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10 Best Movies Like El padre Juan

If you loved El padre Juan, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Club

The Club

2015★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El padre Juan for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exil...

#2
Perfect Obedience

Perfect Obedience

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El padre Juan for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowle...

#3
Nazarín

Nazarín

1959★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El padre Juan for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A Catholic priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but others do not return the favor....

#4
Doubt

Doubt

2008★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El padre Juan for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student....

#5
Novitiate

Novitiate

2017★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El padre Juan for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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....

#6
Some Velvet Morning

Some Velvet Morning

2013★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to El padre Juan for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle th...

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