Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "religious-upbringing"

1. The Devil's Advocate (1997)

R | 144 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

An exceptionally-adept Florida lawyer is offered a job at a high-end New York City law firm with a high-end boss--the biggest opportunity of his career to date.

Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones

Votes: 403,381 | Gross: $60.98M

2. Ken Park (2002)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama

Ken Park is about several Californian skateboarders' lives and relationships with and without their parents.

Directors: Larry Clark, Edward Lachman | Stars: Adam Chubbuck, James Bullard, Seth Gray, Eddie Daniels

Votes: 30,855

3. Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)

PG | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends.

Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Eva Marie Saint, Cicely Tyson

Votes: 12,722 | Gross: $32.65M

4. A Place in the Sun (1951)

Passed | 122 min | Drama, Romance

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

Director: George Stevens | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters, Anne Revere

Votes: 24,866

5. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)

R | 97 min | Drama

Seven-year-old Jeremiah is pulled from his foster home and thrown into a troubled life on the road with his teenage mother, Sarah.

Director: Asia Argento | Stars: Asia Argento, Dylan Sprouse, Cole Sprouse, Jimmy Bennett

Votes: 7,153 | Gross: $0.03M

6. Son of Rambow (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

During a long English summer in the early 1980s, two schoolboys from differing backgrounds set out to make a film inspired by First Blood (1982).

Director: Garth Jennings | Stars: Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jessica Hynes, Anna Wing

Votes: 33,002 | Gross: $1.78M

7. Going All the Way (1997)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After returning home from the Korean War, two young men search for love and fulfillment in middle America.

Director: Mark Pellington | Stars: Jeremy Davies, Ben Affleck, Amy Locane, Rose McGowan

Votes: 2,166 | Gross: $0.09M

8. The Curse (1987)

R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.

Director: David Keith | Stars: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare, Cooper Huckabee

Votes: 3,898 | Gross: $1.93M

9. Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015)

Unrated | 87 min | Drama

Preacher's kid Henry Gamble is turning 17 today. Bring your swimsuit.

Director: Stephen Cone | Stars: Cole Doman, Joe Keery, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Pat Healy

Votes: 3,383

10. Jesus Camp (2006)

PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary

A documentary on kids who attend a summer camp hoping to become the next Billy Graham.

Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady | Stars: Mike Papantonio, Lou Engle, Becky Fischer, Ted Haggard

Votes: 28,810 | Gross: $0.90M

11. Deep in the Heart (1983)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama

Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission.

Director: Tony Garnett | Stars: Karen Young, Clayton Day, Suzie Humphreys, Helena Humann

Votes: 431

12. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989–1990)

165 min | Drama

Jessica, raised in a fanatical cult, endures brainwashing until her forbidden relationship with Melanie opens her eyes. They face cruel treatment for their 'unnatural' bond, but Jessica's spirit overcomes the oppressive teachings.

Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Elizabeth Spriggs, Freda Dowie, Peter Gordon

Votes: 1,121

13. Vedettes al desnudo (2003)

77 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A story of revenge, murder and violence in the gray streets of Lima.

Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Wilmer Ato, Juana Judith Bustos, Azucena Del Río, Susy Díaz

Votes: 19

14. Devil's Playground (2002)

77 min | Documentary

Amish teenagers experience and embrace the modern world as a rite-of-passage before deciding which life they will choose.

Director: Lucy Walker | Stars: Velda Bontrager, Mark Bontrager, Dewayne Chupp, Dylan Cole

Votes: 2,703

15. Mi crimen al desnudo (2001)

91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

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Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Maribel Alarcon, Julio Berrocal, Juana Judith Bustos, Susy Díaz

Votes: 13

16. Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993 TV Movie)

96 min | Crime, Drama

The story of the notorious American mass murderer who killed his entire immediate family to hide his personal failures and hid for decades before he was finally arrested.

Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Robert Blake, Beverly D'Angelo, David Caruso, Melinda Dillon

Votes: 258

17. These Girls (2005)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

During their summer between high school and college, three girls blackmail a slightly older hunk into having sex with them.

Director: John Hazlett | Stars: Caroline Dhavernas, Jacques Girard, Holly Lewis, Amanda Walsh

Votes: 1,610

18. New Waterford Girl (1999)

TV-PG | 97 min | Comedy

A gifted teenager dreaming of life beyond her small town becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.

Director: Allan Moyle | Stars: Liane Balaban, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Mary Walsh, Nicholas Campbell

Votes: 1,870 | Gross: $0.77M

19. Spider (1992)

98 min | Drama, Horror

A young woman agrees to model for an artist as Virgin Mary. His strange influence triggers her repressed sexual urges causing her to have delusions and nightmares about spiders and other grotesque imagery.

