Puritan movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant puritan movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, independent film, serious, historical drama, crying and captivating films and TV shows about / with puritan, female nudity, husband wife relationship, blood, mother daughter relationship, church, nudity, puritanism, bare chested male and religion plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as puritan: Salem Witch Trials (2002), The Witch (2015), By the Sword Divided (1983), Marriages (2001), The Scarlet Letter (1979), The Crucible (1996), Virgin Report (1972), Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019), The Scarlet Letter (1995), Now & Later (2011).

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Salem Witch Trials (2002)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: The film recounts the sobering tale of how 19 innocent lives were taken in a community experiencing paranoid hysteria regarding the suspected - but unproved - presence of the occult in the small New England town.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, historical drama ...
Plot: witch hunt, false accusation, puritan, execution, religions or cults, society, politics, legal, courtroom drama, social decay, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time: 17th century
Place: massachusetts, usa, salem massachusetts
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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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By the Sword Divided (1983)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: By the Sword Divided is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1983 and 1985. The series was a historical drama set during the mid 17th century, dealing with the impact of the English Civil War on the fictional Lacey family, made ...
Style: historical drama, baroque, period drama
Plot: medieval, peplum, time machine, british monarchy, puritan, civil war, parliament
Time: 17th century
Place: britain, england
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 6.7
 89
Marriages (2001)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The supernatural is invoked to save a romance in 19th century Quebec.
Plot: rural setting, male female relationship, mother daughter relationship, sex, marriage, love, sexuality, female nudity, suicide, passion, sexual repression, skinny dipping ...
Time: 1800s
Place: quebec
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The Scarlet Letter (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In the 17th century Massachusetts, a married women, whose husband is missing, has a child with the local pastor. The puritanical residents of her town condemn her to carry the Scarlet Letter of shame. Then the husband shows up.
Style: period drama
Plot: infidelity, adultery, puritan, extramarital affair, sexuality, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, colonial america, pariah, letter, adulteress ...
Time: 17th century
Place: massachusetts
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 6.8
 40K
The Crucible (1996)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The movie is centered around the Salem Massachusetts witch trials of 1692. The movie is based on the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. He also wrote the screen play adaptation.
Style: talky, suspense, disturbing, rough, dramatic ...
Plot: witch, witch hunt, salem witch trial, courtroom drama, witchcraft, colonial america, legal, politics, vengeance, curse, court, manipulation ...
Time: 17th century, 90s
Place: massachusetts, salem massachusetts, usa, new england
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 4.4
 326
Virgin Report (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of Eden we are taken on a voyage around the world that covers various rites of passage and cultures deflowering of the virgin.
Style: sensual, sexy, erotic, semi documentary, freeze frame ...
Plot: exploitation, adam and eve, kama sutra, puritan, taboo, wedding night, erotic fantasy, sex education, puritanism, sexploitation, loss of virginity, birth ...
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Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: On an isolated English farm in 1657, Fanny lives a quiet life with her oppressive husband John and their young son. One day their life is rocked with the arrival of young couple Thomas and Rebecca who claim to have been robbed and need a place to ...
Style: masterpiece
Plot: hedonism, corporal punishment, folk horror, female protagonist, heresy, erection, horse, foreplay, constable, female nudity, husband wife relationship, male full rear nudity ...
Time: 17th century
Place: britain, england
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The Scarlet Letter (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to ...
Style: sexy, romantic, costume drama, stylized, erotic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, adultery, interracial relations, women, justice, betrayal, repression, social misfits, destructive relationship, clergy, christian, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 17th century, victorian era
Place: massachusetts, nova scotia, new england, boston, europe ...
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 5.1
 2K
Now & Later (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sex, politics and American culture are mixed into a combustible combination in Now & Later. Angela is an illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across Bill, a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in. Through ...
