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Plot Summary:
In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. But when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin to show themselves, and he is soon using the girl, and her powers, in his lust for more innocent prey.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Monk (1972)
Plot Summary:
Ambrosio (Franco Nero) is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk's robes. After he has committed numerous crimes, it appears that he will be caught and punished by the Inquisition. Instead, he signs up on the Devil's team and wins his freedom.. and eventually, the papacy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min
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Piety (2022)
Plot Summary:
Mateo lives with his mother Libertad in a rose-tinted world: a microcosm that has precisely two inhabitants, mother and son. One day Mateo is diagnosed with cancer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 80 min
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Trapped by Fear (1985)
Plot Summary:
A mental patient detained in a psychiatric hospital escapes from confinement and is dedicated to roam the outskirts of Madrid. His mind is no more disturbed rationale to kill. After murdering two girls on the banks of a river, go stringing a series of murders each more repulsive, spreading terror in the place. José and Antonio, two good friends, prepare a fun weekend at the country house that Joseph's family owns on the outskirts of the city. Taking this opportunity to invite two beautiful sisters, Anne and Laura, who accept the invitation. Ana, the eldest, works as a secretary, unhurried lives and loves Antonio. Laura on the other hand, has a shy and introverted character that has intensified after a recent failed love affair. Everything seems it will be a fun weekend for two couples.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher
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Torture Dungeon (1969)
Plot Summary:
In Medieval England, a sadistic duke plots to kill off all the heirs to the throne of England so he can claim he title crown for himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
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Agnus Dei (1997)
Plot Summary:
The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
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Virgin Report (1972)
Plot Summary:
Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of Eden we are taken on a voyage around the world that covers various rites of passage and cultures deflowering of the virgin.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, sensual, erotic, semi documentary, freeze frame, sexploitation film, fake documentary
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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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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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Ave María (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: period piece
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Blue Blood (1974)
Plot Summary:
A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely. Before long the servant begins to dominate his master, to the alarm of the newly hired German nanny who senses sinister, demonic intent in Tom's control of the house.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film, weird
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The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (1974)
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Lucita has been locked away in a convent by her family in order to keep her away from her lover, Esteban. The pair make plans to elope, but Esteban is accused of heresy before Lucita can escape. Hiding in the convent, Esteban discovers the horrifying depravity of the covent's abbess, Sister Incarnation. Can Esteban rescue his love from this madhouse before the inquisitor discovers what is going on and has everyone executed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 918
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, sexploitation film
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The Last Step Down (1971)
Plot Summary:
A naive country girl new to the big city gets involved in the underground sex scene.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Shogun's Joys of Torture (1968)
Plot Summary:
One of the most famous of cult director Ishii Teruo's films. A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women and brutal punished that ensued. Not for the faint of heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: anthology, bloody, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, dark fairy tale, crying, weird
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Convent of Sinners (1986)
Plot Summary:
Convent of Sinners is the story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest. The other nuns, however, are jealous and angry, they want Susanna for themselves, and accuse her of being possessed by the Devil.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, sensual, sexploitation film
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The Holy Office (1974)
Plot Summary:
The long arm of the Inquisition, or the "Holy Office," reached at least as far as 16th-century Mexico (known as New Spain at the time). Many Spanish Catholics of Moorish or Jewish origin found it expedient to flee to the New World to escape the suffocating attentions of the Inquisition. In Spain, simply being descended from these suspect peoples is sufficient to guarantee a gruesome death by immolation. In the New World, it took slightly more. This 1974 Mexican film deals with the suffering of one family of conversos who are secretly practicing Judaism and are betrayed to the Inquisition by a family member. Interestingly, a small family clan of such secret Jews was discovered in New Mexico as recently as the late 1980s. They managed to keep their faith a secret for nearly five hundred years.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: period piece, masterpiece
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Coven (2020)
Plot Summary:
Basque Country, 1609. The men of the region are at sea. Ana joins other girls from the village to dance in the woods. Judge Rostegui, given the task of purifying the region by the King, arrests the women and accuses them of witchcraft. He decides to do what it takes for them to confess what they know about the akelarre, a ceremony with magical connotations during which the Devil is said to initiate his servants and mate with them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Argentina
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: satanic, tense, suspense, disturbing
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Body & Soul (1993)
Plot Summary:
A nun, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, leaves the convent temporarily to help save her family knitting mill from bankruptcy following the death of her brother. Outside the convent she becomes a fairly shrewd businesswoman and feels attracted to one of the men who work at the mill, and thus begins to feel conflict about her religious vows.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: period drama
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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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Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)
Plot Summary:
16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior. Maria is tortured, forced into sex with men, women, and the horned Devil, and told that it's all a bad dream. She writes a letter to God, and a Knight rescues her, only to fall into the hands of the Inquisition, put on the rack, and condemned to death like Joan of Arc.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Adventure, Horror
Country: West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, sensual, mindfuck, erotic, crying, satanic, weird, 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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Flavia the Heretic (1974)
Plot Summary:
After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disturbing, erotic, gothic, suspense, slasher, controversial, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Plot Summary:
England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men is Matthew Hopkins, who tours the land offering his services as a persecutor of witches.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, gothic, rough, atmospheric, suspense, satanic, controversial, stylized
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Flame in the Wind (1971)
Plot Summary:
Set in the splendor and terror of the Spanish Inquisition, Flame in the Wind tells the story of Carlos, an earnest young nobleman who is faced with a choice: the church system offers safety, protection, and respectability; the Scriptures offer Christ and salvation from sin—and with these torture and death.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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El Greco (1966)
Plot Summary:
Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Monk (2011)
Plot Summary:
A well respected monk, Capucino Ambrosio compromises himself with his carnal lust for a pupil, a woman disguised as a monk (Matilda), she tempts the monk to transgress and he is soon found desiring another, the innocent Antonia. Matilda uses magic spells to help the monk in his pursuit of Antonia, whom he later rapes and kills. It later emerges that Matilda is an instrument of Satan in female form. Focus also is also shown on Antonia's previous relationship with Lorenzo, whose sister is tortured by hypocritical nuns for her own relationship. Returning to Ambrosio, he is delivered to the Inquisition; escaping only by selling his soul to the devil. The devil prevents Ambrosio's final repentance, and informs Ambrosio that Antonia is the monk's sister.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: gothic, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, bleak, psychological thriller, sexy, suspense, tense
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Black Narcissus (2020)
Plot Summary:
Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to repeat a terrible tragedy. Adaptation of the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, powerful, period drama
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Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004)
Plot Summary:
A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara (Elsa Pataky) falls in love with travelling vendor Manuel Romasanta, she is at first besotted with him - but soon begins to be suspicious of him. What has happened to her sister, who - after being escorted by Romasanta to the city - seems to have disappeared forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspense, dark, slasher