Penance movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant penance movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, suspense and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with penance, food, blood, family relations, death, flashback, catholic, violence, prayer and drinking plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as penance: A Question of Faith (2017), Pilgrimage (2017), Penance (2012), The Club (2015), Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021), Forever Tomorrow (2016), The Evening Hour (2020), Mahabharat (2013), Growing Up Smith (2015), Religion (2007).

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A Question of Faith (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs
Style: touching, serious, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: clergy, christian, christianity, parents and children, religions or cults, family life, society, family problems, family values, religion, salvation, penance ...
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 5.9
 6K
Pilgrimage (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across an Irish landscape fraught with peril.
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: religion, monk, pilgrimage, relic, medieval, viking, warrior, penance, torture, fight, heroic mission, journey ...
Time: middle ages, 13th century, medieval times, future
Place: ireland, france
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 7.1
 1K
Penance (2012)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of Emili is found by four classmates with whom she was playing. The murder is never solved. Emili's mother Asako is torn by grief and puts a curse ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, tense ...
Plot: murder, guilt, penance, loss of daughter, investigation, haunted by the past, revenge, who done it, redemption, death in the family, doll, forensic ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
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 7.2
 12K
The Club (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, melancholic, bleak, cynical ...
Plot: priest, altar boy, clergy, introspection, isolation, haunted by the past, religion, revenge, child abuse, nun, small town, tragic event ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: chile, latin america, pacific ocean, santiago chile
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Captain Volkonogov Escaped (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, France, Estonia
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: runaway, anti communism, penance, special agent, officer, moral dilemma, escape, military, nkvd, stalinism, fire, death ...
Time: year 1938, 1930s
Place: ussr
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Forever Tomorrow (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 'Forever Tomorrow' weaves a narrative out of the speeches given in AA meetings, the interrupted life of a party girl, a young couple who have lost their connection to one another, and the relationships Aaron, a rent boy, and his clients ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: homelessness, recovery, alcoholism, male female relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, penance, party, drinking, unemployment, alcoholics anonymous meeting, rent boy
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The Evening Hour (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when an old friend returns with plans that upend the fragile balance and ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: drug dealer, family relations, drug trade, drug dealing, friendship, criminal, drug use, city life, family problems, small town life, penance, lifestyle ...
Place: appalachia, west virginia
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In the Land of Saints and Sinners (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In a remote Irish village, a damaged Finbar is forced to fight for redemption after a lifetime of sins, but what price is he willing to pay? In the land of saints and sinners, some sins can't be buried.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: village, fight, small village, rural area, penance, villager, problem, sin, village life, countryside, rural setting, remote village ...
Time: 70s
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 9.0
 11K
Mahabharat (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: India
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Mahabharat is a 2013 drama TV series on Star Plus based on Indian legendary epic of the same name. It has been produced by Swastik Pictures and features actors such as Saurabh Raj Jain as Lord Krishna, Shaheer Sheikh as Arjuna, Pooja Sharma as ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, exciting, epic
Plot: mythology, hinduism, king, indian mythology, female warrior, ambition, feud, vengeance, greed, betrayal, throne, rivalry ...
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Growing Up Smith (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the girl next door, his desire to become a "good old boy" propels him further away from his ...
Style: intercultural, humorous, captivating, feel good, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, teens, teen drama
Plot: first love, adolescence, father son relationship, vegetarian, bullying, nostalgia, culture clash, halloween, small town, deer hunting, brother sister relationship, boy with glasses ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, india
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 8.0
 1K
Religion (2007)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story is based in Banaras and is about a Hindu Priest Chaturvedi (Pankaj Kapoor) who follows the scriptures to practice Hindu religion. When a child is abandon by a woman and brought in his house by his daughter - after initial hesitation but ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, thinking ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: hindu, adoption, religion, clergy, salvation, parents and children, family relations, family life, society, babies and infants, family problems, priest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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 7.0
 2K
The Secrets (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In The Secrets, two brilliant young women discover their own voices in a repressive orthodox culture where females are forbidden to sing, let alone speak out. Naomi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian interest, religions or cults, rabbi, lgbtq, best friend, self discovery, selflessness, nude painting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine
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Eight and a Half (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story: With 8 ½ Frederico Fellini leaves a self-portrait where dreams and reality are a mix. With help from a most excellent cast and unique scenery this self reflecting film is one of his master works.
Style: art house, psychological, surreal, cerebral, black and white ...
Audience: date night
Plot: filmmaking, surrealism, childhood, dream, midlife crisis, stream of consciousness, memory, catholic, adultery, actress, movie business, showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, copenhagen, paris france ...
