Movies like Paradise Lost
The best movies like Paradise Lost are The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Jacob (1994) and All That Money Can Buy (1941). If Paradise Lost hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Paradise Lost
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- Highest ratedJesus (1979)8.3/10 from 258 votes
- NewestEmpathy with Satan (2026)Released 2026
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJacob (1994)
Isaac's son Jacob deprives his brother Esau of his birthright and has to flee for his life. He finds shelter with his uncle Laban, but is himself deceived. Finally, Jacob has to face both his uncle and brother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll That Money Can Buy (1941)
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his debts and helps many neighboring farmers, then becomes an advocate for the upstanding Sen. Daniel Webster. When Jabez's contract with Mr. Scratch concludes, he desperately turns to Webster to represent him in a trial for his soul.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGod's Not Dead (2014)
After he refuses to disavow his faith, a devout Christian student must prove the existence of God or else his college philosophy professor will fail him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbraham (1993)
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God even when He seems to have abandoned him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJoseph: King of Dreams (2000)
In this animated retelling of the story from the Bible's Book of Genesis, Joseph's gift of dream interpretation and his brilliantly colored coat inspires jealousy in his brothers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDo You Believe? (2015)
When a pastor is shaken by the visible faith of a street-corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a journey that impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Return (2024)
After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJesus (1999)
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrailty (2002)
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAvalon High (2011)
Elaine "Ellie" Harrison has just moved from Minnesota to Annapolis, Maryland while her parents take a year-long sabbatical to continue their medieval studies in nearby Washington D.C. Her new high school, Avalon High, seems like a typical high school with the stereotypical students: Lance the jock, Jennifer the cheerleader, Marco, the bad boy/desperado, and Will, the senior class president, quarterback, and all around good guy. But not everyone at Avalon High is who they appear to be, not even Ellie herself. Eventually, it becomes apparent that Avalon High is a situation where the ancient Arthurian legend is repeating itself.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Satan (2017)
A young rock band, half from England and half from the US, drop out of college and move to the Sunset Strip to chase their dreams.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJesus (1979)
Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisHeaven Is for Real (2014)
After 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 says that during his surgery he went to heaven and back, and tells his parents things that he couldn't possibly know. Can Todd find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDavid (2025)
From the songs of his mother’s heart to the whispers of a faithful God, David’s story begins in quiet devotion. When the giant Goliath rises to terrorize a nation, a young shepherd armed with only a sling, a few stones, and unshakable faith steps forward. Pursued by power and driven by purpose, his journey tests the limits of loyalty, love, and courage—culminating in a battle not just for a crown, but for the soul of a kingdom.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Lorax (1972)
The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax about the environmental destruction caused by his greed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLight of My Life (2019)
Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFinch (2021)
On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOutlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn the Blink of an Eye (2026)
Three storylines, spanning thousands of years, intersect and reflect on hope, connection, and the circle of life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDrink and Be Merry (2025)
At a struggling New York dive bar in the days leading up to Christmas 2019, Chet, a beleaguered bartender in a state of extended arrested development, must balance caring for his misanthropic, aging regulars — who have nowhere else to go, and rely on him for far more than pouring drinks — with his naive desires to muster some Christmas spirit.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Empathy with Satan (2026)
A young man, isolated by the traditional dynamics of society, accidentally meets a figure who will remind him, and in his image, humanity, of the roots of his identity. Over time, this acquaintance turns from a mere personal connection into a deep and complex struggle between dictated myths and reality, freedom and tradition.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Great White Throne Judgment (TBA)
Follows a group of bikers who run a small town through a drug and human trafficking trade; a preacher who lost his way; and a pre-med student who has a dark secret. Angels watch them trying to direct them on to a noble path.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Howl Coyote Howl (TBA)
After a bloody exchange with some bounty hunters, Anna, a veteran of the War in Afghanistan, and Gloria, her ill-prepared God-fearing friend, team up with a pair of coyotes to escape into Mexico.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood (1986)
Faustus is a clerk in St. John's at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada. In the real world, Faustus' boss Eddie Peddle plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with a cult-like geometric theory known as Total Education, but Peddle may be foiled by the revelation of a secret from his past career.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Karo und der liebe Gott (2006)
On the day of Karo's first communion, her parents' marital problems come to light. The ensuing separation hits her hard. Karo complains to God about her desperate situation via walkie-talkie. A gruff voice answers, eventually identifying itself as God and unwittingly providing proof of this. When Karo sees the man behind the voice, she is overcome with doubt. With the goal of reconciling her parents in mind, she forces the man into his divine role and thus to help her. The attempts staged by Karo and God to save her parents' marriage trigger a rollercoaster of emotions. In the end, Karo has grown from her failed goal and has not only found new friends for her life, but also a new perspective.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Clarissa (2026)
Across a single day in Lagos, Nigeria, Clarissa prepares to host a high society party at her home, as her complicated past begins to consume her, in the form of now-distant friends and loves from her youth. Simultaneously, Septimus, a young soldier, is haunted by his own memories of the horrors he has witnessed and endured. As the perspectives traverse past and present, across the bourgeois class and those too easily forgotten by society, a delicate portrait of contemporary Nigeria emerges.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Coming SoonMovies like thisMortality (2021)
A Man runs away from a Shadowy Figure whilst coming to terms with what’s next…His Mortality.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
Where Demons Hide (2019)
A neo Noir tragedy that leads one man on a revenge path to seek a sense of Justice. Joshua was brought up only knowing despair and deception through years of both physical and emotional abuse. After the death of his mother left him with his self destructive and alcoholic father, the torment became too much leaving him to make a choice. Years later after putting himself through university, Joshua is a psychiatrist and has a plan for revenge. Singling out those who have done wrong to him, he influences his patient Lewis to take action for him. What Joshua doesn’t fully understand is the extent of Lewis’s own dark past.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama
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What are the best movies like Paradise Lost?
The closest matches to Paradise Lost are The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Jacob (1994) and All That Money Can Buy (1941). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Paradise Lost?
Start with The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), the closest match to Paradise Lost.
What is the highest-rated movie like Paradise Lost?
Jesus (1979), rated 8.3/10 by 258 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Paradise Lost?
Empathy with Satan (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Paradise Lost?
Yes: The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Jacob (1994) and All That Money Can Buy (1941).
How are movies similar to Paradise Lost chosen?
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