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1. Shogun (1980)
TV-MA | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, History
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 15,687
2. The Three Musketeers - Part I: D'Artagnan (2023)
121 min | Action, Adventure, History
D'Artagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake. He aligns himself with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, three musketeers of the King.
Director: Martin Bourboulon | Stars: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï
Votes: 19,160
3. The Exorcist (1973)
R | 122 min | Horror
When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 455,118 | Gross: $232.91M
4. Silence (I) (2016)
R | 161 min | Drama, History
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano
Votes: 123,018 | Gross: $7.10M
5. The Man in the Iron Mask (I) (1998)
PG-13 | 132 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother whom he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the real king?
Director: Randall Wallace | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 178,849 | Gross: $56.97M
6. The Mission (1986)
PG | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 65,707 | Gross: $17.22M
7. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, Jordi Mollà
Votes: 75,076 | Gross: $16.29M
8. The Sea Inside (I) (2004)
PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama
The factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda, Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera
Votes: 85,260 | Gross: $2.09M
9. Once Upon a Time in China (1991)
R | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung fights against foreign forces' plundering of China. When Aunt Yee arrives back from America, Wong Fei-Hung assumes the role of her protector.
Director: Hark Tsui | Stars: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Biao Yuen, Jacky Cheung
Votes: 19,899
10. The Pillow Book (1995)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama
A woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata
Votes: 13,649 | Gross: $2.29M
11. Black Robe (1991)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg
Votes: 7,667 | Gross: $8.21M
12. The Last King (2003)
TV-14 | 188 min | Biography, Drama, History
The chronicle of Charles II's time on the throne, his ten-year exile from Oliver Cromwell's England, and his triumphant return.
Stars: Rufus Sewell, Rupert Graves, Charlie Creed-Miles, Christian Coulson
Votes: 1,814
13. The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze
Votes: 30,038 | Gross: $3.43M
14. Amen. (2002)
Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 14,981 | Gross: $0.27M
15. The Club (2015)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Marcelo Alonso
Votes: 11,995 | Gross: $0.03M
16. Child's Play (1972)
PG | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges, Ron Weyand
Votes: 1,622 | Gross: $0.13M
17. The Statement (2003)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
Tale of a former Nazi executioner who becomes a target of hitmen and police investigators.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Alan Bates, Jeremy Northam
Votes: 5,555 | Gross: $0.76M
18. Camila (1984)
R | 105 min | Drama, Romance
In 1840's Buenos Aires, Argentina, a beautiful young socialite named Camila falls in love with Ladislao, a Jesuit priest. After several failed attempts at fighting his own feelings, he ... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Susú Pecoraro, Imanol Arias, Héctor Alterio, Elena Tasisto
Votes: 1,451
19. Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
Not Rated | 119 min | Drama, History, War
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Christine Pascal
Votes: 1,757
20. I, the Worst of All (1990)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History
This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself... See full summary »
Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Lautaro Murúa
Votes: 719 | Gross: $0.05M
21. Good Cops, Bad Cops (1990 TV Movie)
95 min | Crime, Drama
Fact-based story about a rogue Boston police officer who plotted a bank heist.
Director: Paul Wendkos | Stars: Ray Sharkey, Steve Railsback, James Keach, Franc Luz
Votes: 141
22. Vaya con Dios (2002)
106 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Three monks are making their way from Germany to a monastry in Italy, because they cannot afford the rent for their facility any longer.
Director: Zoltan Spirandelli | Stars: Michael Gwisdek, Daniel Brühl, Traugott Buhre, Matthias Brenner
Votes: 1,054
23. The First Legion (1951)
Approved | 86 min | Drama
Father Fulton prepares to abandon his vocation despite pleas from Father Arnoux. Then a series of seemingly miracles occur including to the young Terri. Fulton has his doubts and wonders about the role of Dr. Morrell.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Charles Boyer, William Demarest, Lyle Bettger, Barbara Rush
Votes: 222
24. The Novice (2006)
PG-13 | 89 min | Drama
Peter is studying to be a Jesuit priest when he is sent to the Gulf Coast to work at a soup kitchen with an older priest and Jill, a beautiful volunteer who makes him rethink taking his vows.
