Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Viridiana

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

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#1
Novitiate

Novitiate

2017★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Viridiana 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....

#2
I Walk the Line

I Walk the Line

1970★ 5.8

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

Henry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love wi...

#3
The Wonder

The Wonder

2022★ 6.6

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

Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast....

#4
Dead Man Walking

Dead Man Walking

1995★ 7.3

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

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple....

#5
The Magdalene Sisters

The Magdalene Sisters

2002★ 7.4

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

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum....

#6
Bad Sister

Bad Sister

2015★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Viridiana 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 ...

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