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poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.5
/6186/
75
/113/
70
/157/
4.0
/12208/
96
/24/
85
/34/

Léon Morin, Priest (1961)
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.
poster
Criterion Channel
83
7.9
/2382/
76
/52/
74
/32/
4.1
/5840/
98
/49/
88
/45/
87
/4/

Nothing But a Man (1964)
A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
83
8.0
/4249/
79
/146/
72
/63/
3.9
/2821/
98
/49/
90
/118/

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all way to the Vatican.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
81
7.4
/250605/
73
/13946/
71
/3164/
3.9
/1809257/
93
/336/
86
/1903/
79
/54/
cc age 13+

Conclave (2024)
After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
81
7.9
/11271/
75
/362/
71
/207/
3.8
/4777/
100
/72/
89
/19403/
86
/23/
cc age 18+

Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. Victims' stories and a disturbing interview with O'Grady offer a view into the troubled mind of the spiritual leader who moved from parish to parish gaining trust ... all the while betraying so many.
poster
80
7.6
/330529/
75
/8070/
74
/4857/
4.1
/908741/
81
/219/
89
/14402/
76
/34/
cc age 17+

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
79
8.1
/11919/
77
/184/
80
/244/
4.2
/17902/
100
/26/
91
/112/

Day of Wrath (1943)
In a Danish village in the early 1600s, a young woman named Anne, whose mother was thought to be a witch, develops sympathy toward an old woman, Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. The intervention of Anne's older but kindly husband, Pastor Absalon saved her mother -- but now, urged on by his overbearing mother, he refuses to help Marte. When Absalon's son returns home and is attracted to Anne, it's a matter of time before her family destiny catches up with her.
poster
FXNow
79
7.4
/31714/
72
/1202/
71
/763/
4.1
/70924/
82
/234/
72
/59/
80
/44/
cc age 13+

A Hidden Life (2019)
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
poster
Hoopla
79
7.6
/37052/
72
/756/
74
/713/
3.6
/55494/
95
/39/
74
/3017/
69
/12/
cc age 14+

Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
poster
74
7.3
/239160/
75
/7670/
69
/2746/
3.6
/145508/
72
/149/
85
/18589/
62
/36/
cc age 17+

Dogma (1999)
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and reenter Heaven.
poster
Kanopy
80
74
7.8
/13185/
73
/181/
73
/211/
3.8
/9197/
94
/17/
87
/178/

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
73
7.7
/16918/
73
/294/
71
/194/
3.8
/8560/
75
/28/
87
/390/
68
/10/

Becket (1964)
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
poster
Kanopy
79
72
7.8
/4561/
77
/156/
69
/56/
3.6
/1901/
98
/51/
90
/588/
73
/11/

For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)
An exploration of the intersection between religion and homosexuality in the U.S. and how the religious right has used its interpretation of the Bible to stigmatize the gay community.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
71
7.6
/61041/
73
/1907/
70
/623/
3.3
/16790/
69
/154/
78
/4735/
56
/31/
cc age 16+

Religulous (2008)
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about their faith. Traveling around the world, Maher examines the tenets of Christianity, Judaism and Islam and raises questions about homosexuality, proof of Christ's existence, Jewish Sabbath laws, violent Muslim extremists.
poster
70
6.8
/1422/
70
/50/
66
/32/
3.5
/1772/
57
/21/
76
/29/

Privilege (1967)
Britain's biggest pop singer, Steven Shorter, receives unwavering adulation and possesses total control over his rabid fans, which includes nearly the entire population. Yet Shorter is not an autonomous performer -- he is little more than a puppet for the government, promoting whatever agenda they see fit. When a beautiful artist, Vanessa Ritchie, is commissioned to paint his portrait, she pushes Shorter to question his obedience to his manipulative handlers.
poster
75
69
7.2
/5348/
70
/165/
68
/115/
3.4
/4000/
100
/15/
75
/283/
cc age 6+

Heidi (1937)
Heidi is orphaned and her uncaring maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with her reclusive, grumpy paternal grandfather, Adolph Kramer. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her sweet ways and sheer love. When Dete later returns and steals Heidi away to become the companion of a rich man's wheelchair-bound daughter, the grandfather is heartsick to discover his little girl missing and immediately sets out to get her back.
poster
75
68
7.6
/13954/
71
/147/
72
/161/
3.7
/9278/
75
/16/
85
/254/

