20 movies like The Nun, ordered by similarity : Carol(2015), The Song of Bernadette(1943), Boy Erased(2018), Viridiana(1961), An Easy Girl(2019), Little Sister(2016), The Magnificent Ambersons(1942), Fast Color(2018), Come Undone(2000), The Escape(2017), Happiness and Tears(2001), Lady Bird(2017) ...
Drama
1966
155 Minutes
Anna Karina Liselotte Pulver Micheline Presle Francine Bergé Christiane Lenier Yori Bertin Francisco Rabal
nun mother superior priest father mother lawyer bleak somber passionate dense france convent chapel village street hypocrisy patriarchy religion homosexuality parental pressure
Forced into a nunnery in 18th-century France, a woman (Anna Karina) becomes an object of lust and persecution there.
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
1943
156 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Charles Bickford Gladys Cooper William Eythe Vincent Price Lee J. Cobb Anne Revere Roman Bohnen
saint nun priest father mother emotional melodramatic passionate france church countryside spiritual visions saint bernadette christianity religion discovery transformation growing up 1850s
Based on the true story of a 19th-century peasant woman who claimed to see the Virgin Mary near her home in Lourdes.
Gay & Lesbian, Biography, Drama
Australia|USA
2018
115 Minutes
Lucas Hedges Nicole Kidman Joel Edgerton Russell Crowe Flea Joe Alwyn Xavier Dolan Troye Sivan Britton Sear Jesse LaTourette David Ditmore
gay man young man father mother therapist preacher emotional powerful somber uplifting house high school church office homosexuality homophobia family love religion self-discovery
The son of a Baptist preacher unwillingly participates in a church-supported gay conversion program after being forcibly outed to his parents.
Drama
Spain|Mexico
1961
90 Minutes
Silvia Pinal Francisco Rabal Fernando Rey Margarita Lozano Victoria Zinny Teresa Rabal Jose Manuel Martin Luis Heredia
nun mother superior uncle beggar benefactor shocking raw unrestrained disheartening spain estate seduction corruption religion guilt sex temptation fall forbidden love transformation
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Comedy, Drama
France
2019
88 Minutes
Benoît Magimel Clotilde Courau Henri-Noël Tabary Mina Farid Zahia Dehar Loubna Abidar Nuno Lopes
teen girl cousin teen boy mother intense inspiring melodramatic brooding passionate charming lake home jealousy puberty sexual identity sex death of mother love forbidden love temptation
Naima is 16 and lives in Cannes. She has given herself the summer to choose what she wants to do with her life. Then her cousin Sofia, with her alluring lifestyle, arrives to spend the holidays with her.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2016
91 Minutes
Addison Timlin Ally Sheedy Keith Poulson Peter Hedges Barbara Crampton Kristin Slaysman Molly Plunk Rhonda Hansome
nun mother father brother friend family member cheeky hilarious creative church convent north carolina house street car religion love acceptance self-confidence identity
Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, returning to her childhood home in Asheville NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters.
Drama
USA
1942
88 Minutes
Joseph Cotten Tim Holt Dolores Costello Anne Baxter Agnes Moorehead Richard Bennett Erskine Sanford J. Louis Johnson Don Dillaway Charles R. Phipps Dorothy Vaughan
wife mother son father carmaker aunt fascinating dense intense indiana mansion europe small town indianapolis family wealth aging love jealousy unrequited love
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi, Drama
USA
2018
100 Minutes
Gugu Mbatha-Raw Lorraine Toussaint Saniyya Sidney David Strathairn Christopher Denham Hannah Kauffmann Avery Akerson Levi Dylan Monique Straw Ramona King Richard L. Olsen
mother daughter grandmother cop sheriff scientist bleak brooding dreamy somber spirited desert cottage car small town family home on the run super powers apocalypse energy field
After years in hiding, a woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
Drama
France|Belgium
2000
97 Minutes
Jeremie Elkaim Stéphane Rideau Marie Matheron Dominique Reymond Laetitia Legrix Nils Ohlund Rejane Kerdaffrec Guy Houssier Violeta Ferrer Robert Darmel Marie-Claire Durand
teen boy lover mother homosexual father psychiatrist dreamy endearing engaging france beach summerhouse love homosexuality vacation meeting struggle forbidden love growing up 2000s
Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother's summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. A love-story begins between the two boys.
