There Be Dragons
- sombre
- intense
Sombre, steady, measured war / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Arising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.While researching the life of Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, the young journalist Robert uncovers hidden stories of his estranged father Manolo, and is taken on a journey through the dark, terrible secrets of his family’s past.
Our read · There Be Dragons (2011) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded war · history · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
More info & search links
The shape of There Be Dragons
What watching it is actually like.
“You want an epic of faith, family secrets, and the Spanish Civil War.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if religious war dramas or two-hour historicals feel heavy tonight.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
Eight films that read most like this one.
Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
All films like There Be Dragons — ranked, with why →
Discussion
What does your Movie DNA look like?
Rate a few films you've seen. We map your taste across the same twelve axes and find the films you'll actually want to watch tonight.
Read my taste — 60 sec