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poster
MGM Plus
87
8.5
/314377/
84
/4805/
84
/4705/
4.5
/442246/
90
/84/
96
/5148/
80
/21/
cc age 14+

Cinema Paradiso (1988)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/33679/
79
/619/
80
/956/
4.2
/70091/
100
/46/
92
/278/

Rome, Open City (1945)
During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.
poster
84
7.7
/13539/
76
/225/
75
/279/
4.1
/26482/
95
/39/
85
/190/

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.
poster
Netflix
81
7.1
/1476/
72
/76/
66
/29/
3.8
/4354/
98
/48/
82
/7/
90
/13/
cc age 15+

Procession (2021)
Six men who were sexually abused by Catholic clergy as boys find empowerment by creating short films inspired by their trauma.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
7.5
/11530/
70
/263/
70
/206/
3.8
/13196/
94
/18/
86
/173/
7.1
/5136/
cc age 18+

Murmur of the Heart (1971)
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
poster
80
7.3
/25328/
73
/602/
71
/554/
3.5
/18827/
93
/40/
80
/589/
80
/21/
cc age 13+

Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/10515/
76
/307/
73
/241/
3.8
/22975/
96
/25/
91
/219/
69
/23/

Butterfly (1999)
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/8376/
74
/164/
70
/185/
3.8
/6346/
91
/11/
89
/187/

All the Mornings of the World (1991)
Following the death of his wife, a renowned musician ostracises himself from the outer world and dedicates his life to music. However, his life changes when a young man approaches him to learn music.
poster
78
7.4
/67454/
72
/1946/
71
/1024/
3.9
/55796/
89
/167/
80
/802/
77
/42/
cc age 17+

Calvary (2014)
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/145034/
73
/2845/
72
/1856/
4.0
/121572/
79
/220/
78
/10454/
68
/36/
cc age 17+

Doubt (2008)
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
poster
78
77
7.4
/26325/
72
/449/
70
/398/
3.8
/32017/
90
/49/
87
/887/

if.... (1968)
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
poster
79
76
7.8
/17655/
77
/303/
74
/223/
3.9
/23627/
86
/58/
91
/268/
68
/29/

Son of the Bride (2001)
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment to his girlfriend. At his lowest point, a minor heart attack reunites him with Juan Carlos, a childhood friend, who helps Rafael to reconstruct his past.
poster
73
7.5
/250002/
76
/4859/
76
/3751/
3.8
/162077/
73
/56/
85
/3007/
49
/18/
cc age 18+

Sleepers (1996)
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
poster
72
6.7
/5749/
70
/335/
64
/179/
3.6
/30919/
86
/107/
69
/38/
73
/30/
cc age 16+

Novitiate (2017)
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
poster
71
7.1
/11956/
70
/173/
68
/120/
3.6
/5848/
79
/61/
81
/282/

The Butcher Boy (1998)
Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.
poster
Kanopy
71
7.2
/12565/
69
/332/
68
/272/
3.7
/19686/
88
/94/
81
/46/
73
/26/

The Club (2015)
In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.
poster
Kanopy
69
6.9
/14619/
65
/233/
66
/168/
3.4
/7819/
76
/106/
79
/670/
69
/31/
cc age 18+

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.
poster
Kanopy
66
6.5
/473/
61
/5/
61
/15/
3.5
/358/
69
/8/

The Tree of Guernica (1975)
The fictional town of Villa Romero is the set upon which the events of Spain's civil war play out. Villa Romero is home to Vandale (Mariangela Melato) a witch, count Cerralbo (Bento Urago) a powerless land baron, and his four sons. Three of Cerralbo's sons are ruthless sadists who pillage the countryside, but the fourth, Goya (Ron Faber), is an artist challenging authority and the church.
poster
66
6.9
/1917/
67
/29/
65
/38/
3.6
/984/
50
/18/
78
/40/

Orphans (1998)
A group of four siblings reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral, and the children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways—sometimes heartfelt, sometimes bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself.
poster
Disney Plus
65
6.5
/117262/
69
/6861/
68
/3363/
3.6
/201130/
73
/30/
65
/10850/
51
/23/
cc age 10+

Sister Act (1992)
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—and identification by the mob.
poster
Criterion Channel
78
64
7.7
/4866/
75
/62/
70
/91/
4.0
/3467/
90
/10/
76
/26/

Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
7.1
/11674/
66
/141/
63
/144/
3.7
/5157/
67
/24/
83
/202/

Priest (1995)
The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.
poster
62
6.9
/5500/
68
/62/
63
/74/
3.4
/4065/
33
/9/
75
/96/
64
/12/

Heaven Help Us (1985)
Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
6.5
/42825/
65
/1630/
62
/830/
3.6
/90898/
58
/45/
57
/1000/
48
/19/

The Exorcist III (1990)
On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.
poster
74
60
7.5
/3883/
73
/68/
69
/52/
3.7
/951/
74
/50/
91
/123/
66
/20/

Zelary (2003)
A nurse and her surgeon-lover are part of a resistance movement in 1940s Czechoslovakia. When they are discovered, her lover flees and she must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, a man from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his wife.
poster
76
59
7.6
/5177/
75
/200/
76
/299/
3.7
/4173/
80
/11/

The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
poster
55
6.0
/1396/
55
/13/
53
/29/
3.2
/450/
40
/9/

