20 movies like Stations of the Cross, ordered by similarity : American Wrestler: The Wizard(2016), The Human Comedy(1943), Uncommon(2014), Song for a Raggy Boy(2003), Lady Bird(2017), First Reformed(2017), The Browning Version(1994), Never Look Away(2018), The Godless Girl(1929), Carve Her Name With Pride(1958), Sky Without Stars(1955), Noëlle(2006) ...
Drama
Germany|France
2014
107 Minutes
Lucie Aron Anna Brüggemann Michael Kamp Moritz Knapp Birge Schade Florian Stetter Sven Taddicken Lea van Acken Franziska Weisz Georg Wesch Chiara Palmeri
young girl emotional school germany france catholic church faith transformation
Fourteen-year-old Maria is a fundamentalist Catholic, living her life in a modern fashion, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to be a saint and go to heaven. No one, not even a nice boy she meets, can stop her in this goal.
Drama
USA
2016
117 Minutes
Jon Voight William Fichtner Lia Marie Johnson George Kosturos Kevin G. Schmidt Gabriel Basso Shannon Collis Courtney Hope Turner Nicholas Guilak
high-school student wrestler hero school principal team member coach emotional engaging heartwarming inspiring moving touching small town california high school gym school bus wrestling new school new town
In 1980, a teenage boy escapes the unrest in Iran only to face more hostility in America, due to the hostage crisis. Determined to fit in, he joins the school's floundering wrestling team.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1943
118 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Frank Morgan James Craig Jackie "Butch" Jenkins Marsha Hunt Fay Bainter Darryl Hickman Donna Reed Van Johnson
young boy young girl boss man woman brother heartwarming emotional amusing small town house high school track office europe world war ii home front young love family communication
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Drama
USA
2014
106 Minutes
Erik Estrada Ben Davies Irma P. Hall Courtney Buck Jason Crabb Wesley Elder Lucas Smissen Stacey Bradshaw Kelsey Brooks Stephanie Bettcher
student actor school principal schoolteacher god inspiring heartwarming uplifting lighthearted moving school high school united states the bible acting school play religion faith god struggle
Jesus combined diverse people and assorted stories to change the world! Now, He wants to use you! When the students of Rosewood High School lose their theater, music and dance departments ... See full summary »
Drama
Ireland|UK|Denmark|Spain
2003
98 Minutes
Aidan Quinn Iain Glen Marc Warren Dudley Sutton Alan Devlin Stuart Graham John Travers Chris Newman
school principal schoolboy schoolteacher prefect irishman teacher friend rival bully intense sad emotional endearing ireland school teaching school abuse sadism courage
The true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.
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.
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
UK
1994
97 Minutes
Albert Finney Greta Scacchi Matthew Modine Julian Sands Michael Gambon Ben Silverstone Maryam d'Abo Jim Sturgess
husband wife teacher lover student schoolboy schoolteacher gripping engaging school england boarding school marriage career failed marriage affair education retirement transformation discovery
On the verge of forced resignation, a strict old-fashioned teacher rethinks his life.
Drama, History
Germany|Italy
2018
189 Minutes
Tom Schilling Sebastian Koch Paula Beer Saskia Rosendahl Oliver Masucci Ina Weisse Johannes Allmayer Florian Bartholomäi Lars Eidinger Ben Becker Jonas Dassler
artist doctor mental patient fugitive professor art student touching somber solemn profound inspiring moving east germany west germany nazi germany dresden, germany art school city art world war ii
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Drama
USA
1929
90 Minutes
Lina Basquette Marie Prevost Tom Keene Eddie Quillan Noah Beery
atheist christian best friend prison guard teen girl love interest unrestrained emotional united states high school countryside reform school faith jailbreak christianity riots redemption atheism love transformation
Two teenagers, one an atheist and the other a Christian, fall in love at a brutal reform school.
Drama, Biography, History
UK
1958
116 Minutes
Virginia McKenna Paul Scofield Jack Warner Denise Grey Alain Saury Maurice Ronet Anne Leon Sydney Tafler
spy woman man soldier husband daughter confident emotional engaging patriotic france england germany train concentration camp espionage war love death pursuit
During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
Drama, Romance
West Germany
1955
105 Minutes
Eva Kotthaus Erik Schumann Horst Buchholz Georg Thomalla Gustav Knuth Camilla Spira Erich Ponto Lucie Höflich Siegfried Lowitz Otto Wernicke Wolfgang Neuss
german woman son border patrol officer love interest great-grandmother emotional melodramatic engaging heartwarming passionate charming east germany germany west germany border mother/son relationship east/west clash family relationships father/son relationship
A border police officer helps a woman cross between West and East Germany with her son. Despite being increasingly united by love, the distance between them increases as border security tightens.
