Best movies like Les Ombres de Lisieux
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A Kiss to Die For
William, a Harvard psychology professor is having trouble dealing with life after the death of his wife when he meets a beautiful woman named Ali. As their relationship grows, he begins to question her secretive past, which he discovers is linked to a series of murders that the police are investigating. Tim Matheson (Animal House, The West Wing) stars.
Thérèse
The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the little way" to God are shown clearly, using plain modern language. A sense of angelic simplicity comes across without fancy lights, choirs, or showy miracles.
Amours à mort
Deep in the heart of the Moselle, in the Uckange furnace Park, is a crime scene as spectacular as it is baffling. The victim is the former Director of the site. When the relentless but sensitive Clément Leroy, captain of the criminal section of the Metz gendarmerie, sets out to investigate, he reconnects with his childhood love, Laure Thouvenin, the victim's daughter and a specialist in industrial history. As this free and unconventional woman becomes increasingly involved in the case, she and Leroy unravel the shocking story of their respective families running over three generations.
Murder in Martigues
Elisabeth Richard, a district attorney, and Paul Jansac, a police officer are in charge of the investigation of the death of Pierre Saint-Florent whose corpse was found in a beach near Martigues.
Crime à Biot
Marie Lemaire is poisoned during a dinner that brings together an association of merchants. She is the heiress of her recently deceased husband, François, who was the owner of the largest glass factory in the city. All the guests are potential suspects and the investigators must sort out the real from the fake, detect motives and verify alibis. Olivia Rousseau, one of the guests, ex-mistress of François Lemaire who left her to marry Marie, is dead at her home. In a letter, she declared that she had poisoned Marie and killed herself in the same way.
Les Ondes du souvenir
Near the town of Longwy two adolescent boys were exploring an old steel factory when they discovered a corpse in a ventilation duct.The victim, was worker of this steel factory, union activist and also volunteer at the free radio "Lorraine Coeur d'acier" and died 40 years ago.Lorraine Coeur d'acier was the most important free radio in the winter 1978-1979 when 12.000 workers of the steel industries of Lorraine lost their jobs.
Murder In Aveyron
A man is murdered in Laguiole, Aveyron, Aubrac country. The young Elisabeth Richard, deputy prosecutor of Rodez, is handling the case. She has to deal with the hostility of a police officer, promoted on his own strength and not keen on the idea of being subjected to a young woman. Elisabeth especially has to unravel the tangles of ancestral antagonism and family secrets in order to unmask the culprit. The film is both a criminal investigation and a social painting.
Les Mystères de la chorale
Caroline Jeune, a gendarme captain, takes on her first murder. An 18-year-old Kurdish woman, Sabrya, was murdered on her way home from the choir she sang in.
Murder In the Vercors
A shepherd is murdered in mountain pastures and most of the villagers suspect the former schoolteacher.
Murder In The Auvergne Mountains
In a French thermal town, a man is found poisoned. His ex-girlfriend is arrested for the murder but her estranged cop daughter tries to prove her innocence which leads her much further than she could have ever imagined.
Murder in Aquitaine
While setting up an exhibition of "The Mummies of St. Michael" an archeologist discovers a real skeleton in a red robe.
Le Canal des secrets
Marseillette in the Aude: stuck in a lock, a woman's corpse. Following the first findings against her husband, who's a judge, a Parisian police commissioner is mandated to investigate. She will have to work with a gendarme from the region.
En attendant un miracle
On the morning the corpse of a man has been found in a bathing tank of the sanctuary of Lourdes.The police captain Fiona Langlois will be in charge of the murder investigation with a help of Maxime Gardette, a police investigator who recently has come to Lourdes.The victim , the doctor Adrien Delubachas received a hit in his head and was drowned in a bathing tank.The doctor was member of the International Medical Committee of Lourdes , a group of doctor who investigate cases of healing by miracle.
Deux gouttes d'eau
A woman's dead body is found in her apartment on a winter morning. All the evidence points to her fiancé. But he has an identical twin brother. The detectives have to go beyond appearances and defeat their demons to find the true murderer.
Murder in Tours
Police Commander Louise Chaland is investigating the murder of a controversial sculptor with the help of her son Sylvain, who has become a priest. The body was discovered alongside one of his works, which has been daubed with Latin inscriptions. They soon establish a link with the disappearance of a relic of Saint Martin, the patron saint of the city of Tours. Their investigation leads them to a shelter for the needy, run by François Delcourt and his daughter, who was in love with the murdered artist. Clues start to reveal the disturbing fascination some inhabitants of Tours have with the missing relic. Louise and Sylvain will discover the rich historical and religious heritage of the city as the secular mother and pious son come to some sort of a reconciliation.
The Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux
A chronicling of the life of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, a Catholic nun who died of tuberculosis at age 24.
Murder on Omaha Beach
Captain Eloïse Gentil, of Caen police, hasn't been on speaking terms with her father Robert, an expert on WWII, for twenty years. But the two are brought together to investigate the death of James Crawley, a 91 year-old former GI, found tied to a pole and in his uniform, apparently executed "as an example".
Treasures of Heaven
Andrew Graham-Dixon explores the ancient Christian practice of preserving holy relics and the largely forgotten art form that went with it, the reliquary. Fragments of bone or fabric placed inside a bejewelled shrine, a sculpted golden head or even a life-sized silver hand were, and still are, objects of religious devotion believed to have the power to work miracles. The documentary features interviews with art historian Sister Wendy Beckett and Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum.
The Rapture
Lydia, a midwife very invested in her work, is in the middle of a breakup. At the same time, her best friend, Salomé, announces to her that she is pregnant and asks her to follow her pregnancy. The day Lydia meets Milos, a one-night stand, while she is holding her friend's baby in her arms, she sinks into a lie, at the risk of losing everything.
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrified of dying during the upheaval. The longer she associates with the nuns the more she is transformed by their faith and devotion.
The Bridge
Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for Claire Daboval, the family is terribly short on money, so when Georges is offered construction work on a massive bridge project, he immediately accepts, even though the job site is far away. One day, while taking in a matinee screening of West Side Story, Mina meets a man named Matthias, an engineer associated with the bridge project. It's love at first sight for the both of them, and while Mina has no desire to hurt Georges, who is a good and decent man, she has found another good and decent man whom she loves even more. Tommy, on the other hand, has to deal with this crisis in his parents' marriage while he's sorting out his own infatuation with Ms. Daboval's daughter, Lisbeth.
Murder In The Tarentaise Valley
While she was jogging Lisa Campion , the daughter of the retired police officer Fabio Campion , discovered the frozen corpse of Julien , a child who disappeared 20 years ago.The police officer Simon Beauregard is then sent to Roches Noires , a village of the Tarentaise Valley, for the criminal investigation.
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Les Ombres de Lisieux Starring Marie-Anne Chazel, Flore Bonaventura, Soufiane Guerrab, Joffrey Platel, and more. If you liked Les Ombres de Lisieux then you may also like: Fear Over the City, A Kiss to Die For, Thérèse, Amours à mort, Murder in Martigues and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
Fear Over the City
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.