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1. The Monk (2011)

R | 101 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

56 Metascore

Madrid, 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Dominik Moll | Stars: Vincent Cassel, Sergi López, Jordi Dauder, Joséphine Japy

Votes: 4,126 | Gross: $0.01M

2. The Monk (1990)

106 min | Drama, Horror

The monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. However, when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin to show themselves.

Director: Francisco Lara Polop | Stars: Paul McGann, Sophie Ward, Isla Blair, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

Votes: 97

3. Daens (1992)

138 min | Biography, Drama, History

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the ... See full summary »

Director: Stijn Coninx | Stars: Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck, Michael Pas

Votes: 4,395

4. Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)

150 min | Drama

A doctor in Fascist Italy is exiled to a remote village for his political views.

Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari

Votes: 2,734 | Gross: $0.07M

5. Silence (I) (2016)

R | 161 min | Drama, History

79 Metascore

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: 122,927 | Gross: $7.10M

6. 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: 7,663 | Gross: $8.21M

7. Priest (1994)

R | 98 min | Drama, Romance

A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.

Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson

Votes: 11,030 | Gross: $4.18M

8. Die Elixiere des Teufels (1973)

96 min | Drama, History

Young seminary student Franziskus (Benjamin Besson) has been ceremonially ordained. He wants to escape the harshness and injustice of the world and devote himself to the service of God in ... See full summary »

Directors: Brigitte Kirsten, Ralf Kirsten | Stars: Benjamin Besson, Jaroslava Schallerová, Andrzej Kopiczynski, Milena Dvorská

Votes: 24

9. Die Elixiere des Teufels (1976)

113 min | Drama

Monk Medardus (Dieter Laser), administrator of the relic chamber of a Capuchin monastery, drinks from the elixirs of the devil and is confronted with the dark sides of his soul.

Director: Manfred Purzer | Stars: Dieter Laser, Sylvia Manas, Christine Buchegger, Peter Brogle

Votes: 38

10. The Clerics (2013)

136 min | Action, Biography, Drama

The Clerics (Indonesian: Sang Kiai) follows the story of a Muslim Cleric Hasyim Asyari through the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia and the Indonesian National Revolution.

Director: Rako Prijanto | Stars: Ikranagara, Christine Hakim, Agus Kuncoro, Adipati Dolken

Votes: 176

The Clerics

11. Priest (2011)

PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

41 Metascore

A warrior priest disobeys church law to track down a pact of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.

Director: Scott Stewart | Stars: Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban

Votes: 124,128 | Gross: $29.14M

12. The Reckoning (2003)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

49 Metascore

A priest on the lam takes up with a traveling band of actors, who then discover a murder has occurred and try to solve it by recreating the crime in a play.

Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany, Marián Aguilera, Trevor Steedman

Votes: 6,391 | Gross: $0.26M

13. Of Gods and Men (2010)

PG-13 | 122 min | Drama, History

86 Metascore

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.

Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin, Philippe Laudenbach

Votes: 16,092 | Gross: $3.95M

14. 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

15. The Name of the Rose (1986)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

54 Metascore

An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin

Votes: 117,198 | Gross: $7.15M

16. Mystery!: Cadfael (1994–1998)

TV-14 | 983 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The medieval era cases of a Crusader-turned-Monk who investigates mysteries in the Norman English town of Shrewsbury.

Stars: Derek Jacobi, Michael Culver, Julian Firth, Terrence Hardiman

Votes: 3,109

17. Catweazle (1970–1971)

30 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

A medieval wizard (though not a very good one) is transported to the modern age.

Stars: Geoffrey Bayldon, Robin Davies, Gary Warren, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell

Votes: 1,126

18. Black Death (2010)

R | 102 min | Action, Drama, History

71 Metascore

Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.

Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, Kimberley Nixon

Votes: 51,224 | Gross: $0.02M

19. The Da Vinci Code (2006)

PG-13 | 149 min | Mystery, Thriller

46 Metascore

A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen

Votes: 458,671 | Gross: $217.54M

20. Angels & Demons (2009)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

48 Metascore

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works with a nuclear physicist to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican during one of the significant events within the church.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård

Votes: 309,497 | Gross: $133.38M

21. Inferno (I) (2016)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

42 Metascore

When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks and they race across Europe together against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Irrfan Khan, Ben Foster

Votes: 189,657 | Gross: $34.34M

22. Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004)

R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Pierre Niemans faces the threat of the apocalypse while investigating a series of ritual murders.

