20 movies like Leon Morin, Priest, ordered by similarity : Peyton Place(1957), Two Women(1960), Fatima(2015), The Confession(2016), The Second Mother(2015), Frantz(2016), Lady Bird(2017), Before Midnight(2013), Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams(2006), Satan Never Sleeps(1962), Carol(2015), Now, Voyager(1942) ...
Drama
France|Italy
1961
130 Minutes
Jean-Paul Belmondo Emmanuelle Riva Irene Tunc Nicole Mirel Marco Behar Patricia Gozzi Gisele Grimm Monique Bertho Marc Heyraud Nina Gregoire Monique Hennessy
communist widow mother priest daughter tense uneasy provincial town france church rectory religion world war ii unlikely friendship spirituality holocaust temptation forbidden love 1940s
Set during occupied France, a faithless woman finds herself falling in love with a young priest.
Drama
USA
1957
157 Minutes
Lana Turner Hope Lange Arthur Kennedy Lloyd Nolan Lee Philips Terry Moore Russ Tamblyn Betty Field David Nelson Mildred Dunnock Diane Varsi
stranger widow drunk daughter friend doctor melodramatic passionate intense new england small town forest lake courtroom mother/daughter relationship small-town life sex rape friendship trials
A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.
Drama
Italy|France
1960
99 Minutes
Sophia Loren Jean-Paul Belmondo Eleanora Brown Carlo Ninchi Andrea Checchi Pupella Maggio Emma Baron Bruna Cealti
widow daughter soldier intense powerful rome small town italy church war rape survival mother/daughter relationship love rise 1940s
In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.
Drama
2015
79 Minutes
Soria Zeroual Zita Hanrot Kenza Noah Aïche Franck Andrieux Chawki Amari Yolanda Mpele Edith Saulnier Dalila Bencherif
daughter mother family teenager single mother cleaning lady brooding emotional endearing heartwarming intense home town relationships love family money emotion mother/daughter relationship discovery
After she is injured in a fall, Fatima writes her two daughters letters in Arabic to express things she has never been able to express in French.
Drama
Mexico
2016
116 Minutes
Romain Duris Marine Vacth Anne Le Ny Solène Rigot Amandine Dewasmes Lucie Debay Lucas Tavernier Charlie Lefebvre
old woman young woman priest atheist communist intense emotional melodramatic heartwarming inspiring touching hospital church france dying wish memories past loves confession world war ii love
How far would you do to get enter a contest? Joe is more than willing to do anything, without considering the consequences ...
Drama
Brazil
2015
112 Minutes
Regina Casé Michel Joelsas Lourenço Mutarelli Karine Teles Camila Márdila Helena Albergaria Luis Miranda Theo Werneck Luci Pereira
housekeeper maid family member mother daughter son charming disheartening heartwarming emotional melodramatic intense brazil são paulo apartment relationships single mothers mother/daughter relationship abandonment love
When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
Drama, History
France|Germany
2016
113 Minutes
Pierre Niney Paula Beer Ernst Stötzner Marie Gruber Johann von Bülow Anton von Lucke Cyrielle Claire Alice De Lencquesaing
widow veteran mysterious man soldier confident dreamy emotional intense france house lake train station world war i grief love friendship love triangle life after wartime love discovery
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
94 Minutes
Saoirse Ronan Laurie Metcalf Timothée Chalamet Lucas Hedges Tracy Letts Odeya Rush Jake McDorman Beanie Feldstein Lois Smith Stephen McKinley Henderson Jordan Rodrigues
mother daughter teenager high-school student best friend teacher father moving uplifting playful california high school catholic school sacramento, calif. family home university united states prom mother/daughter relationship coming of age
In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
Romance, Drama
USA|Greece
2013
109 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Julie Delpy Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick Jennifer Prior Charlotte Prior Walter Lassally Xenia Kalogeropoulou Ariane Labed
lover greek person daughter friend family member grandmother brooding emotional intense greece car train house beach hotel reminiscence love argument questioning travel
We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Drama
Bosnia and Herzegovina|Croatia|Austria|Germany
2006
107 Minutes
Mirjana Karanovic Luna Zimic Mijovic Leon Lucev Kenan Catic Jasna Beri Dejan Acimovic Bogdan Diklic Emir Hadzihafizbegovic Ermin Bravo Semka Sokolovic
mother daughter widow love interest bouncer teen boy emotional intense sarajevo, bosnia-herzegovina family home school nightclub street mother/daughter relationship war poverty first love teen angst growing up transformation
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
Drama
USA
1962
126 Minutes
William Holden Clifton Webb France Nuyen Athene Seyler Martin Benson Edith Sharpe Robert Lee Marie Yang Andy Ho Burt Kwouk Weaver Levy
priest colonel cook nun friend mother dark charming intense melodramatic china mission village bedroom garden war rape religion communism riots
During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance, Drama
UK|USA|Australia
2015
118 Minutes
Cate Blanchett Rooney Mara Sarah Paulson Jake Lacy John Magaro Cory Michael Smith Carrie Brownstein Kevin Crowley Nik Pajic Kyle Chandler
woman love interest divorcée romantic interest lover daughter mother photographer gay/lesbian emotional engaging endearing sad powerful tense united states manhattan new york new york city department store
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Drama
USA
1942
117 Minutes
Bette Davis Claude Rains Paul Henreid Gladys Cooper Bonita Granville John Loder Ilka Chase Lee Patrick Mary Wickes Janis Wilson
heiress mother architect wife child widower melodramatic emotional inspiring boston house sanatorium ship rio de janeiro mental illness rehabilitation romance travel mother/daughter relationship love
A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.