Drama
UK
2017
101 Minutes
Gemma Arterton Dominic Cooper Jalil Lespert Frances Barber Marthe Keller
mother father child teacher depressed person friend solemn tense emotional disheartening moving london house train station school yard depression escape marriage family
An ordinary woman makes an extraordinary decision which will change her life forever.
Comedy, Drama
2001
209 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Jaya Bhaduri Kajol Hrithik Roshan Kareena Kapoor Rani Mukherji Simone Singh Himani Shivpuri Shah Rukh Khan
adopted son patriarch mother son wife sister-in-law melodramatic emotional fiery spectacular bombay, india london mansion village parental pressure family honor father/son relationship class distinctions arranged marriage indian life
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.
Drama, Romance
1996
120 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Claire Danes Brian Dennehy John Alberto Leguizamo Pete Postlethwaite Paul Sorvino Diane Venora Harold Perrineau Paul Rudd Jesse Bradford Dash Mihok
romeo juliet mother father cousin suitor thrilling passionate outlandish sad california beach church mansion ballroom street young love family feud passion murder
Twentieth-century teenagers (Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes) fall in love, despite feuding families, in an update of the classic tragedy.
Drama
India
2010
Minutes
Rekha Hema Malini Rishi Kapoor Javed Sheikh Luv Sinha Ferena Wazir Shakeel Siddiqui
young man young woman mother father grandfather gripping intense powerful tense passionate india city village valley house train station religion religious beliefs religious traditions parenthood
A Hindu/Sikh family face challenges when their adopted son falls in love with a Muslim girl.
Drama
France|Poland|Switzerland
1993
97 Minutes
Juliette Binoche Benoît Régent Florence Pernel Hélène Vincent Philippe Volter Hugues Quester Emmanuelle Riva Julie Delpy Zbigniew Zamachowski Alain Decaux
widow friend exotic dancer mother journalist mistress touching dreamy sad passionate paris apartment nursing home hospital street france grief death starting over secrets
A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
2016
111 Minutes
Mahershala Ali Shariff Earp Alex Hibbert Ashton Sanders Trevante Rhodes Janelle Monáe Naomie Harris Jaden Piner Jharrel Jerome Andre Holland Edson Jean
young man gay man african-american mother father lover brooding emotional intense miami beach house street car school growing up homosexuality acceptance love trust
A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
Drama
UK
1960
111 Minutes
nun nazi priest jew child mother superior inspiring emotional somber suspenseful convent italy concentration camp world war ii holocaust resistance religion helping others faith rescue
Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.
Drama
Pakistan|France|Germany
2003
100 Minutes
Kiron Kher Aamir Malik Arshad Mahmud Salman Shahid Shilpa Shukla Sarfaraz Ansari Shazim Ashraf Navtej Johar Fariha Jabeen Adnan Shah Rehan Sheikh
widow mother son muslim fundamentalist radical dense moving gripping pakistan village islamic fundamentalism mother/son relationship coming of age religion village life politics transformation growing up 1970s
1979. A village in Pakistan. A widow sees her 17 years old son being attracted to Islamist militants. It brings her past back...
Drama
UK|Germany|Spain
2002
106 Minutes
Martin Compston William Ruane Annmarie Fulton Michelle Abercromby Michelle Coulter Gary McCormack Tommy McKee
teen boy stepfather mother grandfather prisoner drug dealer tense gutsy emotional greenock, scotland port city prison street house apartment imprisonment drugs ambition theft teenage rebellion
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Drama
UK
2017
95 Minutes
Siobhan Finneran Sacha Parkinson Molly Wright Robert Emms Steve Evets Aqib Khan Clare McGlinn James Quinn Jessica Baglow Wasim Zakir
jehovah's witnesses young woman mother daughter sister religious person moving gripping bleak united kingdom small town family home college religious gathering mother/daughter relationship religion pregnancy religious beliefs sibling relationship transformation
A faithful Jehovah's Witness is forced to shun her own sister because of a religious transgression. As the separation draws out, she starts to question the meaning of God's love.