Director: Olivier Dahan | Stars: Jean Reno, Benoît Magimel, Christopher Lee, Camille Natta

Votes: 21,698

23. Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)

PG-13 | 91 min | Horror

49 Metascore

The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.

Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Oliver Robins

Votes: 29,864 | Gross: $41.00M

24. Luther (2003)

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

47 Metascore

During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

Director: Eric Till | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Peter Ustinov, Alfred Molina

Votes: 16,000 | Gross: $5.79M

25. Katharina Luther (2017 TV Movie)

105 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life of Katharina von Bora, a nun in the 16th century. When reading Martin Luther's writings about the freedom of the individual, she decides to leave the convent - and gains the trust and love of the great reformer.

Director: Julia von Heinz | Stars: Karoline Schuch, Devid Striesow, Ludwig Trepte, Martin Ontrop

Votes: 176

26. Gottes mächtige Dienerin (2011 TV Movie)

180 min | Biography, History

Story of the nun who stood out for her strong personality as a trusted servant of Pope Pius XII.

Director: Marcus O. Rosenmüller | Stars: Christine Neubauer, Remo Girone, Emily Behr, Georg Blumreiter

Votes: 86

27. Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009)

Unrated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History

68 Metascore

The 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 ... See full summary »

Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Lena Stolze

Votes: 1,304 | Gross: $0.43M

28. Isenhart: The Hunt Is on for Your Soul (2011 TV Movie)

125 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller

The young Isenhart grows at the castle guards to Laurin. Together with his friend Konrad he receives all the privileges of nobility. But it happens a cruel murder: Anna Isenhart's great ... See full summary »

Director: Hansjörg Thurn | Stars: Bert Tischendorf, Michael Steinocher, Emilia Schüle, Sebastian Ströbel

Votes: 509

29. Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

R | 144 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

63 Metascore

Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Liam Neeson, Martin Hancock

Votes: 314,621 | Gross: $47.40M

30. Captain Alatriste: The Spanish Musketeer (2006)

145 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Viggo Mortensen plays the Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary Captain Alatriste, a heroic figure from the country's 17th century imperial wars.

Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Elena Anaya, Unax Ugalde, Eduard Fernández

Votes: 13,874

31. Ladyhawke (1985)

PG-13 | 121 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

64 Metascore

The thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern

Votes: 50,938 | Gross: $18.43M

32. 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

PG-13 | 154 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

47 Metascore

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, Loren Dean

Votes: 32,798 | Gross: $7.19M

33. Into Great Silence (2005)

Not Rated | 169 min | Documentary

78 Metascore

An examination of life inside the Grande Chartreuse, the head monastery of the reclusive Carthusian Order in France.

Director: Philip Gröning

Votes: 2,493 | Gross: $0.79M

34. Van Helsing (2004)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

35 Metascore

The famed monster hunter is sent to Transylvania to stop Count Dracula, who is using Dr. Frankenstein's research and a werewolf for nefarious purposes.

Director: Stephen Sommers | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh, Shuler Hensley

Votes: 284,434 | Gross: $120.18M

35. Metéora (2012)

82 min | Drama, Romance

In the plains of central Greece, Byzantine monasteries are perched atop sandstone pillars, suspended between heaven and earth. A young Greek monk and a Russian nun have devoted their lives ... See full summary »

Director: Spiros Stathoulopoulos | Stars: Theo Alexander, Tamilla Koulieva, Giorgos Karakantas, Dimitris Hristidis

Votes: 710

36. Season of the Witch (2011)

PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

28 Metascore

14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce that her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.

Director: Dominic Sena | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy, Stephen Campbell Moore

Votes: 98,247 | Gross: $24.83M

37. Blood of the Templars (2004 TV Movie)

R | 180 min | Mystery, Thriller

The Templar Knights are an ancient chivalry order sworn to protect the world's greatest secret - The Holy Grail. When a young man sets on a mission to return the Grail back to mankind, the knights fight to the death to save their secret.

Director: Florian Baxmeyer | Stars: Mirko Lang, Harald Krassnitzer, Catherine Flemming, Oliver Masucci

Votes: 752

38. 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: 829

39. Requiem (I) (2001)

90 min | Drama

Bartlomiej, community elder and orator, must choose an appropriate successor, but finds difficulty in the aftermath of a local girl's tragic hit-and-run death.

