Crisis of faith movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant crisis of faith movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, suspense and captivating films and TV shows about / with crisis of faith, religion, faith, priest, church, religions or cults, christianity, society, christian and religious plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as crisis of faith: The Children Act (2017), Silence (2016), Priest (1994), Love Like Poison (2010), Death Without Consent (2007), Hellbound (2021), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Holy Terror (2017), Truth and Justice (2019), Catching Hearts (2012).

List of crisis of faith movies

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The Children Act (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating, rough, serious ...
Plot: judge, jehovah's witness, illness, moral dilemma, courtroom, religion, teenager, leukemia, marriage crisis, hospital, cancer, crisis of faith ...
Time: year 2017
Place: london
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 7.2
 122K
Silence (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Style: philosophical, stylized, cerebral, melancholic, intellectual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: missionary, religion, christianity, religious persecution, culture clash, crisis of faith, faith, torture, doubt, betrayal, christian, clergy ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2016, year 2015
Place: japan, portugal, asia
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 7.1
 11K
Priest (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an ...
Style: independent film, touching, powerful, spiritual, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, homosexuality, catholic priest, sex with a priest, forbidden love, sexual repression, closeted homosexual, homosexual, sexual abuse, religion, glbt, lgbt ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, europe, iraq, liverpool
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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
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Death Without Consent (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: Chris Carrington looses his father to hereditary kidney disease. He is painfully aware he may die from it as well. While dealing with the agony of his loss, Chris is unexpectedly contacted by a mysterious Russian immigrant who tells him his father ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, serious
Plot: conspiracy, government, crisis of faith, deception, intrigue, terrorism, religion, underground, weapon of mass destruction
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 6.6
 28K
Hellbound (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: Unearthly beings deliver bloody condemnations, sending individuals to hell and giving rise to a religious group founded on the idea of divine justice.
Style: apocalyptic, mysterious, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: cult leader, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, hell, death, crisis of faith, lynching, religious cult, creature, entity, angel, monster ...
Place: seoul
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, underwater, ocean liner, cruise ship, sea disaster, new year's eve, race against time, sea, ocean ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: mediterranean sea, atlantic ocean, israel
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 3.3
 354
Holy Terror (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Believing their deceased son isn't at peace, Molly and Tom ask a medium to make contact. But after they invite a vengeful demon to cross over, the couple must enlist the help of a disgraced priest to attempt a dangerous exorcism.
Style: psychotronic, scary, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: paranormal, demon, paranormal phenomena, crisis of faith, priest, sister, exorcist, dead son, supernatural, paranormal investigation, murder, peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Truth and Justice (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber's Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to transform the poor land into a flourishing farm of his dreams.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, existential
Plot: character study, society, conflict, man versus nature, crisis of faith, pursuit, countryside, chore, struggle, problem, life is a bitch, farmer ...
Time: 19th century
Place: estonia
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Catching Hearts (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: "What happens when a bestselling atheist author Professor Mark Gavin loses his faith in atheism? This intense drama asks tough questions and explores why there is no such thing as coincidence."
Style: captivating, christian film
Plot: faith, moral transformation, religious conversion, crisis of faith, atheist, atheism, religion, change of heart, religious faith, religious, character change, changing lives ...
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Def by Temptation (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot: blaxploitation, vampire, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, deal with the devil, couples, supernatural, murder, injustice, black, crisis of faith, seduction ...
Time: 80s
Place: north carolina, new york, usa
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 5.3
 9K
The Body (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint ...
Style: sexy, talky, suspenseful, philosophical, exciting ...
Plot: politics, faith, christianity, religion, kidnapping, christian, self discovery, religions or cults, obsessive quest, clergy, rebellion, society ...
Time: year 2001
Place: israel, middle east, rome italy, jerusalem
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The Wise Kids (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, contemplative, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, best friend, single parent, family relations, self discovery, introspection, teenage life, lgbt, youth, society, direction and purpose, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south carolina, usa, southern usa, charleston south carolina
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 5.9
 231
Standing Firm (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: David, a widower, is working himself to death. Late nights doing paperwork and running on fumes is normal. Bills are piling up by the week, and foreclosure looms on the horizon. Blaming God for his wife's death, he ends his relationship with ...
Style: christian film, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: christian, family relations, family problems, religions or cults, church, society, grieving widower, best friend, unsupportive spouse, hopes, parents and children, widower ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.7
 417
Novena (2005)
Genre: Drama
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.
Plot: crisis of faith, loneliness, christian faith, gratitude, grandmother grandson relationship, materialism, theology, silence, wife abuse, faith, guilt, friendship ...
