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Movies Like A Time for Miracles

If you liked A Time for Miracles (1980), a drama and tv movie movie directed by Michael O'Herlihy, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Fatima

    Fatima (2020)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    In 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…

  2. 2Outlaws - For Greater Glory

    Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

  3. 3Girl in the Box

    Girl in the Box (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

  4. 4Mansfield Park

    Mansfield Park (2007)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and tv movie

    Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford

  5. 5The Nun's Story

    The Nun's Story (1959)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    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.

  6. 6TalhotBlond

    TalhotBlond (2012)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

  7. 7I Am Elizabeth Smart

    I Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie

    The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.

  8. 8The Wonder

    The Wonder (2022)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.

  9. 9Black Narcissus

    Black Narcissus (1947)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    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. They work to establish a school and a…

  10. 10Cheaters

    Cheaters (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

  11. 11The Song of Bernadette

    The Song of Bernadette (1943)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Massabielle grotto - the townspeople assume this lady to be the Virgin Mary. Pompous government officials think the girl…

  12. 12The Left Hand of God

    The Left Hand of God (1955)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics…

  13. 13Anne of Green Gables

    Anne of Green Gables (2016)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and tv movie

    Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and…

  14. 14Won't Back Down

    Won't Back Down (2012)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken school and ensure a bright future for…

  15. 15Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

  16. 16Bad Sister

    Bad Sister (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also tv movie

    As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a…

  17. 17Doubt

    Doubt (2008)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.

  18. 18The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

    The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal…

  19. 19The Christmas Shoes

    The Christmas Shoes (2002)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie

    Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second…

  20. 20Novitiate

    Novitiate (2017)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    In 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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