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 8.2
 27K
Time (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: A prisoner consumed by guilt, an officer with an impossible choice. What does it take to survive? A tense story of punishment and principles, starring Sean Bean and Stephen Graham.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, crying
Plot: prison, jailed, prison guard, guilty conscience, jail, prisoner, forgiveness, guilt, blackmail, suicide, mental illness, guilty verdict ...
Place: england
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A Christmas Carol (1984)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
Style: touching, atmospheric, sentimental, christmas classics, christmas horror ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, scrooge, miser, holiday, christmas carol, ghost, charles dickens, happy ending, xmas, business, afterlife, christian ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, future, 1800s, 1840s
Place: england, europe, london
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Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story follows a student navigating high school life while living with paranoid schizophrenia and battling wild hallucinations. An experimental drug trial promises to help hide his illness from his peers and, most importantly, from the girl of ...
Style: realistic, romantic, touching, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: schizophrenia, teenager, romantic relationship, teenage protagonist, diagnosis, hearing voices, high school, romanticism, hopes, love and romance, chance meeting, supportive parent ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: oregon, brazil
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 6.6
 132K
Burnt (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Style: culinary, inspirational, talky, exciting, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chef, cooking, restaurant, food, abuse of power, violent behavior, violent man, male chauvinist, psychopath as protagonist, redemption, bullying, physical abuse ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, y2k
Place: london, new orleans
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 6.6
 4K
Fatima (2020)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, Portugal
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist ...
Style: christian film, sincere, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: mysticism, catholic, faith, children, church, miraculous event, female protagonist, priest, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, nun, flash forward ...
Time: year 1917, edwardian era, year 2008, year 2017, year 2005 ...
Place: portugal
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In the Name Of (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, homosexuality, church, youth, teenage life, clergy, male male relationship, gay interest, catholic, priest, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
Is relevant ?
 4.9
 324
Sella Turcica (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A paralyzed soldier returns from war to his family in worse shape than anyone at home could imagine.
Style: disturbing, psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: soldier, veteran, zombie, homecoming, surrealism, death, violence, devastation, murder, danger, military, underground ...
Is relevant ?
 5.2
 880
Street Knight (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, cannon, vigilantism, kung fu, police detective, teenage life, gang, hostage, gangster, gang warfare, city life, against the odds ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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The Reckoning (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they Arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman bing sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, scenic, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: medieval, murder, investigation, justice, brutality, art, culture clash, twists and turns, priest, monk, society, theatrical troupe ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, 14th century, year 2002
Place: england, europe
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Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a little rebellion ...
Style: anthology, historical drama, realistic, serious, weird ...
Plot: royalty, royal family, female nudity, libertine, french royalty, time machine, french history, time travel, french revolution, scandal, prisoner, priest ...
Time: 18th century, year 1975
Place: france, versailles, europe, spain, paris france ...
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Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" ...
Style: anthology, surreal, gothic, scary, visual ...
Plot: surrealism, obsession, edgar allan poe, macabre, ghost, doppelganger, supernatural, redemption, twins, omnibus, revenge, scared ...
Time: middle ages
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, england, britain
Is relevant ?
 7.9
 57K
Head-On (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Head On is German director Fatih Akin’s story of the alcoholic Cahit and Turkish Sibel. Akin tells the story of a love that can never be between two people who are too alike to not be together.
Style: psychological, depressing, bleak, breathtaking, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: suicide attempt, marriage, immigrant, culture clash, love story, relationships, loneliness, sex, love affair, drug, self esteem, self destructing ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: turkey, germany, hamburg germany, europe, frankfurt germany ...
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 888
Gilles' Wife (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, usually in ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, sister sister relationship, jealousy, dysfunctional family, love affair, society, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, human nature, family problems ...
Time: year 2004, 1930s, pre world war two
Is relevant ?
 5.6
 832
Dragon Head (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destroys the train and blocks a tunnel. When Teru awakes, he finds all his classmates and teachers are dead.
Style: suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, serious, surreal ...
Plot: sole survivor, survival, chaos, danger, life is a bitch, left to die, isolation, volcano, vestiges of humanity, superhero, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time: future
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 8K
Black Robe (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls ...
Style: realistic, bleak, historically accurate, period piece, sad ...
Plot: native american, wilderness, indians, shaman, christian, religion, colonialism, christianity, jesuit, nature, snow, church ...
Time: 17th century, year 1991
Place: canada, quebec, america
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 9K
Antibodies (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, danger, gay, family life, mind game, lust, sadist, small town, killer ...
Time: year 2005, year 1996
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
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 6.5
 2K
Absolution (1978)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At a Catholic public school, Benjamin Stanfield is tired of being the teacher's pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard. In confession, Stanfield tells Goddard that he has accidentally murdered his friend ...
Style: surprise ending, slasher, controversial, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: boarding school, practical joke, catholic priest, murder, confession booth, catholic school, coming of age, evil child, religious, unhappy ending, plot twist, twists and turns ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
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