Style: contemplative, talky, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: explicit sex, male pubic hair, sex scene, male nudity, coitus, erotica, repression, poverty, unsimulated sex, bisexuality, free love, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nicaragua, los angeles, usa
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 6.4
 17K
Laurel Canyon (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Laurel Canyon focuses on Sam and Alex, a pair of upper-middle class lovebirds from the East Coast who relocate to Los Angeles. Enter Jane, Sam's estranged mother, a successful record producer, who's more than willing to put the couple up ...
Style: sexual, psychological, independent film, sexy, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, culture clash, intern, music business, psychiatry, music, relationships, lesbian, fish out of water, couples, disorder, love and romance ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 7.0
 7K
Cromwell (1970)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Style: epic, realistic, factual, talky, serious ...
Plot: revolution, british history, battles, royal family, political unrest, society, medieval, tyranny, military, against the odds, rivalry, rebellion ...
Time: 17th century, victorian era, middle ages
Place: england, ireland, britain, europe, america ...
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The White Ribbon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Style: disturbing, black and white, art house, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: children, punishment, sexual abuse, priest, physical appearance, suicide, small town, death, child abuse, cruelty, family secret, village life ...
Time: year 1914, year 2009, 1910s, 90s, 1920s ...
Place: germany, europe, northern germany, italy
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A Certain Magical Index (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Kamijo is a student in Academy City, where people use science to develop supernatural abilities. The guy’s got a lot of heart – luckily for a young nun named Index. She’s on the run from a sorcery society that covets the astonishing 103,000 ...
Style: anime, stylized, romantic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: school, supernatural ability, supernatural power, supernatural, wizard, magical power, parallel universe, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, parallel world, friendship, science, alternate reality ...
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The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, gothic, rough ...
Plot: witch, folk horror, inquisition, torture, rape, murder, witch hunt, vengeance, burned alive, violence, exploitation, macabre ...
Time: 17th century, year 1968
Place: england, europe
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Dracula Blows His Cool (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An ancestor of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate.
Style: psychotronic, low brow humor, vampire comedy
Plot: vampire, erotica, mobster, disco, model, naturist, cycling, public nudity, activism, old woman, old man, nudist ...
Place: central europe, bavaria
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 6.0
 52K
Hocus Pocus 2 (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Zambia, UK, Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 29 years since the Black Flame Candle was last lit, the 17th-century Sanderson sisters are resurrected, and they are looking for revenge. Now it's up to three high school students to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc ...
Style: dramatic, captivating, enigmatic, saga, satirical ...
Audience: kids
Plot: witch, magic, spell, sister, witchcraft, magical, power, curse, halloween, village, wizard, female protagonist ...
Time: 2020s, 90s, 17th century, year 1953, year 1993
Place: salem massachusetts
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The Devil's Rain (1975)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Satanists in the middle west terrorize and sometimes melt the terrified locals.
Style: satanic, surprise ending, scary, independent film, serious ...
Plot: occult, satanist, black magic, good versus evil, curse, possession, supernatural power, ghost town, satanism, satanic cult, desert, devil worship ...
Time: year 1975, 17th century
Place: arizona
Is relevant ?
 5.8
 8K
The Comedian (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A look at the life of an aging insult comic.
Style: captivating, melancholic, light, romantic comedy, entertaining ...
Plot: comedian, aging, insult, stand up comedy, comeback, comedy club, brother brother relationship, jail, judaism, ghost hunter, hunter, fish ...
Time: year 1985
Place: somalia, new york, italy, wisconsin, africa ...
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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Style: independent film, freeze frame, crying
Plot: interracial sex, teacher student sex, interracial rape, older woman younger man relationship, interracial, age difference, older woman younger man, exploring sexuality, janitor, caught having sex, rape, sexual harassment ...
Time: year 1979, year 1954, year 1956, 1950s, year 1955
Place: kansas
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Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Angela Baker, a psychotic transsexual, escapes from a mental hospital and surfaces at a summer camp as a counselor who lectures her teenage charges on proper moral behavior. Those teens who break her strict rules -- from the camp chatterbox or a ...
