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1. Sense and Sensibility (1995)
PG | 136 min | Drama, Romance
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.
Director: Ang Lee | Stars: Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, James Fleet, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 125,814 | Gross: $43.18M
2. Middlemarch (1994)
54 min | Drama, Romance
Middlemarch is a story of provincial life on the brink of momentous change and a deeply moving saga about a group of people striving to give meaning and value to their lives during the Industrial Revolution.
Stars: Douglas Hodge, Juliet Aubrey, Trevyn McDowell, Jonathan Firth
Votes: 2,757
3. Doubt (I) (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Mystery
A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis
Votes: 136,113 | Gross: $33.42M
4. Becoming Jane (2007)
PG | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell
Votes: 65,128 | Gross: $18.67M
5. Jane Eyre (2006)
TV-PG | 58 min | Drama, Romance
A young governess falls in love with her brooding and complex master. However, his dark past may destroy their relationship forever.
Stars: Ruth Wilson, Toby Stephens, Lorraine Ashbourne, Aidan McArdle
Votes: 22,381
6. Northanger Abbey (2007 TV Movie)
PG | 84 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Director: Jon Jones | Stars: Geraldine James, Michael Judd, Julia Dearden, Gerry O'Brien
Votes: 16,212
7. Rawhead Rex (1986)
R | 89 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
An ancient creature called Rawhead is awakened from its slumber near an Irish village and goes on a rampage killing anyone in sight.
Director: George Pavlou | Stars: David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Hugh O'Conor, Cora Venus Lunny
Votes: 6,628
8. The Sacrament (2013)
R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
A news team trails a man as he travels into the world of Eden Parish to find his missing sister, where it becomes apparent that this paradise may not be as it seems.
Director: Ti West | Stars: Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen, Kentucker Audley, Amy Seimetz
Votes: 20,922 | Gross: $0.01M
9. Mansfield Park (2007 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 88 min | Drama, Romance
The classic tale by Jane Austen of family scandal, social graces, and the unrequited love between cousins.
Director: Iain B. MacDonald | Stars: Julia Joyce, Douglas Hodge, Maggie O'Neill, Tara Berwin
Votes: 7,554
10. Broken (2017– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
Father Michael, a Catholic priest who presides over an urban northern parish that is modern, nonconformist, and reassuringly imperfect; he must be confidant, counselor, and confessor to a congregation.
Stars: Sean Bean, Fin Campbell, Adrian Dunbar, Sam Rintoul
Votes: 3,389
11. Keeping Mum (2005)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime
A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair, and his children are up to no good.
Director: Niall Johnson | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze
Votes: 35,939 | Gross: $1.62M
12. Going My Way (1944)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown
Votes: 13,460 | Gross: $16.30M
13. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre, Adrien Borel
Votes: 12,726
14. Mansfield Park (1983)
261 min | Drama, Romance
Impoverished Fanny Price is sent to live with her more affluent uncle and aunt. The arrival of new neighbors brings a chance for romance to Fanny and her cousins.
Stars: Anna Massey, Angela Pleasence, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Nicholas Farrell
Votes: 1,132
15. My Mother and Other Strangers (2016)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance, War
In 1943, the Coyne family and their neighbours struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish.
Stars: Ciarán Hinds, Michael Nevin, Hattie Morahan, Owen McDonnell
Votes: 1,780
16. The Proposition (1998)
R | 110 min | Drama, Romance
Longing to have a baby, a sterile 1930s Bostonian hires a man to impregnate his wife.
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Madeleine Stowe, William Hurt, Robert Loggia
Votes: 2,359 | Gross: $0.12M
17. He Knew He Was Right (2004)
240 min | Drama
Louis Trevelyan's refusal to trust his wife Emily destroys their marriage.