Director: Murray Robinson | Stars: John Schuk, David Dempster, Jacob Pitts, Matthew Carey
Votes: 305
25. El rey pasmado (1991)
106 min | Comedy, History
After spending a night with a sensual prostitute, the King of Spain decides that he wants to see his wife naked. His decision causes a real revolution amidst his subjects.
Director: Imanol Uribe | Stars: María Barranco, Joaquim de Almeida, Laura del Sol, Gabino Diego
Votes: 872
26. Yasuke-San
120 min | Documentary, Biography, History | Pre-production
Yasuke-San is a documentary that investigates the presence of an African warrior who became a samurai retainer to one of Japan's greatest historical figures, Oda Nobunaga, a powerful daimyo... See full summary »
Directors: Deborah DeSnoo, Floyd Webb
27. Mission to Glory: A True Story (1976)
PG | 116 min | Western
A true account of the legendary "Padre on Horseback", Father Eusebio Francisco Kino a Jesuit missionary who helped the lives of the Native Americans. He faced many challenges on his trips throughout California, Arizona and Mexico
Director: Ken Kennedy | Stars: Richard Egan, Ricardo Montalban, John Ireland, Joseph Campanella
Votes: 81
28. MAGI Tensho Keno Shonen Shisetsu (2019)
Adventure, Drama, History
An Italian missionary arrived in Japan during the Middle Ages in order to proselytize, evangelize and recruit people to his religion. He instituted seminaries around the country and picked ... See full summary »
Stars: Fernando Gil, Simón Andreu, Kai Inowaki, Elena Martínez
Votes: 37
29. The Conquest (2000)
Adventure, Drama
Around 1600, the saga of the bandeirantes towards the interior of the Brazilian territory took place. Disputes over new lands and riches were inevitable. The struggle of the Jesuits, who protected the Indians from slavery, too.
Stars: Alessandra Negrini, Alexandre Borges, Leandra Leal, Leonardo Brício
Votes: 234
30. Francis Xavier and the Samurai's Lost Treasure (1992)
30 min | Animation, Short
After his best friend, Ignatius of Loyola, showed him that true champions are those who risk all to win the world for God, Francis decided to become a Jesuit missionary. His adventures took him to the jungles of India and to Japan.
Director: Fernando Uribe | Stars: Kerry Bulen, C.C. Cabaness, Cam Clarke, John Cygan
Votes: 9
31. Les nouveaux aristocrates (1961)
95 min | Drama
Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do parents and their superficial society firends and the stiff, intolerant catholic ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Rigaud | Stars: Paul Meurisse, Maria Mauban, Yves Vincent, Charles Belmont
Votes: 31
32. Temno (1951)
124 min | Drama, History
Director: Karel Steklý | Stars: Ladislav Bohác, Jirina Svorcová, Eduard Cupák, Theodor Pistek
Votes: 18
33. Ya, Frantsisk Skorina... (1970)
97 min | Biography, History
Director: Boris Stepanov | Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Nikolai Gritsenko, Gediminas Karka, Gunta Virkava
Votes: 18
34. Sermões - A História de Antônio Vieira (1989)
78 min | Biography, Drama, History
History of father Antônio Vieira, born in Portugal, in 1608, and who died in Salvador, Brasil, in 1697. Considered one of the greatest Portuguese writers, master in Rhetoric, he was ... See full summary »
Director: Júlio Bressane | Stars: Othon Bastos, Eduardo Tornaghi, Bia Nunnes, Paschoal Villaboin
Votes: 62
35. La première légion (1963 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Gilbert Pineau | Stars: Jean-Louis Allibert, Jean Barrez, André Charpak, Robert Etcheverry
36. Kozaki ydut (1991)
90 min | Adventure, History
Ukraine at the end of the fifteenth century. Suddenly, all the gunpowder produced in the factories disappears. Cossacks under the leadership of Maksym Trituz gather together to find one of the wagons carrying gunpowder to the Sich.
