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poster
Amazon Prime Video
89
8.2
/190076/
80
/2621/
82
/2555/
4.3
/245661/
99
/67/
94
/2155/
cc age 12+

Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
poster
88
8.1
/56407/
79
/777/
80
/819/
4.4
/72745/
100
/45/
94
/619/

Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
poster
Kanopy
88
8.0
/131365/
78
/2000/
81
/2446/
4.3
/236073/
97
/62/
91
/2558/
93
/23/

8½ (1963)
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
poster
87
8.6
/20980/
88
/1271/
84
/1193/
4.2
/113842/
94
/106/

A Dog's Will (2000)
The lively João Grilo and the sly Chicó are poor guys living in the hinterland who cheat a bunch of people in a small town in Northeastern Brazil. When they die, they have to be judged by Christ, the Devil and the Virgin Mary before they are admitted to paradise.
poster
Criterion Channel
86
8.0
/37630/
77
/718/
79
/702/
4.2
/63677/
94
/35/
92
/474/

The Exterminating Angel (1962)
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.
poster
Kanopy
86
8.1
/528320/
79
/18062/
78
/8561/
4.1
/556857/
97
/379/
93
/2952/
93
/45/
cc age 15+

Spotlight (2015)
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.8
/15716/
74
/331/
77
/344/
4.2
/41090/
96
/23/
87
/155/

My Night at Maud's (1969)
The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.
poster
83
8.1
/490804/
78
/12885/
77
/8370/
4.0
/905701/
78
/178/
87
/18746/
83
/23/
cc age 16+

The Exorcist (1973)
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
poster
Kanopy
83
7.7
/23581/
75
/1042/
76
/577/
4.1
/48649/
98
/105/
93
/52/
77
/20/

Corpus Christi (2019)
A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened a year prior.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
7.8
/34988/
77
/627/
74
/488/
3.9
/24700/
100
/32/
93
/1200/
81
/5/

C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values.
poster
Netflix
82
7.3
/36476/
72
/2025/
71
/468/
3.8
/275960/
99
/232/
94
/146/
84
/49/
cc age 11+

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023)
When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.
poster
Kanopy
83
82
8.0
/33353/
76
/544/
78
/652/
4.2
/44283/
88
/25/
92
/633/

The Virgin Spring (1960)
Devout Christians Töre and Märeta send their only daughter, the virginal Karin, and their foster daughter, the unrepentant Ingeri, to deliver candles to a distant church. On their way through the woods, the girls encounter a group of savage goat herders who brutally rape and murder Karin as Ingeri remains hidden. When the killers unwittingly seek refuge in the farmhouse of Töre and Märeta, Töre plots a fitting revenge.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.7
/29768/
75
/519/
74
/447/
3.8
/13776/
91
/149/
89
/791/
83
/38/
cc age 16+

The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
poster
80
7.4
/65489/
73
/1123/
73
/1019/
4.0
/106424/
88
/147/
86
/2062/
81
/34/
cc age 18+

Bad Education (2004)
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
7.4
/15545/
71
/222/
72
/328/
3.9
/22902/
79
/28/
85
/293/
84
/9/

Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
poster
Netflix
79
7.6
/144749/
75
/5676/
75
/3055/
3.7
/239737/
89
/228/
88
/530/
75
/39/
cc age 13+

The Two Popes (2019)
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
poster
Kanopy
79
7.5
/620/
75
/30/
67
/9/
3.5
/745/
95
/43/
92
/10/
78
/9/

My Darling Vivian (2020)
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of Johnny Cash and Rosanne Cash, as well as footage featuring Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, John C. Reilly and many more.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.5
/143629/
73
/2761/
72
/1822/
4.0
/110321/
79
/220/
78
/10453/
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
Kanopy
78
7.2
/131187/
71
/6146/
71
/3193/
4.0
/240998/
83
/288/
70
/1046/
79
/48/
cc age 16+

Silence (2016)
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
77
7.6
/10960/
75
/200/
77
/502/
3.9
/25096/
100
/16/
88
/56/

Accattone (1961)
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
77
7.5
/78946/
74
/1503/
71
/1232/
3.8
/57203/
94
/34/
83
/1783/
74
/17/

Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
poster
77
7.4
/109326/
74
/2177/
71
/1455/
3.6
/62348/
83
/66/
86
/4291/
75
/30/
cc age 16+

Elizabeth (1998)
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
poster
77
7.1
/73918/
68
/3250/
67
/1945/
3.7
/89562/
79
/14/
72
/3/
89
/36/
cc age 18+

Elle (2016)
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
7.2
/8768/
72
/338/
71
/579/
3.7
/16600/
96
/98/
74
/17/
75
/21/

By the Grace of God (2019)
Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.6
/297533/
75
/6331/
73
/3848/
3.8
/149908/
82
/214/
86
/6234/
72
/36/
cc age 16+

Road to Perdition (2002)
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.0
/51607/
68
/1208/
70
/922/
3.8
/68727/
77
/52/
74
/1056/
70
/19/

Bad Lieutenant (1992)
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.3
/4067/
74
/272/
72
/139/
3.6
/8197/
88
/88/
78
/17/
74
/20/

