20 best movies like Let There Be Light (2017)

List of the best movies like Let There Be Light (2017): The Children Act, My King, I'm in Love with a Church Girl, Diana, First Reformed, War Room, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The Hollars, Sticky Notes, The Case for Christ.

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Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:10

In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:58

Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

Miles Montego has it all - cars, boats, good looks, mansion, money, women, but more importantly, he has a past.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA

Madrid, Spain. The bedroom of Sofía, a luxury escort. Her new client, who has introduced himself as Hugo and appears to be an educated businessman, discovers that she has a name tattooed on her leg: Diana. Hugo cannot help asking her who Diana is.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
Duration02:20

A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

The family-friendly movie explores the transformational role prayer plays in the lives of the Jordan family. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, a middle-class couple who seemingly have it all – great jobs, a beautiful daughter, their dream home. But appearances can be deceiving. In reality, the Jordan’s marriage has become a war zone and their daughter is collateral damage. With the help of Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman, Elizabeth discovers she can start fighting for her family instead of against them. Through a newly energized faith, Elizabeth and Tony’s real enemy doesn’t have a prayer.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA, China

An award-winning cynical journalist, Lloyd Vogel, begrudgingly accepts an assignment to write an Esquire profile piece on the beloved television icon Fred Rogers. After his encounter with Rogers, Vogel's perspective on life is transformed.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

Aspiring New York City artist, John Hollar returns to his Middle America hometown on the eve of his mother’s brain surgery. Joined by his girlfriend, eight months pregnant with their first child, John is forced to navigate the crazy world he left behind.

Markimdb: 6
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryUSA, Russia

The story of an emotionally detached backup dancer named Athena, who must return home to Florida to help care for her estranged father, Jack, after he gets diagnosed with cancer. There she must contend with Jack’s irresponsible lifestyle while looking after six year old Honey Bunny who is only beginning to grasp the err in Jack’s ways.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:03

Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genredrama
CountryUSA

Pastor Dave responds to the unimaginable tragedy of having his church, located on the grounds of the local university, burned down.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genredrama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

An up-and-coming journalist finds his world and faith increasingly challenged when he's granted the interview of a lifetime – with someone who claims to be God.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

A man forced to confront his past when he and his girlfriend end up entangled in a web of lies.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

A stage director and an actress struggle through a grueling, coast-to-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal extremes.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA, China, Brazil, Germany
Duration02:23

In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrefantasy, drama
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration01:37

Luke O'Brien, a washed-up salesman turned night law student, decides to sue Satan for $8 trillion dollars. On the last day before Luke files a default judgment, Satan appears to defend himself. On Satan's legal team are 10 of the country's best trial lawyers. The entire world watches on Legal TV to see who will win the Trial of the Century

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreadventure, documentary, history
CountryUSA
Duration00:20

Morgan Freeman presents his quest in order to find how most religions perceive life after death, what different civilizations thought about the act of creation and other big questions that mankind has continuously asked.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

A homeless man is recruited by a bunch of rich kids to fight other impoverished people.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

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.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, sport
CountryUSA
Duration02:28

After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship!

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

Alice, a young innocent Catholic girl, is tempted into masturbating after an AOL chat suddenly turns sexual, however is conflicted as the act would be considered a sin.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, family
CountryCanada, USA

Sara Shaw is the type of woman who prefers to sit on the sidelines at work, but when her big idea for a Christmas initiative is stolen, she makes a wish to Santa that she'll finally have the courage to stand up for herself. Santa grants her wish, but only gives her 48 hours. As the clock ticks, Sara will discover how to channel the Christmas magic and speak her mind all on her own.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, fantasy, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA
Duration02:30

    The defiant leader Moses rises up against the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses, setting 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

    Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide, and neither will ever be the same.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, documentary
    CountryUSA, India

    Nine filmmakers each profile a young girl from a different part of the world to weave a global tapestry of youth in the 21st century.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    A supernatural love story that centers on two parents whose life together falls apart after their son dies. The man, now a successful lawyer, and the woman, now married and an author, get a chance at reconciliation ten years later.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:46

    Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

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

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genredrama, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA

    A young street artist in East Los Angeles is caught between his father's obsession with lowrider car culture, his ex-felon brother and his need for self-expression.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    Tragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, the 14-year-old boy continues to fight for his life as Joyce, her husband and their pastor stay by his bedside and pray for a miracle.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner, they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUSA, China, Canada
    Duration01:55

    Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:22

    A man struggles with the tragic memories of his past to make sense of his present, but soon realizes that time isn't the enemy he thinks it is.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Benjamin Morton's life changed forever the day he met the little girl next door. Ava was and always would be the girl of his dreams. From the innocence of a childhood friendship, through adolescent attraction, their love strengthens and grows. When life takes a turn neither of them expected, their entire future is called into question.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    When a group of close-knit friends assemble for the marriage of Skylar and Dan, they have no idea they will witness The Rapture and face a series of catastrophic events turning the celebration into a life-or-death struggle.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountryFrance, USA, Mexico, Morocco, Japan
    Duration02:23

    Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:59

    In 1993, teenager Cameron is sent to a gay conversion therapy center after getting caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night. Run by the strict and severe Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, the center is built upon repenting for "same sex attraction." In the face of intolerance and denial, Cameron meets a group of fellow sinners including the amputee stoner Jane, and her friend, the Lakota Two-Spirit, Adam. Together, this group of teenagers form an unlikely family as they fight to survive.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:55

    Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:48

    A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
    CountryUSA, Spain
    Duration02:25

      After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:22

      Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
      Duration02:23

      The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUSA

      The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident Dr. Luther Brooks. When brother John dies while Luther tries to save him, Ray is certain it's murder and becomes obsessed with vengeance. But there are black racists around too, and the situation slides rapidly toward violence.




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