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1. Mommie Dearest (1981)

R | 129 min | Biography, Drama

The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.

Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva

Votes: 18,384 | Gross: $19.03M

2. Problem Child (1990)

PG | 81 min | Comedy, Family

A young boy just short of a monster is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.

Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Michael Oliver, John Ritter, Jack Warden, Gilbert Gottfried

Votes: 33,077 | Gross: $53.47M

3. The Painted Veil (2006)

PG-13 | 125 min | Drama, Romance

Dr Walter gets married to the beautiful Kitty but soon finds out that she is cheating on him. Battling his way through problems, he heads to China to fight a dreaded disease spread in a small village.

Director: John Curran | Stars: Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Catherine An

Votes: 95,997 | Gross: $8.06M

4. Evelyn (2002)

PG | 94 min | Drama

Desmond's wife leaves him and their 3 kids after Christmas 1953. As he's unemployed in Dublin, the authorities place the kids in orphanages; when he finds a job, he tries to get his kids back.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Julianna Margulies, Aidan Quinn, Sophie Vavasseur

Votes: 7,131 | Gross: $1.48M

5. Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

Unrated | 111 min | Comedy, Family

A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.

Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Louise Troy

Votes: 9,822 | Gross: $25.91M

6. Omen IV: The Awakening (1991 TV Movie)

Unrated | 97 min | Horror

Two attorneys adopt a mysterious orphan girl as their daughter, unaware she is the new Antichrist, next in line to Damien Thorn.

Directors: Jorge Montesi, Dominique Othenin-Girard | Stars: Faye Grant, Michael Woods, Michael Lerner, Madison Mason

Votes: 7,785

7. Alice, Sweet Alice (1976)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

In 1961, a divorced Catholic couple's life is turned upside-down when one of their two adolescent daughters is suspected of her younger sister's brutal murder during her First Holy Communion and a series of subsequent stabbings.

Director: Alfred Sole | Stars: Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard, Niles McMaster

Votes: 12,981

8. The Trouble with Angels (1966)

PG | 112 min | Comedy, Family

Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters.

Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes, Camilla Sparv

Votes: 5,791

9. The Flying Nun (1967–1970)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Fantasy

The misadventures of a nun who can fly and her convent and neighbours.

Stars: Sally Field, Marge Redmond, Madeleine Sherwood, Alejandro Rey

Votes: 2,805

10. Ida regénye (2022 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 80 min | Romance

A turn-of-the-century romance story based on Géza Gárdonyi's novel of the same name. Her father finds a husband for the nineteen-year-old Ida through a want ad, but can the contractual marriage turn into love?

Director: Krisztina Goda | Stars: Júlia Mentes, Barnabás Rohonyi, Gábor Hevér, Angéla Stefanovics

Votes: 594

11. Marquis de Sade's Justine (1977)

Unrated | 99 min | Drama

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 ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Boger | Stars: Koo Stark, Martin Potter, Lydia Lisle, Katherine Kath

Votes: 574

12. Our Man in Havana (1959)

Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Burl Ives, Ernie Kovacs

Votes: 6,109

13. Audrey Rose (1977)

PG | 113 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A stranger attempts to convince a happily married couple that their daughter is actually his daughter reincarnated.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Marsha Mason, John Beck, Susan Swift

Votes: 6,696

14. The Mighty Macs (2009)

G | 99 min | Drama, Sport

In the early '70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach of a tiny girls' Catholic college that has no gym and is in danger of being sold, and she determines to steer her team to their first national championship.

Director: Tim Chambers | Stars: Carla Gugino, Marley Shelton, Ellen Burstyn, David Boreanaz

Votes: 1,862 | Gross: $1.86M

15. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)

Unrated | 126 min | Drama

At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan

Votes: 9,380 | Gross: $21.30M

16. Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968)

G | 93 min | Comedy

An old-line Mother Superior is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls of St. Francis Academy on a bus trip across the United States.

Director: James Neilson | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes

Votes: 1,823

17. Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)

Unrated | 102 min | Drama, Horror

Two bored Catholic schoolgirls spending summer in the countryside decide to become Satanists, and begin committing a series of morbid and increasingly dangerous crimes.

