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Kanopy
86
8.0
/27693/
77
/509/
76
/534/
4.1
/42914/
97
/32/
90
/404/

Viridiana (1962)
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
82
7.4
/62617/
72
/1449/
72
/1022/
4.0
/88387/
95
/167/
79
/481/
91
/35/
cc age 14+

Ida (2013)
In 1960s Poland, young novitiate Anna is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
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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
Hulu
79
8.1
/285131/
79
/6969/
77
/3487/
4.2
/549108/
83
/78/
91
/27235/
63
/11/
cc age 6+

The Sound of Music (1965)
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children, and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
poster
74
7.7
/20783/
74
/597/
75
/406/
4.2
/68553/
71
/34/
88
/331/
49
/11/

The Devils (1971)
Father Urbain Grandier’s unorthodox views of sex and religion make him a polarizing figure in 17th-century France. His outspokenness has amassed a passionate following of nuns and a respected reputation for protecting the city of Loudon from corruption. Grandier’s influence is then undermined following a sexually repressed nun’s accusation of witchcraft.
poster
74
7.4
/99245/
73
/1374/
72
/1229/
3.6
/30064/
74
/141/
85
/6612/
69
/33/
cc age 15+

The Painted Veil (2006)
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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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.
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Kanopy
73
6.9
/1277/
54
/15/
65
/13/
3.6
/1612/
72
/18/
73
/19/
80
/7/

Household Saints (1993)
A chronicle of three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York’s Little Italy.
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Fandango at Home Free
76
72
7.5
/12506/
73
/204/
71
/190/
3.6
/9138/
85
/20/
81
/211/
78
/6/

The Nun's Story (1959)
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.
poster
71
6.6
/1263/
61
/35/
66
/27/
3.3
/1168/
100
/23/
68
/5/

Miracle (2022)
A young novice sneaks out of her convent to deal with a matter that cannot be delayed.
poster
76
69
7.6
/8263/
73
/140/
70
/122/
3.7
/4492/
87
/15/
80
/150/

The Song of Bernadette (1943)
In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Massabielle grotto - the townspeople assume this lady to be the Virgin Mary. Pompous government officials think the girl is insane, doing their best to suppress her and her followers, while the church wants nothing to do with the matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the town, ultimately transforming their lives.
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Amazon Prime Video
67
5.8
/28236/
61
/1751/
58
/629/
3.1
/72827/
78
/126/
50
/194/
69
/29/
cc age 16+

The Little Hours (2017)
Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.
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Netflix
65
64
5.8
/10474/
62
/803/
59
/345/
3.1
/53111/
89
/18/
65
/35/
cc age 15+

Sister Death (2023)
Spain, 1949. Narcisa, a novice, arrives at an old convent, converted into a girls' school, to work as a teacher.
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Kanopy
78
64
7.6
/4162/
77
/53/
71
/53/
3.6
/1533/
85
/13/
86
/102/

Les Misérables (1935)
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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60
59
6.2
/8961/
65
/434/
60
/574/
3.0
/9049/
54
/1610/

The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes (1982)
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.
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Criterion Channel
64
58
6.3
/4753/
62
/190/
64
/138/
3.5
/27581/
61
/85/

Alucarda (1977)
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, Satan worship, and vampirism follows.
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Hulu
57
5.8
/57945/
60
/4680/
62
/1518/
2.9
/536344/
72
/212/
58
/147/
57
/39/
cc age 16+

Immaculate (2024)
An American nun embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbours a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.
poster
74
56
7.1
/3489/
59
/25/
65
/48/
3.6
/1349/
100
/6/
78
/25/

Queen Kelly (1932)
A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.
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Amazon Prime Video
55
4.8
/6408/
57
/431/
55
/221/
2.3
/3471/
63
/24/
36
/60/
63
/4/

