Films like Novitiate

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   The Magdalene Sisters

   Film · 2002 · also drama

   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 Miseducation of Cameron Post

   Film · 2018 · also drama

   Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother...

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3. 3

   The Third Miracle

   Film · 1999 · also drama

   The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...

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4. 4

   Father Stu

   Film · 2022 · also drama

   The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a...

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5. 5

   The Starling Girl

   Film · 2023 · also drama

   17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to the...

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6. 6

   Dead Man Walking

   Film · 1995 · also drama

   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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7. 7

   The Baby of Mâcon

   Film · 1993 · also drama

   In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. Th...

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   Cracks

   Film · 2009 · also drama

   Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

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   Pretty Baby

   Film · 1978 · also drama

   In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.

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10. 10

    Blue Jean

    Film · 2023 · also drama

    Jean, a PE teacher, is forced to live a double life. When a new student arrives and threatens to expose her sexuality, Jean is pushed to extreme lengths to keep her job a...

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