Movies like Die Päpstin (Pope Joan)
Die Päpstin (Pope Joan, 2009) is a history movie directed by Sönke Wortmann. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Two Popes (2019)
★ 7.5 · 3,245 votes · Drama, History
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.
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2. Amen. (2002)
★ 7.0 · 392 votes · Drama, History
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.
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3. Breathe (2017)
★ 7.4 · 821 votes · Drama, Romance
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
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4. Mr. Turner (2014)
★ 6.5 · 601 votes · History, Drama
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
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5. Endless Love (2014)
★ 6.9 · 1,797 votes · Drama, Romance
A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
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6. Mansfield Park (1999)
★ 6.7 · 348 votes · Romance, Drama
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
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7. Winter's Tale (2014)
★ 6.3 · 1,438 votes · Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
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8. Radioactive (2020)
★ 6.6 · 942 votes · Drama, Romance, History
The story of Nobel Prize winner Maria Skłodowska-Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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9. Save the Last Dance (2001)
★ 6.6 · 1,389 votes · Drama, Family, Romance
After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and gets transferred to a majority-black school. Her life takes a turn for the better when befriends Chenille and her brother Derek, who helps her with her dancing skills.
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10. Great Expectations (2012)
★ 6.4 · 361 votes · Drama, Romance
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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