Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "jehovah's-witness"

1. Friday (1995)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

It's Friday, and Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Ice Cube, Chris Tucker, Nia Long, Tom Lister Jr.

Votes: 124,662 | Gross: $27.47M

2. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

R | 112 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.

Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Jasper Newell

Votes: 167,855 | Gross: $1.74M

3. A Perfect World (1993)

PG-13 | 138 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor, an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search for him continues.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood, Laura Dern, T.J. Lowther

Votes: 86,976 | Gross: $31.16M

4. Big Eyes (I) (2014)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Krysten Ritter

Votes: 99,144 | Gross: $14.48M

5. You Can Live Forever (2022)

13+ | 96 min | Drama, Romance

When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.

Directors: Mark Slutsky, Sarah Watts | Stars: Anwen O'Driscoll, June Laporte, Liane Balaban, Antoine Yared

Votes: 2,754

6. Flawless (1999)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama

An ultraconservative security guard suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons with the drag queen next door.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Miller, Chris Bauer

Votes: 20,026 | Gross: $4.49M

7. Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)

Not Rated | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two intertwined cases linking the past with the present require the aid of Department Q to catch an elusive serial killer while time is running out.

Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen, Jacob Lohmann

Votes: 22,445

8. The Children Act (2017)

R | 105 min | Drama

As her marriage crumbles, a judge must decide a case involving a teenage boy who is refusing a blood transfusion on religious principle.

Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Reena Lalbihari, Dominic Carter

Votes: 14,757 | Gross: $0.51M

9. Hanger (2009 Video)

91 min | Horror

A pregnant prostitute is forced to have a brutal abortion in a dark back alley, an act of sheer violence that will eventually lead to a bloody revenge.

Director: Ryan Nicholson | Stars: Debbie Rochon, Dan Ellis, Nathan Dashwood, Ronald Patrick Thompson

Votes: 1,103

10. Priest (1994)

R | 98 min | Drama, Romance

A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.

Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson

Votes: 11,040 | Gross: $4.18M

11. Jesus' Son (1999)

R | 107 min | Drama

A young man, often high on drugs and alcohol, careens through life and makes his way toward recovery and redemption.

Director: Alison Maclean | Stars: Billy Crudup, Robert Michael Kelly, Torben Brooks, Dierdre Lewis

Votes: 7,486 | Gross: $1.28M

12. The Driver's Seat (1974)

R | 102 min | Drama, Mystery

A mentally-disturbed spinster experiences a series of bizarre encounters in Rome as she searches for someone she feels she'll know--when she finds him.

Director: Giuseppe Patroni Griffi | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Guido Mannari, Mona Washbourne

Votes: 1,013

13. Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves (2012)

174 min | Drama

A story of love and death. Rasmus, 19, escapes to Stockholm and finds love in the religious Benjamin just as the AIDS epidemic hits the city's gay community.

Stars: Adam Lundgren, Adam Pålsson, Björn Kjellman, Simon J. Berger

Votes: 5,054

14. Apostasy (2017)

TV-14 | 95 min | Drama

A faithful Jehovah's Witness is forced to shun her own sister because of a religious transgression. As the separation draws out, she starts to question the meaning of God's love.

Director: Daniel Kokotajlo | Stars: Molly Wright, Poppy Jhakra, Siobhan Finneran, Sacha Parkinson

Votes: 2,554

15. Beginning (2020)

Not Rated | 130 min | Drama

When a Jehovah's Witness community is attacked, leader's wife Yana questions her desires as her familiar world crumbles.

Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili | Stars: Ia Sukhitashvili, Rati Oneli, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Saba Gogichaishvili

Votes: 2,390

16. Dummy (2002)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.

Director: Greg Pritikin | Stars: Adrien Brody, Milla Jovovich, Illeana Douglas, Vera Farmiga

Votes: 6,933 | Gross: $0.07M

17. Worlds Apart (2008)

116 min | Drama

The daughter of a Jehovah's Witness is forced to choose between religion and love when she falls for someone outside her faith.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Rosalinde Mynster, Pilou Asbæk, Jens Jørn Spottag, Sarah Boberg

Votes: 3,471

18. White Teeth (2002– )

240 min | Drama, Comedy

The lives of three families are woven together across three decades in multi-cultural Britain.

Stars: Om Puri, Phil Davis, Naomie Harris, Archie Panjabi

Votes: 779

19. Paper Clips (2004)

G | 82 min | Documentary, War

As a part of their study of the Holocaust, the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, and grows to include millions of others killed.

