Movies like The Monk 1972

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The Monk (1972)
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The Monk (1972)
Original name: Le Moine
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ambrosio (Franco Nero) is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk's robes. After he has committed numerous crimes, it appears that he will be caught and punished by the Inquisition. Instead, he signs up on the Devil's team and wins his freedom.. and eventually, the papacy.
Plot: devil, inquisition, religion, nunsploitation, catholic, fetish, female nudity, black magic, lust, sorceress, monk, sexuality, monastery, temptation, literary, girl, breasts, nipples, knife, young

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, erotic, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about female nudity, female full frontal nudity, nun, religion, convent, nudity and erotica mostly in Drama, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Monk: The Nun and the Devil (1973), Convent of Sinners (1986), Flavia the Heretic (1974), Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), Victory March (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Monk (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In Madrid at the time of the Inquisition, the monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. But when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions ...
Plot: spanish history, spanish inquisition, temptation, woman dressed as man, female nudity, inquisition, torture, monk, nun, convent, monastery
Time: 17th century
Place: spain
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95%
The Nun and the Devil (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: lesbian nun, nunsploitation, convent, voyeur, lesbian, religion, sleaze, monk, lesbian sex, fondling, female nudity, lust ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Convent of Sinners (1986)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Convent of Sinners is the story of Susanna, a young girl who is raped by her own father and sent to a convent for her sins, where she falls in love with a priest. The other nuns, however, are jealous and angry, they want Susanna for themselves, and ...
Style: erotic, sensual, sexploitation film
Plot: incest rape, nun, inquisition, sexual torture, evil nun, depravity, lesbian nun, nunsploitation, father daughter incest, female masturbation, sleaze, erotica ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Flavia the Heretic (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.
Style: disturbing, gothic, erotic, controversial, slasher ...
Plot: convent, nunsploitation, torture, medieval, nun, exploitation, catholic, religion, erotica, devil, violent, feminist ...
Time: middle ages, 15th century, 13th century
Place: southern italy, europe, italy, xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sister Virginia de Leyva becomes the new Mother Superior at the convent of Monza. Said convent turns out to be a veritable hotbed of sinful carnality and depravity. Debauched priest Don Arrigone and lecherous womanizer Giampaolo Osio plot to seduce ...
Style: erotic, sexploitation film
Plot: nun, nunsploitation, religion, catholic, lgbt, exploitation, monk, sleaze, male nudity, orgy, female masturbation, female pubic hair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman who was promised to a powerful family's son at birth falls in love with another man, refuses to renounce him, and is sent to a nunnery by her shocked parents. Once there, she first undergoes degradation to acclimatize her to convent ...
Style: naughty
Plot: mother superior, nun, nunsploitation, lgbt, fetish, erotica, exploitation, monk, humiliation, lust, sex scene, bare breasts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Victory March (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He ...
Style: grotesque
Plot: bullying, army, gay subtext, student, sex scene, female nudity, male nudity, gay, extramarital affair, excrement, prostitution, abusive husband ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Taste of Flesh (1967)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Two professional assassins take over the home of two women (who happen to be lesbians) and their "houseguest" in order to assassinate a visiting foreign dignitary.
Style: grindhouse, queer horror, independent film
Plot: exploitation, fetish, assassin, bare breasts, lesbian, lesbianism, female nudity, nudity, women, home invasion, apartment, nipples
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Agnus Dei (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision.
Plot: children, girl, school, convent, nun, catholicism, religion, mother, female nudity, menstruation, world, young ...
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Horror
Country: West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior. Maria is tortured, forced into sex with men, women, and the horned Devil, and told that it's all a ...
Style: suspense, mindfuck, sensual, sexy, erotic ...
Plot: nun, inquisition, nunsploitation, satanism, convent, letter, sex, sexploitation, female protagonist, confession, blood, public execution ...
Place: portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Love to Eternity (1972)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Liza slowly replaces Melampo, Giorgio's dog. While she accepts it, Giorgio forces her to wear collars and leashes.
Style: sexy, independent film, grotesque
Plot: fetish, erotica, girl, island, sea, boat, isolation, love, female nudity, sex, dog, nudity ...
Time: 70s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Nun (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
Style: art house, historical drama, sensual, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: nun, religion, convent, lgbt, catholic, monk, nunsploitation, priest, suicide, fetish, swing, communism ...
Time: 18th century, year 1966
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Antichrist (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, classic horror ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, reincarnation, faith, past, danger, paralysis, possession, ghost, losing-it hero, supernatural ability, disability ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, gothic, rough ...
