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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
Plot tags:
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Nasty Habits (1977)
Plot Summary:
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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Master of Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
The film’s premise had to do with a wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love (Rossano) imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies ... Rossano’s character’s final great act of love was to “expire in the arms of the outrageously beautiful Lady Death”. The film is considered an erotic comedy, the majority of the cast spending a considerable amount of time without the benefit of clothing, in a variety of unusual circumstances. By the way, the “student” is played by Ben Ecklund, Britt’s younger brother, and even Lidia Brazzi was in the cast of this film, so really - how much fun could Rossano have really had, making it?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, decamerotic
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The Demons (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 885
Genere: Horror
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, grindhouse, perverse, twisted, queer horror, sexploitation film
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Devils of Monza (1987)
Plot Summary:
The young noble Don Monza is caught and thrown out by the nun Virginia de Leva when she catches him flirting with one of her nun sisters across the stone wall between their gardens. He hears the rumor that she'd have an affair with her trustee - so he kills him in a set-up duel and aims to take his place. Against her initial resistance, Monza manages to win her heart - and to get into her bed. This doesn't stay a secret for long, but Monza, now in love, does everything to keep it going.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Sparrow (1993)
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 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
Plot tags:
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Love Letters of a Nun (1978)
Plot Summary:
Spain 1640, the reverend superior nun Mariana, attends the death of her younger sister, Isabel's husband, who is overcome with hopelessness and heartache. Isabel then kisses and caresses the cadaver's exposed body as if he were still alive. Mother Mariana.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sensual
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Sister Mary (1980)
Plot Summary:
Nunsploitation from Japan. Part of the Shûdôjo series.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: pink cinema, sexploitation film
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Memories of Midnight (1991)
Plot Summary:
Catherine lost her memory and wound up in a convent in the care of nuns. She tries to discover the terrible events which led to her condition, not realizing that she's being watched by a wealthy and powerful man who will do anything to protect his secret - a secret that only Catherine can reveal to the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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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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Gift Girls (1980)
Plot Summary:
Three women are secretly plush prostitutes. They are successively called by a mysterious person to have sex with three different men and assuage their weird fantasies.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic
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Night Eyes Four: Fatal Passion (1996)
Plot Summary:
Successful psychologist, Dr. Angela Cross, puts in a new burglar alarm system into her home due to threats she received. Steve Caldwell and Will Griffith install her system and after Will gets shot during a burglary attempt. Jeff and Angela have a hot relationship going until another break-in at her house. Angela has some secrets from her past that could be exposed if the tapes stolen are viewed.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Marquis de Sade's Justine (1977)
Plot Summary:
Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one supremely sadistic monk. It's a twisted tale of strange desires, perverse pleasures and the ultimate corruption of innocence as told by the Marquis de Sade.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, erotic, sadistic, sexy, sexual, sensual, grindhouse, independent film
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The Innocents (2016)
Plot Summary:
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: social, exciting, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bleak, spiritual, historical drama
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The Rape of a Nun (1983)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is forced by her father to become a nun. But soon she finds out that dark secrets are hiding behind the convent walls and that she's there to serve lustful human masters and not God.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
Plot Summary:
A woman who was promised to a powerful family's son at birth falls in love with another man, refuses to renounce him, and is sent to a nunnery by her shocked parents. Once there, she first undergoes degradation to acclimatize her to convent life; then she experiences rampant lesbianism by the repressed nuns, and becomes pregnant by her lover. Finally, her refusal to accede to one nun's lascivious lesbian advances leads to plotting and treachery, and her lover being murdered out of jealousy. Her life now ruined, she further scandalises her family by refusing to take her vows, and leaves the convent, devoting her existence to those in need. Claims to be based on a true story!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: naughty
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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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Dark Secrets (1996)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Sister Emanuelle (1977)
Plot Summary:
Emanuelle has renounced her life of lust to become a cloistered nun. But when she is assigned to a remote convent school for wayward girls, this delectable Bride Of Christ will face temptations that include a teenage nymphomaniac, a horny escaped criminal, and a class fill of curious virgins eager ti experience sins of the flesh. Can Emanuelle resist the erotic pleasures of her past, or will she break her vows and surrender to the ultimate orgy of unholy desire?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: naughty, erotic, surprise ending, sexploitation film
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The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980)
Plot Summary:
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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Within the Convent (1978)
Plot Summary:
A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of the institution to enforce strict rules on these unfortunate women. At the same time, a particularly disturbed nun manages to poison herself and many of the other novitiates in yet another scandal which is covered up by church authorities.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, romantic, sexy, controversial, naughty, cult classic, grindhouse, serious, emotional
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School of the Holy Beast (1974)
Plot Summary:
After the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, disturbing, controversial, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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Satanic Pandemonium (1975)
Plot Summary:
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her sister nuns into hell!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, erotic, sexy, sensual, cult classic, queer horror, gothic, disturbing, rough
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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 Assisi Underground (1985)
Plot Summary:
This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Plot Summary:
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional, contemplative, spiritual, christian film, crying, mystic
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Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of Jamaican emancipation, French colonist Annette Cosway falls into poverty and marries racist Englishman Paul Mason. But when Annette's young son dies in a fire started by former slaves, Mason flees to England, leaving his grief-stricken wife and her Creole daughter Antoinette behind. Soon Antoinette learns she must marry to claim her inheritance and sets her sights on Rochester, an Englishman eerily similar to Mason.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, sexual, romantic, gothic horror, costume drama, sensual, atmospheric, serious, realistic