Style: slasher, scary, horror comedy, bloody, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, summer camp, camp, gory, teenager, murder, decapitation, blonde, fear, killer, teenage life, who done it ...
Time: 80s
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The Girl with a Pistol (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
Style: road movie, semi serious, realistic, sexy, humorous ...
Plot: lgbt, woman with a gun, sexual content, fall in love, vengeance, love and romance, society, sex addict, couples, village, countryside, male rape victim ...
Time: 60s
Place: london, sicily, italy, europe, england ...
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 6.5
 15K
The Big Kahuna (1999)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can ...
Style: philosophical, minimal cast, talky, witty, clever ...
Plot: hotel, business, salesman, marketing, midlife crisis, christian, hotel room, religion, existentialism, hustler, big business, coming of age ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, kansas, xian
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 6.3
 5K
All Is True (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A look at the final days in the life of playwright William Shakespeare.
Style: captivating, tense, touching, psychological, historical drama ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: playwright, british history, shakespeare, historical figure, father daughter relationship, family secret, death of son, retirement, church, tudors, writers, biopic ...
Time: ancient times, 17th century
Place: united kingdom
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 6.3
 520
Black Journal (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Black Journal (originally titled Gran Bollito) is a 1977 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It is based on the real life events of Leonarda Cianciulli, the Italian serial killer best known as the "Soap-Maker of Correggio".
Style: freeze frame, entertaining, dark comedy, black comedy, crying ...
Plot: true crime, serial killer, female villain, biopic, mother issues, mute character, suspicious man, delusional woman, serial killer as protagonist, puritanism, dual role, predicting the future ...
Time: 1930s, year 1938
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Babette's Feast (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The guest, a General at the Swedish court, is not related to the sister, but, as a callow young man, was in love with her, but chose his military career over happiness with her. His aunt is a member of the religious community. He is the one who, ...
Style: emotional, touching, atmospheric, sentimental, talky ...
Plot: cooking, religion, cooking and food, aging, elderly, gourmet, food, wine, charity, sister sister relationship, catholic, chef ...
Time: 19th century, year 1987, victorian era, 1800s, 1870s ...
Place: denmark, paris france, europe, stockholm sweden
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Midnight Matinee (1989)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Even though a devastating murder took place during a small town's horror film festival two years earlier, townspeople want another festival.
Style: slasher, splatter, slasher horror, detective
Plot: canuxploitation, weirdo, blond boy, hanged girl, hanging, ex husband ex wife relationship, puritan, axe murder, chainsaw, murder, blood, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2016
Place: british columbia, canada
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 13K
Indignation (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China, Brazil, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.
Style: intellectual, melancholic, stylized, exciting, historical drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, existentialism, adolescence, war, atheist, adaptation, coming of age, sexual repression, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, love ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 2016, year 1955, year 1951 ...
Place: ohio
Is relevant ?
 5.0
 696
Love at Stake (1987)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Salem, 1692. The mayor and judge are accusing land owner of witchery in order to grab their land. No one knows that are handsome stranger is a real witch and has evil plans for the town.
Style: parody, independent film, not serious, realistic, witty ...
Plot: satire, halloween, witch, nudity, profanity, silly humor, disorder, wizards and magicians, religions or cults, friends, legal, danger ...
Time: year 1987, 80s, 17th century
Place: salem massachusetts, turkey
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 5.6
 6K
Sex Ed (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Eddie lands his first teaching gig at an inner city middle school and finds his highly pubescent pupils are receiving no form of sexual education. Eddie isn't really equipped to teach them...he's not exactly experienced romantically.
Style: sex comedy, not serious, humorous, sexy, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sex education, high school teacher, teenager, caught having sex, female nudity, prostitute, sex talk, teachers and students, looking for sex, workplace situations, low self esteem, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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