Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "christian", "single-mother"

1. The Exorcist (1973)

R | 122 min | Horror

When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 455,399 | Gross: $232.91M

2. The Devil's Advocate (1997)

R | 144 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

An exceptionally-adept Florida lawyer is offered a job at a high-end New York City law firm with a high-end boss--the biggest opportunity of his career to date.

Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones

Votes: 402,302 | Gross: $60.98M

3. Carrie (1976)

R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, John Travolta

Votes: 206,846 | Gross: $33.80M

4. A Walk to Remember (2002)

PG | 101 min | Drama, Romance

Two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is sentenced to perform community service.

Director: Adam Shankman | Stars: Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah

Votes: 221,583 | Gross: $41.28M

5. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

R | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan, Sydney Vollmer

Votes: 103,543

6. Boyhood (I) (2014)

R | 165 min | Drama

The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.

Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Elijah Smith

Votes: 367,302 | Gross: $25.38M

7. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror

A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.

Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Craig Wasson, Patricia Arquette

Votes: 90,414 | Gross: $44.79M

8. Chocolat (2000)

PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Romance

A French woman and her young daughter open up a chocolate shop in a small remote village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina

Votes: 202,089 | Gross: $71.51M

9. The Snowtown Murders (2011)

Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.

Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris, Bob Adriaens

Votes: 20,642 | Gross: $0.01M

10. The Pledge (I) (2001)

R | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.

Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson, Beau Daniels

Votes: 67,789 | Gross: $19.72M

11. Pale Rider (1985)

R | 115 min | Drama, Western

A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Sydney Penny

Votes: 64,751 | Gross: $41.41M

12. Mirror (1975)

Not Rated | 107 min | Biography, Drama

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev, Oleg Yankovskiy

Votes: 52,307 | Gross: $0.18M

13. White Oleander (2002)

PG-13 | 109 min | Drama

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.

Director: Peter Kosminsky | Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Renée Zellweger, Robin Wright, Alison Lohman

Votes: 34,095 | Gross: $16.35M

14. Saved! (2004)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

When a girl attending a Christian high school becomes pregnant, all of her former friends turn on her and she is ostracized and demonized.

Director: Brian Dannelly | Stars: Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit

Votes: 49,011 | Gross: $8.94M

15. The White Ribbon (2009)

R | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 77,699 | Gross: $2.22M

16. Deep Cover (1992)

R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

A uniformed police officer is recruited by the DEA to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring looking to expand its operation.

Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Lira Angel, René Assa

Votes: 14,078 | Gross: $16.64M

17. Carrie (2002 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both her classmates and her domineering, religious mother.

Director: David Carson | Stars: Angela Bettis, Patricia Clarkson, Rena Sofer, Kandyse McClure

Votes: 11,477

18. Tyrannosaur (2011)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama

Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.

Director: Paddy Considine | Stars: Peter Mullan, Archie Lal, Jag Sanghera, Mike Fearnley

Votes: 33,788 | Gross: $0.02M

19. The Second Wife (1998)

122 min | Comedy, Romance

In the early 1960s, a Sicilian single mother marries an older, crass widowed truck driver. When he is arrested trying to smuggle an antique, she ends up falling in love with her handsome stepson.

Director: Ugo Chiti | Stars: Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Lazar Ristovski, Giorgio Noè, Jessica Auriemma

Votes: 863

20. The Inspection (2022)

R | 95 min | Drama

A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside.

Director: Elegance Bratton | Stars: Jeremy Pope, Gabrielle Union, Bokeem Woodbine, Raúl Castillo

Votes: 4,888

21. Bless the Child (2000)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Cody, a little girl abandoned by her mother and raised by her aunt, a nurse, is kidnapped. The girl's guardian, aided by an F.B.I. agent, learn that Cody has supernatural abilities, and the abductees are a Satanic cult willing to do anything to gain them.

Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell, Holliston Coleman

Votes: 15,401 | Gross: $29.37M

22. Plan B (II) (2021)

TV-MA | 107 min | Comedy

Follows a straight-laced high school student and her slacker best friend who, after a regrettable first sexual encounter, have 24 hours to hunt down a Plan B pill in America's heartland.

