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Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law st...
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The Scarlet Letter
Film · 1995 · also drama and romanceSet in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divul...
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Who's That Knocking at My Door
Film · 1968 · also drama and romanceA Catholic New Yorker falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her, but he struggles to accept her past and what it means for their future.
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The Third Miracle
Film · 1999 · also dramaThe Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
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Priest
Film · 1995 · also drama and romanceThe deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.
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The Safety of Objects
Film · 2002 · also dramaIn a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son...
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The Fugitive Kind
Film · 1960 · also drama and romanceVal Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is dying of cancer. Val i...
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Two for the Seesaw
Film · 1962 · also drama and romanceAfter leaving his wife, lawyer Jerry Ryan moves from Omaha, Nebraska to New York City to start a new life. While studying for the New York Bar Examination and working to...
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Jude
Film · 1996 · also drama and romanceIn late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unlovin...
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Holy Lands
Film · 2019 · also dramaWhen lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new...
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Clash by Night
Film · 1952 · also drama and romanceAn embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
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