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1. Sister Act (1992)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Family, Music

When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.

Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn

Votes: 108,351 | Gross: $139.61M

2. Angels in the Outfield (1951)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

The Pittsburgh Pirates' brash and abusive manager receives the help of an angel to win games and become a better person in the process.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Paul Douglas, Janet Leigh, Keenan Wynn, Donna Corcoran

Votes: 2,963

3. Mirrors (I) (2008)

R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery

An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce

Votes: 113,709 | Gross: $30.69M

4. Making of a Prostitute (1971)

85 min | Drama

A teenager lays a small bundle on the tracks, but before the oncoming train can cross it, an older woman saves the baby from certain death. She keeps little Sophie with her and raises her to be a well-behaved girl.

Director: Gustav Ehmck | Stars: Gerhild Berktold, Axel Schiessler, Werner Umberg, Dursun Firat

Votes: 184

5. Bedazzled (1967)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.

Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch

Votes: 9,814

6. Ophelia (I) (2018)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A reimagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective.

Director: Claire McCarthy | Stars: Daisy Ridley, Mia Quiney, Calum O'Rourke, Nathaniel Parker

Votes: 13,048 | Gross: $0.05M

7. The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

PG-13 | 144 min | Drama, Romance

An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.

Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey, Martin Donovan

Votes: 12,670 | Gross: $3.69M

8. A Call to Spy (2019)

PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In the beginning of WWII, with Britain becoming desperate, Churchill orders his new spy agency - SOE - to recruit and train women as spies.

Director: Lydia Dean Pilcher | Stars: Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Linus Roache

Votes: 9,345

9. Fatima (2020)

PG-13 | 113 min | Drama, War

Three young shepherds in Fátima, Portugal report visions of the Virgin Mary, inspiring believers and angering officials of the Church and the government, who try to force them to recant their story. Based on historical events.

Director: Marco Pontecorvo | Stars: Joaquim de Almeida, Goran Visnjic, Stephanie Gil, Alejandra Howard

Votes: 4,102

10. Viridiana (1961)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo

Votes: 26,122

11. The Bullocks (1953)

Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama

A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste

Votes: 19,902 | Gross: $0.10M

12. Walking with the Enemy (2013)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Drama, History

A young man, separated from his family in World War II, disguises himself as a Nazi S.S. Officer and uncovers more than just his family whereabouts.

Director: Mark Schmidt | Stars: Jonas Armstrong, Ben Kingsley, Hannah Tointon, Simon Kunz

Votes: 2,632 | Gross: $0.36M

13. Alucarda (1977)

R | 78 min | Horror

After the death of her parents, a young girl arrives at a convent and brings a sinister presence with her. Is it her enigmatic imaginary friend, Alucarda, who is to blame? Or is there a satanic force at work?

Director: Juan López Moctezuma | Stars: Claudio Brook, David Silva, Tina Romero, Susana Kamini

Votes: 4,081

14. Dark Waters (1993)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.

Director: Mariano Baino | Stars: Louise Salter, Venera Simmons, Mariya Kapnist, Lubov Snegur

Votes: 3,046

15. 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: 1,540 | Gross: $0.04M

16. Madame Bovary (1991)

PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Romance

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne

Votes: 4,481 | Gross: $1.94M

17. The Nun (1966)

GP | 140 min | Drama

Suzanne 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.

Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle, Francine Bergé

Votes: 3,240 | Gross: $0.03M

18. The River (1951)

Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance

The growing pains of three young women contrast with the immutability of the holy Bengal River, around which their daily lives unfold.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Patricia Walters, Nora Swinburne, Esmond Knight, Arthur Shields

Votes: 6,882

19. 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

20. Love & Savagery (2009)

95 min | Drama, Romance

In 1969, a visiting geologist from Newfoundland arouses scandal in a small Irish village when he romances a local girl who's destined for the convent.

Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Allan Hawco, Sarah Greene, Louise Nicol, Martha Burns

Votes: 331

21. The Star Maker (1995)

R | 113 min | Drama, Romance

A photographer and the types of people he encounters.

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore | Stars: Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Franco Scaldati, Leopoldo Trieste

Votes: 5,478 | Gross: $0.12M

22. Agnus Dei (1997)

90 min | Drama

The young girl Johannes 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.

Director: Cæcilia Holbek Trier | Stars: Amalie Dollerup, Kirsten Rolffes, Bodil Jørgensen, Lisbet Dahl

Votes: 99

23. 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: 3,362

24. Monsieur Vincent (1947)

Not Rated | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

St. Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among peasants and nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles.

Director: Maurice Cloche | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Aimé Clariond, Jean Debucourt, Lise Delamare

Votes: 994

25. Mozart's Sister (2010)

Not Rated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A reimagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang, and a musical prodigy in her own right.

Director: René Féret | Stars: Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau

Votes: 1,614 | Gross: $0.71M

26. Mamta (1966)

150 min | Drama, Romance

Monish Rai comes from a wealthy family, and is in love with Deviyani, who is poor. Monish has to travel abroad to further his education in law, but promises to stay in touch with Deviyani. ... See full summary »

Director: Asit Sen | Stars: Ashok Kumar, Dharmendra, Suchitra Sen, Kalipada Chakraborty

Votes: 142

27. Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2011)

PG-13 | 86 min | Documentary, Biography

A look at the life and work of the influential fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland.

Directors: Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Frédéric Tcheng | Stars: Diana Vreeland, Richard Avedon, David Bailey, Lauren Bacall

Votes: 1,695 | Gross: $1.00M

28. O viasmos mias monahis (1983)

85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young girl is forced by her father to become a nun. But soon she finds out that dark secrets are hiding behind the convent walls and that she's there to serve lustful human masters and not God.

Director: Giorgos Mylonas | Stars: Liana Thanou, Nikos Tsachiridis, Giorgos Mataragas, Efi Mavridi

Votes: 37

29. Kanamarayathu (1984)

130 min | Drama, Romance

A young girl who is brought up in an orphanage starts college in a different city where she meets her sponsor (whom she doesn't recognize) - a chronic bachelor and another young man who is all smitten by her.

Director: I.V. Sasi | Stars: Mammootty, Shobana, Rahman, Seema

Votes: 162

30. The New Adventures of Heidi (1978 TV Movie)

PG | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Heidi leaves the mountains of Switzerland for a trip to New York City.

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: Burl Ives, Katy Kurtzman, John Gavin, Marlyn Mason

Votes: 153

31. Glaube - Der Film (2011)

15 min | Short

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Director: Reinhard Trinkler | Stars: Frater Florian Pazifikus Maria Moscher, Gioia Osthoff

32. The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
Episode: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia? (1990)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Sophia decides to become a nun to honor a friend who recently passed away.

Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Votes: 387