Director: Natalie Morales | Stars: Kuhoo Verma, Victoria Moroles, Michael Provost, Mason Cook

Votes: 4,770

23. Do You Believe? (2015)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama

When a pastor is shaken by the visible faith of a street corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a journey that impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate.

Director: Jon Gunn | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Sean Astin, Alexa PenaVega, Ted McGinley

Votes: 8,224 | Gross: $12.99M

24. GCB (2012)

TV-PG | 430 min | Comedy, Drama

Seeking a fresh start, recently-widowed mother-of-two Amanda Vaughn moves back to the affluent Dallas neighborhood where she grew up to find herself in the whirling midst of salacious gossip, Botox, and fraud.

Stars: Leslie Bibb, Jennifer Aspen, Marisol Nichols, Miriam Shor

Votes: 8,843

25. Into the Abyss (2011)

PG-13 | 107 min | Documentary, Crime, Drama

Conversations with death row inmate Michael Perry and those affected by his crime serve as an examination of why people - and the state - kill.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Richard Lopez, Michael Perry, Damon Hall

Votes: 17,365 | Gross: $0.22M

26. Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020)

PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Horror

A group of young friends from the Bronx fight to save their neighborhood from gentrification...and vampires.

Director: Oz Rodriguez | Stars: Jaden Michael, Gerald Jones, Gregory Diaz IV, Sarah Gadon

Votes: 11,135

27. Wild River (1960)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, History, Romance

A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do - evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Albert Salmi

Votes: 6,187

28. We Are the Best! (2013)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Music

Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.

Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin, Liv LeMoyne, Johan Liljemark

Votes: 11,329 | Gross: $0.18M

29. The Red Pill (2016)

TV-14 | 108 min | Documentary

The Red Pill chronicles filmmaker Cassie Jaye's journey following the mysterious and polarizing Men's Rights Movement. The Red Pill explores today's gender war and asks the question "what is the future of gender equality?"

Director: Cassie Jaye | Stars: Cassie Jaye, Paul Elam, Attila Vinczer, Dean Esmay

Votes: 12,052

30. Poor White Trash (2000)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime

A white-trash family must resort to crime to send their teenage son to college.

Director: Michael Addis | Stars: Sean Young, William Devane, Tony Denman, Jacob Tierney

Votes: 1,395 | Gross: $0.00M

31. Solomon & Gaenor (1999)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A tragic love story between a Jewish young man and a Welsh woman in the beginning of the century. The movie is mostly in English with parts in Welsh and Yiddish.

Director: Paul Morrison | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts, Sue Jones-Davies, William Thomas

Votes: 1,464 | Gross: $0.30M

32. Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)

R | 94 min | Drama

An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronicling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty.

Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Kimberly Elise, T.D. Jakes, Michael Boatman, Loretta Devine

Votes: 1,042 | Gross: $6.88M

33. Elsewhere (2009)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investigate the mystery.

Director: Nathan Hope | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Jon Gries, Tania Raymonde, Paul Wesley

Votes: 3,504

34. Mera Naam Joker (1970)

224 min | Comedy, Drama

Raju is a joker, a clown. It is what he is and what he always shall be. As his life story unfolds in three chapters, from his school days to the circus to the streets, he must always make ... See full summary »

Director: Raj Kapoor | Stars: Raj Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Simi Garewal, Rishi Kapoor

Votes: 5,325

35. Closer to the Moon (2014)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A Romanian police officer teams up with a small crew of old friends from the World War II Jewish Resistance to pull off a heist by convincing everyone at the scene of the crime that they are only filming a movie.

Director: Nae Caranfil | Stars: Vera Farmiga, Mark Strong, Harry Lloyd, Anton Lesser

Votes: 4,338

36. Wave of Crimes (2018)

TV-MA | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A desperate housewife tries to cover up her son after he kills his father.

Director: Gracia Querejeta | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Juana Acosta, Paula Echevarría, Antonio Resines

Votes: 1,728

37. Twist of Faith (2013 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 85 min | Drama, Romance

Grieving over the untimely loss of his family and in a dissociative state, an aimlessly-wandering Jewish man is rescued by another family who help him find his way back to happiness again.

