Belief in the afterlife movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant belief in the afterlife movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, weird, psychological, talky and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with belief in the afterlife, death, crying, family relations, belief in god, hospital, runaway, mentor, religion and husband wife relationship plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
belief in the afterlife

TOP 10 movies tagged as belief in the afterlife: Spartacus (2010), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Sister Mary Explains It All (2001), Bluebeard (2009), Stolen Summer (2002), Escape from Hell (2000), Ghost Lab (2021), Burning Ghost (2019), Prancer (1989), The Legend of Lucy Keyes (2006).
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List of belief in the afterlife movies
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Spartacus is an American television series inspired by the historical figure of Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who from 73 to 71 BCE led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic departing from Capua.
Style:
epic, sexy, heroic, sexual, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
ancient rome, ancient history, gladiator, sword fight, rebellion, roman empire, battles, slavery, swords and armor, ambition, rebel, intrigue ...
Time:
1st century b.c., ancient times
Place:
ancient greece
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
psychopath, evil child, depression, high school, guilt, mother son relationship, mental illness, prison visit, school shooting, family problems, childhood, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa, new york
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Genre: Documentary, Adventure, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Morgan Freeman presents his quest in order to find how most religions perceive life after death, what different civilizations thought about the act of creation and other big questions that mankind has continuously asked.
Style:
philosophical, thought provoking, clever, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot:
belief in god, religion, hinduism, culture, belief in the afterlife, judaism, travel, religions or cults, customs, research, god or devil, creator ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
As Sister Mary delivers a lecture on sin and its consequences, she's interrupted by several of her former students, who have little positive to say about how a Catholic education has impacted their lives.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, captivating ...
Plot:
religions or cults, society, clergy, church, disorder, rivalry, christmas, catholic school, nun, belief in the afterlife, lifestyle change, humour ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard.
Style:
fairy tale, serious, tense, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, husband wife relationship, convent, family relations, older man young girl relationship, feminism, innocence lost, gender, battle of the sexes, siblings relations, couple relations, couples ...
Time:
16th century, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of the Lord, and not that of the Devil. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, uplifting, sincere, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
judaism, afterlife, friendship, childhood, coming of age, school, youth, catholicism, mentor, friendship between boys, rabbi, family relations ...
Time:
1930s, future, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, illinois
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Genre: Horror, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Do you believe in life after death? Dr. Eric Robinson wants to believe and experience that infinite love and warmth that near death testimonies claim is on the other side of life. His colleague, Dr. Marissa Holloway, is on a crusade to alleviate the ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, christian film
Plot:
christian, faith, human experiment, medical experiment, belief in god, heaven and hell, near death experience, hell, christianity, religion, doctor, scientific experiment ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
After witnessing a haunting in their hospital, two doctors become dangerously obsessed with obtaining scientific proof that ghosts exist.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, anamorphic
Plot:
paranormal investigation, ghost, laboratory, experiment, afterlife, paranormal investigator, supernatural power, belief in the afterlife, suspense, supernatural, paranormal, suicide ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Juste wanders the streets of Paris looking for people only he can see. He collects their last memory before helping them into the afterlife. One day Agathe, a young woman, recognizes him. She belongs to his previous life. She is alive and he is a ...
Style:
bleak, scary, dark, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
afterlife, invisible, secretly observing, ghost story, falling down, old woman, death of grandmother, eavesdropping, girl, death, little girl, mysticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in ...
Style:
touching, feel good, emotional, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
christmas, small town, holiday, reindeer, single father, snow, father daughter relationship, santa claus, widower, farm, animals, girl ...
Place:
michigan
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Guy moves to an old farm in Princeton with his wife Jeanne Cooley and their two daughters, Molly and Lucy to build eight windmills to generate clean power to the city. The Cooley family has a cold reception in town, and while voting for the approval ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak, dark ...
Plot:
missing person, ghost, countryside, uncover truth, social relations, supernatural, family secret, insanity, suspense, small town, small town life, chase ...
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A housewife struggles with her husband after he is possessed by a ghost.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, light, humorous ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, hypnosis, hallucination, soccer match, hospital, hotel, priest, exorcism, evil spirit, serial killer, swinger couple, 50 year old ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
madrid
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A group of strangers are trapped inside a bar.
Style:
tense, disturbing, brutal, intense, scary ...
Plot:
virus, death, murder, dark humor, panic, violence, survival, trapped, fight, suspense, psychology, apocalypse ...
