Movies like By The Grace of God
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By The Grace of God (2018)
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Original name: Grâce à Dieu
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the priest, to "release their word" on what they suffered.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, cult film, queer cinema
Plot:
pedophilia, religion, child abuse, children, pedophile priest, cardinal the priest, priest, church, gay, husband wife relationship, journalist, sexual abuse, existentialism, religious, boyhood, train, female nudity, doctor, catholic church, childhood memory, lawyer, police officer, police, piano, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2014, year 2015, year 2016
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Most similar movies to By The Grace of God
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and disturbing films with plots about child abuse, sexual abuse, pedophilia, mother son relationship, police, religion and pedophile mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like By The Grace of God: Spotlight (2015), Bad Education (2004), Sleepers (1996), The Boys of St. Vincent (1992), Perfect Obedience (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by editor Walter "Robby" Robinson, reporters ...
Style:
factual, thought provoking, emotional, intellectual, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
journalism, investigation, lawyer, conspiracy, investigative journalism, sexual abuse, catholic church, newspaper, catholicism, child abuse, cover up, journalist ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 70s, 2000s, year 2002 ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, new england, florida
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, controversial, erotic, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
transsexual, sexual abuse, gay, child abuse, boarding school, transvestism, male nudity, teacher, transsexuality, coming of age, youth, first love ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 60s, 70s, year 1980
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Style:
disturbing, sadistic, suspenseful, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, child abuse, childhood, vengeance, rape, courtroom drama, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, pedophilia, friendship, revenge, murder trial ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, new york yankees, manhattan new york city
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100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
child abuse, pedophilia, catholic priest, child molestation, man boy relationship, orphanage, child molester, pedophile priest, homosexual rape, childhood, underage sex, catholic orphanage ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
canada, london, newfoundland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ
founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not
addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009.
But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his ...
Style:
disturbing
Plot:
pedophile priest, child abuse, punishment, teenager, pedophile, corporal punishment, catholic church, catholic priest, bullying, gay, seminary, confession ...
Place:
mexico
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Movies similar to City of God
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: treatment? work? how to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, talky ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, tumor, photographer, family relations, homosexuality, father son relationship, sibling relationship, self discovery, couple relations ...
Place:
paris france, france
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal Law, also indicted, and the diocese was aware of the actions of these men of the church and was kept secret for years, until the victims decide ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
church, sexual abuse, clergy, legal investigation, courtroom drama, social decay, sexual harassment, fighting the system, legal, society, dishonesty, religion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, usa, france, boston
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23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A powerful and disturbing two-part drama about sexual manipulation, the loss of innocence and betrayal of trust, starring Ben Daniels. A policeman's determination to solve the three-year-old case of an abducted schoolboy leads him to uncover a ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, touching
Plot:
child abuse, children's home, lie, children, police investigation, suspense, sexual abuse, bullying, fear, police, rape, investigation
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23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful, controversial ...
Plot:
gay, suicide, church, celibacy, uncover truth, fighting the system, priest, clergy, society, dishonesty, scandal, reporter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on the true story of of ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, bleak, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
pedophile, youth, murder, coming of age, psychopath, serial killer, sexual predator, sexual obsession, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, investigation ...
Time:
year 1962, year 1976, year 1966, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, coming of age, youth, religion, lgbt, age difference, sex crime, friendship, unemployment, family relations, pedophilia, camorra ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy, rome italy, naples italy ...
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20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the kidnapping of teenager Elizabeth Smart,in June 2002, by two people, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, rough, suspenseful, feminist film
Plot:
kidnapping, child abuse, true crime, religious cult, missing child, false identity, teenage girl, survival, escape, suspense, child rape, captivity ...
Place:
utah, salt lake city utah
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The pious John List regularly goes to church and is respected by his neighbours. But one day the police finds his wife Helen and their three children slayed in their house - obviously by John, who left two letters for the police and his priest and ...
Plot:
serial killer, church, killer, child abuse, murder, police, mass murder, dead children, new identity, murder of family, matricide, religion ...
Time:
70s, 80s
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20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit - taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets, interrogating abusive parents, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
violence against women, society, abused child, journalism, sexual abuse, police station, police investigation, social decay, abusive parent, life is a bitch, fighting crime, workplace ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.