Director: Paul A. Kaufman | Stars: Toni Braxton, David Julian Hirsh, Nathaniel J. Potvin, Paula Shaw

Votes: 810

38. Rock Haven (2007)

Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Romance

Brady (Sean Hoagland), who will shortly be going away to college, is a shy, introspective 18 year old, who moves to the coastal seaside town of Rock Haven with his overprotective, widowed ... See full summary »

Director: David Lewis | Stars: Sean Hoagland, Owen Alabado, Laura Jane Coles, Katheryn Hecht

Votes: 1,668

39. Rich Hill (2014)

Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

Rich Hill intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town and the fragile family bonds that sustain them.

Directors: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos | Stars: Alyssa Jewell, Andrew Jewell, Elizabeth Jewell, Willie Jewell

Votes: 2,510

40. Baton Baton Mein (1979)

112 min | Comedy, Romance

Nancy and Tony meet regularly on their daily commute to work and gradually fall in love. But when Tony shows reluctance toward marriage, Nancy's mother starts looking for a groom for her daughter.

Director: Basu Chatterjee | Stars: Amol Palekar, Tina Ambani, Govardhan Asrani, David Abraham

Votes: 1,341

41. Loving the Bad Man (2010)

PG-13 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

When a young Christian girl has a baby boy from a rapist, she determines to try to give her son a chance at a somewhat-normal family by forgiving the man and visiting him in prison.

Director: Péter Engert | Stars: Cree Kelly, Arturo Rossi, Antoni Corone, Kim Ostrenko

Votes: 456

42. Come the Morning (1993)

G | 60 min | Drama

In search of her estranged husband, a mother brings her 3 children to Los Angeles in the hope of finding him. With no prospects they wander the streets; becoming beggars before long. Things... See full summary »

Director: Michael O. Sajbel | Stars: Susan Howard, Travis Knight, Heather Ramsey, Kenny Gravino

Votes: 148

43. Things That Hang from Trees (2006)

R | 97 min | Drama

Connie Mae is a single mother and lingerie model in a bible belt 1960's southern town, a one woman scandal. She struggles to keep her life afloat amongst judging small town eyes that both resent and love her beauty.

Director: Ido Mizrahy | Stars: Cooper Musgrove, Peter Gerety, Laila Robins, Daniel von Bargen

Votes: 238

44. Love Different (2016)

94 min | Comedy

Lindsay Walker, a Caucasian woman who grew up in a small, all-Caucasian town, gets a job at an African-American consulting firm and experiences a complete culture shock. Neque Campbell, an ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Hackett | Stars: Jenn Gotzon, Anthony Hackett, Thomas Mikal Ford, Kevin Fredericks

Votes: 109

45. Por Um Triz (2015– )

24 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A dark comedy-drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an Portuguese coastal town in the mid-2010s.

Stars: Luís Ganito, Nuno Pardal, Adelaide Teixeira, Jorge Loureiro

46. Stop Violence (2002)

Action, Crime, Drama

Saathan, a thug, rapes Angelina who later becomes pregnant. Over time he falls in love with her but his gang leader does not approve of their relationship.

Director: A.K. Sajan | Stars: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Vijayaraghavan, Chandra Laxman, Thara Kalyan

Votes: 132

47. Sunshine (II) (2009)

72 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

It all starts with getting knocked up. An unplanned pregnancy for an unplanned girl sets off SUNSHINE, a playful, yet ultimately stirring self-portrait of an adopted woman driven to search ... See full summary »

Director: Karen Skloss | Stars: Stephen Beck Fey, Tessa Beck Fey, Karen Skloss

Votes: 17

48. Bezva zuby na zásnuby (2022 TV Movie)

67 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Jirí Vejdelek | Stars: Jirí Langmajer, Anna Fialová, Simona Stasová, Miroslav Hanus

Votes: 37

49. Le divin enfant (2001 TV Movie)

Unrated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama

Marc is a 39-year-old Catholic priest, a model for his entire parish. He is one of the few enthusiastic advocates of priestly celibacy. But trouble comes knocking at his door one day.

Director: Stéphane Clavier | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Marthe Villalonga, Adrien Aumont, Agathe Teyssier

Votes: 64

50. FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2002)

92 min | Documentary

Dean Wilson, a drug user and safety advocate, and Ann Livingston, a community organizer driven by her religious convictions, partner together to establish North America's first safe injection site and advocate for reforms.

Director: Nettie Wild | Stars: Ann Livingston, Phillip Owen, Dean Wilson

Votes: 102