Place:
madrid
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two horror segments based on Edgar Allan Poe stories set in and around the city of Pittsburgh. "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" concerns a cheating wife who is trying to scam her dying husband out of millions by having her ...
Style:
gothic, slasher, scary, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot:
bdsm, serial killer, cat, greed, macabre, ghost, murder, zombie, supernatural, spirit, torture, supernatural power ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
america, new york, pittsburgh
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Chile, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hugo becomes captivated with Octavio, a middle-aged local boxing champion, but their relationship is tested when Hugo finds a new job in the city.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
gay, gay love, love affair, couples, athlete's life, ambition, fall in love, unfulfillment, lgbt, boxer, gay slur, sport ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chile, santiago chile
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young couple faces the realities of life with their child who is diagnosed with AIDS.
Style:
captivating, gloomy, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
aids, youth, family relations, terminal illness, family problems, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, hopes, parents and children, siblings relations, family life, family in crisis ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Louis is "repo man" who is no stranger to strong-arm tactics in his work, but he has dreamed of becoming an actor since he was a child. When cousin helps him get an audition, he gets the help of a fam... read more ous actor to him secretly ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, psychological, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
relationship vs career, chance, pregnancy, audition, career change, couples, rehearsal, introspection, hopes, filmmaking, dream, actor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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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, sexy, sexual ...
Plot:
coming of age, single parent, family relations, self discovery, introspection, best friends, teenage life, lgbt, society, youth, direction and purpose, coming out ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south carolina, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, art house ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
true love, forbidden love, family relations, orphan, obsession, countryside, siblings relations, society, social differences, rich and poor, young lovers, tragic love ...
Time:
19th century, georgian era
Place:
england, northern england, europe, yorkshire
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. ...
Style:
bleak, gloomy, thought provoking, depressing, disturbing ...
Plot:
heroin, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, childhood trauma, drug addiction, haunted by the past, redemption, estrangement, loneliness, adaptation, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, denmark, europe, copenhagen
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor.
Style:
cynical, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, funny ...
Plot:
pastor, religion, life turned upside down, false accusation, on the run, dark humor, frame up, investigation, society, farce, spirituality, religions or cults ...
Place:
usa, mexico
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two ...
Style:
touching, bleak, melancholic, controversial, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hinduism, women, prostitute, prostitution, friendship, marriage, love, politics, relationships, mentor, sin, brutality ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1938
Place:
india, canada, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; ...
Style:
touching, realistic, talky, emotional, spiritual ...
Plot:
children, child, coming of age, grief, youth, innocence lost, bereavement, friendship, death, school, life, self discovery ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, tokyo, provence
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: All citizens get a chance of being 'renewed' in a Civic Ceremony at their 30th birthday, unless they run and escape before their time comes.
Style:
futuristic, psychotronic, apocalyptic, cerebral, allegory ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, cat, utopia, robot, space, end of the world, totalitarianism, artificial intelligence, biosphere, runaway, space opera ...
Time:
future, 70s, 23rd century
Place:
washington d.c., new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, Saudi Arabia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.
Style:
psychological, tense, emotional, sincere, sad ...
Plot:
adultery, atheist, religion, atheism, moral dilemma, redemption, cheating wife, infidelity, life turned upside down, hopes, introspection, police detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
Style:
funny, philosophical, clever, light, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
atheism, alternate reality, society, rags to riches, love and romance, truth, love triangle, satire, life after death, creativity, existentialism, life philosophy ...
Time:
13th century, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, twist ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, suicide, medical student, near death experience, experiment gone awry, obsession, medical experiment, memory, manipulation, hallucination, nightmare ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago illinois
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school ...
Style:
feel good, teen sex comedy, entertaining, romantic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, teenager, youth, school, teenage girl, adolescence, teenage life, love and romance, classmate, notoriety, high school life ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, xian, usa, florida
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate ...
Style:
depressing, bleak, sad, gloomy, sincere ...
Plot:
single father, redemption, terminal illness, death, parenthood, immigrants, family relations, suffering, life is a bitch, cancer, parents and children, reconciliation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
barcelona, spain, canada, senegal, mexico
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Germany, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight ...
Style:
touching, talky, stylized, feminist film, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
childhood, bicycle, islam, muslim, muslim girl, children, school, gender, dreams, coming of age, women, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
saudi arabia, middle east, iran, japan
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