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

1. The Name of the Rose (1986)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin

Votes: 117,826 | Gross: $7.15M

2. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

R | 147 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.

Director: Tom Tykwer | Stars: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Francesc Albiol

Votes: 266,437 | Gross: $2.22M

3. Agora (2009)

R | 127 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.

Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom

Votes: 73,183 | Gross: $0.62M

4. The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

R | 97 min | Horror, Romance

Horror film set in 1492 Toledo, Spain, depicting the cruel deeds of a monk named Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.

Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William Norris, Mark Margolis

Votes: 5,491 | Gross: $0.00M

5. Box of Moonlight (1996)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama

An engineer finds his first gray hair, takes 6 days off from wife, son and work, rents a car and meets different people.

Director: Tom DiCillo | Stars: John Turturro, Sam Rockwell, Catherine Keener, Lisa Blount

Votes: 6,069 | Gross: $0.72M

6. L'Age d'Or (1930)

Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Drama

A surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Caridad de Laberdesque, Max Ernst

Votes: 14,847 | Gross: $0.03M

7. Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004)

R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Pierre Niemans faces the threat of the apocalypse while investigating a series of ritual murders.

Director: Olivier Dahan | Stars: Jean Reno, Benoît Magimel, Christopher Lee, Camille Natta

Votes: 21,740

8. The Pied Piper (1972)

G | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

In 1349, while the Black Plague threatens Germany, the town of Hamelin hires a wandering pied piper (Donovan) to lure rats away with his magic pipe, but then refuses to pay for his services, causing him to lure the town's children away.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Keith Buckley, Patsy Puttnam, Arthur Hewlett, Paul Hennen

Votes: 918

9. White Teeth (2002– )

240 min | Drama, Comedy

The lives of three families are woven together across three decades in multi-cultural Britain.

Stars: Om Puri, Phil Davis, Naomie Harris, Archie Panjabi

Votes: 781

10. Delhi-6 (2009)

Not Rated | 141 min | Drama

In the ancient walled city of Delhi, an American-born Indian finds himself on an unexpected inner journey as he learns about himself and his roots.

Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | Stars: Waheeda Rehman, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonam Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor

Votes: 8,437 | Gross: $0.88M

11. The Judge and the Assassin (1976)

128 min | Crime, Drama, History

An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Claude Brialy

Votes: 2,335

12. Run, Man, Run (1968)

Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Western

A knife-wielding Mexican ne'er-do-well is tasked by a scholar with locating $3 million in revolutionary gold, and finds himself working and competing with various parties for it.

Director: Sergio Sollima | Stars: Tomas Milian, Donald O'Brien, Linda Veras, Marco Guglielmi

Votes: 2,022

13. Hadewijch (2009)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

A young nun is expelled from a convent because of her extreme devoutness and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.

Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Julie Sokolowski, Karl Sarafidis, Yassine Salime, David Dewaele

Votes: 2,123 | Gross: $0.00M

14. Plymouth Adventure (1952)

Passed | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Trials and tribulations beset the one hundred odd settlers that journey to Virginia in 1620 including unexpectedly arriving in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, Leo Genn

Votes: 1,662

15. Albino Farm (2009)

R | 90 min | Horror

College students exploring the Ozark Mountains for a school assignment, stumble upon a group of scary, redneck cave-dwellers.

Director: Joe Anderson | Stars: Tammin Sursok, Chris Jericho, Richard Christy, Duane Whitaker

Votes: 1,566

16. The Agronomist (2003)

PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The true story of Jean Dominique, a Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist.

Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jean Dominique, Aboudja, Ronald Reagan

Votes: 1,011 | Gross: $0.23M

17. Time of Miracles (1989)

98 min | Drama, Mystery

In September 1945, a fire burns down the school and the new Communist authorities get into the church, hang the flag of the Communist Party, and paint over frescoes--which miraculously restore themselves.

Director: Goran Paskaljevic | Stars: Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Dragan Maksimovic, Mirjana Karanovic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic

Votes: 591

18. Um Filme Falado (2003)

Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Lisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.

Director: Manoel de Oliveira | Stars: Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida, John Malkovich, Catherine Deneuve

Votes: 2,095 | Gross: $0.01M

19. God Loves Uganda (2013)

TV-14 | 83 min | Documentary

An account of the American Evangelicals' attempts to indoctrinate their Christian Right beliefs in Uganda.