Director: Witold Leszczynski | Stars: Franciszek Pieczka, Kamila Sammler, Mariusz Golaj, Pawel Krucz

Votes: 45

40. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)

PG | 120 min | Drama, History, Romance

25 Metascore

In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.

Director: Mary McGuckian | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Bates

Votes: 3,682 | Gross: $0.04M

41. The Mission (1986)

PG | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History

55 Metascore

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: 65,672 | Gross: $17.22M

42. Pilgrimage (II) (2017)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, History

60 Metascore

In 13th-century Ireland, a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.

Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Tom Holland, Richard Armitage, Jon Bernthal, Nikos Karathanos

Votes: 6,427

43. The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)

PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Men seeking relief from the Black Death, guided by a boy's vision, dig a tunnel from 14th century England to 20th century New Zealand.

Director: Vincent Ward | Stars: Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood, Hamish Gough, Marshall Napier

Votes: 3,975 | Gross: $1.33M

44. In God We Trust (or Gimme That Prime Time Religion) (1980)

PG | 97 min | Comedy

Raised in a Trappist monastery, the innocent Brother Ambrose sets out to find money to save the bankrupt monastery. His education in worldliness is provided by a hooker. He eventually petitions G. O. D. For the cash.

Director: Marty Feldman | Stars: Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Louise Lasser, Richard Pryor

Votes: 1,192 | Gross: $2.01M

45. Sister Act (1992)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Family, Music

51 Metascore

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: 108,347 | Gross: $139.61M

46. Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)

PG | 107 min | Comedy, Family, Music

38 Metascore

Showgirl Deloris Van Cartier returns as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music to a group of Catholic students whose run-down school is slated for closure.

Director: Bill Duke | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith, Barnard Hughes

Votes: 58,459 | Gross: $57.32M

47. The Nun's Story (1959)

Approved | 149 min | Drama

78 Metascore

After 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.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft

Votes: 11,692 | Gross: $12.80M

48. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)

Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, War

During World War II, an American marine and an Irish nun form an unlikely friendship after being stranded on a South Pacific island. They find comfort in one another while hoping for a rescue, as they try to avoid capture by the Japanese.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr

Votes: 9,614

49. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

GP | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

62 Metascore

When a former Civil War soldier saves a nun from a gang of bandits, they team up to help the Mexicans in their war against the French.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manolo Fábregas, Alberto Morin

Votes: 30,545 | Gross: $11.50M

50. Francesco (1989)

PG-13 | 119 min | Biography, Drama, History

Docudrama about the life of St-Francis of Assisi.

Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter, Andréa Ferréol, Nikolaus Dutsch

Votes: 1,691

51. The Last Valley (1971)

PG | 128 min | Adventure, Drama, War

During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.

Director: James Clavell | Stars: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport

Votes: 3,580 | Gross: $0.25M

52. 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: 3,559

53. 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: 3,241 | Gross: $0.03M

54. The Nun (2013)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama

51 Metascore

1760s 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.

Director: Guillaume Nicloux | Stars: Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert, Louise Bourgoin, Martina Gedeck

Votes: 1,990

55. The Conscript (1974)

93 min | Drama

In 1833, when the fledgling Belgian kingdom still fears a Dutch invasion, recruits were selected annually from an age cohort by a draw of lots in each locality. In this grim, then ... See full summary »

Director: Roland Verhavert | Stars: Jan Decleir, Ansje Beentjes, Gaston Vandermeulen, Gella Allaert

Votes: 348

56. The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez (1964)

90 min | Comedy, Crime

Gendarme Ludovic Cruchot is re-assigned to the French Riviera seaside resort town of Saint-Tropez where petty criminals and his own daughter give him a hard time.

Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Geneviève Grad, Michel Galabru, Christian Marin

Votes: 13,831

57. Flavia, the Heretic (1974)

R | 96 min | Drama, Horror

A young woman forced into nun-hood by her corrupt father teams up with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill those who wronged her.

Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, María Casares, Claudio Cassinelli, Anthony Higgins

Votes: 1,217

58. The Killer Nun (1979)

Not Rated | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Legendary Swedish sex bomb Anita Ekberg stars as Sister Gertrude, a cruel nun who discovers depraved pleasure in a frenzy of drug addiction, sexual degradation and sadistic murder.

