
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.

The Bells of St. Mary's
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Awakening for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Father O'Malley is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in an attempt to save the school, though their...

The Decameron
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Awakening for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scou...

Flavia the Heretic
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Awakening for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.
Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts...

Fatima
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...

Father Stu
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Awakening for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermark...

Won't Back Down
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...