Movies like The Good Catholic (2017)
The best movies like The Good Catholic (2017) are Novitiate (2017), Come Sunday (2018) and Full of Grace (2017). If The Good Catholic hooked you with its drama and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Two Popes (2019)7.5/10 from 3,260 votes
- NewestTreasure (2024)Released 2024
Novitiate (2017)
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCome Sunday (2018)
Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFull of Grace (2017)
Follows Mary of Nazareth in her last earthly days as she helps the fractious early Church regain their original encounter with The Lord.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Preacher's Daughter (2012)
The estranged daughter of a small town minister is forced to return to the strict, religious home of her youth where she must confront the troubled relationships that caused her to leave four years before
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
All Saints (2017)
Michael Spurlock decides to trade in his corporate sales career to become a pastor. Unfortunately, his first assignment is to close a country church and sell the prime piece of land where it sits. He soon has a change of heart when the church starts to welcome refugees from Burma. Spurlock now finds himself working with the refugees to turn the land into a working farm to pay the church's bills.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPastor Brown (2009)
When her father unexpectedly falls terminally ill, exotic dancer Jessica "Jesse" Brown returns home for the first time in more than a decade. Her father's dying wish - that she take over as head of Mount Olive Baptist Church - turns her life and her family's life upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
One Fine Christmas (2019)
The families on Christmas Street have been so busy with their day-to-day lives that they lose sight of the importance of family during the holiday season.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Three Christs (2017)
Dr. Alan Stone breaks new ground for treatment of the mentally ill through an experiment on three paranoid schizophrenic patients who believe they are Jesus Christ.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConfession (2022)
A wounded, bloodied man takes a priest hostage, hell-bent on confessing a vengeful truth before it is too late. The seemingly random encounter is soon revealed to be anything but as the two men’s lives are inextricably linked.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Apostate (2015)
A young man navigates the bureaucracy of the Catholic Church when he tries to renounce his faith.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Dial a Prayer (2015)
A troubled young woman working at a prayer call center makes a difference in other people's lives, forcing her to reconcile with her troubled past with the faith she brings out in others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSaint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven (2010)
One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity, deep prayer life, and tremendous humor. Hoping to join St. Ignatius of Loyola's new order of Jesuits and be a missionary to India, Philip was instead guided by Providence to seek out the poor and abandoned youth of Rome to catechize them in the faith and help them find a better life. He became the founder of the religious congregation, the Oratory, that worked with the youth and also labored to re-evangelize a decadent Rome.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBurning Cane (2019)
Set among the cane fields of rural Louisiana, Burning Cane follows a deeply religious mother struggling to reconcile her convictions of faith with the love she has for her troubled son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Two Popes (2019)
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSavage Messiah (2002)
As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, and ruthless mental and physical abuse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Me Again (2011)
Things don't go as expected when a disenchanted pastor wishes for a different life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Megachurch Murder (2015)
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a church conspiracy and threats toward her father, she is determined to prove that Hamilton's death was murder not suicide. As she gets closer to the truth, she realizes her own mother may be involved in her father's murder...and that the boy she is falling in love with is the son of his killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
He Knows My Name (2015)
Little Rebekah is fascinated by the man her neighbors call Jesus and she wants to hear all he has to say. But her mother, Sarah, wants Rebekah to keep her distance from the man some call Master and others label a heretic. Sarah has heard rumors that some factions wish to harm Jesus of Nazareth. But Rebekah is persistent, and one day she brings Jesus home to meet her mother and grandfather – a simple act that will forever change all their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Age of Summer (2018)
A determined teenage boy struggles to find acceptance within the Jr. Lifeguards of Hermosa Beach while juggling relationships and challenges in the summer of 1986.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Good Shepherd (2004)
When a clergyman is accused for the murder of a social worker, the parish priest recruits a reporter (and his ex-girlfriend) to clear his name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Doubt (2008)
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Fighting Preacher (2019)
Willard Bean accepts a mission from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to travel to a new town, where he must fight to win respect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Apostasy (2017)
A faithful Jehovah's Witness is forced to shun her own sister because of a religious transgression. As the separation draws out, she starts to question the meaning of God's love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlmost Friends (2017)
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a serious boyfriend. As they become closer, the line between friendship and intimacy is blurred, and the situation forces both to examine where they are in their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTreasure (2024)
A music journalist accompanies her father, a charmingly stubborn Holocaust survivor, on a journey to his homeland. While she's eager to make sense of her family's past, her dad has an agenda of his own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe House of Tomorrow (2019)
The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFat Kid Rules The World (2012)
A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLady Windermere's Fan (1925)
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSubUrbia (1997)
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLandline (2017)
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Good Catholic?
The closest matches to The Good Catholic are Novitiate (2017), Come Sunday (2018) and Full of Grace (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Good Catholic?
People who watched The Good Catholic most often go on to Novitiate (2017), Come Sunday (2018) and Full of Grace (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Good Catholic?
The Two Popes (2019), rated 7.5/10 by 3,260 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Good Catholic?
Treasure (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Good Catholic?
Yes: Novitiate (2017), Come Sunday (2018) and Full of Grace (2017).
How are movies similar to The Good Catholic chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Good Catholic, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.