Director: Giulio Berruti | Stars: Anita Ekberg, Alida Valli, Massimo Serato, Daniele Dublino

Votes: 2,240

59. Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Adventure, Horror

16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Susan Hemingway, William Berger, Herbert Fux, Ana Zanatti

Votes: 1,252

60. Le dialogue des Carmélites (1960)

112 min | Drama, History

This is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution.

Directors: Philippe Agostini, Raymond Leopold Bruckberger | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Alida Valli, Madeleine Renaud, Pascale Audret

Votes: 303

61. 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

62. Encrucijada para una monja (1967)

M/PG | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

During an uprising in the Belgian Congo, a convent of nuns are besieged and the Reverend Mother is killed and Sister Maria is raped. Returning to Belgium, Sister Maria finds out to her ... See full summary »

Director: Julio Buchs | Stars: Rosanna Schiaffino, John Richardson, Mara Cruz, Ángel Picazo

Votes: 27

63. The Nun and the Devil (1973)

R | 100 min | Drama, Horror

During 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.

Director: Domenico Paolella | Stars: Anne Heywood, Luc Merenda, Ornella Muti, Martine Brochard

Votes: 548

64. Sister Emanuelle (1977)

16+ | 90 min | Drama

Having renounced her old life of promiscuity, a nun's sexual and religious identity is challenged by a free-spirited, nymphomaniacal new pupil at her convent and a fugitive killer.

Director: Giuseppe Vari | Stars: Laura Gemser, Mónica Zanchi, Gabriele Tinti, Vinja Locatelli

Votes: 800

65. Nuns on the Run (1990)

PG-13 | 89 min | Comedy, Crime

2 criminals want out but their boss kills those leaving. When the men are ordered to rob the triad, they keep the money and hide from the boss, triad and police at a convent, dressed as nuns.

Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eric Idle, Robbie Coltrane, Camille Coduri, Janet Suzman

Votes: 8,970 | Gross: $10.96M

66. The Demons (1973)

R | 79 min | Horror

A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Anne Libert, Carmen Yazalde, Doris Thomas, Karin Field

Votes: 915

67. Les novices (1970)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama

Agnes is a nun who goes with her order to the beach for a swim in the ocean. Agnes finds some perfectly-fitting mod garb and a motor bike left for her to use, and she takes off on an adventurous romp.

Directors: Guy Casaril, Claude Chabrol | Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Annie Girardot, Jean Carmet, Jacques Duby

Votes: 321

68. The Lady of Monza (1969)

R | 105 min | Biography, Drama

A 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.

Director: Eriprando Visconti | Stars: Anne Heywood, Antonio Sabato, Hardy Krüger, Carla Gravina

Votes: 217

70. Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

Unrated | 90 min | Horror

Ten years after his demise, Count Dracula is resurrected by his servant and preys on four unsuspecting English tourists who have taken shelter in his castle.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis Matthews

Votes: 10,866 | Gross: $0.80M

71. The Island (2006)

PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama

Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.

Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Pyotr Mamonov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Dmitriy Dyuzhev, Yuriy Kuznetsov

Votes: 12,565

72. Werewolves on Wheels (1971)

R | 80 min | Horror

A biker gang and its leader fall prey to a satan worshipper and his cult.

Director: Michel Levesque | Stars: Steve Oliver, Donna Anderson, Gene Shane, Billy Gray

Votes: 1,567

73. Brotherhood (I) (2016)

Not Rated | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Sam is facing up to the new world. He realizes it also comes with new problems and new challenges and which will require old friends to help him survive new dangers.

Director: Noel Clarke | Stars: Noel Clarke, Arnold Oceng, Red Madrell, Adjoa Andoh

Votes: 4,312

74. The Flowers of St. Francis (1950)

Not Rated | 85 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Gianfranco Bellini, Peparuolo, Severino Pisacane

Votes: 4,044

75. Francesco (2014 TV Movie)

200 min | Biography, Drama, History

Depicts various periods in the life of Saint Francesco (Mateusz Kosciukiewicz): youth and the first conversion in 1206, the process that inflicts his father, the birth of the historical ... See full summary »

Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Sara Serraiocco, Vinicio Marchioni, Rutger Hauer

Votes: 61

76. Francis of Assisi (1961)

Not Rated | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 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.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Cecil Kellaway

Votes: 1,125

77. Amen. (2002)

Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

57 Metascore

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: 14,970 | Gross: $0.27M

78. The Black Abbot (1963)

95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded figure begins killing off those who may have figured out where the treasure is hidden.

Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Grit Boettcher, Dieter Borsche, Charles Regnier

Votes: 858



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