20 movies like The Nun, ordered by similarity : The Nun(1966), Conversations With My Gardener(2007), 99 Homes(2014), Ponette(1996), Save the Tiger(1973), I Am Love(2009), The Silences of the Palace(1994), The Good Girls(1960), The Ballad of Little Jo(1993), Japanese Story(2003), Rosita(1923), Flame of the Islands(1955) ...
Drama
2013
111 Minutes
Pauline Etienne Isabelle Huppert Louise Bourgoin Martina Gedeck Françoise Lebrun Agathe Bonitzer Alice De Lencquesaing Gilles Cohen Marc Barbé
mother superior young woman disheartening powerful france convent religion atonement sin transformation 18th century
A young woman (Pauline Etienne) learns that she is an illegitimate child and must atone for her mother's sins by becoming a nun.
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.
Comedy, Drama
2007
109 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Jean-Pierre Darroussin Fanny Cottençon Alexia Barlier
painter gardener artist former classmate man friend amusing heartwarming charming uplifting lighthearted melodramatic france paris rural community countryside garden lake friendship relationships
Drama
USA
2014
110 Minutes
Andrew Garfield Michael Shannon Laura Dern Tim Guinee Noah Lomax Clancy Brown J.D. Evermore Judd Lormand Cullen Moss John L. Armijo Nicole Barré
businessman single father contractor unemployed person man tenant bleak dark gripping intense thrilling disheartening abandoned house united states florida house suburb road unemployment eviction
A recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his frustration.
Comedy, Drama
France
1996
97 Minutes
Victoire Thivisol Marie Trintignant Xavier Beauvois Claire Nebout Matiaz Bureau Caton Delphine Schiltz Aurélie Vérillon Léopoldine Serre Henri Berthon Carla Ibled Luckie Royer
child mother father friend aunt somber emotional powerful france small town school death afterlife accident childhood religion superstition discovery growing up transformation
A four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.
Drama
USA
1973
100 Minutes
Jack Lemmon Jack Gilford Laurie Heineman Normann Burton Patricia Smith Thayer David William Hansen Harvey Jason Liv Von Linden Lara Parker Eloise Hardt
business owner business partner designer wife hippie arsonist bleak disheartening los angeles office family home movie theater car business failure arson disillusionment marriage post-traumatic stress disorder transformation
A disillusioned war veteran has two days to let go of his shaken morals if he wants his small fashion company to survive.
Romance, Drama
Italy
2009
119 Minutes
Tilda Swinton Flavio Parenti Edoardo Gabbriellini Alba Rohrwacher Pippo Delbono Maria Paiato Diane Fleri Gabriele Ferzetti Marisa Berenson Mattia Zaccaro Waris Ahluwalia
grandfather businessman son chef mother immigrant emotional gripping intense melodramatic milan, italy nice, france restaurant seaside cathedral london wealth family business family bloodline affair
Emma left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
Drama
China|Hong Kong
1994
128 Minutes
Amel Hedhili Hend Sabry Najia Ouerghi Ghalia Lacroix Kamel Fazaa Sami Bouajila Hichem Rostom Helene Catzaras Sonia Meddeb Mechket Krifa Kamel Touati
young woman mother singer servant prince widow moving powerful tunis, tunisia palace childhood home family home memory coming of age oppression family history class distinctions colonialism transformation discovery
A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of ... See full summary »
Drama
France|Italy
1960
105 Minutes
Bernadette Lafont Lucile Saint-Simon Clotilde Joano Stéphane Audran Mario David Jean-Louis Maury Sacha Briquet Dinan
single woman woman saleswoman man love interest lover amusing cheeky engaging dreamy heartwarming lighthearted paris france relationships love work destiny saleswomen love interest
A feud between families in 1870's rural France.
Drama, History
USA
1993
124 Minutes
Suzy Amis Bo Hopkins Ian McKellen David Chung Carrie Snodgress Rene Auberjonois Heather Graham
young woman stableman shepherd wife laborer businessman powerful solemn offbeat brutal montana small town cross-dressing gender identity old west misogyny secret unwanted pregnancy transformation growing up
After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
Drama, Romance
Australia
2003
105 Minutes
Toni Collette Gotaro Tsunashima Matthew Dyktynski Lynette Curran Yumiko Tanaka Kate Atkinson John Howard Bill Young Reg Evans George Shevtsov Justine Clarke
business owner woman businessman australian japanese man relaxing dreamy quirky office desert australia culture clash adultery stranded interracial romance business work love discovery temptation
Against the background of an Australian desert, Sandy, a geologist, and Hiromitsu, a Japanese businessman, play out a story of human inconsequence in the face of the blistering universe. ... See full summary »
Drama, Romance
USA
1923
96 Minutes
Mary Pickford Holbrook Blinn Irene Rich George Walsh Charles Belcher Frank Leigh Mathilde Comont George Periolat Bert Sprotte Snitz Edwards Madame De Bodamere
young woman singer king spanish woman boyfriend mother amusing emotional seville, spain kingdom jail family home redemption poverty class distinctions love triangle protest courtship quest love
Rosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King.
