Biblical reference movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant biblical reference movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, serious, crying, disturbing, suspenseful and weird films and TV shows about / with biblical reference, bare chested male, religion, murder, blood, female nudity, teenager, death, family relations and teenage boy plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Fantasy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as biblical reference: Year One (2009), Evan Almighty (2007), Superbook (2011), Mary Magdalene (2018), Joseph from Egypt (2013), King David (2012), Faustina: Love and Mercy (2019), Devilman: Crybaby (2018), The Holy Mountain (1973), The Judge and the Assassin (1976).

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 4.9
 103K
Year One (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
Style: parody, funny, biblical, humorous, satirical ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: caveman, satire, buddy, road trip, farce, slavery, buddies, religion, stupidity, stoner, friendship between men, circumcision ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age, year 2009
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 5.4
 154K
Evan Almighty (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: God contacts Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.
Style: hilarious, funny, humorous, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, teens, kids
Plot: noah's ark, god, imaginary, save the day, flood, miraculous event, workaholic, family relations, against the odds, danger, disorder, religion ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: virginia, usa, washington d.c.
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 6.8
 392
Superbook (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Chris Quantum is your typical Middle School student -- except if you take into account one of his best friends is a robot named Gizmo. Add his best friend Joy Pepper into the mix and you have a recipe for adventure. The adventures begin for this ...
Style: biblical, thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: robot, jesus, bible, faith, christian, bible story, belief in god, time travel, sent to the past, noah's ark, time machine, time warp ...
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 5.9
 11K
Mary Magdalene (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in the Holy Land in the first century C.E., a young woman leaves her small fishing village and traditional family behind to join a radical new social movement. At its head is a charismatic leader, Jesus of Nazareth, who promises that the world ...
Style: biblical, captivating, disturbing, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot: faith, jesus, baptism, christian, belief, religion, apostle, religious, resurrection, treason, christianity, superstition ...
Time: 1st century, biblical epic, ancient times, 1930s
Place: jerusalem, xian
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Joseph from Egypt (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: Joseph, son of Israel (Jacob) and Rachel, lived in the land of Canaan with eleven brothers and one sister. He was Rachel's firstborn and Israel's eleventh son. Of all the sons, Joseph was loved by his father the most. Israel even arrayed ...
Style: novela, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: bible, god, religious faith, religious, faith, social problems, lifestyle, family problems, religion, religious conversion, belief in god, angel ...
Place: egypt
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 6.0
 362
King David (2012)
Genre: Action
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: Our story begins in Bethlehem, an Israelite territory, in the year 1045 B.C. David is 10 years old and is preparing to herd his father Jesse’s flock of sheep. Being the youngest of seven brothers, David is tasked with being the household servant. ...
Style: novela, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, biblical
Plot: king, knight, chivalry, fight, power struggle, kingdom, religion, ruler, religious conversion, battles, lifestyle change, changing lives ...
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Faustina: Love and Mercy (2019)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Docudrama tracing the life of Saint Faustina Kowalska, whose visions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Apostle of Divine Mercy".
Style: psychological, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: faith, religion, saint, religious fanaticism, shrine, religious faith, religions or cults, religious fundamentalism, religious fanatic, nun, christianity, monk ...
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Devilman: Crybaby (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Akira Fudo learns from his best friend Ryo Asuka that demons will revive and reclaim the world from humans. With humans hopeless against this threat, Ryo suggests combining with a demon. With this, Akira becomes Devilman, a being with the power of ...
Style: anime, psychological, captivating, apocalyptic, explicit ...
Audience: kids
Plot: demon, eroticism, violence, contests and competitions, save the world, good versus evil, rough sex, sex scene, fight, satan, chaos and mayhem, monster ...
Time: 2010s
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The Holy Mountain (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, disturbing, art house ...
Plot: alchemist, enlightenment, male nudity, hermaphrodite, trippy, surrealism, crucifix, symbolism, bird, mountain, spiritual journey, castration ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, peru
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The Judge and the Assassin (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and ...
Style: anthology, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, courtroom drama, mental institution, war veteran, confession of crime, serial child killer, rural setting, male rape victim, murder confession, anti semitism, lawyer ...
Time: 19th century, year 1976, 1890s
Place: france, europe, paris france
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style: erotic, controversial, disturbing, psychological, disgusting ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: torture, sex, fascism, atrocity, sexual perversion, brutality, libertine, rape, world war two, kidnapping, sexual abuse, bdsm ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
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Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Story of a gay serial killer who murders young boys so he can serve them as dinner to his circle of fellow cannibals.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, gothic, tense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, serial child killer, cannibal, gay, cannibalism, secret, psychopath, boy, danger, male pubic hair, black market ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: germany, europe, central europe
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 5.5
 24K
Horsemen (2009)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A recently widowed detective still grieving over his wife's death discovers a shocking connection between himself and the suspects in a serial killing spree linked to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Style: psychological, disturbing, detective, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, twists and turns, death, murder investigation, police, police investigation, torture, blood, psychopath, orphan, revenge ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
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The Man from Earth (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
Style: philosophical, psychological, sincere, serious, cerebral ...