78/52 (2017)
The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
75
7.6
/6084/
72
/148/
71
/91/
3.9
/11302/
100
/26/
89
/141/
80
/13/

Salesman (1969)
This documentary from Albert and David Maysles follows the bitter rivalry of four door-to-door salesmen working for the Mid-American Bible Company: Paul "The Badger" Brennan, Charles "The Gipper" McDevitt, James "The Rabbit" Baker and Raymond "The Bull" Martos. Times are tough for this hard-living quartet, who spend their days traveling through small-town America, trying their best to peddle gold-leaf Bibles to an apathetic crowd of lower-middle-class housewives and elderly couples.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.1
/19705/
70
/584/
74
/579/
3.7
/44118/
88
/24/
78
/356/

Black Sunday (1960)
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
83
75
8.6
/3708/
80
/208/
76
/71/
4.1
/2220/
94
/728/

George Carlin: Back in Town (1996)
Back in Town is George Carlin's ninth HBO special. It was also released on CD on September 17, 1996. This was also his first of many performances at the Beacon Theater in New York City. He rants about Abortion, The death penalty, prison farms, fart jokes, free floating hostility and words.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.0
/30324/
70
/792/
68
/672/
3.7
/79908/
83
/29/
78
/542/
83
/11/

Tenebre (1982)
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
poster
74
7.3
/237786/
76
/7517/
69
/2693/
3.5
/136079/
71
/147/
85
/18582/
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
/13086/
73
/180/
73
/208/
3.8
/8527/
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
Hoopla
74
7.2
/58683/
71
/873/
71
/695/
3.5
/24444/
75
/125/
83
/2061/
70
/31/

Quills (2000)
In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate beyond its walls. As the authorities tighten control, a clash unfolds between the Marquis’ unyielding imagination, the reformist ideals of the Abbé in charge, and the repressive measures of a doctor sent to silence him. Desire, power, and censorship collide in a battle over freedom of expression.
poster
73
7.5
/248957/
76
/4800/
76
/3725/
3.8
/155780/
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
73
7.0
/1954/
61
/15/
59
/21/
3.5
/864/
100
/5/
73
/33/

The Subject Was Roses (1968)
Timmy Cleary returns to his Bronx home at the end of World War II and is soon disillusioned to find his parents' marriage filled with discord, quarreling, and recriminations.
poster
Kanopy
73
6.7
/29021/
66
/1632/
66
/1103/
3.4
/108342/
84
/199/
90
/6/
75
/38/
cc age 17+

Benedetta (2021)
A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
poster
Kanopy
73
6.5
/10415/
70
/241/
62
/159/
3.8
/11541/
86
/35/
70
/295/
70
/24/

Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)
From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday tribute to her father in Detroit, this documentary follows Madonna on her 1990 'Blond Ambition' concert tour. Filmed in black and white, with the concert pieces in glittering MTV color, it is an intimate look at the work of the icon, from a prayer circle before each performance to bed games with the dance troupe afterwards.
poster
Hoopla
73
8.1
/51144/
72
/1218/
69
/512/
3.0
/9382/
86
/1928/

Zeitgeist (2007)
A documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the Federal Reserve bank.
poster
Kanopy
73
7.2
/157926/
75
/4255/
71
/2178/
3.4
/47297/
63
/144/
84
/6587/
65
/37/
cc age 17+

We Were Soldiers (2002)
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
73
7.3
/335466/
74
/18994/
73
/8953/
3.4
/842189/
80
/253/
82
/2661/
65
/38/
cc age 16+

The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
poster
Kanopy
74
72
7.2
/15503/
68
/293/
67
/325/
3.6
/21631/
89
/27/
81
/233/

L'Âge d'or (1930)
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
poster
73
72
7.0
/13786/
68
/358/
67
/300/
3.7
/34067/
90
/40/
76
/426/
68
/9/

Martin (1978)
A young man, convinced he's a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his bloodlust.
poster
72
6.9
/85027/
67
/1358/
66
/1435/
3.2
/47798/
73
/177/
68
/2721/
72
/37/
cc age 14+

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. A young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.
poster
Netflix
72
7.4
/263996/
74
/8088/
74
/5551/
3.7
/478661/
69
/128/
79
/10197/
57
/17/
cc age 17+

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula travels to Victorian London, where he becomes obsessed with Mina Murray—the fiancée of his solicitor, Jonathan Harker—believing her to be the reincarnation of his long-lost love.
poster
Hulu
71
6.5
/69567/
65
/4742/
68
/1206/
3.4
/328557/
83
/195/
69
/198/
65
/33/
cc age 16+

The First Omen (2024)
When a young American woman is sent to Rome to begin a life of service to the church, she encounters a darkness that causes her to question her own faith and uncovers a terrifying conspiracy that hopes to bring about the birth of evil incarnate.
poster
Kanopy
79
71
7.5
/5460/
70
/113/
78
/204/
3.9
/9721/
93
/14/
81
/71/

Fists in the Pocket (1965)
A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
poster
71
6.7
/5700/
70
/330/
64
/179/
3.6
/29041/
86
/107/
68
/39/
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.


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