Movies Like The Prayer
If you liked The Prayer (2018), a drama movie directed by Cédric Kahn, 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.
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Dogville (2003)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.
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Father Stu (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaThe 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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The Baker (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never knew existed, and he is forced back…
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Echo Valley (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaKate lives a secluded life—until her troubled daughter shows up, frightened and covered in someone else's blood. As Kate unravels the shocking truth, she learns just how far a mother will go to try to save her child.
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8/10Also dramaThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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Ben Is Back (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also drama19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new…
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Bad Lieutenant (1992)
★ 7/10Also dramaWhile investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
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Road to Paloma (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaWhile Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with Cash, a down and out musician who is…
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Beautiful Boy (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also dramaAfter he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
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Less Than Zero (1987)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
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The Party Is Over (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaDespite their differences, Celeste and Sihem quickly become inseparable. The common will to get out of drugs seals their fusional friendship. This will be as much a force as an obstacle when, transferred from the…
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The Night Doctor (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaMikael is doctor on night call. It’s a vocation. Between two patient-visits in slum areas, he cares for those whom no one else wants to see: the drug addicts, the homeless… He rubs shoulders with destitution. His life…
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The Young One (1960)
★ 7/10Also dramaA jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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The Padre (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also dramaAmerican retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her…
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Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
★ 6/10Also dramaSatan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
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Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaAn urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
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The American (2010)
★ 6/10Also dramaDispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
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Dead Man Walking (1995)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaA 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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'R Xmas (2001)
★ 6.2/10Also dramaA New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.