Movies Like Ordinary Angels
If you liked Ordinary Angels (2024), a drama movie directed by Jon Gunn, 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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Fatima (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaIn 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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The Shack (2017)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaA grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called 'The Shack'.
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Breakthrough (2019)
★ 7.7/10Also dramaTragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, the 14-year-old boy continues to fight for his…
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Heaven Is for Real (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaAfter their young son, Colton, undergoes emergency surgery, small-town parents Todd and Sonja Burpo are overjoyed at the child's miraculous recovery. However, the Burpos are unprepared for what happens next... Colton…
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The Girl Who Believes in Miracles (2021)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaWhen Sara hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. Suddenly people in her town are mysteriously healed! But fame soon takes its toll – can Sara’s family save her before it’s too late?
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Sarah's Oil (2025)
★ 7.9/10Also dramaSarah Rector, a Black girl born in early 20th-century Oklahoma Indian Territory, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted, and her faith proves right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to…
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Soul on Fire (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaAfter a horrific accident leaves his body scarred, a young boy strives to live and show everyone what is possible with the help of his family, his faith, his community, his longtime idol's kindness, and the entire city…
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Fathers and Daughters (2015)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaA Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
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The Children Act (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaIn the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
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Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also dramaLed by Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, 22 families from a rural Black church in the small East Texas town of Possum Trot adopt 77 of the most difficult-to-place kids in the foster system and kickstart a movement in the…
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13 Minutes (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaAs a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter…
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Dad (1989)
★ 6.4/10Also dramaA busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the…
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2023)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaHarold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life…
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Mr. Church (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaA unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
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Sounder (1972)
★ 7.5/10Also dramaThe oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
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Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace (2020)
★ 8.4/10Also dramaSecond chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.
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Black or White (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also dramaA grieving widower is drawn into a custody battle over his granddaughter, whom he helped raise her entire life.
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Soul Surfer (2011)
★ 7/10Also dramaThe true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.
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A Home of Our Own (1993)
★ 7/10Also dramaIn 1960s Los Angeles an energetic widow and her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. They leave L.A. and head for the countryside, all the while facing numerous…
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You're Not You (2014)
★ 7.4/10Also dramaWhen an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a…