Drama
USA
1955
90 Minutes
Yvonne De Carlo Howard Duff Zachary Scott Kurt Kaszner Barbara O'Neil James Arness Frieda Inescort Lester Matthews Donald Curtis Nick Stewart
secretary singer casino owner business partner romantic interest romantic rival intricate engaging passionate nassau, bahamas casino casinos romantic dilemma high society forbidden love love quest rivalry 20th century
The story of a café singer who buys a gambling casino, and the men who fall in love with her.
Drama
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson Kay Francis Genevieve Tobin Robert Barrat Murray Kinnell Robert McWade J. Farrell MacDonald Henry Kolker
business owner theodore roosevelt mother wife opera singer socialite melodramatic passionate emotional athens, greece stockyard apartment courtroom family home chicago fraud love triangle infidelity family business failing marriage
Art student John Hayden interrupts his studies in Greece to head his father's meat packing business on his father's death. He marries social climber Martha who taunts him for his ideals ... See full summary »
Comedy, Adventure, Drama
France|India|Belgium|Singapore|USA
2018
92 Minutes
Dhanush Bérénice Bejo Erin Moriarty Barkhad Abdi Gérard Jugnot Ben Miller Abel Jafri Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse
artist mother young woman indian american magician emotional amusing inspiring creative charming heartwarming mumbai, india paris closet village city home family history death of mother
Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure.
Comedy, Drama
Canada|USA
2000
95 Minutes
Cybill Shepherd Peter Outerbridge Alexandra Purvis Gabrielle Miller Michael Hogan
lounge singer mother boyfriend daughter young woman teen girl somber disheartening emotional canada nightclub household midlife crisis family dysfunction divorce alcoholism career aging fall transformation
Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. June is trying to hold on to her career, her beauty, her children and her most recent ... See full summary »
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy, Drama
USA
1978
103 Minutes
Alan Alda Jane Fonda Maggie Smith Michael Caine Bill Cosby Walter Matthau Elaine May Richard Pryor Gloria Gifford Sheila Frazier Herbert Edelman
mother father businessperson actress gay/lesbian doctor airy amusing lighthearted los angeles beverly hills hotel divorce infidelity homosexuality show business competition prostitution transformation quest 1970s
Misadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Drama
USA
2014
83 Minutes
Cameron Deane Stewart Savannah McReynolds Roark Critchlow Jillian Clare John J. York Brennan Bailey Preston Bailey Kc Guyer
family mother father son daughter christian sibling business owner emotional inspiring moving powerful profound positive youth center faith family relationships religion devotion tragedy
From a meager beginning to owning a thriving air charter service, the Taylors devoted their lives to their children Chris (Cameron Deane Stewart) and Grace (Savannah McReynolds). Raising ... See full summary »
Drama
Nigeria|UK
2013
113 Minutes
Thandie Newton Chiwetel Ejiofor Anika Noni Rose Joseph Mawle Hakeem Kae-Kazim John Boyega Babou Ceesay Genevieve Nnaji Robert Davide O.C. Ukeje Ayo Lijadu
husband wife sister man woman political activist academic emotional gripping rousing powerful nigeria family home west africa war zone political activism political unrest sister relationship marriage identity
Sisters Olanna and Kainene return home to 1960s Nigeria, where they soon diverge on different paths. As civil war breaks out, political events loom larger than their differences as they join the fight to establish an independent republic.
Comedy, Drama
2016
118 Minutes
Omar Sy Clémence Poésy Gloria Colston Antoine Bertrand Ashley Walters Clémentine Célarié Anna Cottis Raphael Von Blumenthal
man love child love interest mother single father daughter emotional engaging endearing witty moving amusing paris france london england beach flat abandoned baby abandonment
A man's life is turned upside down when an old flame leaves a child on his doorstep, claiming it is his. He moves to London and raises the child by himself.
War, Drama
Germany
1930
90 Minutes
Fritz Kampers Gustav Diessl Claus Clausen Gustav Püttjer Jackie Monnier Hanna Hoessrich Else Heller Aribert Mog Vladimir Sokoloff
lieutenant student soldier wife mother friend brooding dark disheartening somber france trenches battlefield village germany world war i horrors of war disillusionment death military life
A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.