The Night of the Iguana (1964)
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
poster
Kanopy
67
6.7
/15278/
67
/416/
67
/585/
3.5
/17317/
66
/82/
55
/197/
64
/25/

We Have a Pope (2011)
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.
poster
66
6.5
/14994/
68
/272/
62
/259/
3.3
/7586/
73
/37/
53
/200/
73
/16/

Robin and Marian (1976)
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
poster
Plex
80
63
8.4
/24317/
78
/130/
75
/86/
3.6
/5577/
94
/20/

The Lizard (2004)
The satirical commentary on clergymen in post-revolutionary Iran. While in prison, petty criminal Reza (Parviz Parastui) comes across a clergyman, sparking a plan for escape. Reza dons his new acquaintance's clerical robes and makes a bid for freedom. He soon learns that being a clergyman brings little respect from the public. Reza travels to the outlying villages, from where he plots to escape the country. However, his plans must be put on hold when the villagers accept him into their community and expect him to perform religious duties. Will Reza's prison break transform him into an unlikely pillar of the community?
poster
Kanopy
62
6.5
/804/
60
/17/
59
/13/
3.4
/619/
44
/7/

Galileo (1975)
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.
poster
68
62
7.4
/8668/
71
/173/
71
/124/
3.6
/3868/
43
/14/
82
/181/

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.
poster
Hoopla
62
5.9
/12157/
60
/262/
56
/164/
3.0
/5263/
73
/30/
41
/159/
64
/20/

Sirens (1994)
In 1930s Australia, Anglican clergyman Anthony Campion and his prim wife, Estella, are asked to visit noted painter Norman Lindsay, whose planned contribution to an international art exhibit is considered blasphemous. While Campion and Lindsay debate, Estella finds herself drawn to the three beautiful models sitting for the painter's current work, freethinking Sheela, sensual Pru and virginal Giddy.
poster
62
6.4
/54255/
65
/997/
60
/651/
3.1
/18820/
68
/114/
59
/1718/
60
/31/
cc age 13+

Keeping the Faith (2000)
Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful corporate executive, suddenly returns to the city, she reenters Jake and Brian's lives and hearts with a vengeance. Sparks fly and an unusual and complicated love triangle ensues.
poster
69
61
6.9
/4740/
64
/89/
62
/97/
3.5
/4710/
86
/58/
65
/48/

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
poster
69
61
7.0
/7316/
71
/118/
64
/121/
3.5
/4686/
82
/11/
60
/77/

Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
poster
59
6.6
/16618/
68
/387/
64
/329/
3.1
/11368/
46
/61/
74
/712/
47
/23/
cc age 12+

Luther (2003)
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
poster
Netflix
74
58
7.5
/1880/
75
/138/
72
/38/
3.7
/3337/
88
/8/
65
/18/
70
/4/

Reversing Roe (2018)
Documentary that delves deep into the history of abortion law, revealing the contradictory ways in which women's bodies have been used to further political and ideological agendas.
poster
85
58
8.8
/1874/
87
/76/
82
/85/
4.2
/2282/

Notre Dame de Paris (1999)
A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
58
6.6
/11204/
65
/211/
60
/166/
3.2
/3673/
49
/74/
71
/3412/
56
/19/
cc age 14+

Driving Lessons (2006)
A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
54
7.5
/2240/
74
/67/
72
/42/
3.4
/873/
100
/6/
80
/26/

The Boys of St. Vincent (1994)
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
poster
52
51
6.3
/13521/
67
/377/
61
/219/
3.3
/18238/
43
/21/
45
/203/
19
/5/

The Sentinel (1977)
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.
poster
Kanopy
51
6.0
/105734/
63
/3266/
61
/2188/
2.7
/50622/
22
/169/
40
/3250/
38
/33/
cc age 16+

The Rite (2011)
Seminary student Michael Kovak reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.
poster
Kanopy
48
5.7
/32530/
62
/1326/
59
/744/
2.7
/28719/
20
/56/
35
/667/
49
/10/

Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
The Freeling family move in with Diane's mother in an effort to escape the trauma and aftermath of Carol Anne's abduction by the Beast. But the Beast is not to be put off so easily and appears in a ghostly apparition as the Reverend Kane, a religious zealot responsible for the deaths of his many followers. His goal is simple - he wants the angelic Carol Anne.
poster
Kanopy
68
43
6.4
/826/
51
/13/
56
/27/
3.5
/1513/
100
/13/

Hypocrites (1915)
The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.
poster
53
43
6.3
/4207/
59
/40/
63
/53/
3.3
/3115/
21
/28/
47
/41/

The Sandpiper (1965)
A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California.
poster
62
42
6.5
/2044/
68
/36/
61
/40/
3.2
/1527/
60
/5/
58
/25/

A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
42
7.2
/1026/
68
/29/
67
/15/
3.5
/443/
100
/20/
81
/20/
70
/9/

Twist of Faith (2004)
A man confronts the trauma of past sexual abuse as a boy by a Catholic priest only to find his decision shatters his relationships with his family, community and faith.
poster
42
41
4.7
/10017/
50
/370/
49
/359/
2.1
/9410/
24
/394/

Virgin Territory (2007)
In Black Death era Tuscany, as in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty adventures, bawdy exchanges, romance, swordplay, randy nuns, Saracen pirates, and a sexy cow.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
50
40
5.5
/3509/
57
/81/
51
/78/
2.9
/3761/
30
/270/

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.
poster
38
5.1
/42264/
55
/1405/
53
/864/
2.1
/21532/
10
/131/
27
/1667/
30
/22/
cc age 18+

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)
Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.
poster
68
37
6.9
/2025/
64
/25/
61
/20/
3.5
/1564/
76
/21/

Hold Your Man (1933)
Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie takes off and Ruby is sent to a reformatory for two years.
poster
53
35
5.0
/10528/
56
/38/
58
/23/
2.5
/2144/

Deportees (2007)
The movie is the story of a gang of men who decide to participate in Iran-Iraq war, also known as First Gulf War, which lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. the main character, Suzuki, who is there to satisfy his beloved's father that he is worthy of marrying his daughter, goes through some moving experiences in the war and his character changes to a level that he even tries to sacrifice himself to save the others in the war. the Movie ends by his martyrdom.
poster
Plex
38
35
3.9
/6506/
45
/262/
42
/149/
2.0
/1822/
28
/126/

Nude Nuns with Big Guns (2010)
Upon taking her vows to become a nun, Sister Sarah is abused, brainwashed and also drugged into submission by the corrupt clergy. On the verge of her own death from a lethal dose of drugs, Sister Sarah receives a message from God telling her to take vengeance on all those who did wrong to her. Armed with God's will and an arsenal of big guns, she dispenses Judgment Day on her former tormentors. When the church hires the merciless motorcycle gang "Los Muertos" to track down and to kill her they soon realize that this sister is one bad mother.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
32
6.8
/2207/
60
/18/
65
/27/
3.3
/746/
55
/24/

Summer and Smoke (1961)
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
poster
Criterion Channel
54
32
6.3
/1038/
65
/25/
58
/33/
3.3
/2673/
50
/10/
22
/5/

The Pied Piper (1972)
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.
poster
62
30
6.4
/917/
64
/7/
48
/14/
3.3
/247/
58
/26/
75
/21/
60
/11/

Pandaemonium (2001)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy. As time goes by, cracks begin to appear in the relationship. Sam becomes addicted to opium, while William's ego and ambition distance him further from his friend.
poster
63
29
6.6
/1290/
60
/44/
63
/58/
3.2
/539/

Karol: The Pope, The Man (2006)
This highly acclaimed feature film on Pope John Paul II was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. Focusing on the papacy of John Paul and the tremendous impact he had on the Church and the world, Karol: The Pope, The Man stars actor Piotr Adamczyk in a deeply moving portrayal of the beloved pontiff. It is the powerful true story of a charismatic spiritual leader who helped bring down Communism, renewed the life of the Church, greatly impacted youth worldwide with love for Christ, and a Pope who reached out to other religions and world leaders with a message of peace and love. Also stars Raoul Bova (Saint Francis), Michele Placido (Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth) and Adriana Asti as Mother Teresa. The beautiful film score is by legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.


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