Stars: Oliver Dimsdale, Christina Cole, Laura Fraser, Nathan Heath
Votes: 1,717
18. Estigma (1980)
Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The death of Sebastian's father engenders in him pathological fears and hallucinations. His death wishes seem to cause horrible accidents, which he is unable to control. When his older ... See full summary »
Director: José Ramón Larraz | Stars: Christian Borromeo, Alexandra Bastedo, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Berta Cabré
Votes: 280
19. Emma (1972)
240 min | Comedy, Romance
While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.
Stars: Doran Godwin, John Carson, Donald Eccles, Constance Chapman
Votes: 615
20. Edge of Doom (1950)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mentally unbalanced young man kills a priest. One of the priest's colleagues sets out to find the killer.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Robert Keith
Votes: 932
21. Bakhita (2009 TV Movie)
Biography
Bakhita is captured as a slave as a child, a Viennian man sees her. Many years later the man has returned to do business and recognizes her. After saving her, he takes her back to his home.... See full summary »
Director: Giacomo Campiotti | Stars: Teresa Acerbis, Ettore Bassi, Federica Bau, Sonia Bergamasco
Votes: 255
22. Magnificat (2023)
98 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When an elderly priest died, the people in charge of his diocese discovered that it was a woman. Without anyone suspecting it, she had been practicing her vocation for years. Dismayed, the ... See full summary »
Director: Virginie Sauveur | Stars: Karin Viard, François Berléand, Maxime Bergeron, Nicolas Cazalé
Votes: 159
23. Nothing Sacred (1997–1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama
Kevin Anderson plays Father Ray, a passionate priest/teacher who questions his calling, his existence, and his faith as he deals with the problems of the poor and the troubled.
Stars: Kevin Anderson, Ann Dowd, Bruce Altman, Scott Michael Campbell
Votes: 180
24. The Confessor (2004)
PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A preacher investigates a murder and a young priest
Director: Lewin Webb | Stars: Christian Slater, Molly Parker, Stephen Rea, Gordon Pinsent
Votes: 1,587
25. Plebania (2000–2012)
30 min | Drama, Romance
Stars: Wlodzimierz Matuszak, Ewa Kurylo, Katarzyna Laniewska, Bernadetta Machala-Krzeminska
Votes: 251
26. Hell Town (1985 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Robert Blake, Jeff Corey, James Gammon, Zitto Kazann
Votes: 65
27. The Real Jane Austen (2002 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
A dramatized documentary on the life of Jane Austen.
Director: Nicky Pattison | Stars: Anna Chancellor, Gillian Kearney, John Standing, Lara Harvey
Votes: 170
28. A Congregation of Ghosts (2009)
93 min | Drama
After accepting the job as vicar at a remote parish, eccentric cleric Frederick Densham promptly alienates his conservative congregation. Subsequently shunned by the whole community, he ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Collicott | Stars: Chris Batters, Bill Bingham, Andrew Dinner, Susannah Doyle
Votes: 32
29. Strange Fruit (2004)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
William Boyals, a successful, black, gay attorney in New York, is drawn back to the small, rural Louisiana town he long ago escaped from to investigate the lynching of a black gay childhood friend.
Director: Kyle Schickner | Stars: Ron Allen, Cornell S. Thomas, Kent Faulcon, Aaron Kleven
Votes: 262
30. María y los niños pobres (2010)
80 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Due to different circumstances several kids work in the streets of La Paz (Bolivia). While a group of Catholic priests help them they are endangered by organ thieves and drug dealers. When ... See full summary »
Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Mariana Liquitaya, Sebastián Obermaier, Jorge Luis Villacorta Santamato, Mauricio Aparicio
Votes: 23
31. That Very Troublesome Woman: The Dramatic Search for Mary MacKillop (1987 Video)
62 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Director: John Mabey | Stars: Neil Fitzpatrick, Les Foxcroft, William Upjohn
32. In Heaven as It Is on Earth (1998)
100 min | Comedy
Russian woman is robbed after crossing Polish border and has to wait until the local policemen catch the thieves. The priest, who is the main authority in the town, orders that she stays at organist's house.
