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Plot Summary:
Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avoid contamination. Here she finds a difficult situation, in fact her stepmother and her half-sisters prevent Maria to live the normal life of a teenager. In their minds Maria is the promised "bride of God" and a regular life for her is inappropriate. Nino, her handsome neighbor, falls in love for Maria who isn't indifferent to him. But when Maria comes back to her convent the way to become nun is compelled. Now Maria can understand Sister Agata, and realizes she became mad cause a lost and impossible love like the one between Maria and Nino.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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The Young Nun (1964)
Plot Summary:
The life of Antonio suddenly changes when she meets Serena, a young nun who took the veil to escape the hard life of the country and has chosen the provision of assistance to the sick to get out of the convent, which falls in love, moving from the role of seducer to that of seduced.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
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Enough Praying (1972)
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Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called "worker-priests." This Chilean film tells the story of how one man became a "worker-priest" and won the trust of the poor.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 80 min
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The Lady of Monza (1969)
Plot Summary:
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
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The Castro's Abbess (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
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Lady Audley's Secret (2000)
Plot Summary:
When Lucy Graham (Neve McIntosh) weds the much older Sir Michael Audley (Kenneth Cranham), his nephew Robert (Steven Mackintosh) is suspicious of the lovely young woman's motives. Soon, Robert's friend disappears, and Robert believes Lucy may be involved. But as he attempts to unearth the truth about Lucy's past, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to her dangerous allure. Betsan Morris Evans's period drama is based on the novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon's.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, disturbing, gothic, costume drama, period drama
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Christmas Lilies of the Field (1979)
Plot Summary:
Sometime after the events in 'Lilies of the Field' (1963) Homer Smith returns to the Church he helped build to find the nuns have taken in a group of homeless children.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Conflict (1973)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, the Catholic church has joined with other western religions in an ecumenical movement that has washed out much of the original message of the religion. A group of Irish monks have begun saying the mass again in Latin and have begun to have an international following. Martin Sheen is sent from Rome to bring them to task and they must confront what is truly essential in their worship and what is not.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 76 min
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The Suspended Vocation (1978)
Plot Summary:
Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, allegory
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Godland (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden
Duration: 143 min
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The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975)
Plot Summary:
A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Nun and the Devil (1973)
Plot Summary:
It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Game of Seduction (1976)
Plot Summary:
In this modern retelling of the classic Dangerous Liaisons, a virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in duels. When she finally succumbs to him, she discovers his true nature, and her newly awakened joy in passion turns to dust.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic
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La strana voglia (1991)
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A man who is a theater director and music composer picks up a young homeless woman off the street. But as soon as she starts living with him she becomes his object of desire. Soon his ex-girlfriend finds out about his new lover in his life and decides to seduce his new lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual
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Bernadette (1988)
Plot Summary:
Evocation of the life of Bernadette Soubirous, the eldest of four children, who, at the age of fifteen, experiences the Virgin Mary appearing to her at the Massabielle grotto near Lourdes. Or in her own words, "a lady dressed in white, more than beautiful. "This "lady in white" appears again for seventeen times before the dazzled eyes of the girl and cause many polemics. It turned Lourdes into a religious capital. "More humanity ahead of the paths of science, the more it is struggling with major mysteries that surround it since the dawn of time." Should be noted there were two versions of the film made by the same director.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, sexy
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A Woman's Life (2016)
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Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She marries a local Viscount, Julien de Lamare, who soon reveals himself to be a miserly and unfaithful man. Little by little Jeanne’s illusions are stripped away.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: captivating, costume drama, period drama
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Jerusalem (1996)
Plot Summary:
Members of a devout Christian congregation try to start a new life in Palestine.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: touching, epic, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, independent film
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How Rare a Possession: The Book of Mormon (1987)
Plot Summary:
Depicts the factual accounts of Vincenzo Di Francesca and Parley P. Pratt and how they came to appreciate the contents of the Book of Mormon.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
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The Third Miracle (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: biblical, controversial, sincere, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, independent film, psychological, sentimental
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The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Plot Summary:
Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L'viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life story of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj,.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: tense, epic, serious, realistic, christian film, retro, spiritual
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In This House of Brede (1975)
Plot Summary:
A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Runner Stumbles (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Beau Bridges and Tammy Grimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Mariette in Ecstasy (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, Mariette Baptiste, educated daughter of the local doctor, enters the cloistered convent of Our Lady of the Afflictions as a postulant. Her religious fervor, understated but determined, makes an impact on the small community of nuns whose days and nights are measured in a round of prayer and farm work changing only with the seasons. Their ordered life is disrupted, however, as Mariette begins to fall into a series of trances from which she awakens with stigmata, which heal as spontaneously as they appear. The feelings of skepticism, jealousy and adoration evoked in the nuns, Mariette's own response and that of the Mother Superior are delicately, indelibly presented.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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Broken (2017)
Plot Summary:
Father Michael, a Catholic priest presiding over a Northern urban parish, who is modern, maverick, and reassuringly flawed, must be confidante, counselor and confessor to a congregation struggling to reconcile its beliefs with the challenges of daily life.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, powerful
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Joy (1983)
Plot Summary:
This is the story about Joy who falls in love with an older man (she has been looking for her missing father all her life), and then travels around Paris with him and his other female companion, experiencing a broad range of sexual encounters.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sensual, erotic, independent film
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The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980)
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Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Said convent turns out to be a veritable hotbed of sinful carnality and depravity. Debauched priest Don Arrigone and lecherous womanizer Giampaolo Osio plot to seduce sister Virginia. But will their wicked and lustful actions continue to go unnoticed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Lilies of the Field (1963)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed construction worker (Homer Smith) heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior (Mother Maria), who believes that Homer has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black and white, christian film, touching, inspirational, retro, social, atmospheric, uplifting, serious, captivating
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Therese (1986)
Plot Summary:
The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the little way" to God are shown clearly, using plain modern language. A sense of angelic simplicity comes across without fancy lights, choirs, or showy miracles.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 978
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spiritual, slow cinema, aesthetic, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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The Nun (2013)
Plot Summary:
Suzanne Simonin describes her life of suffering in letters. As a young woman she is sent to a convent against her will. Since her parents cannot afford the dowry required for a marriage befitting her rank they decide she must instead become a nun. Although a kind and understanding Mother Superior helps her to learn the convent’s daily routine, Suzanne’s desire for freedom remains unabated. When the Mother Superior dies, Suzanne finds herself faced with reprisals, humiliation and harassment at the hands of the new Abbess and the other Sisters. For many years, Suzanne is subjected to bigotry and religious fanaticism. (Berlinale.de).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious, psychological, erotic, sincere, independent film, period drama
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The Nun (1966)
Plot Summary:
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: art house, sensual, historical drama, atmospheric, thought provoking, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, controversial
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Novitiate (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, social, sad, controversial, costume drama, queer cinema