Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Maddalena

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

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#1
The Keys of the Kingdom

The Keys of the Kingdom

1944★ 7.1

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

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling ...

#2
Fatima

Fatima

2020★ 7.2

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

In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and...

#3
Finally Dawn

Finally Dawn

2024★ 6.1

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

A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night...

#4
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

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

American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-...

#5
Absolution

Absolution

1978★ 6.5

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

At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but...

#6
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

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

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

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