Movies Like Sit with Me While I Die
If you liked Sit with Me While I Die (2025), a movie directed by Brian Russell, here are 19 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Father Stu (2022)
★ 7.1/10The 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 supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday…
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Priest (1995)
★ 6.3/10The 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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Dead Man Walking (1995)
★ 7.3/10A 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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Conclave (2024)
★ 7.2/10After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until…
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The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
★ 7.1/10A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area…
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Calvary (2014)
★ 7.1/10After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
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Novitiate (2017)
★ 6.5/10In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
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The Ritual (2025)
★ 5.8/10Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism.
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
★ 7.2/10Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to…
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Who's That Knocking at My Door (1968)
★ 6/10A 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 Passion of the Christ (2004)
★ 7.5/10A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.
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The Pelican Brief (1993)
★ 6.6/10A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
★ 6.6/10When a young girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer…
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The Girl Next Door (2007)
★ 6.7/10In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of…
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Immaculate (2024)
★ 6.2/10An American nun embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbours a sinister…
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The Proposition (1998)
★ 6/10Father 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…
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Fatima (2020)
★ 7.2/10In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World…
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Stigmata (1999)
★ 6.3/10A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's…
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In Cold Blood (1967)
★ 7.5/10After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.