Director: Sergei Omelchuk | Stars: Mikhail Golubovich, Inna Kapinos, Oleg Maslennikov, Yuri Muravitsky
Votes: 15
37. Sadan miekan mies (1951)
80 min | Adventure, Comedy
Director: Ilmari Unho | Stars: Kalervo Nissilä, Marja Korhonen, Toini Vartiainen, Uljas Kandolin
Votes: 96
38. The Strong Are Lonely (1959 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
Director: Raymond Menmuir | Stars: John Alden, Ric Hutton, Peter Carver, Philip Colledge
39. Zu Pferd durch die Wüste. Das Leben des Forschers und Missionars Eusebio Kino SJ (2002)
29 min | Short
In Mexico, Father Kino is venerated like a saint, in Italy a museum has been dedicated to him, in Washington his statue for the history of the state of Arizona stands in the Capitol, only ... See full synopsis »
Director: Christof Wolf | Stars: Charles W. Polzer, Bill Stoeger
40. Paraguay, corazón de América (1961)
Documentary, Short
Director: Ernesto Giménez Caballero | Star: Ignacio Mateo
42. The Real Deal (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama
In the aftermath of a major world media takeover several seniors at Arrupe High School are challenged to act out against a world they are truly disconnected from.
Directors: Michael Breault, Eddie Siebert | Stars: Kevin Connolly, Matthew Warzel, Orion Acaba, Elijah Adams
Votes: 6
43. Galileo's Sons (2003)
48 min | Documentary
Galileo's Sons is a documentary film about the only community of astrophysicists in the world who are theologians and philosophers: the Jesuits of the Vatican Observatory. This is a journey... See full summary »
Director: Alison E. Rose | Star: Maggie Huculak
44. Surprising Vietnam (2008)
45 min | Documentary
From the rice paddies and small canals of the southern Mekong Delta to the tribal villages of the northern and central highlands to the bustle of its modern cities, Vietnam is a surprise and a delight.
Director: Fred Heiman | Stars: Peggy Heiman, Lu'u Van Hong, Tran Van Trinh
45.
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974–1975)
Episode:
The Werewolf
(1974)
TV-PG | 51 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Kolchak's assigned to interview singles aboard a cruise ship, but finds there's some kind of wolf creature killing passengers during the full moon.
Director: Allen Baron | Stars: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Dick Gautier, Henry Jones
Votes: 633
46.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Thrill
(1997)
TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two punks kill a random victim for the thrill of it. But the prosecution faces the difficult task of convicting two people of the same crime.
Director: Martha Mitchell | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 353
47.
Why Didn't They Laugh? (2018– )
Finding Logos with E. Michael Jones
(2019 Podcast Episode)
Comedy, News
Stars: Owen Benjamin, E. Michael Jones
48.
Shogun (1980)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(1980)
TV-14 | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Treachery, tragedy and turns of events occur.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 242
49.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003–2010)
Episode:
The Vatican
(2009)
TV-14 | Comedy, Documentary
Penn and Teller reveal what an evil organization the Vatican really is.
Directors: Star Price, Tim Rogan | Stars: Penn Jillette, Teller, Pope Benedict XVI, Joelle Casteix
Votes: 118
50.
Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode:
The Dead of Winter
(2010)
TV-PG | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Murders occur in Crevecoeur Hall, a lavish Oxford estate where Hathaway's father was in service and he spent his boyhood.
Director: Bill Anderson | Stars: Richard Johnson, Nathaniel Parker, Jonty Stephens, Georgia Groome
Votes: 731