Movies like Here Below
If Here Below's mix of nun, french resistance and german occupation stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Here Below's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Innocents
2016 · Directed by Anne Fontaine · 115 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: nun · Also a French drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to…
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The Magdalene Sisters
2002 · Directed by Peter Mullan · 119 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: nun · Also drama and history
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928 · Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer · 81 min8.0
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and…
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Sister Act
1992 · Directed by Emile Ardolino · 100 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: nun, roman catholic church
When lively lounge singer Deloris sees her mobster beau commit murder, she is relocated for her protection. Set up in the guise of a nun in a California convent, she proceeds to upend the quiet lives of the resident…
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The Round Up
2010 · Directed by Roselyne Bosch · 115 min7.5
Why you'll like itAlso a French drama · From the same decade (2010s)
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
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Black Narcissus
1947 · Directed by Emeric Pressburger · 100 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: nun
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace.
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Dead Man Walking
1995 · Directed by Tim Robbins · 122 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: nun
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
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The Nun's Story
1959 · Directed by Fred Zinnemann · 151 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: nun
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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Doubt
2008 · Directed by John Patrick Shanley · 104 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: nun
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.