20 movies like Go Down Death, ordered by similarity : Cold Moon(2016), The Red Tent(1971), Moonrise(1948), The Miracle Woman(1931), Ash Is Purest White(2018), First Reformed(2017), The Fugitive(1947), City for Conquest(1940), Last Flag Flying(2017), Hotel Mumbai(2018), #AnneFrank. Parallel Stories(2019), Blood and Sand(1941) ...
Drama
USA
1944
57 Minutes
Spencer Williams Myra Hemmings The Heavenly Choir Samuel H. James
gang leader preacher aunt ghost niece gripping solemn the south small town church apartment hideout cemetery religion guilt frame-up ghosts adoption prayer fall
The owner of a juke joint arranges to frame an innocent preacher with a scandalous photograph, but his scheme backfires when his own adoptive mother interferes.
Crime, Drama, Horror
USA
2016
92 Minutes
Josh Stewart Candy Clark Frank Whaley Robbie Kay Christopher Lloyd Madison Wolfe Rachele Brooke Smith Laura Cayouette
murder suspect grandmother police officer ghost father brooding solemn dark tense emotional frightening small town american south murder case mysterious deaths paranormal ghosts haunting revenge mystery
From Michael McDowell, the writer of Beetlejuice (1988) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), comes a chilling tale of supernatural vengeance.
Adventure, Drama
1971
121 Minutes
Sean Connery Claudia Cardinale Peter Finch Hardy Kruger Massimo Girotti Luigi Vannuchi Mario Adorf Eduard Martsevich Nikita Mikhalkov Donatas Banionis
elderly man explorer ghost roald amundsen aviator captain bleak brutal frightening gripping north pole italy norway airship ship umberto nobile exploration disaster survival haunting
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (Sean Connery) leads a 1928 North Pole air search for Italian explorer Umberto Nobile (Peter Finch).
Drama
USA
1948
90 Minutes
young man schoolteacher bully father sheriff deaf mute dark uneasy sad melodramatic small town virginia carnival wilderness family history accidental murder self-defense guilt outsider's life small-town life
Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death.
Drama
USA
1931
89 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck David Manners Sam Hardy Beryl Mercer Russell Hopton Charles Middleton Eddie Boland Thelma Hill Aileen Carlyle Harry Todd
woman preacher con artist blind person pilot touching uplifting street church apartment radio station faith con game disillusionment redemption religion fall transformation love 1930s
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
Romance, Drama
2018
141 Minutes
Zhao Tao Liao Fan Feng Xiaogang Diao Yi-nan Zheng Xu Zhang Yibai
gang leader girlfriend gang members boyfriend ex-girlfriend bleak cool disheartening gripping intense uneasy china sacrifice gangsters relationships china chinese triad fall sacrifice 2010s
In an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to protect Bin and is sent to prison for five years.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|UK|Australia
2017
113 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Amanda Seyfried Philip Ettinger Cedric Kyles Michael Gaston Victoria Hill Van Hansis Satchel Eden Bell
reverend pregnant woman husband wife suicidal person activist bleak dark uneasy emotional gritty unrestrained small town house garage church tragic death suicide church corruption
A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.
Drama
1947
104 Minutes
Henry Fonda Dolores del Río Pedro Armendáriz Ward Bond Leo Carrillo J. Carrol Naish Robert Armstrong John Qualen Fortunio Bonanova Chris-Pin Martin Miguel Inclán
priest peasant criminal police chief police officer informant dark tense somber village church pier faith persecution betrayal small-town life religion fall escape sacrifice
Drama
USA
1940
101 Minutes
James Cagney Ann Sheridan Frank Craven Donald Crisp Frank McHugh Arthur Kennedy
boxer dancer girlfriend younger brother truck driver composer uplifting gripping gritty melodramatic new york city lower east side carnegie hall boxing ring apartment boxing self-sacrifice aspirations corruption blindness
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
124 Minutes
Steve Carell Bryan Cranston Laurence Fishburne Cicely Tyson Yul Vazquez J. Quinton Johnson Samuel Davis Kate Easton Deanna Reed-Foster Graham Wolfe Jeff Monahan
veteran bar owner preacher soldier emotional passionate solemn spirited tender new york city truck car church arlington national cemetery military service aging road trip brotherhood adventure pursuit
Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Australia|USA|UK|India|Singapore
2018
125 Minutes
Armie Hammer Dev Patel Nazanin Boniadi Tilda Cobham-Hervey Anupam Kher Jason Isaacs Alex Pinder Amandeep Singh Suhail Nayyar Natasha Liu Bordizzo Yash Trivedi
couple militant terrorist chef baby husband intense gripping frightening uneasy brutal mumbai hotel kitchen apartment hotel room pakistan terrorism historical events murder
The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families.
