In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. As she reclaims God's diminished kingdom, this courageous young woman has various amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
If The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc hit you the right way, here are Hollywood films that share its DNA. Same emotional weight, same kind of stories, same kind of payoff.
What ties these together is loss of innocence, sacrifice, and figuring out who you are. They share the same lens on life under oppression and national identity. The feel is the same: bleak, brutal, escalating, and slow build to explosion.