Director: Vasili Mass | Stars: Aurelija Anuzhite, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Algirdas Paulavicius, Mirdza Martinsone

Votes: 394

20. Half-Life (2008)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

As troubling signs of global cataclysms accelerate, a brother and sister react to their father's desertion and the powerful presence of their mother's new boyfriend.

Director: Jennifer Phang | Stars: Sanoe Lake, Julia Nickson, Leonardo Nam, Ben Redgrave

Votes: 522

21. The Torrent (2012)

152 min | Drama, Family, History

A young man, born out of wedlock to his abusive mother Claudine, whose hopes he will become a priest are dashed when he refuses to enter the seminary.

Director: Simon Lavoie | Stars: Victor Andres Turgeon-Trelles, Laurence Leboeuf, Dominique Quesnel, Anthony Therrien

Votes: 128

22. Kidnapped for Christ (2014)

Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Drama, News

A young evangelical filmmaker is granted unprecedented access inside a controversial Christian behavior modification program for troubled teens, where she discovers shocking secrets and young students that change her life.

Director: Kate Logan | Stars: David Wernsman, Tai Mathieu, Kate Logan, Dan Anderson

Votes: 1,034

23. Letting Go of God (2008)

130 min | Documentary

Letting Go of God is a humorous monologue by Julia Sweeney chronicling her search for God. She begins in the Catholic church, the religion her family raised her in, and takes a Bible study ... See full summary »

Director: Julia Sweeney

Votes: 690

24. Join Us (2007)

Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary

Award winning filmmaker, Ondi Timoner, follows four families as they leave an abusive church in South Carolina and realize they have been in a cult. The film documents them as they enter ... See full summary »

Director: Ondi Timoner | Stars: Raymund Melz, Deborah Melz, Joaquin Sullivan, Liz Shaw

Votes: 148

25. Trembling Before G-d (2001)

Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary

A cinematic portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.

Director: Sandi Simcha Dubowski | Stars: Shlomo Ashkinazy, Steve Greenberg, Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Naomi Mark

Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.62M

26. Outcast (1990 Video)

95 min | Horror

Consumed by hatred, recruited by the devil, a loner is given the power to destroy.

Director: Roman Buchok | Stars: John Tench, Peter Read, Tracey Hoyt, Paul Amato

Votes: 53

27. Amoureuses (2019)

75 min | Documentary

For the first time, cloistered sisters agreed to let themselves be filmed for a year. The encounter and living witness of faith and humanity of these consecrated women is carried out in a singular way.

Director: Louise Sigouin | Stars: Marie-Thérèse Miville Deschênes, Marie du Sacré-Coeur, Thérèse Dufresne, Marthe Gaucher

28. The Disintegration (2011)

78 min | Drama

A realistic description of unemployed young Muslims who live in the french suburbs, lost generation ostracized by the racism which slowly push them to the Muslim extremism.

Director: Philippe Faucon | Stars: Rashid Debbouze, Yassine Azzouz, Ymanol Perset, Mohamed Nachit

Votes: 313

29. The Lord's Boot Camp (2008 TV Movie)

Documentary

This special takes an unprecedented look at three teenagers training to become Christian missionaries while also dealing with the pressures that teens face daily. They attend a grueling ... See full summary »

Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Rob Klug | Star: Harold Dow

Votes: 13

30. Tongues

Comedy | Announced

A Los Angeles artist with a sex addiction recalls her childhood as a Holy Roller

31. Masters of Darkness (2002– )
Episode: Aleister Crowley: The Wickedest Man in the World (2002)

50 min | Documentary

Famous for his occult writings, founder of the religion of Thelema, which became adopted by the Ordo Templis Orientis (O.T.O.) as well as the magical order Argenteum Astrum, the Order of the Silver Star.

Director: Neil Rawles | Stars: Brian Cox, Aleister Crowley, Gavin Baddeley, Colin Wilson

Votes: 178

32. The Art Mysteries (2020– )
Episode: Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear by Vincent Van Gogh (2020)

29 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear is one of his most famous works of art. However, hidden inside the painting is a startling secret, a steamy tale of geishas, brothels, bullfights, broken love and artistic jealousy.

Star: Waldemar Januszczak

Votes: 15

33. The Andy Warhol Diaries (2022)
Episode: Smoke Signals (2022)

Unrated | Documentary, Biography

Art offers an opening for expression and reinvention as Andy rises from grim Pittsburgh origins to become an innovative force in the New York art world.

Director: Andrew Rossi | Stars: Andy Warhol, Bill Irwin, Alan Wanzenberg, Andre Walker

Votes: 166

34. UnREAL (2015–2018)
Episode: Truth (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama

The crew heads to Mississippi for Faith's hometown date with Adam; Rachel makes a discovery.

Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Shiri Appleby, Craig Bierko, Freddie Stroma, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Votes: 320