Directors: Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab | Stars: Sandra Roberts, Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand, Tom Bosley, Casey Condra

Votes: 1,786 | Gross: $1.10M

20. Crusaders: Ex Jehovah's Witnesses Speak Out (2021)

87 min | Documentary

Whistleblowers leak stolen documents in a crusade to expose allegations of abuse and mind control within a global religious organization: the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Director: Aaron Kaufman | Stars: Barbara Anderson, Gary Breaux, Asher Candor, Candace Conti

Votes: 110

21. The Witnesses (2020)

Documentary, Crime

Through exclusive interviews and firsthand accounts, this shocking investigative special reveals the stories of four former Jehovah's Witnesses who share details of the sexual abuse they suffered during their time within the organization.

Stars: Braelyn Carville, Brooklyn Robinson, Regan Senter, Robert Artz

Votes: 288

22. The Photo-Drama of Creation (1914)

480 min | Documentary, Drama, History

The Photo-Drama of Creation, is a four-part Christian film produced by the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. The film presents the Bible's account of God's plan from the ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Taze Russell

Votes: 295

23. Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk (2017)

95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A teenage boy coming of age during the Reagan years discovers that he really enjoys many pleasurable things that are frowned upon by his family and their religion.

Director: Eric Stoltz | Stars: Sasha Feldman, Nicholas Harsin, Kit DeZolt, Lauren Lakis

Votes: 755

24. Normale (2023)

87 min | Comedy, Drama

14-year-old Lucie is a resourceful teenager who takes care of her loving yet unreliable father, William, who has multiple sclerosis. Whilst William hangs out in his bathrobe and devises ... See full summary »

Director: Olivier Babinet | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Justine Lacroix, Joseph Rozé, Steve Tientcheu

Votes: 182

25. Arrhythmia (2017)

116 min | Drama

A paramedic devoted to his patients struggles to make time for his wife who begins to believe his patients are more important to him than she is.

Director: Boris Khlebnikov | Stars: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Irina Gorbacheva, Nikolay Shrayber, Maksim Lagashkin

Votes: 6,147

26. Trumbo (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Documentary, Biography

Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals and families of a congressional pursuit of Hollywood Communists after World War II. ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Askin | Stars: Dalton Trumbo, Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas

Votes: 1,246 | Gross: $7.85M

27. Paragraph 175 (2000)

Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary, History, Romance

Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175.

Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath, Pierre Seel

Votes: 2,192 | Gross: $0.07M

28. Pistol for a Hundred Coffins (1968)

83 min | Western

Returning from the civil war Jim Slade discovers his parents dead at their farm. It is said that the gang under the lead of Corbett has committed the crime. Jim now goes for revenge but ... See full summary »

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Peter Lee Lawrence, John Ireland, Gloria Osuna, Eduardo Fajardo

Votes: 308

29. Become Jehovah's Friend (2012– )

Animation, Short, Family

A Jehovah's Witness cartoon that teaches kids about the religion and the Bible.

Votes: 150

30. The Château (2001)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two brothers go to France to claim the chateau they have inherited.

Director: Jesse Peretz | Stars: Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Sylvie Testud, Benjamin Tessier

Votes: 865 | Gross: $0.20M

31. JW Broadcasting (2014– )

60 min | Family, Talk-Show

Monthly programs hosted by members of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses and helpers to their committees.

Stars: Anthony Morris, M. Stephen Lett, Geoffrey W. Jackson, David H. Splane

Votes: 458

32. Eve and the Fire Horse (2005)

92 min | Drama

Chinese-Canadian Eve Eng was born in 1966, in the year of the fire horse. In Chinese culture, fire horse children are notorious for being troublesome. In 1975, nine year old Eve is looking ... See full summary »

Director: Julia Kwan | Stars: Phoebe Kut, Hollie Lo, Vivian Wu, Chit-Man Chan

Votes: 574

33. Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)

60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The illegal affairs of a recently deceased barbershop owner get passed down to his manager.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Monty Ross, Donna Bailey, Stuart Smith, Tommy Redmond Hicks

Votes: 375

34. Witness Underground (2021)

83 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Within the confines of an elusive cult, a vibrant alternative music community thrived, deprogramming themselves through art. Poignant live performances punctuate tragic losses to beautifully illuminate shunning by Jehovah's Witnesses.

Director: Scott Homan | Stars: Cindy Elvendahl, Eric Elvendahl, Chad Rhiger, Ryan Sutter

Votes: 41

35. Kummelin Jackpot (2006)

93 min | Comedy

Funny comedy movie, where three guys likes to play poker with their landlord. Soon Pera will find a way how to earn big amount of money. Then he and his two other friends wanna join his ... See full summary »

Director: Pekka Karjalainen | Stars: Heikki Silvennoinen, Timo Kahilainen, Heikki Vihinen, Heikki Hela

Votes: 2,716

36. Worldly Girl (2016)

101 min | Drama, Romance

When Giulia meets Libero, she discovers there may be another destiny awaiting her, as they embark on an intense period together. A choice that leads to Giulia being completely cut off from the Jehovah's Witness world she belongs to.

