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List of church movies
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 ...
Style:
gothic, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
pedophilia, pedophile priest, children, religion, child abuse, childhood trauma, childhood memory, cardinal the priest, church, catholic church, female nudity, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2014, year 2015, year 2016, year 2019, 2010s
Place:
france, portugal
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Love and unity in a school torn by racism and hate in the 1970s.A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field.
Style:
christian film, inspirational, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
american football, racism, faith, coach, christianity, team, motivational speaker, christian, african american, high school, church, religion ...
Time:
70s
Place:
birmingham alabama, alabama, usa
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is ...
Style:
dark fantasy, scary, suspenseful, exciting, gothic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopia, clergy, danger, good versus evil, religion, distopia, lone hero, superhuman powers ...
Time:
future, year 2011, 2010s, year 2000
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.
Style:
philosophical, scenic, touching, psychedelic, profound ...
Plot:
saint, religion, catholic, medieval, christian, christianity, clergy, bible, church, leper, monk, catholic church ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 13th century, ancient times, year 1972
Place:
rome italy, tibet, italy, europe, jerusalem
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
America's youth pastor, Guy Sides, is stuck in the mega church marketing machine, and wants to find his passion again. Surrounded by sincere - but zany - church leadership, is everything he needs to renew his faith right in front of him?
Style:
christian film, light hearted, satirical, entertaining, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
pastor, christian, religion, satire, church, christianity, faith based, self discovery, faith, redemption, personal growth, community ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dennis Buckstead has the hardest calling in his church. Not only has he been asked to coach a group of non-basketball players in his church but the bishop has demanded that he lead the team to the Basketball Championship. Word from the top is that ...
Style:
feel good, light hearted, inspirational, slapstick, independent film
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
basketball, church, coach, teamwork, competition, community, championship, heartwarming, perseverance, second chance, redemption, brotherhood ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, lgbt cinema, touching ...
Plot:
lgbtq, gay, gender, gay relationship, gay interest, lgbt, gay slur, gays and lesbians, gay man straight woman relationship, polyamory, church, gay teenager ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, year 2002, year 2006, year 2000 ...
Place:
indiana, usa, colorado, wyoming, san francisco
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two CIA agents are sent to Bucharest, Romania to solve a high profile kidnapping. But what they discover is something inexplicable. An evil gargoyle, once thought dead and banished forever, has returned with a vengeance.
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, exciting, scary, serious ...
Plot:
gargoyle, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, church, priest, danger, imaginary, deadly creature, special agent, gory, escapades, creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, romania, bucharest
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Reverend Granger is assigned as the Vicar of the rural parish of Dibley, but she is not quite what the villagers expected.
Style:
sitcom, retro, semi serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot:
english countryside, church, christmas, friendship, small community, religion, small town, religious, church of england, community, chocolate, congregation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, britain
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An outlaw is rescued from death by a nun who is traveling through the Badlands. She nurses him back to health in exchange for him guiding her to a Church in Williston. A deep friendship develops between these two unlikely people as they learn to ...
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
wasteland, nun, church, outlaw, western hero, travel, shooting, gunfight, fight, relationships, problem, road trip ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
north dakota, south dakota
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A suspense thriller set in the world of small town church politics, Dangerous Calling follows the story of Pastor Evan Burke and his wife Nora as they assume leadership of First Baptist Willit Springs after the mysterious death of the previous ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film, tense ...
Plot:
faith, church, small town, uncover truth, who done it, dishonesty, society, clergy, suspicion, secret, dark past, religious fanatic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
georgia, usa
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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, realistic, serious, suspenseful, controversial ...
Plot:
gay, priest, celibacy, suicide, church, uncover truth, fighting the system, clergy, society, dishonesty, crisis of conscience, expose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film the wedding of the daughter of a severe and ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, surreal, atmospheric, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
couples, wedding, forbidden love, satire, church, love and romance, introspection, artists and showbiz, midlife crisis, filmmaking, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two competing groups of high school students must rally together and enter a song and dance competition in order to save their church from closing.
Style:
humorous, mockbuster, light, exciting, feel good ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, choir, church, friends, rivalry, music band, lifestyle, follow your dream, ambition, teachers and students, teenage love, save the day ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young singer turns his back on God and his father's church when tragedy strikes. He returns years later to find the once powerful congregation in disarray. With his childhood nemesis creating a "new vision" for the church, he is ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
church, haunted by the past, relationship vs career, redemption, ambition, family relations, parents and children, homecoming, lifestyle, hopes, uninhibited rivalry, musician's life ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending ...
