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10 Best Movies Like The Awakening

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

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#1
Fatima

Fatima

2020★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Awakening 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...

#2
Bad Sister

Bad Sister

2015★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Awakening for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed ...

#3
Doubt

Doubt

2008★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Awakening 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....

#4
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

#5
The Padre

The Padre

2018★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Awakening 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-...

#6
Come Sunday

Come Sunday

2018★ 5.8

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

Evangelist Carlton Pearson is ostracized by his church for preaching that there is no Hell....

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