committee to investigate the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, art house
Plot: vatican, catholic church, pilgrimage, reporter, journalist, faith, religion, investigation, catholic priest, priest, interview, teenage girl ...
Time: 2010s
Place: south of france, rome italy, jordan, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Valley of Shadows (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young boy ventures into the forest in search of mysterious creatures that eat sheep, in this delightfully creepy Scandinavian Gothic fable from Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen.
Style: gothic, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: forest, boy, imagination, mysticism, village, youth, darkness, coming of age, life & death, magic realism, werewolf
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60%
Saint Anthony: The Miracle Worker of Padua (2002)
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: captivating, psychological, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot: catholic, saint, religion, religious faith, priest, religious, belief in god, faith, life, religious fundamentalism, high priest, christian ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Blind Christ (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Michael is an inhabitant of a remote village in the Chilean desert. But not any inhabitant. He is Christ.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: messiah, religion, desert, boy, faith, small village, life is a bitch, belief in god, religious, village, religious conversion, religious faith ...
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57%
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 64K
Calvary (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Style: meditative, atmospheric, psychological, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: death threat, confession, priest, catholic priest, small town, existentialism, death, character study, clergy, catholic church, human nature, goodhearted ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 4.9
 116
Uncommon (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jesus combined diverse people and assorted stories to change the world! Now, He wants to use you! When the students of Rosewood High School lose their theater, music and dance departments due to budgets cuts, they create their own. Struggling to ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, psychological, christian film
Plot: high school student, faith, christian, bible, christian propaganda, christianity, religion, rehearsal, theatre play, teenage life, religious conversion, school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 8.9
 13
Party Talk (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Four creative and sexually confused high school seniors are forced to deal with their sense of isolation while attending a booze-soaked party in New York City.
Style: psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
Plot: dream, american dream, coming of age, high school friends, nightlife, rebellious teenager, teenager, party, friendship, friends, escapades, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
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54%
 6.5
 109
The Saver (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: teenage girl, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, teenage protagonist, cleaning lady, life is a bitch, orphan, society, millionaire, youth, money, new life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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53%
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The Mourning (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.
Style: mystical, suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: presumed dead, conspiracy theory, mysticism, paranormal, soldier, secret, conspiracy, public nudity, male nudity, bare chested male, naked man
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51%
Speaking in Tongues (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A lonely college student grieving the loss of his mother has found purpose in a local megachurch. When a young pastor invites him to Chicago for a summer internship evangelizing the 'lost', his new faith is put to the test.
Style: psychological, captivating
Plot: evangelist, christian, religious conversion, changing lives, lifestyle change, religious, character change, religious faith, faith, change of heart, religion, college student ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 15K
Teorema (1968)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he ...
Style: surreal, allegory, erotic, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot: bourgeoisie, surrealism, lgbt, mysterious stranger, gay, parable, homosexuality, lgbtq, erotica, sex, seduction, female nudity ...
Time: year 1968, 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
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44%
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Full of Grace (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Follows Mary of Nazareth in her last earthly days as she helps the fractious early Church regain their original encounter with The Lord.
Style: biblical, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
Plot: bible, faith, jesus, christian, religious, christianity, religious faith, religion, religious leader, belief in god, religious fundamentalism, female protagonist ...
Time: 1st century
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44%
Saul: The Journey to Damascus (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Malta, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Known as Saul the Butcher, the stoning of Stephen was said to have shattered Saul's faith in the Temple and its denial of Christ as the Messiah. His conversion to Christianity and baptism as Paul changed the history of the world.
Style: biblical, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: bible, christianity, religious differences, religion, changing lives, religious faith, religious fundamentalism, change of heart, religious intolerance, bible story, faith, religious conversion ...
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44%
Time of Miracles (1989)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Yugoslavia, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: September 1945. The new communist authorities go into the church, hang the flag of the Party and paint over the old frescoes, but each time the frescoes miraculously return. A stranger comes to town and works miracles; the townsfolk are convinced he ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: partisan, miraculous event, communism, cold war, male nudity, satire, irony, village, mysterious stranger, religion, back from the dead, religious fanatic ...
Time: 1940s
Place: balkan
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43%
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Chicken (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their ...
Style: touching, contemplative, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, first love, learning disability, farm, caravan, teenager, friendship, fall in love, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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In The Name of God (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a time of forgiving and giving thanks, a reverend and his family take in a troubled boy named Mason after having lost a son of their own. It's a bumpy ride for Mason, butting heads with his new step-brother and the church counselor he's ...
Style: christian film, melancholic, unusual plot structure, sincere, contemplative
Audience: teens
Plot: faith, christianity, family relations, teenage boy, christian, foster child, church, support group, troubled teen, respect, foster home, adoptive father ...
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41%
 6.4
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Schoolgirls (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Prodded by the rebellious Brisa, puberty is awakening in twelve-year-old Celia. Quickly, the two become allies against the rigid rules of authority in the Catholic girls’ school. However, questions about the right bra, cool bands and sexy clothing ...
Style: melancholic, contemplative, psychological, unusual plot structure, light ...
Plot: catholic school, teenager, nun, single mother, coming of age, school, homework, girl, new friend, friendship, friends, youth ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: spain
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40%
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No. 10 (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A stubborn stage actor navigates single fatherhood, a strenuous theatre project, an adulterous love affair, and the confounding dreams awakened by a puzzling street encounter with a mysterious stranger.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense
Plot: family secret, foster child, adopted son, male protagonist, mysterious character, changing lives, mysterious stranger, foster home, confronting the past, secret past, cheating girlfriend, theatre play ...
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39%
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Equus (1977)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: horse, psychiatrist, religion, mental illness, obsession, therapy, psychology, male nudity, introspection, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, coming of age ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe, greece, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Apostle Peter: Redemption (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Tormented by his denial of Christ, Peter spent his life attempting to atone for his failures. Now as he faces certain death at the hand of Nero, will he falter again, his weakness betray him or will he rise up triumphant in his final moment?
Style: biblical, psychological, thought provoking, realistic
Plot: apostle, christian, christianity, redemption, cowardice, religion, society, religions or cults, roman empire, ancient history, against the odds, betrayal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Chiwawa (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her background or even her real name.
Style: contemplative, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: murder, murder investigation, graphic violence, friends, murderer, society, suspicion, murder mystery, escapades, young girl, mysterious girl, murder of a woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.3
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Mysteries (1978)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
Style: serious, suspense, surprise ending, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot: social relations, obsession, rich man, intrigue, drifter, suicide, nudity, dark humor, contests and competitions, village, small town life, village life ...
Time: 70s
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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