Director: Joël Séria | Stars: Jeanne Goupil, Catherine Wagener, Bernard Dhéran, Gérard Darrieu

Votes: 2,736

18. Krakatoa: East of Java (1968)

G | 131 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In 1883, ship captain Hanson plans a shipwreck salvage mission in The Dutch East Indies to retrieve a cargo of pearls but an unexpected volcano eruption and a state-ordered transport of convicts upset his plans.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle

Votes: 1,876 | Gross: $2.40M

19. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

Passed | 137 min | Drama, War

A young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner

Votes: 3,093

20. Brides of Christ (1991)

Drama

Diane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its ... See full summary »

Stars: Brenda Fricker, Sandy Gore, Josephine Byrnes, Lisa Hensley

Votes: 701

21. The Nun (2005)

R | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Years ago, a cruel and merciless nun turned boarding school into a living hell for her students until they could no longer bear the abuse, and she mysteriously disappeared. Now the alumnae are being brutally murdered one by one.

Director: Luis de la Madrid | Stars: Aníta Briem, Belén Blanco, Manu Fullola, Alistair Freeland

Votes: 3,561

22. Bluebeard (2009)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

An adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard.

Director: Catherine Breillat | Stars: Dominique Thomas, Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir, Marilou Lopes-Benites

Votes: 1,543 | Gross: $0.04M

23. Bruno (2000)

PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama

Bruno is a unique young boy genius, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.

Director: Shirley MacLaine | Stars: Alex D. Linz, Shirley MacLaine, Gary Sinise, Joey Lauren Adams

Votes: 1,604

24. Satan Never Sleeps (1962)

Approved | 125 min | Drama, History, War

During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.

Directors: Leo McCarey, David W. Orton | Stars: William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler

Votes: 864

25. Girls Town (1959)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Silver is a troubled teenage girl sent to a Catholic reform school, where she has trouble fitting in.

Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé, Ray Anthony, Margaret Hayes

Votes: 1,004

26. The Nude Restaurant (1967)

100 min | Comedy

At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string (played by Viva) and a G-bestringed (bestrung?) waiter. Some of ... See full summary »

Director: Andy Warhol | Stars: Brigid Berlin, Julian Burrough, Taylor Mead, Allen Midgette

Votes: 215

27. The Private War of Major Benson (1955)

Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

As a disciplinary measure, the Army transfers a heavy-handed Major to a ROTC academy where he must shape-up cadets and improve the school's overall ratings.

Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, William Demarest, Tim Hovey

Votes: 978

28. Queen Kelly (1932)

Passed | 101 min | Drama

A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.

Directors: Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sylvia Ashton

Votes: 3,366

29. Stealing Heaven (1988)

R | 108 min | Drama, History, Romance

In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beautiful niece of a local patrician fall madly in love and consummate their passion for each other. In the religious uproar that follows, they are condemned and brutally punished.

Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Derek de Lint, Kim Thomson, Denholm Elliott, Bernard Hepton

Votes: 828

30. Bernadette (1988)

PG | 119 min | Drama

In 1857, an unemployed miller moves his family into grim lodgings; his wife takes in laundry. In February of 1858, at the Massabielle grotto, their 14-year old asthmatic, illiterate ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Sydney Penny, Jean-Marc Bory, Jean-Marie Bernicat, Philippe Brigaud

Votes: 257 | Gross: $0.01M

31. The American (1998 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Romance

After the horror of the Civil War, "ignorant" Christopher Newman (Matthew Modine) made his fortune. He travels to France is search of cultural treasures. He won't get past the Paris ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Unwin | Stars: Matthew Modine, Diana Rigg, Aisling O'Sullivan, Paul Hickey

Votes: 239

32. The Countess Died of Laughter (1973)

87 min | Comedy

A man goes to a convent with exciting news, one of the nuns is an heir to a fortune! The man causes the nuns to become obsessed with him as he tries to find the right heir.

Director: Franz Antel | Stars: Teri Tordai, Gabriele Tinti, Femi Benussi, Christina Losta

Votes: 89

33. Applause (1929)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron

Votes: 1,503

34. Conspiracy of Hearts (1960)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, War

Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.

Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Sylvia Syms, Yvonne Mitchell, Ronald Lewis

Votes: 561

35. Christmas Lilies of the Field (1979 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

Homer Smith returns to the chapel which, years before, he helped to build to find that the nuns have taken in a group of homeless/unwanted/runaway children. Once again, he is inspired by ... See full summary »

Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Maria Schell, Fay Hauser, Lisa Mann

Votes: 112

36. Miracle at Moreaux (1985 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 58 min | Drama, History, War

It is 1943, and the students at a catholic boarding school decide to hide three Jewish children from the Nazis. To save the children, the members of the boarding school will have to find the courage to risk their own lives in the process.

Director: Paul Shapiro | Stars: Loretta Swit, Robert Joy, Ken Pogue, Robert Kosoy

Votes: 146

37. Kongo (1932)

Passed | 86 min | Drama, Horror

This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a ... See full summary »

Director: William J. Cowen | Stars: Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce

Votes: 1,124

38. Frost in May (1982– )

85 min | Drama

Adaptation of a series of novels by Antonia White about a young girl challenging her authoritarian Catholic environment as she grows up.

Stars: John Carson, Elizabeth Shepherd, Janet Maw, Daniel Day-Lewis

Votes: 33

39. St Joseph's Convent Documentary (2017)

50 min | Documentary, History

Documentary about the unusual events at the St Joseph's Convent school in Sidcup. Loved by many of the pupils who recount their memories surrounded by art and incense.

Director: Stephen Armourae | Stars: Fleur Adcock, Besson Alexandre, Léon-Adolphe Amette, Lesley Anslow

40. The Little Nuns (1963)

100 min | Comedy

Two 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Catherine Spaak, Amedeo Nazzari, Didi Perego, Umberto D'Orsi

Votes: 58

41. A Time for Miracles (1980 TV Movie)

97 min | Biography, Drama

A true story about Elizabeth Bayley Seton, the first American to ever be canonized as a saint by the Pope. She took up Catholicism after the death of her rich husband, fought bigotry, and opened free Catholic schools and orphanages.

Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Rossano Brazzi, John Forsythe

Votes: 115

42. Miss Nitouche (1954)

90 min | Comedy

Denise discovered that Celestin leads a double life: he composes operetta night for his mistress, a young singer named Corinne.

Director: Yves Allégret | Stars: Fernandel, Pier Angeli, Jean Debucourt, Georges Chamarat

Votes: 156

43. Sally and Saint Anne (1952)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy

Sally O'Moyne, a good-natured but awkward school-girl lives with her extended and eccentric Irish-American clan. One day at school, unable to find her lunch bucket, Sally says a prayer to ... See full summary »

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Ann Blyth, Edmund Gwenn, John McIntire, Gregg Palmer

Votes: 144

44. A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942)

83 min | Comedy, Drama

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school: the happy moments, the sad ones and the tragic love for a Garibaldian.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Leonardo Cortese, María Mercader, Carla Del Poggio, Fausto Guerzoni

Votes: 379

45. Little Miss Thoroughbred (1938)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

A young orphan girl wants a small-time gambler to be her father.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Frank McHugh, Janet Chapman

Votes: 130

46. The Awakening (1956)

97 min | Drama

A Roman nun who was a missionary in Africa for 20 years is sent to a convent near Naples where she grows very fond of a boy whose father has died. The child's mother is about to leave him ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Anna Magnani, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Antonio Cifariello, Bruna Cealti

Votes: 84

47. The Bells of St. Mary's (1959 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

The story of a group of nuns at the convent of St. Mary's and their efforts to convince a millionaire to help pay for the repairs to their poorly capitalized and decaying parochial school.

Director: Tom Donovan | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Marc Connelly, Glenda Farrell, Nancy Marchand

Votes: 55

48. Sacred Hearts (II) (1984)

95 min | Comedy, Drama

Life in a repressive convent school during the Second World War.

Director: Barbara Rennie | Stars: Anna Massey, Katrin Cartlidge, Oona Kirsch, Fiona Shaw

Votes: 68

49. The Bride's Play (1922)

70 min | Drama, Romance

An Irish lass is torn between the poet who seduced her and noble man who truly loves.

Director: George Terwilliger | Stars: Marion Davies, John B. O'Brien, Frank Shannon, Wyndham Standing

Votes: 333

50. King of the Hill (1997–2010)
Episode: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Hill (2002)

TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Peggy pretends to be a nun to get a job teaching Spanish at a Catholic school.

Directors: Gary McCarver, Klay Hall | Stars: Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy

Votes: 345