Director: Roger Ross Williams

Votes: 1,257 | Gross: $0.05M

20. Maangamizi: The Ancient One (2001)

110 min | Drama

An American woman doctor comes to Tanzania to work at a hospital for the mentally disturbed, with her Tanzanian lover. There, she meets a sometimes catatonic patient, Samahe, who seems to ... See full summary »

Directors: Martin Mhando, Ron Mulvihill | Stars: Barbara O, Amandina Lihamba, Samahani Kejeri, Waigwa Wachira

Votes: 80

21. The White Darkness (2002)

52 min | Documentary, History

Voodoo in modern-day Haiti.

Director: Richard Stanley

Votes: 155

22. The First Vision (1976)

Not Rated | 15 min | Drama, Short

In 1820, 14 year-old Joseph Smith is confused about what church is true.

Director: David K. Jacobs | Stars: Stewart Petersen, Lethe Tatge, Francis L. Urry

Votes: 85

23. Les camisards (1972)

100 min | Drama, History, War

King Louis XIV orders all Protestants to convert to Catholicism.

Director: René Allio | Stars: Rufus, Jacques Debary, Gérard Desarthe, Philippe Clévenot

Votes: 244

24. Rocío (1980)

80 min | Documentary

The film shows the genesis of the El Rocío pilgrimage and unveils the economic, socio-political and religious reasons and interests that nurture the phenomenon.

Director: Fernando Ruiz Vergara | Stars: José Aragón Domínguez, Manuel Caballero, Eloisa María de las Damas Moreno, Miguel Díaz Gil

Votes: 57

25. El caso Rocío (2013)

75 min | Documentary

'The Rocío affair' narrates the making, prosecution and persecution of the film 'Rocío', directed by Fernando Ruiz Vergara and released in 1980, which has gone down in history as the first ... See full summary »

Director: José Luis Tirado | Stars: Fernando Ruiz Vergara, Ana Vila, Victor Estevão, Isidoro Moreno

26. 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

27. On the Wire (1990)

85 min | Drama

This bleak and claustrophobic chamber piece traced the breakdown of the marriage between an Afrikaner soldier and his wife after the terrible revelations about his work activities.

Director: Elaine Proctor | Stars: Michael O'Brien, Aletta Bezuidenhout, Gys de Villiers, Laurens Seliye

Votes: 13

28. The Cross and the Flame (1957)

79 min | Drama

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Director: Armand Lohikoski | Stars: Tauno Palo, Anneli Sauli, Tarmo Manni, Edvin Laine

Votes: 59

29. Derren Brown: Messiah (2005 TV Special)

65 min | Documentary

Derren Brown takes on a number of fake identities as he travels across the USA trying to convince people of his abilities in the area of psychic powers and the supernatural world.

Director: Tim Knight | Stars: Derren Brown, Lorraine DiFelice, Ann Druffel, Abby Haydon

Votes: 456

30. Julian Fellowes Investigates: A Most Mysterious Murder (2004–2005)
Episode: The Case of Rose Harsent (2005)

60 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama

Julian Fellowes examines the 1902 murder of servant girl Rose Harsent, a devout member of a Methodist chapel, who was six months pregnant when stabbed to death.

Director: Dominic Santana | Stars: Julian Fellowes, Gavin Abbott, Christina Cole, Michael Elwyn

Votes: 102

31. Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends (1998–2000)
Episode: Televangelists (1998)

Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary

Louis visits Texas and to meet some born again Christians. He drops in on TV evangelists Marcus Lamb and his wife Joni. He also goes preaching with a Christian cult called The Family.

Director: Daniel Elias | Stars: Louis Theroux, Randy James, Joni Lamb, Marcus Lamb

Votes: 299

32. 1899 (2022)
Episode: The Fight (2022)

TV-MA | 49 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Several crew members and passengers search the ship for the boy after locking up the captain, Olek, Jerome and Ramiro . Krester's secret is revealed.

Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau

Votes: 4,484

33. Brief History of Disbelief (2004– )
Episode: Shadows of Doubt (2004)

59 min | Documentary

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Director: Richard Denton | Stars: Pascal Boyer, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Bernard Hill

Votes: 18

34. The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
White Male Republican Bravely Comes Out as a Transracial Lesbian Woman of Color (2023 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

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Star: Matt Walsh