St. Agatha (2018)
St. Agatha is set in the 1950s in small town Georgia. A pregnant con woman named Agatha is on the run and seeks refuge in a convent hidden in deafening isolation. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark lair where silence is forced. Ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of will power Agatha has is tested. She soon learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the odd people that lurk inside its halls. Agatha must now find a way to discover the unyielding strength needed to escape and save her baby before she’s caged behind these walls forever.
poster
54
6.6
/8552/
63
/168/
62
/133/
3.4
/4470/
44
/32/
59
/133/
52
/14/

Agnes of God (1985)
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
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AMC+ Amazon Channel
60
52
5.9
/3483/
58
/132/
56
/82/
3.2
/7506/
67
/6/
54
/53/

Dark Waters (1993)
After the death of her father, a young woman travels to a remote convent on an island in the Black Sea to find out why her father funded it for years.
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Amazon Prime Video
73
43
7.0
/1507/
61
/20/
67
/30/
3.5
/665/
100
/6/
74
/20/

The Iron Mask (1929)
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.
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66
41
6.6
/700/
69
/111/
64
/52/
3.4
/1864/

Llenos de gracia (2022)
Sister Marina, a very unorthodox nun, is sent during the summer of 1994 to El Parral, a boarding school for boys threatened to be closed soon. Even though the kids welcome Marina with all kinds of pranks, they will, little by little, become something very close to the family they never had.
poster
68
41
6.8
/1539/
67
/30/
63
/31/
3.3
/3372/
83
/6/
60
/5/

Thunder on the Hill (1951)
Sister Mary presides over a convent where a convicted murderess, who is being escorted to Death Row, is stranded by bad weather. She is slowly becoming convinced that Valerie is innocent so Sister Mary sets about to clear the girl and bring the real killer to justice.
poster
54
34
5.7
/1343/
51
/41/
60
/69/
3.1
/1098/
42
/256/

Flavia the Heretic (1974)
Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.
poster
52
34
5.3
/1413/
49
/96/
57
/39/
3.1
/1083/
41
/136/

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)
16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.
poster
70
33
6.7
/647/
53
/9/
74
/24/
3.3
/238/
94
/104/

Sparrow (1994)
Catania, Sicilia 1854. A serious epidemic of cholera is hitting the region. Maria a 16 years old novice leaves her convent and returns her home to avoid contamination. Here she finds a difficult situation, in fact her stepmother and her half-sisters prevent Maria to live the normal life of a teenager. In their minds Maria is the promised "bride of God" and a regular life for her is inappropriate. Nino, her handsome neighbor, falls in love for Maria who isn't indifferent to him. But when Maria comes back to her convent the way to become nun is compelled. Now Maria can understand Sister Agata, and realizes she became mad cause a lost and impossible love like the one between Maria and Nino.
poster
52
33
4.7
/808/
57
/63/
59
/78/
2.6
/1054/
83
/6/
15
/5/

Luciferina (2018)
After receiving bad news, Natalia, a young novice, returns home, where her sister Ángela asks her to travel with her and her friends to a mysterious place.
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Kanopy
44
33
4.8
/1673/
44
/150/
49
/55/
3.0
/3105/
19
/37/

Behind Convent Walls (1978)
A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of the institution to enforce strict rules on these unfortunate women. At the same time, a particularly disturbed nun manages to poison herself and many of the other novitiates in yet another scandal which is covered up by church authorities.
poster
66
27
6.8
/1979/
64
/22/
61
/19/
3.3
/584/
71
/17/

Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.
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Criterion Channel
67
27
6.9
/576/
67
/16/
61
/26/
3.4
/2340/
71
/5/

The Phantom of the Monastery (1934)
Alfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three amigos suffer personality changes, specially Cristina who tries to seduce Alfonso in a strange coincidence to a story told by an old monk. After some efforts to escape, Alfonso is trapped inside a jail and more strange and macabre situations happen.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
43
27
4.2
/1762/
49
/186/
54
/128/
2.3
/1017/
24
/6/

