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- DirectorMaggie BettsStarsMelissa LeoLisa StewartAlyssa BrindleySet in the early 1960s and during the era of Vatican II, a young woman in training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, the changing church and sexuality.
- DirectorJohan LiedgrenStarsLiza CurtissJaryl DraperBradley GoodwillAccused of grave transgressions, one young nun battles the oldest of beliefs as the true nature of sexuality is put on trial. A tale fusing rapid-fire chamber-drama with fearless acting and relentless cinematic appeal.
- DirectorCamille PoissonStarsJill AndreKaleigh KrishLauren RigauSet in New England, five teenage girls living in a boarding school, discover a secretive practice. It is unexpectedly performed by a group of older nuns, and it affects the girls' belief system.
- DirectorJan DunnStarsBrenda BlethynEmily BeechamSusannah YorkJoanna - a university student - leaves her course to become a nun.
- DirectorPhilippe GagnonStarsSusie AbromeitAmanda BrugelAllison HossackAfter a mysterious death at the Abbey, Sister Talia finds herself caught in the center of the internal investigation. With strict orders from the newly elected Mother Superior, she must uncover the truth behind the death and ensure the Abbey remains undisturbed. Things take a sharp turn when another sister is found murdered and Sister Talia is forced to find the killer. As she discovers larger secrets plaguing the Abbey, Sister Talia must reconcile her past life in order to follow through with the task at hand. For Sister Talia, all that she knows about the Abbey and her Sisters is about to come into question, as she discovers sometimes the good kill.
- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsJane FondaAnne BancroftMeg TillyWhen a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaStarsBarbara SukowaHeino FerchHannah HerzsprungThe life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run counter to the patriarchal world around her. The monks and nuns at the convent become a kind of family, offering both confidants and enemies. For example Jutta, struggling with her jealousy of Hildegard's success, and the young Richardis who worships Hildegard both as an intellectual role model and a mother figure.
- DirectorGuillaume NiclouxStarsPauline EtienneIsabelle HuppertLouise Bourgoin1760s France. Suzanne is shocked when her bourgeois family sends her to a convent. There she faces oppression and torment, leading her to fight back and expose the dehumanizing effect of cloistered life.
- DirectorJacques RivetteStarsAnna KarinaLiselotte PulverMicheline PresleSuzanne is forced against her will to take vows as a nun and three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses.
- DirectorBarbara RennieStarsAnna MasseyKatrin CartlidgeOona KirschLife in a repressive convent school during the Second World War.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsSean ConneryChristian SlaterHelmut QualtingerAn intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
- DirectorJohn Patrick ShanleyStarsMeryl StreepPhilip Seymour HoffmanAmy AdamsA Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
- DirectorRobbie MoffatStarsChris BearneMaurice ByrneSuzanne KendallFather Fred, a hashish-smoking monk, Father john, a sex-obsessed priest, and Sister Eliza, a nun who has lost her faith, are sent by the Bishop of Brussels on a road trip to St Patrick's Purgatory in North West Ireland.
- StarsDerek JacobiMichael CulverJulian FirthThe medieval era cases of a Crusader-turned-Monk who investigates mysteries in the Norman English town of Shrewsbury.
- StarsKristin Scott ThomasSandra VoeAnthony ValentineA nun discovers she has more to give outside her convent.
- StarsConcha VelascoMaría MassipAntonio CanalSt. Teresa de Jesús struggles against all odds to reform the Order of Carmelites in the sixteenth century Spain.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsBradford DillmanDolores HartStuart WhitmanIn 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
- DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsGraham FaulknerJudi BowkerLeigh LawsonDramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.
- DirectorDomenico PaolellaStarsEleonora GiorgiSuzy KendallCatherine SpaakRefusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth, and the stern but evil Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.
- DirectorDomenico PaolellaStarsAnne HeywoodLuc MerendaOrnella MutiDuring the 1570s, in the convent of Sant'Arcangelo di Baiano, after the death of the mother superior, a power struggle rages on, as one nun, who comes from a powerful family, is willing to do anything to become the new abbess.
- CreatorPatricia Arriaga-JordánStarsPia WatsonAlberto ColladoArcelia RamírezThis series dramatizes the life of Juana Inés de la Cruz, a renowned writer, nun and influential political figure in 17th-century Mexico.
- StarsJohn TurturroRupert EverettDamian HardungIn 1327, an enlightened friar and his young apprentice investigate a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey risking the wrath of a powerful Inquisitor. Television adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose'.
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykStarsLigia BraniceHoward RossMarina PierroOn the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns. However, what they get up to in their spare time is far from what you'd expect from nuns.
- DirectorDarren Lynn BousmanStarsCarolyn HennesyHannah FiermanCourtney HalversonIn the 1950s in small-town Georgia, a pregnant young woman named Agatha seeks refuge in a convent.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsVirginie EfiraCharlotte RamplingDaphné PatakiaA 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.
- DirectorCristian MungiuStarsCosmina StratanCristina FluturValeriu AndriutaThe friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.
- DirectorJerzy KawalerowiczStarsLucyna WinnickaMieczyslaw VoitAnna CiepielewskaA priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
- StarsBrenda FrickerSandy GoreJosephine ByrnesThe struggles of nuns and students at a Roman Catholic convent school in 1960s Sydney.
- DirectorGiorgio CapitaniStarsVittoria BelvedereMartin CrewesSimone AscaniThe story of St. Rita of Cascia and her virtue.