The Wrath of God (1972)
Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
78
54
7.5
/2237/
75
/66/
72
/42/
3.4
/864/
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
HBO Max
53
5.6
/79475/
61
/5213/
66
/2396/
2.4
/386200/
51
/137/
72
/378/
47
/24/
cc age 15+

The Nun II (2023)
In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.
poster
Hoopla
53
5.1
/37366/
56
/996/
52
/599/
2.6
/20583/
43
/46/
31
/1113/
53
/22/
cc age 10+

The Phantom (1996)
The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls that would give him the secret to ultimate power.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
6.3
/1722/
65
/49/
56
/29/
3.1
/281/
6
/17/
61
/81/
41
/9/

Hate Crime (2005)
Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy suddenly encounter intolerance and hostility at the hands of their new neighbor, Chris Boyd, the son of a fundamentalist preacher.
poster
Kanopy
45
6.0
/95446/
62
/1991/
58
/1317/
2.5
/27398/
18
/146/
37
/5540/
36
/27/
cc age 17+

Righteous Kill (2008)
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
poster
Kanopy
74
44
6.8
/1436/
72
/49/
65
/33/
3.5
/1047/
100
/9/
69
/13/

The Devil's Playground (1977)
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.
poster
The Roku Channel
64
44
6.2
/1241/
60
/55/
60
/35/
3.3
/682/
90
/10/
61
/44/
51
/4/

Funeral Kings (2012)
It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the service is over. Eventually their irreverent personalities will put them in a situation that is too big for them to handle.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
44
43
4.9
/7082/
63
/663/
49
/262/
2.2
/4196/
16
/36/
cc age 13+

All Roads Lead to Rome (2016)
Maggie is an uptight, single mother and college writing teacher from New York City. In an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, she decides to embark on a journey to a Tuscan village where she frequented in her younger days. Upon arrival, Maggie runs into Luca a handsome former lover who is still a bachelor and lives with his eighty-year-old mother Carmen. Summer (missing her “bad boy” boyfriend in NYC) and Carmen (secretly planning a wedding against Luca’s wishes to MARCELINO, her one true love in Rome) impulsively steal Luca’s car and race off to Rome. Maggie and Luca quickly pursue allowing the two mismatched couples to spend some time together and develop a new understanding of each other.
poster
64
42
6.4
/1499/
63
/53/
63
/74/
3.5
/5324/

The Devil in a Convent (1899)
A priest is officiating at a convent, when suddenly he is transformed into the devil, who frightens away the nuns and turns the place into pandemonium.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
75
42
7.2
/1025/
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
65
41
6.6
/1884/
62
/38/
64
/40/
3.5
/2148/
65
/19/

Malpertuis (1972)
A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
41
5.4
/102274/
57
/3843/
55
/2585/
2.2
/42173/
11
/122/
31
/3641/
28
/27/
cc age 15+

Season of the Witch (2011)
A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.
poster
Kanopy
61
40
6.1
/1935/
57
/71/
56
/53/
3.3
/1312/
86
/21/
44
/5/

United States of Love (2016)
Poland, 1990. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it's time to change their lives, and fulfill their desires.
poster
MGM Plus
60
39
6.5
/2153/
59
/47/
64
/42/
3.4
/1367/
48
/25/

Absolution (1978)
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
38
7.0
/1956/
68
/38/
64
/80/
3.6
/1868/
80
/5/

Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975)
A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
poster
Kanopy
69
37
7.0
/1800/
68
/52/
69
/86/
3.5
/1339/

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.
poster
67
36
6.8
/670/
58
/9/
65
/23/
75
/8/
77
/10/
59
/5/

The Child I Never Was (2002)
A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on the true story of of Germany's most famous child murderer Juergen Bartsch who, between the ages of 15 and 19, abused, tortured and killed four schoolboys in the Ruhr region of Germany from 1962 to 1966.
poster
Plex
59
33
6.3
/1548/
59
/42/
64
/45/
3.3
/1474/
46
/12/

House of Mortal Sin (1976)
A troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
32
3.6
/15754/
47
/620/
42
/497/
1.8
/10367/
14
/22/
19
/412/

Stan Helsing (2009)
A spoof on many horror movie series. Ending his shift at the video rental, Stan's picked up by his BFF and 2 cute girls, all going to a Halloween party. Will they even get there?
poster
63
31
6.4
/859/
55
/20/
56
/22/
3.3
/394/
93
/14/
47
/19/

Love Like Poison (2010)
Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her beloved grandfather. She also grows close to Pierre, a free-spirited teenager who cares little about God. Anna is preparing for her confirmation, but her budding desire for Pierre shakes her faith. She longs to give herself over, body and soul... but doesn't know if it is to God, or something else?
poster
67
30
6.9
/950/
60
/9/
58
/21/
3.5
/436/
80
/293/

Landscape After Battle (1970)
Film opens with the mad rush of haphazard freedom as the concentration camps are liberated. Men are trying to grab food, change clothes, bury their tormentors they find alive. Then they are herded into other camps as the Allies try to devise policy to control the situation. A young poet who cannot quite find himself in this new situation, meets a headstrong Jewish young girl who wants him to run off with her, to the West. He cannot cope with her growing demands for affection, while still harboring the hatred for the Germans and disdain for his fellow men who quickly revert to petty enmities.


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