Documentary, Drama, History
Italy
2019
92 Minutes
Helen Mirren Anna Migotto Anne Frank
anne frank jew nazi nazi collaborator holocaust survivor bleak chilling dark disheartening disturbing emotional engaging gripping incredible melancholy moving amsterdam concentration camp hideout holocaust
It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of "deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence," according to promotional materials.
Drama
USA
1941
120 Minutes
Tyrone Power Linda Darnell Rita Hayworth Alla Nazimova Anthony Quinn J. Carrol Naish John Carradine Lynn Bari Laird Cregar Vicente Gomez William Montague
matador sweetheart temptress best friend critic mother sultry emotional seville, spain madrid bullring apartment church bullfighting fame redemption infidelity loyalty disillusionment rise
Illiterate peasant Juan Gallardo rises meteorically to fame and fortune in the bullfight arena only to sow the seeds of his own fall.
Drama
Hong Kong|Taiwan
1989
158 Minutes
Tony Leung Hsin Shu-fen Chen Sown-yung
photographer soldier gangster rebel powerful disturbing sad gripping taiwan small town mountain rebellion political coup crime war family transformation sacrifice love 1940s
A beautiful, historical film based upon the complex lives of four brothers.
Drama
USA
1942
89 Minutes
George Sanders Herbert Marshall Doris Dudley Steven Geray Eric Blore Albert Basserman
writer artist painter wife friend solemn hedonistic powerful london paris tahiti apartment studio art egoism morality suicide misogyny loyalty rise
Loosely inspired by Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to start painting, as he has ... See full summary »
Drama, History
France|Germany|Romania
2002
132 Minutes
Ulrich Tukur Mathieu Kassovitz Ulrich Mühe Michel Duchaussoy Ion Caramitru Marcel Iures Friedrich von Thun Antje Schmidt Hanns Zischler
chemist pope pius xii priest nazi diplomat son incredible disheartening somber moving germany vatican concentration camp poland italy holocaust kurt gerstein guilt religion politics
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Drama
Canada
1972
106 Minutes
Donald Pleasence Carol Kane Doris Petrie
sister brother soldier mother father friend bleak melodramatic sad small town party canada church rape pregnancy father/daughter relationship guilt religious persecution drinking discovery
A father will do anything to protect his family's reputation when his unmarried teenage daughter becomes pregnant because she was raped by her brother's friend.
Drama
USA
1964
92 Minutes
Ivan Dixon Abbey Lincoln Gloria Foster Julius Harris Martin Priest Leonard Parker Yaphet Kotto Stanley Greene Helen Lounck Helene Arrindell Milton Williams
man teacher father boss preacher friend gripping emotional alabama church bar marginalization racism marriage disillusionment discovery love sacrifice 1960s
A black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Iran|France
2016
125 Minutes
Shahab Hosseini Taraneh Alidoosti Babak Karimi Farid Sajjadi Hosseini Mina Sadati Maral Bani Adam Mehdi Kooshki Emad Emami Shirin Aghakashi Mojtaba Pirzadeh Sahra Asadollahe
husband wife tenant actor intruder bleak brooding emotional gripping touching intense tehran, iran apartment building apartment stage theater school violence domestic life mysterious strangers
While both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Drama
USA
1994
130 Minutes
John Turturro Rob Morrow Ralph Fiennes Paul Scofield David Paymer Hank Azaria Christopher McDonald Johann Carlo Elizabeth Wilson Allan Rich Mira Sorvino
jew aristocrat host investigator amusing gripping striking new york city columbia university television studio family home game show investigation cheating historical events fame fall temptation 1950s
A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
95 Minutes
Cathy O'Donnell Farley Granger Howard da Silva Jay C. Flippen Helen Craig Will Wright Marie Bryant Ian Wolfe Bill Phipps Harry Harvey
fugitive wrongly accused brother niece tense passionate sad gripping texas small town cabin prison break unusual friendship bank heist doomed romance betrayal escape underdog love 1940s
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.