Drama
France
1998
113 Minutes
Élodie Bouchez Natacha Régnier Grégoire Colin Jo Prestia Patrick Mercado
seamstress club owner bouncer mother daughter boyfriend passionate tense spirited gritty lille, france sweatshop apartment nightclub hospital working class friendship sex bad choices female bonding
The lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
UK
1961
100 Minutes
teenager daughter mother sailor boyfriend gay/lesbian bleak emotional england household love friendship mother/daughter relationship emotional abuse pregnancy family dysfunction growing up love discovery 1960s
A pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support.
Comedy, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
2018
85 Minutes
Matthew Glave Emily Bett Rickards Jana Winternitz Nikki Limo Lily Holleman Jessica Diggins Aschleigh Jensen Pete Gardner Reginald VelJohnson Jacob Wysocki
older man daughter estranged father friend girlfriend tense amusing emotional shocking uneasy california wedding restaurant bar woods love triangle awkward situations love father/daughter relationship secret
A dramedy about a well-intentioned father who inadvertently wreaks havoc on the life of his estranged daughter when she invites him to her woodland wedding.
Drama
USA
2018
95 Minutes
Brett Dier Brooke Adams Piper Laurie Max Adler Emily Baldoni Shannon Collis Cathy DeBuono Emily Goss Christopher McVay Shana Sarin
matriarch daughter granddaughter husband grandmother love interest sultry emotional endearing moving touching house kitchen lake living room family love relationships friendship secret love
When a grandmother's secret past collides with her granddaughter's secret future and her daughter's angry present, can the love of three generations be enough to accept decades of deceit. With a simple roll of film it begins.
Drama
Spain
2018
93 Minutes
Zita Hanrot Clémence Boisnard Marie Denarnaud Christine Citti Pascal Reneric Michel Muller Ines Fehner Noémie Rosset Arnaud Azoulay Philippe Berodot Vincent Berger
drug addict psychologist friend therapist mother rehab patient sad inspiring intense emotional moving raw france drug addiction sobriety friendship rehabilitation freedom independence discovery
Based on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls.
Drama
USA
1999
119 Minutes
Ed Harris Anne Heche Armin Mueller-Stahl Charles Haid Michael Rispoli James Gallanders Jean-Louis Roux Ken James Caterina Scorsone Barbara Sukowa Bob Jarvis
priest bishop daughter atheist intense moving solemn emotional church chicago czechoslovakia roman catholicism faith doubt canonization desire mother/daughter relationship discovery transformation forbidden love
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood. During his investigation, the priest, who is experiencing a crisis of faith, re-discovers his own purpose in life.
Drama
USA
1944
111 Minutes
Anne Baxter Thomas Mitchell Selena Royle Ward Bond Bobby Driscoll Addison Richards Edward Ryan Trudy Marshall John Campbell James Cardwell John Alvin
brother soldier sister mother father wife emotional tense patriotic iowa household guadalcanal ship world war ii siblings death patriotism great depression u.s. navy rise
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are ... See full summary »
Drama
2018
135 Minutes
Virginie Efira Niels Schneider Jehnny Beth Estelle Lescure Coralie Russier Iliana Zabeth Catherine Morlot Ambre Hasaj Sasha Alessandri-Torrès Garcia
birth father single mother lover daughter inspiring heartwarming tender town flat france regret fling social issues estrangement failed romance absence forbidden love growing up love
A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.