Director: Marco Danieli | Stars: Sara Serraiocco, Michele Riondino, Marco Leonardi, Stefania Montorsi

Votes: 519

37. The Schoolgirl The Nazis and The Purple Triangles (2018)

Not Rated | 29 min | Documentary, Short, Drama

Award winning documentary drama examining the Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses who were among the first prisoners of concentration camps for their refusal to say "Heil Hitler", join the army, or participate in the Nazi way of life.

Director: Jonny Lewis | Stars: Simone Liebster, Christine King, Carrys Parsele, Glenn Phillips

Votes: 9

38. Truth Be Told (2012)

105 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

Documentary about growing up in the Jehovah's Witnesses religion.

Director: Gregorio Smith | Stars: Jannette Anton, Phil Bernardin, Angie Bullaro, Sarah Callinan

Votes: 26

39. Jehovah's Witnesses Stand Firm Against Nazi Assault (1996)

Documentary, History

From 1933 in Germany, the hateful Nazi propaganda machine was in full swing. This is the story of a tiny group of Germans who refused to be bullied by Hitler's thugs into doing anything ... See full summary »

Stars: Geneviève de Gaulle Anthonioz, John Barr, Wulff Brebeck, John Conway

Votes: 198

40. Jehovah's Badass (2012)

12 min | Short, Comedy

When a young Jehovah's Witness decides to swap his slacks and tie for a new punk look and go door to door as 'Jehovah's Badass', he learns he must change more than just his appearance if he wants to save the world.

Director: Stephen Stanley | Stars: Gareth Koorzen, Paul Sand, Jaimi Paige, Timothy A. Bennett

41. Debutante (I) (2021)

18 min | Short, Drama

"Debutante" is the story of Meg, a young Jehovah's Witness who's subjected to the worst of what the religion has to offer: a judicial committee.

Director: Kamila Dydyna | Stars: Sam McGovern, Noelle Brown, Arthur Riordan, Una O'Brien

Votes: 9

42. Age 7 in America (1991 TV Movie)

120 min | Documentary, Biography

US take on the classic UK documentary series "Up". This first US entry follows a group of economically, racially and socially diverse 7-year-olds. The idea was to make followup films on them every 7 years but the project ended in 2006.

Director: Phil Joanou | Stars: Alexis, Ashtyn, Brandon, Douglas

Votes: 90

43. Uitgesloten (2001 TV Movie)

84 min | Drama, Romance

Despite the fact that he's a Jehovah's witness, ska-loving high school student Jonathan has a relationship with Marjan, a non-believing artist.

Director: Mijke de Jong | Stars: Egbert Jan Weeber, Michiel Huisman, Nadja Hüpscher, Medi Broekman

Votes: 184

44. Young People Ask: How Can I Make Real Friends? (1999 Video)

65 min | Documentary

Making friends is not always easy when you're young. Finding friends may be particularly challenging if you are a Christian and want friends who live by Bible standards. This video has ... See full summary »

Votes: 206

45. Six (2003)

Documentary, Crime

This documentary is about six teenagers who killed an entire family of Jehovah's Witness

Director: Roman Karpynec | Stars: Charles Berkeley Bell, Jason Blake Bryant, Roger Burgess, Tiffany Caudill

Votes: 31

46. Pursuit of Loneliness (2012)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama

An elderly patient dies in a county hospital leaving no known next of kin. Over the course of the next twenty-four hours, we chart the efforts of four central characters in finding a family... See full summary »

Director: Laurence Thrush | Stars: Joy Hillie, Suzanne Faha, John Magginetti, Monique Flores

Votes: 45

47. Purple Triangles (1991)

25 min | Short, Documentary

A documentary about Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany and the persecutions they faced in the concentration camps because they would not renounce their faith and pledge allegiance to Hitler.

Director: Martin Smith | Stars: David Burke, Mike Field, Magdalene Kusserow Reuter, Annemarie Kusserow

Votes: 141

48. Os fenómenos (I) (2014)

99 min | Drama

A woman rebuilds her life in Galicia and finds work as a construction worker, after her husband abandons her.

Director: Alfonso Zarauza | Stars: Lola Dueñas, Luis Tosar, Juan Carlos Vellido, Ledicia Sola

Votes: 295

49. Vigor (2020)

80 min | Comedy

Oregon comes back to save Bob from a desperate situation.

Director: Ryan McGivern | Stars: Leif Gantvoort, Jacob Lyman, Joaquim Cruz, Estefania Martinez

Votes: 14

50. The Last White Man (2019)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama

An elderly white man lives in the ghetto and refuse to move because he believes it will become the suburban utopia that it once was again.

Director: Rob Tyler | Stars: Rocky Benoit, Disraeli Ellison, Jenna Guercio, Edwardo Keaton