Movies Like The Passion of Joan of Arc

If you liked The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), a drama and history movie directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, 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
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and history
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she…
2
The Third Miracle (1999)
★ 5.9/10Also drama
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...
3
The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and history
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. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the…
4
Dead Man Walking (1995)
★ 7.3/10Also 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.
5
Titus (1999)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and history
Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
6
Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)
★ 7/10Also history and 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.
7
Silence (2016)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and history
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
8
Truth & Treason (2025)
★ 8.1/10Also history and drama
In 1941 Nazi Germany, 16-year-old Helmuth Hübener begins questioning the regime after learning the truth about the war and seeing his Jewish friend persecuted. With two friends, he secretly listens to banned foreign…
9
Confirmation (2016)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and history
Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.
10
150 Milligrams (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.
11
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and history
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
12
Frances (1982)
★ 6.9/10Also drama
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
13
The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also drama
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
14
The Round Up (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and history
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
15
Agnes of God (1985)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex…
16
Miranda's Victim (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and history
The true story of Trish Weir who in 1963 was kidnapped and brutally raped by Ernesto Miranda. Committed to putting her assailant in prison, Trish’s life is destroyed by America’s legal system as she triggers a law that…
17
The 25th Hour (1967)
★ 7.6/10Also drama
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania…
18
The Rays and Shadows (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and history
Jean and Otto, a French newspaperman and a young German Francophile, are fighting for peace in Europe. Jean’s daughter, Corinne, is launching a brilliant acting career in the film world, but war breaks out and France…
19
You Don't Know Jack (2010)
★ 7/10Also drama and history
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
20
Clemency (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also drama
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job…