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89 films tagged religion, showing 50
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A woman in 1970s India is set aside when her lawyer husband takes a second wife, and she goes to court for the maintenance he promised her. The case climbs to the Supreme Court and becomes a national argument.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
A well-off young architect in Kerala hears that a woman he briefly dated has killed herself, and takes a red hair clip from her room when he visits the family. Things start moving in his house soon after, and he is mostly alone in it.
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Little-known
2025 · Fantasy
A holy man with more than human power keeps restoring temples while an enemy army attacks the crowds at the Kumbh Mela with a bioweapon. Telugu action at enormous scale, and nearly three hours of it.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A biopic of Yogi Adityanath, tracing a quiet boy from the hills through monkhood to running India's largest state. It covers decades and stays on one man throughout.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A boy shows signs of possession and the Church holds off, so a nun known for pushing past the rules takes the case on herself. She is paired with a younger, more skeptical nun, and it is mostly the two of them.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
In 1242 the Mongol army is poised to sweep into Europe, and what stands in its way is the Hungarian castle of Esztergom and its priest. A siege story told with a large ensemble cast.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
Two lifelong friends run the temple committee in an Andhra village, until a minister who wants the temple's land sets about turning them against each other. Long, loud village politics with fights.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
In a 17th-century Latvian village a maid is put on trial for witchcraft, and a man stands up in court to declare himself a werewolf. Animated for adults, taken from a real heresy trial, and very strange.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
In Madrid in 1988, a girl preparing for her first communion starts asking questions about death, and befriends a gypsy girl who goes nowhere without her goat. A coming-of-age story told at child height.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
On the set of a German film about the racist attacks of the nineties, a Quran is burned and every trace of it disappears. The assistant director asks what happened, and everyone tells her a different version.
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2025 · Horror
The Warrens have retired and Ed's heart is bad when a Pennsylvania family with an antique mirror in the house starts losing sleep. Their daughter, who sees things too, gets pulled in.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
In 1950 a stateless arms dealer survives his sixth assassination attempt and brings his daughter, a novice nun, into a huge building scheme he cannot fund. Most of it is him going partner to partner, talking money.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Musical
The life of Ann Lee, who grew up working a Manchester cotton factory in the 1700s and became the leader of the Shakers, told as a musical. The worship is danced and shouted, and so is much of the film.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
An investigator sent to find a missing journalist discovers her research into Bengal in 1946 has been sealed or erased, and follows it back to the riots themselves. It runs long, cutting between then and now.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
A young orphan pickpocket is told he is the prophesied protector of nine sacred scriptures, and the man hunting them already holds eight. Big, loud fantasy action running close to three hours.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
In 1928 Iowa a young woman's family calls in a priest known for exorcisms, and a younger, doubting priest is sent along with him. Based on a real case, and mostly the sessions themselves in one room.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
An atheist guitarist from a family of Brahmin priests runs out of work and starts standing in for his cousin at temple rituals, including an exorcism that appears to work. Strange things start happening to him, and it is played as a comedy.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A young American Christian sets out for North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean to preach to a tribe that has kept the outside world away for centuries. It is a true story, taken from a magazine article about him.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
The youngest daughter of a French-Algerian family starts university in Paris and finds she is drawn to women, while trying not to let her family down. It stays close to her throughout.
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Little-known
2025 · Mystery
A pastor whose marriage and career are both coming apart becomes convinced that a man on parole has taken his son, and then that God is telling him what to do about it. A cold thriller that stays very close to him.
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Little-known
2025 · Science fiction
In 2085, with the world being torn apart by religious war, the governing powers stage a no-holds-barred martial arts tournament in which the last fighter standing wins the world for one faith. Most of the film is the tournament.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A shy sixteen-year-old at a Catholic school joins the girls' choir and attaches herself to the confident Ana-Marija, then finds herself drawn to a man working on the convent they are staying in. It is quiet and close, and mostly set on the retreat.
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2026 · Thriller
An aged Robin Hood lives alone in the woods, burying the people who come to avenge his victims, until a raid on a friend's farm leaves him badly wounded. He is carried to a priory and taken in by a prioress and an orphaned girl.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
A teenager in a strict evangelical town outs the boy he has been seeing, and both are put through a ritual meant to purge their desire. Then something starts following them, wearing the face each one wants most.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
The president of Italy, a devout Catholic and a career lawyer, has to decide whether to sign a law legalising euthanasia before his term ends, with two pardon requests also on his desk. Offices, talk, and a decision taken slowly.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
Three young women marry outside their religion and find themselves caught in an abusive plot, in a story that moves across several Indian states. It follows them in parallel, and it has a political argument to make.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
Krishna's life told through the women who love him: Radha in Vrindavan, then Rukmini and Satyabhama once he is king of Dvaraka. A devotional film, framed as a priest answering a doubter.
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Little-known
2026 · Comedy
Ashley's family moves to Angamaly after money trouble, and she gets to know the church neighbourhood group next door, including Justin, a well-liked caterer in his thirties. It opens years later and works back.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
In a drought-hit village where farmers are buried in debt, a devout man locks up the temple in protest while his sceptical wife starts seeing the god he gave up on. Three hours, arguing about faith.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
The last eleven days of Samuel Paty, a French history teacher, after a student's father names him online for showing Charlie Hebdo cartoons in a lesson on free speech. It goes day by day.
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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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Little-known
2026 · Drama
At thirteen, after his mother dies, Lakshman Das leaves home believing divine love is the only way back to her, and spends years wandering India living on alms. A devotional life story, told in episodes.
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Little-known
2026 · Crime
A Chicago gang leader out of prison orders a retaliation killing, then starts having visions of a saint who was once a gang leader himself. It is a crime story that turns into a question about faith.
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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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Little-known
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.
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Little-known
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.
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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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Little-known
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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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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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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