Place: quebec
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 8.1
 452K
The Exorcist (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: 12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style: scary, suspense, satanic, demonic, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: religion, supernatural, demon, exorcism, devil, priest, macabre, possession, demonic possession, occult, exorcist, supernatural horror ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: persia, usa, washington d.c., asia, new york ...
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A Death in the Family (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: grief, death of husband, widow, bereavement, family problems, faith, loss of spouse, religious faith, loss of husband, crisis of faith, changing lives, death of father ...
Time: 1910s
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 7.1
 62K
First Reformed (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
Style: suspense, tense, social, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: priest, religion, church, christianity, suicide, depression, journal, faith, reverend, minister, environment, politics ...
Time: year 2017
Place: new york, new york state
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 4.4
 399
The Last Year (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Paul's homosexual affair at Bible College with a new student named Alex sets tongues wagging, mostly with un-Christian reactions. The dean, himself a closet case, threatens to expel Paul, and the football jocks have their eye on Alex. The ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: gay, couples, gender, incest, gays and lesbians, love and romance, youth, friendship, teenage love, love affair, friends, injustice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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 6.1
 11K
Noel (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina ...
Style: touching, emotional, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: christmas, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, angel, couple relations, holiday, winter, new year, jealousy, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2004
Place: new york, usa
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Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Haunted by terrible acts the Nazis forced him to participate in, the disenchanted Father Lankester Merrin focuses his energies on helping with an archaeological dig in the northern part of Kenya. There, the crew uncovers a church that predates ...
Style: demonic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, good versus evil, church, redemption, transformation, life philosophy, mentor, priest, storytelling, demonic possession, exorcist, possession ...
Time: 1940s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1947, year 1944
Place: africa, kenya
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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a hypnotic research specialist free her from its grasp?
Style: demonic, scary, religious horror, splatter, surreal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: possession, demon, exorcism, priest, good versus evil, supernatural, psychic, surrealism, demonic possession, pact with the devil, exorcist, devil ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: africa, washington d.c., usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 6.8
 384K
Signs (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Style: twist ending, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot: alien invasion, ufo, alien, alien encounter, single father, survival, faith, end of the world, first contact, loss of faith, macabre, natural disaster ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, north america, mexico ...
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Higher Ground (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir This Dark ...
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: faith, belief in god, evangelical christianity, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, introspection, self discovery, redemption, human spirit, hopes, religions or cults, society ...
Time: 2010s, 60s, 70s, 21st century
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Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A marriage counselor's personal and professional life becomes complicated after she enters into a relationship with one of her clients.
Style: realistic, tense, serious, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: adultery, black, family problems, couples, couple relations, moral dilemma, dysfunctional family, life turned upside down, disorder, unfulfillment, human nature, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., new orleans, usa
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Charles McCarter and his wife Helen are about to celebrate their 18th-wedding anniversary when Helen comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing Her. Helen moves in with her grandmother ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, inspirational, intense, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: women, african american, life turned upside down, storytelling, family problems, hopes, starting over, black, breakup, madea, cheating, happy ending ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, florida
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Mrs. Worthington's Party (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Father Jonathan Keene - a cold, impatient Catholic priest arrives in a tiny fishing village the week before Christmas to do what he does best: shut down a dying parish...
Style: touching, realistic, feel good, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: christmas, priest, clergy, introspection, society, self discovery, social relations, religions or cults, hopes, church, small town life, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Preacher's Wife (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property ...
Style: touching, christmas classics, black comedy, uplifting, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, family outing, adult
Plot: christmas, holiday, black, african american, church, winter, clergy, church choir, angel, black history, black american, marriage ...
Time: year 1996
Place: new york, usa
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Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Italy, Pakistan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Having lived through traumatizing events during WWII, Father Lankester Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to conduct archaeological excavations in British-administered East Africa. Merrin unearths an ancient Byzantine church believed have ...
Style: demonic, scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: exorcism, devil, demonic possession, supernatural, gory, good versus evil, priest, demon, religion, exorcist, possession, blood ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2004, year 1949
Place: africa, kenya, cairo egypt, iraq
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 6.5
 267
The Priest (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Obsessed with fantasies of sex, Father Miguel seeks professional help through his church but they are not listening; thus leaving the Father in a dilemma; leaving the church or should he try, on his own, to surrender to these temptations?
Style: social, spiritual, independent film, gay cinema
Plot: zoophilia, priest, dog sex, gay, lgbt, spirituality, confession, masturbation, sexual obsession, catholicism, catholic priest, crisis of faith ...
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