Films and TV shows that feel like Take Me To Church by Hozier
A defiant, sensual hymn that treats love as worship and rages against institutional shame and repression.
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019): Forbidden love rendered as devotion and ritual, defying the rules of the age.
- The Magdalene Sisters (2002): Irish Catholic institutional cruelty and shame, met with simmering anger.
- Philomena (2013): Irish church secrecy and hypocrisy confronted by a search for truth.
- Doubt (2008): Moral certainty, suspicion and power inside a Catholic institution.
- Brokeback Mountain (2005): Love that must be hidden under a society's unforgiving gaze.
- Derry Girls (2018): Catholic Irish upbringing and rebellion, though in a comic key.
- POSE (2018): Queer defiance and chosen family, with love as a form of survival.
- The Handmaid's Tale (2017): Theocratic oppression and acts of resistance carried out in secret.