Director: Jacek Bromski | Stars: Jan Wieczorkowski, Krzysztof Dzierma, Andrzej Beja-Zaborski, Anna Yanovskaya
Votes: 1,121
33. Virgen de Copacabana ... su historia y sus milagros (2012)
85 min | Drama, Fantasy, History
Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Stars: Mariana Liquitaya, Sebastián Obermaier, Claudia Aguilar, Félix Aguilera
34. Father O Father (1976 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy
Comedic conflict result when a young priest, raised in the ghetto is assigned to work with an old conservative one.
Directors: Lee Bernhardi, Peter Bonerz | Stars: Iggie Wolfington, Dennis Dugan, Helen Page Camp, Kathleen Freeman
35. Miss mokrego podkoszulka (2003 TV Movie)
55 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Witold Adamek | Stars: Piotr Fronczewski, Magdalena Mazur, Marta Lipinska, Jerzy Trela
Votes: 112
36. Pieklo, niebo (2005 TV Movie)
57 min | Drama
When the old parish priest has a heart attack, all his duties are handed over to a young new priest. Not only does he have to cope with the First Communion celebration, but also with the small town's painful secrets.
Director: Natalia Koryncka-Gruz | Stars: Jan Frycz, Bartosz Glogowski, Anna Radwan, Justyna Lorenc
Votes: 24
37. Mary Mackillop: Soul of the Sunburnt Country (2010 Video)
73 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Graeme Rowland | Stars: Brett Climo, Helen Morse, Lewis Fiander
38. Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop (2012 Video)
204 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Star: Pope Benedict XVI
39. Celebrating the Life of Mary Mackillop: Canonisation (2010 Video)
136 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Directors: Andrew Beiers, Tracey Sanders | Stars: Judy Sippel, Anne Derwin, Laura Caloia, Erin Cassidy
40. Mary MacKillop: The Musical (2009 Video)
120 min | Biography, History, Music
Director: Timothy Davey | Stars: Daniela Scala, Daniela Scala, Rachel Vidoni
41. Victoria Celebrates the Centenary of Blessed Mary MacKillop's Death (2009 Video)
97 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Stars: Denis Hart, Jade Deguera
42. Columbia Musical Travelark: Wonders of New Orleans (1957)
Approved | 19 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A deluxe musical sight-seeing tour of the famed city, vividly capturing the cosmopolitan mood and spirit of the Queen of the Mississippi, culminating in the breathtaking pageantry and multi-colored beauty of the Mardi Gras.
Director: Harry Foster | Stars: George Jessel, Bill Hayes, Rose Marie Jun, Jim Peterson Singers
43. The Cause of Mary MacKillop (1994 Video)
60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Tim Nicholls | Star: Noni Hazlehurst
44. The Legend Is Alive: Mary MacKillop Beatified 19th January 1995 (1995 Video)
7 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
45. Long Have I Loved You: The Story of Mary Mackillop - Australian People's Saint (1993 Video)
16 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
46. MacKillop's Melbourne (1994 Video)
25 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Director: Richard Leonard | Star: Beverley Dunn
47. Michael Willesee's Australians: Mary Mackillop (1987 Video)
48 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Examines the life of Mary MacKillop, an exceptionally single-minded and dedicated woman who became Sister Mary of the Cross in the Order of St. Joseph, Australia's first religious order.
Director: Mark Callen | Stars: Nicholas Eadie, Lorna Lesley
48. I Remember Mary MacKillop (1994 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Director: Joanne Rowe | Stars: Caroline Jones, William McLeod, Robert Sullivan, Julian Rowe
49. Talking About Mary MacKillop: Interviews (2010 Video)
36 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Mary Casey, Kay Pavlou, Bill Crews, Osman Karolia
50. Wakacje z Madonna (1985 TV Movie)
81 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Jerzy Kolodziejczyk | Stars: Marta Klubowicz, Krzysztof Kiersznowski, Marta Stebnicka, Maria Stokowska
Votes: 25