Highest-Rated Movies about 'Confession', Sort by Popularity

Out of Innocence (2016), Nayak (1966), Private Confessions (1996), Confessions (2010), Night on Earth (1991), The People vs. Jean Harris (1981), The Invitation (1973), Calvary (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Confession movies.

#16. Red Joan (2018)

Storyline: English-born Joan Stanley (Dame Judi Dench), a Soviet and Communist Party sympathizer, becomes employed as a British government civil servant, and gets recruited by the K.G.B. in the mid 1930s. She successfully transfers nuclear bomb secrets to Soviet Russia, which enables them to keep up with the west in the development of atomic weapons, and remains undetected as a spy for over a half a century.—Unknownian

Plot Keywords: secret service agent, traitor, widow, interrogator, spy, shocking, fascinating ...

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#17. The Frozen Ground (2013)

Storyline: Alaska Trooper Jack Holcombe believes Robert Hansen is a serial killer who abducts young girls, tortures and sexually assaults them, then kills them. But Holcombe doesn't have enough evidence to get a search warrant for Hansen's premises. Holcombe knows that one victim, Cyndy Paulsen, somehow survived, so he decides to seek her help, but he finds that she's now a junkie with trust issues. Holcombe has to earn her trust; meanwhile, Hansen is still hunting and killing girls.

Plot Keywords: detective, serial killer, woman, prostitute, murder victim, addict, bleak ...

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#19. Dorian Gray (2009)

Storyline: A naïve young man. A lovelorn artist. A corruptible Lord. A deal with the Devil. It all paints a dark picture of a Victorian London and how the rich and infamous party at their peril. Here, the telling of time and its consequence of experience for life's treasures' takes its toll on the body, mind and soul. The haunting and bleak tale of power, greed, vanity and inevitable self-destruction is ever present amongst the deceit, opium dens and sin.

Plot Keywords: painter, orphan, dark, hedonistic, thrilling, brothel, vanity ...

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#20. A Prayer for the Dying (1987)

Storyline: Martin Fallon is an I.R.A. bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck, but instead kills a bus load of school children. He loses heart and quits the movement and goes to London trying to leave the U.K. and start a new life. The I.R.A. wants him back (he knows too much) and the local crime boss, Meehan, will only help him if he performs one last hit, on a rival crime boss. When Fallon does perform the hit, he is seen by a Catholic priest. He refuses to kill an innocent again, and must find a way to escape the police without killing the priest who can identify him.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

Plot Keywords: terrorist, ira agent, priest, mortician, rival, somber, emotional ...

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#21. Murder Without Crime (1951)

Storyline: After fighting with husband Stephen, Jan storms out with a suitcase. Meanwhile, Stephen gets drunk, picks up Grena and brings her back to their apartment. But a fight leads to a dead body, and soon, Stephen's landlord wants money to remain silent.—Ulf Kjell Gür

Plot Keywords: murderer, blackmailer, landlord, murder victim, young woman, young man, brash ...

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#22. Full Confession (1939)

Storyline: Pat Sullivan has committed a murder and told his priest, Father Loma, about it watches in agony when an innocent man, Michal O'Keefe, is accused of the crime and sentenced to the electric chair on circumstantial evidence. The priest, bound by inviolable sanctity of the confessional, also struggles with the issue of how to save O'Keefe, and keep his religious vows.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: catholic priest, innocent man, murder suspect, murderer, cop, night watchman, suspenseful ...

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#23. 21 Days Together (1939)

Storyline: After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before the trial and if the man is found guilty then Larry will give himself up and prevent an innocent man going to the gallows.—Ian Harries <ih@doc.ic.ac.uk>

Plot Keywords: lover, man, woman, murderer, murder suspect, murder victim, husband ...

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#24. The Rosary Murders (1987)

Storyline: Life in the Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer in Detroit is upset by a series of killings whose victims are all priests and nuns. All victims are found with a black rosary in their hands. Father Koesler begins collaborating with the police but soon finds himself in a spot when the killer decides to choose him as confessor.—Salvatore Santangelo <pappagone2@libero.it>

Plot Keywords: priest, police detective, reporter, police officer, serial killer, chilling, dark ...

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#25. Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)

Storyline: An impulsive sexual encounter from her past haunts Amy, an otherwise seemingly normal young woman with a bright future and nice-guy fiancé. But her fiancé has suggested that the couple be completely honest and tell each other everything! When Amy finally relents, encouraged to tell the truth by her coworker and mother (neither of whom really knows what she has to disclose), and reveals her secret, all hell breaks loose.—Geoffrey Gilmore, Sundance Film Festival Director

Plot Keywords: student, fiancé, mother, father, brother, colleague, hilarious ...

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#29. I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)

Storyline: When Dennis Cooverman gives the commencement speech at his graduation, his friend tells him to let it all out. So he proclaims his love for head cheerleader Beth Cooper and says things about everyone in the graduating class as well as some other people. Later Beth confronts him and he invites her to his graduation party; to his surprise she and two of her friends actually do show up. But so do some of the people he offended with his speech, wanting to tear him apart; one of them is Beth's boyfriend, who has just dumped him.

Plot Keywords: valedictorian, popular girl, best friend, nerd, jock, bully, madcap ...

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#30. I Hate New Year's (2020)

Storyline: With a huge hit on her hands, rising music star Layne hits some serious writer's block. She decides to head home to Nashville for New Year's Eve, looking to find her ex and get back her songwriting mojo. As she spends New Year's jumping between bars and parties with her best friend Cassie, looking for the one that got away, she realizes that the love of her life, and the reason she sings, has been right in front of her all along.—Ashley Arnold

Plot Keywords: musician, rock star, fortuneteller, best friend, ex-lover, former lover, melodramatic ...

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