- DirectorEriprando ViscontiStarsAnne HeywoodAntonio SabatoHardy KrügerA film loosely based on real life events of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.
- DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsDiana RiggPamela BrownGwen WatfordA well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
- DirectorJohn BaileyStarsGeraldine O'RaweEva Marie SaintAlex AppelSet in a turn-of-the-century religious community about a nun who has recently taken her vows.
- DirectorDominik MollStarsVincent CasselSergi LópezJordi DauderMadrid, in the seventeenth century. Abandoned at the doorstep of a monastery, Ambrosio has been brought up by the Capucin Friars. After becoming a friar himself, he becomes an unrivaled preacher whose sermons draw crowds and earn him the admiration of all. Admired for his extreme rigor and absolute virtue, Ambrosio is certain he is safe from any temptation. But Satan has not said his final word...
- DirectorNikolay DostalStarsTimofey TribuntsevGeorgiy FetisovBoris KamorzinA new brother settles in the friary. But dark forces follow him into the monastery and from time to time they materialize as Legion. Legion has chosen Ivan as the object of his devilish work, tempting him in every possible way in an attempt to make him abandon the chosen path of God.
- CreatorDavid SeltzerStarsBill PullmanNatascha McElhoneMichael MasseeJust before the start of the Apocalypse, a physicist and a nun race against the clock to see if the end of the world can be averted.
- DirectorPhilip GröningAn examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsAlfredo CastroRoberto FaríasAntonia ZegersA 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.
- DirectorElizabeth E. SchuchStarsSuzan CrowleyIlirida MemedovskiKymberly MellenThe Strange Events of the Life of Birdie.
- DirectorSean BloomfieldCimela KidonakisStarsDick McMahonEric NewcombeJames BloomfieldWhere There Is Darkness documents the story of a priest who reaches out from beyond the grave to save the life of the man who murdered him.
- DirectorKurt KnightStarsJake StormoenKristian NairnAdam JohnsonWhen a medieval monk unexpectedly dies in a horrific way, the Church sends Mateho the Inquisitor, a rational man of science, to investigate the alleged 'witch'. When Mateho himself becomes implicated as more monks die mysteriously, he must learn that science cannot explain the horrors around him, before he is seduced by the evil that haunts this monastery.
- DirectorMichael TullyStarsBobby RoddyMark LawrenceSue WalshAn American artist's obsession with a disturbing urban legend leads her to an investigation of the story's origins at the crumbling estate of a reclusive painter in Ireland.
- DirectorGilberto Martínez SolaresStarsEnrique RochaCecilia PezetDelia MagañaA young nun is tempted by visions of forbidden sexual fantasies to cross over to Satan.
- DirectorMichal KondratStarsKamila KaminskaMaciej MalysaJanusz ChabiorDocudrama tracing the life of Saint Faustina Kowalska, whose visions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Apostle of Divine Mercy".
- DirectorJerzy LukaszewiczStarsDorota SegdaDanuta SzaflarskaAgnieszka CzekanskaThe Life of saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska, a Polish Nun.
- DirectorXavier GensStarsSophie CooksonCorneliu UliciAda LupuWhen Nicole comes in contact with Father Anton (Corneliu Ulici) more and more inexplicable events occur. The pair begin to believe that the priest lost the battle with a demon.
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsCharles McCallumJohn FrawleyArthur DignamFred Schepisi's first feature is this lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy's coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Australia.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsAudrey HepburnPeter FinchEdith EvansAfter leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
- StarsSusana G. EstebanJordi AguilarAitor LunaIn 14th-century Barcelona, a serf's determined climb to wealth and freedom incurs the disdain of the noble class and the suspicion of the Inquisition.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsGiovanna RalliGabriele FerzettiMario FelicianiVirginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger.
- DirectorBruno MatteiStarsZora KerovaMario CutiniPaola CorazziSister Virginia becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Debauched priest Don Arrigone and lecherous womanizer Giampaolo Osio plot to seduce sister Virginia by any means necessary.
- DirectorLuciano SalceStarsCatherine SpaakAmedeo NazzariDidi PeregoTwo nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
- DirectorAustin HsiehStarsJudith RobertsAlix EliasAlison EnglandBased on a true story, two nuns go on the run when they discover they are about to be sent to a retirement home.
- DirectorGiovanni AloisioStarsMattia GalantinoAgata ParadisoCaterina OrlandoBruno lives in a convent with three nuns. He's staying with them acting as a caretaker, but convent requires the assistance of a housekeeper and they hire Helena. Bruno falls in love with despite the consequences.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsJennifer JonesCharles BickfordWilliam Eythe14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.
- DirectorIvana Marinic KragicStarsMia Anocic ValenticMaruska ArasJadranka ElezovicTwo nuns meet during a Catholic gathering and fall in love. Disillusioned by the Church and abuse within they decide to leave the convent.
- DirectorPaul ColletPierre DrouotStarsNellie RosiersJosine van DalsumJules HamelCrippled as a young girl, Sabine vows to become a nun if cured. But when it turns out the original diagnosis was faulty and she regains the use of her legs, she decides to marry instead. Wreaked with guild when her first child is stillborn, Sabine enters a monastery where her sister Gertrude also resides. But after her sister dies of an illness, Sabine leaves the nuns behind and travels to India seeking peace.