Movies dramas about paganism

List of the best films dramas about paganism according to the audience: October Sky, The Pursuit of Happyness, Flight Crew, How Viktor "The Garlic" Took Alexey "The Stud" to the Nursing Home, Cold Mountain, The Dressmaker, Dances with Wolves, Brother, The Elephant Man, Call the Midwife.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, family, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, drama, adventure
CountryRussia
Duration02:04

A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally honest and direct, he is not on best terms with his new colleagues. During a flight to Asia his crew receives a distress message from a volcanic island and makes a decision to attempt a rescue mission. Will it be a success? Will they survive the disaster? They have a single chance to find that out: by being a team and sticking up for one another.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:59

Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed suicide, and he was left to grow up in an orphanage. Years later, his errant dad returns, now a disabled felon, and Viktor discovers a timely legacy is in the offing – his father’s apartment. The documentation for securing dad’s move into an old people’s home is signed in a flash. Nevertheless, the only one that can take him is miles away and, what’s more, the invalid starts to recuperate during the journey, which is when their real problems begin.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama, adventure, military, history
CountryUSA, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom
Duration02:28

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryAustralia
Duration02:23

    In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genredrama, adventure, western, military, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration03:56

    Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide – and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryRussia, USA
    Duration01:40

    Danila goes to his older brother to start a new life in Petersburg. His brother is a gangster and a killer, and he puts Danila into this criminal world asking him to kill someone.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:05

    A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genredrama, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:45

      Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, Randy hangs up his tights, pursues a serious relationship with a long-in-the-tooth stripper, and tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter. But he can't resist the lure of the ring and readies himself for a comeback.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:07

      Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, music
      CountryUSA, South Korea
      Duration01:49

      A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:03

      Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genredrama, adventure, family
      CountryFrance, Norway

      Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his father in the wilderness is a nightmare. However, father and son will get together around a crazy project: save a species endangered, thanks to the ultralight of Christian! Then begins an incredible and perilous journey ...

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:02

      Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:07

      All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:44

      A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:31

      A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama, music, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:32

      Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered couping gospel and country together.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:56

        Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao, a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genremelodrama, drama, military
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:35

        In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrefantasy, drama
        CountryRussia
        Duration01:34

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        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

          A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:04

          Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. While quarantined in the transit lounge until authorities can figure out what to do with him, Viktor simply goes on living – and courts romance with a beautiful flight attendant.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:41

            When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big secret she must keep from Landon.

            Markimdb: 8.1
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:08

            At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genredrama, military
            CountryRussia, Germany, Belarus

            1942, occupied Europe. Gilles Cremieux, a Belgian of Jewish origin, once in a concentration camp, pretends to be a Persian - for him this is the only opportunity to stay alive. This lie, indeed, saves him from being shot, but Gilles does not yet know what price he will have to pay for this salvation. German soldiers bring Gilles to Klaus Koch, a cook in a concentration camp who wants to leave for Iran and open a restaurant there as soon as the war ends. Koch is looking for a real Persian who will teach him how to speak Farsi. Thus begins the story of Gilles Cremier and Klaus Koch - a Jew and a German, a prisoner and a jailer, student and teacher.

            Markimdb: 8.8
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA, Germany
            Duration02:11

            A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genredrama, crime
            CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy
            Duration02:47

            It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genremelodrama, drama, detective, military
            CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
            Duration02:00

            As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA, Japan
            Duration02:00

            Ten years after their divorce, Jane and Jake Adler unite for their son's college graduation and unexpectedly end up sleeping together. But Jake is married, and Jane is embarking on a new romance with her architect. Now, she has to sort out her life – just when she thought she had it all figured out.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:06

            A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genredrama
            CountryRussia
            Duration02:05

            Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.

            Markimdb: 8.5
            Genrecomedy, drama, biography
            CountryFrance
            Duration01:52

            A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:45

            When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genredrama, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:19

            A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer, Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, France, USA
            Duration01:45

            A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genredrama, adventure, family
            CountryUSA, Canada

            Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team—and later its leader—Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world and becoming his own master.

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