Plot: philosophy, immortality, religion, atheism, society, professor, storytelling, hidden identity, christianity, existentialism, atheist, conversation ...
Time: future, 2000s, prehistory, medieval times, prehistoric times ...
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Well, Come On, Smile (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Estonia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Well, Come On, Smile focuses on a girl who runs from an orphanage. The film presents a sobering depiction of newly built urban environs and addresses formerly taboo problems such as alcoholism.
Audience: teen drama
Plot: bullying, children, alcoholism, traumatic childhood, perestroika, jealousy, suicide attempt, mother son relationship, grief, homesickness, love, vulgar ...
Place: eastern europe, soviet union
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are ...
Style: suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy, slasher, atmospheric ...
Plot: revenge, serial killer, camp, murder, doctor, curse, disfigurement, monster, mad doctor, obsession, master villain, tragic hero ...
Time: year 1971, 1920s, 20th century, 70s
Place: scotland yard, london, united kingdom, england
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 7.0
 297K
The Witch (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style: disturbing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: witch, supernatural, religion, folk horror, witchcraft, family bonds, wilderness, black magic, insanity, curses spells and rituals, satan, isolation ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place: new england, america, new hampshire, usa
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The Calendar Girls (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A hitchhiking runaway tells the man who picks her up about her friends' sexual escapades.
Style: erotic, teen sex comedy, anthology, sex comedy
Plot: erotica, hitchhiker, runaway, forest ranger, exhibitionism, art class, exhibitionist, female nudity, socially awkward, classical music, seductive girl, nude dance ...
Place: central europe
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The Seventh Juror (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually ...
Style: noir, neo noir, crying, psychological thriller, french noir
Plot: lawyer, bureaucracy, judge, witness, jury, repressed sexuality, judgment, narration, shakespeare's othello, trauma, voice over narration, dead body ...
Time: 60s
Place: france
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Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owner’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Style: disturbing, serious, touching, detective, independent film ...
Plot: farm, on the run, fugitive, faith, innocence, adolescence, hiding, post war, childhood, family relations, mistaken identity, little girl ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: england
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The Grim Reaper (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Near the Tiber river, in a Roman park, a prostitute was killed. The police tracks down people that were inside the park during that night. They are questioned and have to explain why they were there. One of them is the killer.
Style: neorealism, neo noir, contemplative, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: italian neorealism, swing, soldier, murder, investigation, prostitute, police investigation, manipulation, who done it, amateur detective, gays and lesbians, life is a bitch ...
Time: 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He ...
Style: slasher, mind bending, grindhouse, creepy, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, female serial killer, closeted homosexual, murder, obsession, female psychopath, psychotic, macabre, murder mystery, gay, musician, killer ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: europe, rome italy, italy, germany
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The Little Hours (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the middle ages.
Style: parody, sexy, dark comedy, funny, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: convent, nun, religion, horniness, monk, lust, lie, suspicion, jealousy, passive aggressive woman, bishop, priest ...
Time: 14th century, medieval times, middle ages, year 2017
Place: italy, sicily, florence
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 6.4
 67K
Dinosaur (2000)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
Style: entertaining, computer animated, feel good, touching, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, extinction, animal life, friendship, rescue, family reunited, danger, wilderness, talking animal, animal, catastrophe, jungle ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, year 2000, y2k
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Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated his life to destroying the evil pestilence. Once a ...
Style: scary, gothic, intense, suspenseful, gothic horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, supernatural, aging, eternal life, good versus evil, vampire hunter, heroes, danger, against the odds, sword fight, zombie, folk horror ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, georgian era, 18th century, 1770s
Place: england
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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!
Style: scary, black comedy, spoof, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: zombie, undead, monster, zombie apocalypse, cemetery, punk, nudity, cannibalism, living dead, female nudity, crematorium, epidemic ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: louisville kentucky, usa, san diego california, kentucky
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Going Overboard (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise ship comedy.
Style: humorous, sex comedy, not serious, slapstick comedy, weeping ...
Plot: ship, sexual fantasy, vulgar woman, dictator, cruise ship, god, chase, cruise, friendship, bartender, meme, apocalypse ...
Time: 80s
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 7.0
 36K
Thelma (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, twisted ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, university, bird, teenage girl, faith, supernatural power, female student, hysteria, lesbian attraction, lesbian relationship ...
Time: year 2017, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, indiana, oslo norway, eastern europe
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 4.7
 75K
Zoolander 2 (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.
Style: parody, humorous, feel good, slapstick, hilarious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: fashion model, model, farce, satire, fashion, absurd humor, fashion show, serial killer, modeling, popularity, fame, ambition ...
Time: year 2016, year 2001, 2000s
Place: rome italy, italy
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Almost Perfect (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Anne has given up trying to find a man who will fit into her sensible and controlled life. Therefore she has chosen to become pregnant with an anonymous sperm donor who has been carefully chosen. But as her hormones get the better of her she ...
Style: feel good, light, entertaining, humorous
Plot: love triangle, rivals, neighbor neighbor relationship, doubt, rivalry, lesbian interest, female protagonist, pregnancy, artificial insemination, single woman, vulgar language, gay interest ...
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