Style:
not serious, humorous, black comedy, hood, entertaining ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, friendship, hostage, church, criminal heroes, black, crime gone awry, partner, society, disorder, urban, forceful separation ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
baltimore
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In poor health and dead broke, Grace has a plan to provide a future for her young daughter. With the help of her sister Mercy, she robs her former employer. But an alarm goes off during the robbery and they escape into a nearby church. They hold the ...
Style:
touching, serious, uplifting, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
hostage, church, unlikely criminals, self discovery, crime gone awry, clergy, hopes, society, criminal heroes, confined, on the run, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
An adoption of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol translated into a Christian retelling for Easter with the Veggie Tales characters.
Style:
christian film, computer animated, exciting, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, toddlers
Plot:
easter, family relations, church, save the day, factory, heroes, rivalry, mischievous children, young heroes, family life, reincarnation, hopes ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
church, love and romance, lifestyle, filmmaking, culture clash, clergy, actor's life, self discovery, artists and showbiz, religions or cults, love affair, frenchwoman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, europe
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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:
priest, pedophile, church, sexual abuse, legal investigation, clergy, courtroom drama, social decay, sexual harassment, dishonesty, fighting the system, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, usa, france, boston
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Reverend Robert Gibbs is a young, hip pastor who temporarily takes over the helm of a Fundamentalist Baptist church while his predecessor Reverend Matthews recovers from a stroke. While trying to impress Reverend Matthews, Gibbs has to win the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, christian film, spiritual ...
Plot:
church, going straight, introspection, downfall, society, fall in love, rivalry, dishonesty, clergy, hopes, love and romance, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Is relevant?
543
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A man's view cause a rift between peasants and the church.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, talky ...
Plot:
reformation, christian, church, faith, clergy, bible, religion, christianity, confession, monk, martin luther king, conservative ...
Time:
16th century, 70s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Naziism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
Style:
epic, religious drama, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
catholic priest, priest, racism, vatican, widow, church, catholic, nazi, clergy, pope, cardinal the priest, woman in labor ...
Time:
year 1963
Place:
italy, rome italy, vienna, boston, georgia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2016. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, corpse, ritual murder, photograph, sex scene, investigation, journalist, church, jail, love triangle, police, unsolved crime ...
Place:
basque country
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Portraying the events that have taken place in Polish politics in recent years.
Style:
sexy, captivating, contemplative, tense, unusual plot structure
Plot:
gay relationship, gay, political corruption, media manipulation, government corruption, corruption, priest, church, lgbt, politics, gay couple, gay lead character ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra's search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children, and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious ...
Style:
dark fantasy, atmospheric, suspense, enigmatic, costume drama ...
Audience:
pre-teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
magic, travel, friendship, prophecy, children, child protagonist, talking animal, journey, parallel universe, conspiracy, multiverse, polar bear ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
england, london, united kingdom
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A mysterious Dark Horseman slays young girls near the village of Dikanka, and he has already butchered 11 ladies. Nikolai Gogol, a scribe from Saint Petersburg has to take charge of the investigation, but the closer he gets to solving the case, the ...
Style:
disturbing, dark fantasy, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
folklore, medieval, supernatural, legends and myths, investigation, uncover truth, imaginary, church, demon, countryside, superstition, murder ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Marina's life is thrown into turmoil following the death of her partner. Mourning the loss of the man she loved, she finds herself under intense scrutiny from those with no regard for her privacy.
Style:
lyrical, indie film, art house, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
death of lover, lgbt, transgender, restaurant, transgender woman, transsexual, male nudity, transphobia, transvestite, waitress, bare breasts, love ...
Time:
year 2017, near future, 2010s
Place:
south america, chile, indiana, latin america, santiago chile ...
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a reconstructed family moves to a converted church in the country, 14-year-old Molly, must save her new troubled step-sister from a dangerous relationship with the desperate ghost of a young girl. Based on the best selling novel by Mary ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, scary, contemplative, tense ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
teenage girl, ghost, half sister, church, stepsister stepsister relationship, family relations, dead father, mother daughter relationship, missing child, writers, escapades, chase ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
baltimore
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Style:
creepy, dark, cult horror, twist ending, psychotronic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
folk horror, religion, paganism, occult, disappearance, ritual, human sacrifice, female nudity, temptation, sacrifice, investigation, conspiracy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
scotland, fictional island, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands
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