Style:
touching, suspenseful, sincere
Plot:
child abuse, pedophile, childhood memory, accusation, sexual abuse, police investigation, female reporter, child molestation, teenage boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, testimony, news report ...
Place:
wales, manchester
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20%
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Movies similar to Spotlight
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In this biting and disturbing coming-of-age tale from writer-director Michael Cuesta, life is bittersweet along the L.I.E., also known as the Long Island Expressway, as suburban teen Howie Blitzer learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, he ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, controversial, sexy, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, male prostitution, coming of age, sexual abuse, pedophile, older man younger man relationship, pedophilia, mentor, youth, suburbs, rent boy, juvenile delinquent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
long island, new york, new jersey, california
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19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Prominent politician Louis Durieux is accused of having murdered his wife, found dead in their hotel room. The case blows up into an intense media storm. Is he guilty or inno- cent? Nobody knows. Perhaps not even him...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
murder, prison, domestic violence, death, track down, investigator, police investigation, law enforcement, violence, murder investigation, escapades, who done it ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
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19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
Plot:
altar boy, childhood sexual abuse, child molester, catholic church, coming of age, youth, lawsuit, pedophile priest, boy, little girl, father son relationship, doctor ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
louisiana
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19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, father son relationship, parents and children, on the run, violence spree, prostitute, violence, sex scene, killer, female nudity, sex, samurai ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
japan, asia
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19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
child abuse, pedophile, rape, sex, sexual abuse, child molester, parents and children, child rape, coming of age, police, psychologist, innocence lost ...
Place:
tennessee, asia
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19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share ...
Style:
stylized
Plot:
gay, male nudity, gay crush, gay interest, lgbt, lost soul, man dances with a man, dinner, cinema, nude, letter, snow ...
Time:
year 1972
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18%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The film follows the travels and accounts of Mark Chapman (Jonas Ball) and gives the watcher an insight into his mind. It starts with him in Hawaii and how he does not fit in with anyone including his job; family; friends etc. He says he is ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, assassination, losing-it hero, obsession, unfulfillment, murder, lonely, the beatles, music, criminal, suffering, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place:
hawaii, new york, usa
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18%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, rough
Plot:
coming of age, boy, juvenile delinquency, creepy child, psycho, child abuse, children, brother brother relationship, family life, siblings relations, youth, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france
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18%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife Kendra are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, a lovely home, and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is ...
Style:
psychological
Plot:
pedophile, child molester, children, abuse, sexual abuse, social problems, stereotypes, fighting the system, police, criminal, promise, courtroom ...
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18%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, non-linear
Plot:
police investigation, murder, law enforcement, serial killer, obsession, uncover truth, riddles and clues, murder trial, murder suspect, true crime, nude, court ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991, year 2001, year 1995
Place:
france, paris france
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18%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A priest (Zingaretti - Inspector Montalbano) attends his new parish only to find the church empty, the locals uninterested and their children rude and abusive. He very gently sets about winning over first the children by providing them with a place ...
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, factual
Plot:
coming of age, priest, hopes, mafia, murder, mob boss, church, hitman, fighting crime, rivalry, suspense, showdown ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Director Rocky Costanzo's searing legal drama centers on a highly credentialed child psychologist named Glen Erskine (Richard Meese) whose life is shattered when he's accused of sexually assaulting a young boy he's been treating. ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
child abuse, pedophilia, coming of age, courtroom, man boy relationship, teenage life, parents and children, custody, sexual abuse, dysfunctional family, redemption, life is a bitch ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Barbara Hoffman is a University of Wisconsin science student. She is a part-time employee at a local massage parlor. She is also a killer. Now all Detective Lulling has to do is prove it.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, winter, christmas, deception, prostitute, snow, suspense, sex ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Maria finds herself caught between two worlds. At school this 14-year-old girl has all the typical teenage interests, but when she’s at home with her family she follows the teachings of the Society of St. Pius XII and their traditionalist ...
Style:
serious, captivating, art house, melancholic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
religion, self sacrifice, good versus evil, church, priest, domineering mother, school, society, clergy, religious fundamentalist, religious fundamentalism, catholic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, seattle
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The new movie of Vincent Lannoo.
Style:
semi serious, cynical, suspenseful, realistic, biting ...
Plot:
pedophile priest, sexual abuse, losing-it hero, vengeance, unlikely criminals, rivalry, society, life is a bitch, suspense, racism, vigilantism, double life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium
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