Most Similar Movies to Elmer Gantry (1960)
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Ace in the Hole (1951), The Miracle Woman (1931), The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947), Leap of Faith (1992), Quo Vadis? (1951), Viridiana (1961), Kings Row (1942) ... Let's take a look at the following list...
Ace in the Hole (1951)
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
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The Miracle Woman (1931)
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a phony temple with a con man. Can the love of a blind aviator restore her faith and happiness?
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)
Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a hanger-on in the cafés and Folies Bergere crowd, and then moves on to dally with Clotilde de Morelle (Dame Angela Lansbury). Always striving to move upward on the social scale, he ditches he...Read all
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Leap of Faith (1992)
Fake faith healer Jonas Nightingale is stranded in a small town where he finds he can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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Quo Vadis? (1951)
Emperor Nero (Peter Ustinov) burns Rome and puts a Roman commander's (Robert Taylor) Christian bride (Deborah Kerr) in the arena with a bull.
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Viridiana (1961)
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
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Kings Row (1942)
The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.
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The Great Sinner (1949)
A young writer goes to Wiesbaden to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, he commits the ultimate degradation of robbing a church poor box in order to feed his compulsion.
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All the King's Men (2006)
Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.
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Rasputin (1996)
Czarina Alexandra's (Greta Scacchi) fanatic belief in a mystic's (Alan Rickman) powers contributes to the downfall of Czar Nicholas (Ian McKellen) in 1917 Russia.
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Mephisto (1981)
In early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor finds himself before a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
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Written on the Wind (1956)
Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.
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The Godless Girl (1929)
Two teenagers, one an atheist and the other a Christian, fall in love at a brutal reform school.
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American Hustle (2013)
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild F.B.I. Agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and the Mafia.
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The White Sister (1923)
A young woman becomes a nun when she believes her sweetheart has been killed, but things get complicated when he returns alive.
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Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
The New York police investigates the murder of a Czech immigrant whose rags-to-riches story is told by his secretary to homicide detectives.
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To Die For (1995)
A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.
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The Stripper (1963)
Lila Green is an insecure and aging showgirl for Madame Olga's stage shows. When her boyfriend, Rick, runs off with the show's money, Madame Olga and Ronny let Lila go. Lila goes to stay with her old neighbors, Helen Bard and her teenage son, Kenny. Lila decides to go out and get a regular job and try and live a normal life. All seems well, until Lila and Kenny stop f...Read all
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