The Convent (2018)
During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.
poster
71
26
7.1
/600/
71
/8/
67
/18/
71
/7/
75
/4/

Conspiracy of Hearts (1960)
In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.
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Kanopy
67
26
7.1
/274/
63
/9/
62
/13/
3.8
/2656/

Diary of an African Nun (1977)
An African nun is consumed by fear and doubt about her decision to take the solemn vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Her anguish intensifies night after night as she lies on a hard bed in her small room at the convent and listens to the rhythmic, beckoning drums of her village.
poster
54
26
5.2
/930/
50
/67/
52
/54/
3.1
/740/

Sister Emanuelle (1977)
Sister Emanuelle and Sister Nanà go to meet Mr. Cazzabriga, who has a problem: his wild-child daughter, Monica, who he wants to send to a Catholic school to remove her from temptations around the house.
poster
77
24
7.8
/336/
90
/1/
47
/4/
83
/436/

In This House of Brede (1975)
Philippa Talbot is a talented London businesswoman who has decided to give up her position and power to become a nun. The man who loves her is in shock over her departure from his life. When Philippa arrives at Brede, a cloistered Benedictine monastery, the abbess who was responsible for convincing her to enter this vocation suddenly dies. Her successor is Catherine, a sensitive leader who's the first to tell the newcomer to the community that all nuns are to love without a preference for one over another. This becomes very difficult when Joanna, a young nun, singles Sister Philippa out and grows very attached to her.
poster
63
24
6.6
/787/
58
/7/
63
/9/
63
/112/

The Red Danube (1949)
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
poster
67
21
6.9
/607/
55
/7/
70
/12/
3.5
/361/
75
/24/

The White Sister (1923)
Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
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YouTube TV
55
21
5.7
/1154/
65
/26/
56
/20/
3.2
/404/
33
/116/

The Deadly Trackers (1973)
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance.
poster
Criterion Channel
59
20
6.2
/679/
58
/9/
63
/14/
3.3
/386/
45
/77/

Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
poster
45
20
5.2
/1021/
46
/44/
51
/32/
3.0
/1107/
17
/1/

The Demons (1973)
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the Inquisition.
poster
41
19
4.7
/1003/
49
/32/
44
/25/
2.8
/1183/
10
/62/

The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (1974)
Lucita has been locked away in a convent by her family in order to keep her away from her lover, Esteban. The pair make plans to elope, but Esteban is accused of heresy before Lucita can escape. Hiding in the convent, Esteban discovers the horrifying depravity of the covent's abbess, Sister Incarnation. Can Esteban rescue his love from this madhouse before the inquisitor discovers what is going on and has everyone executed?
poster
51
15
5.3
/720/
44
/27/
46
/12/
3.1
/751/

The Nun and the Devil (1973)
It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.
poster
56
15
5.5
/581/
57
/24/
49
/13/
3.2
/736/

Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth and the stern Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.
poster
56
10
6.5
/345/
38
/6/
53
/7/
3.4
/567/

The Great Silence (2023)
Alma lives a humble and secluded life behind the walls of a contemporary Catholic convent in Denmark. As she prepares for her perpetual vows as a nun, her older brother Erik unexpectedly shows up. He is a recovering alcoholic and clearly depressed, yet Alma struggles to show him mercy, as his presence unearths a family secret she has desperately tried to suppress. With the ceremony impending, Alma begins to lose her footing and doubt whether she is worthy of the love of her God.
poster
52
9
5.9
/513/
66
/10/
67
/7/
17
/23/

The Miracle (1959)
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
poster
36
8
3.4
/759/
35
/20/
23
/15/
2.5
/631/
38
/2/

Casanovva (2012)
A group of fugitives end up killing an international businessman Casanovva's girlfriend, after entrapping the couple in a reality show. Furious, Casanovva sets out to avenge her death.
poster
52
8
4.8
/497/
62
/16/
41
/13/
58
/5/

Theresa: The Body of Christ (2007)
In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.


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