Plot: witch, folk horror, inquisition, torture, rape, murder, witch hunt, vengeance, burned alive, violence, exploitation, macabre ...
Time: 17th century, year 1968
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Wanda, the Wicked Warden (1977)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women.
Style: erotic, sexy, grindhouse, queer horror, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: women in prison, sexual cruelty, rape and revenge, exploitation, female nudity, sexploitation, sex scene, sexual perversion, nazi exploitation, erotica, voyeurism, sex ...
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Tristana (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Tristana is a young Spanish woman left to the care of Don Lope, a protective but impoverished aristocrat. Don sells his possessions to avoid manual labor and champions the causes of the dispossessed and downtrodden of society. He takes advantage of ...
Style: cerebral, art house, political, philosophical, captivating ...
Plot: wedding night, stroke, death of husband, tumor, orphan, maid, marriage of convenience, disability, amputation, king arthur, literary, disabled ...
Time: 1920s, year 1970, 20th century
Place: france, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: satanic cult, paranoia, devil, satanism, murder, pregnancy, supernatural, witchcraft, coven, supernatural horror, secret society, demonic possession ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1966, year 1965
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on ...
Style: disturbing, scary, realistic, suspenseful, sensual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, satanism, convent school, coming of age, murder, nun, investigation, serial killer, school, gory, curses spells and rituals, male female relationship ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Game of Seduction (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In this modern retelling of the classic Dangerous Liaisons, a virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husbands in duels. When she finally succumbs ...
Style: erotic
Plot: male pubic hair, male nudity, female pubic hair, erotica, female nudity, sex, bare breasts, pubic hair, female full frontal nudity
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Ave María (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the colonial New Spain Ana is a missionary who decides to support the indigenous people.
Style: period piece
Plot: spanish conquest, catholic, myth, religion, misogyny, catholicism, female scientist, sexism, nun, catholic priest, feminist, inquisition ...
Time: 17th century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Sins of Sister Lucia (1978)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Rumiko is a misbehaving girl who got caught stealing the cash her father had at home for bribes. Father would not accuse her of that, but when he caught her having sex with her English teacher, he was justified in sending her to a monastery, where ...
Style: sexploitation film
Plot: nunsploitation, nun, lesbian sex, lust, coitus, voyeur, sex, female nudity, lesbian, erotica, bare breasts, gang rape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed ...
Style: bleak, sexy, surreal, crying, erotic ...
Plot: bondage, eroticism, voyeurism, dead woman, female masturbation, ghost, dreaming, suicide, hallucination, fetish, bdsm, philosophy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Last Step Down (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A naive country girl new to the big city gets involved in the underground sex scene.
Style: independent film
Plot: lesbian sex, sex, female nudity, sex scene, orgy, group sex, monk, male nudity, masturbation, lesbian threesome, satanism, girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: sexy, sexploitation film
Plot: nunsploitation, erotica, nun, evil nun, convent, exploitation, clergy, sleaze, church, mental disorder, valentine's day, cruelty ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Conflict (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: In the near future, the Catholic church has joined with other western religions in an ecumenical movement that has washed out much of the original message of the religion. A group of Irish monks have begun saying the mass again in Latin and have ...
Plot: religion, catholic, catholic priest, opening a door
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Monk (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A well respected monk, Capucino Ambrosio compromises himself with his carnal lust for a pupil, a woman disguised as a monk (Matilda), she tempts the monk to transgress and he is soon found desiring another, the innocent Antonia. Matilda uses magic ...
Style: gothic, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: monastery, nun, murder, femme fatale, temptation, seduction, downfall, lust, confession, life is a bitch, religions or cults, male nudity ...
Time: 17th century, middle ages, 18th century
Place: spain, madrid, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Mother Joan of the Angels (1961)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
Style: satanic, black and white, suspense, existential, philosophical ...
Plot: nun, religion, medieval, folk horror, nunsploitation, terror, female psychopath, mental disorder, catholic, sister, monk, identity ...
Time: 17th century, near future, ancient times, year 1961
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Fleeing from Evil to God (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Five men escape to a remote island in order to fight the Devil.
Style: allegory
Plot: escape, devil, temptation, islam, religion, muslim, faith, propaganda
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Act of the Heart (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
Plot: religion, catholic, loyalty, nudity, religious fanatic, protestant, self destructing, female nudity, undressing
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The dark night of the soul (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Life of San Juan de la Cruz.
Plot: solitary, temptation, naked woman, sanity, catholicism, christian, poet, catholic, christianity, male nudity, saint, dream ...
Time: 16th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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