Romance, Other, Drama
2006
101 Minutes
David Wall Kerry Wall Sean Patrick Brennan Brennan Wall Jean Bates Curt Dewitz Dafydd Rees
priest pastor librarian man townsperson young girl dreamy endearing small town church coast catholicism financial crisis outsider community christmas faith discovery transformation 2000s
Shortly before Christmas, a dispassionate priest (David Wall) comes to shut down the church of a fishing village's dwindling parish, but he becomes entangled in the lives of the villagers.
Drama
USA
2003
132 Minutes
Busy Philipps Erika Christensen Victor Garber Holland Taylor Ken Jenkins James Pickens Jr.
high-school student teen girl murderer police officer murder suspect friend emotional profound gripping high school classroom hospital crime scene family home suspicion friendship recovery school shootings investigation coming of age
A high school shooting has repercussions on the town and students.
Drama
USA
2010
129 Minutes
Matt Damon Cécile de France Jay Mohr Bryce Dallas Howard Frankie McLaren George McLaren Thierry Neuvic Marthe Keller
brother psychic journalist death construction worker emotional thrilling london france united states household school deception survival absence exploration faith missing persons discovery pursuit
A drama centered on three people - a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy - who are touched by death in different ways.
Romance, Comedy, Drama
USA|Canada|Australia
2013
111 Minutes
Clive Owen Juliette Binoche Amy Brenneman Bruce Davison Keegan Connor Tracy Adam DiMarco Valerie Tian Eva Allan Janet Kidder David Lewis Josh Ssettuba
woman man teacher art teacher english teacher student brooding charming emotional intense moving quirky witty uplifting prep school school america competition love courtship
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Drama
USA
2018
101 Minutes
Tanner Stine Kristoffer Polaha Evan Hofer Kelsey Reinhardt Mario Van Peebles Mykelti Williamson Frances Fisher Jake McEntire Caleb Castille Caleb Emery Gianna Simone
football player high-school student brother coach nurse family member heartwarming emotional touching inspiring positive football field high school hospital track house athletic competition football injury love
Against the backdrop of high school football and track, two brothers in a small Southern town face escalating problems with two different world views, straining - but ultimately strengthening - the bonds of brotherhood.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
Australia
2016
124 Minutes
Lars Eidinger Adèle Haenel Hannah Herzsprung Jan Josef Liefers Sigrid Marquardt Djenabuh Jalloh Rolf Hoppe Bibiane Zeller Gerdy Zint Cornelius Schwalm Eva Löbau
man scientist wife jewish man young woman intern charming amusing emotional melodramatic witty heartwarming germany postwar germany history nazism secret family history holocaust discovery
A brilliant young psychiatrist is forced to confront the dark creature that dwells deep within her own unconscious when she investigates the supernatural disappearance of a university student.
Drama
France
1999
98 Minutes
Maud Forget Lou Doillon Micheline Presle Ariane Ascaride Robinson Stévenin Maxime Mansion Delphine Rich François Berléand Cyril Cagnat Dan Martin
high-school student friend boyfriend girlfriend teen girl teen boy emotional dark melodramatic hedonistic school party france nightclub sexual awakening friendship relationships first love loss of innocence prostitution
Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
90 Minutes
Uma Thurman Evan Rachel Wood Eva Amurri Brett Cullen Maggie Lacey John Magaro
student young girl best friend murder victim woman dead person charming powerful thrilling emotional melodramatic touching united states school small town high school shooting spree school shootings best friends murder
A woman's survivor's guilt from a Columbine-like event twenty years ago causes her present-day idyllic life to fall apart.
Drama
1931
90 Minutes
Hertha Thiele Dorothea Wieck Emilia Unda
teenager teacher student headmistress melodramatic emotional boarding school germany family home classroom homosexuality forbidden love scandal school growing up love 1930s
A student (Hertha Thiele) falls in love with her teacher (Dorothea Wieck) at a strict Prussian girls school.