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26 films tagged religion
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2007 · Drama
A silver miner turns oilman in California at the turn of the century and buys up a small town's land, running into a young preacher with a following of his own. It follows him across three decades of getting what he wants.
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2015 · Drama
The Boston Globe's investigations desk works a story about abuse in the Catholic church, and keeps finding it is bigger than the last version of it. Mostly documents, doorsteps and phone calls.
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2011 · Drama
A Tehran wife wants to leave the country and her husband will not leave his father, and the woman they hire to mind him ends up taking them to court. Almost all of it is people arguing, and everyone has a point.
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2025 · Mystery
A young priest arrives at a small parish where a death in a locked room looks impossible, and the same private detective is called in. The third of these mysteries, and the most sombre in tone.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2024 · Thriller
The Pope dies and the cardinals are locked inside the Vatican to choose the next one, while the man running the vote keeps learning things about the candidates. Whispered talk in beautiful rooms.
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2024 · Science fiction
A young duke living among the desert people of a spice planet learns their ways while the family that destroyed his keeps hold of the harvest. Huge and loud and slow all at once, with a lot of sand and prophecy.
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2017 · Drama
The minister of a small, nearly empty church in upstate New York starts keeping a journal and agrees to counsel a young man who is frightened about the climate. Slow, quiet, mostly one man alone.
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2016 · War
A young man from Virginia signs up as an army medic in 1942 and will not touch a rifle, which his own side refuses to accept. The first half is home and boot camp, the second is Okinawa, and it is very violent.
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2024 · Horror
Two young missionaries knock on the door of a polite man who says he is interested in their church, and he keeps them talking. Almost all of it is three people in one house, arguing about belief.
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2024 · Comedy
Three separate stories with the same handful of actors: a man who lets his boss decide everything, a policeman whose missing wife comes home, and two people hunting for a healer. It is long, deadpan and deliberately strange.
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2012 · Adventure
A boy from a zoo-owning family in India ends up adrift in a lifeboat in the Pacific with a Bengal tiger, telling the story years later to a writer. Long stretches of just the boat, the boy and the animal.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2016 · Science fiction
A father takes his eight-year-old son and runs, chased by the church the boy was raised in and by the government. It explains very little, and much of it happens on back roads at night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2019 · Horror
A grieving American woman tags along with her boyfriend and his friends to a midsummer festival at a remote Swedish commune where the sun barely sets. Long, very bright, and it takes its time.
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2013 · Thriller
Two little girls vanish from a street on Thanksgiving, and while a detective works the case one of the fathers decides the police are moving too slowly. Long, dark and rainy, and it gets ugly.
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2012 · Science fiction
Scientists follow a set of matching cave paintings to a distant moon, on a ship paid for by a dying billionaire who wants to meet whoever left them. Big empty landscapes first, then a lot of running.
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2019 · Horror
A young hospice nurse who has recently found God is sent to look after a former dancer dying at home, and decides the woman's soul is her responsibility. Small, quiet and very close to one person.
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2016 · Drama
Two Portuguese priests sail to Japan in the 1600s to find their missing teacher, in a country where practising their faith is punished by death. Long and quiet, with almost no relief in it.
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2023 · Drama
A plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team comes down high in the Andes in 1972, and the survivors have to work out how to last the winter. Cold, slow and hard to watch, with the crash early on.
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2017 · Comedy
A Pakistani-American stand-up comic is seeing a white grad student while his parents line up matches for him, and then she falls seriously ill. A lot of it is him in a hospital waiting room with her parents, who have only just met him.
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2012 · Drama
A drifting navy veteran with a bad drinking problem attaches himself to the leader of a new movement in post-war America. Slow and loose, mostly the two of them circling each other.
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2019 · Drama
A cardinal comes to Rome to hand in his resignation and ends up spending days arguing with Pope Benedict about the church. Two men talking, in gardens and chapels, with jokes.
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2016 · Horror
A clumsy village policeman in rural Korea looks into a run of killings that began after a Japanese stranger moved into the woods. Two and a half hours that start out funny and do not stay that way.
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2022 · Drama
A housebound English teacher who weighs 600 pounds spends one week trying to reach the daughter he left years ago, while teaching his online classes with the camera off. It never leaves his flat and is nearly all conversation.
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2015 · Horror
A family thrown out of their New England settlement in the 1630s try to farm a patch of land at the edge of a wood, and things go wrong from the first week. Slow, spoken in old English, and grim throughout.
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2017 · Thriller
A girl raised by strict religious parents leaves for university in Oslo, falls for a classmate, and starts having seizures that things happen around. Quiet and cold, closer to a drama than a scare.
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2022 · Drama
The women of an isolated religious colony meet in a hayloft over two days to decide by vote whether to stay or leave. All talk, nearly all one room, and taken from a novel.
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