Movies like The Monk 1990

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The Monk (1990)
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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 begin to show themselves, and he is soon using the girl, and her powers, in his lust for more innocent prey.
Plot: spanish history, spanish inquisition, female nudity, torture, inquisition, nun, monk, monastery, temptation, convent, woman dressed as man
Time: 17th century, 1600s
Place: spain

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, sexploitation film, independent film and disturbing films with plots about female nudity, nun, convent, religion, female full frontal nudity, monk and torture mostly in Drama, Horror and History genres. Some movies like The Monk: Body & Soul (1993), Convent of Sinners (1986), Shogun's Joys of Torture (1968), The Nun and the Devil (1973), Trapped by Fear (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
 5.6
 350
The Monk (1972)
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 ...
Plot: devil, inquisition, religion, nunsploitation, fetish, catholic, lust, female nudity, sorceress, black magic, literary, sexuality ...
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63%
 7.9
 328
Body & Soul (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: A nun, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, leaves the convent temporarily to help save her family knitting mill from bankruptcy following the death of her brother. Outside the convent she becomes a fairly shrewd businesswoman and feels attracted to one ...
Style: period drama
Plot: nun, monk, nudity, female nudity, mirror, convent, female full frontal nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.8
 4K
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 ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
42%
Shogun's Joys of Torture (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: One of the most famous of cult director Ishii Teruo's films. A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women and brutal punished that ensued. Not for the faint of heart.
Style: anthology, slasher, suspense, dark fairy tale, grindhouse ...
Plot: sadism, torture, decapitation, sexual torture, cruelty, female nudity, violence, flagellation, exploitation, extreme, violent, anarchy ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
Trapped by Fear (1985)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A mental patient detained in a psychiatric hospital escapes from confinement and is dedicated to roam the outskirts of Madrid. His mind is no more disturbed rationale to kill. After murdering two girls on the banks of a river, go stringing a series ...
Style: slasher
Plot: psycho, serial killer, stalker, house, killer, lesbianism, female nudity, friend, lesbian
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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In This House of Brede (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
Plot: monk, faith, christian, catholic, convent, drastic change of life, japanese girl, newcomer, catholicism, loss of daughter, mother superior, priest ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Love Letters of a Nun (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Spain 1640, the reverend superior nun Mariana, attends the death of her younger sister, Isabel's husband, who is overcome with hopelessness and heartache. Isabel then kisses and caresses the cadaver's exposed body as if he were still ...
Style: sensual
Plot: nun, female masturbation, nunsploitation, lesbian sex, sex, exploitation, female nudity, lesbianism, sin, love letter
Place: spain
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33%
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 173
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
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32%
The Holy Office (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The long arm of the Inquisition, or the "Holy Office," reached at least as far as 16th-century Mexico (known as New Spain at the time). Many Spanish Catholics of Moorish or Jewish origin found it expedient to flee to the New World to ...
Style: period piece, masterpiece
Plot: judaism, catholic, political intrigue, female nudity, spanish inquisition, religious persecution, inquisition, female pubic hair, sex scene, fear, prison, rape ...
Time: 16th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
32%
Flame in the Wind (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in the splendor and terror of the Spanish Inquisition, Flame in the Wind tells the story of Carlos, an earnest young nobleman who is faced with a choice: the church system offers safety, protection, and respectability; the Scriptures offer ...
Style: independent film, christian film
Plot: spanish inquisition, faith, christian, catholic, court martial, jail cell, torture, priest, soldier, hiding place, prisoner, monastery ...
Time: 16th century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
 6.2
 196
El Greco (1966)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.
Plot: painter, artist, biopic, art, ancient, famous, inquisition, love, priest, sword fight, false accusation, monk ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.4
 6K
Coven (2020)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Basque Country, 1609. The men of the region are at sea. Ana joins other girls from the village to dance in the woods. Judge Rostegui, given the task of purifying the region by the King, arrests the women and accuses them of witchcraft. He decides to ...
Style: satanic, disturbing, suspense, tense
Plot: inquisition, spanish inquisition, witch, witch hunt, witchcraft, coven, witch burning, medieval, religious fanatic, social misfits, religious persecution, accusation ...
Time: 17th century
Place: basque country, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Mariette in Ecstasy (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
Plot: nun, trance, convent, mother superior, abbess, religious, religious conversion, faith, religion, religious fundamentalism, belief in god, religious faith ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara ...
Style: gothic horror, suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary ...
Plot: werewolf, serial killer, vampire, supernatural, stalking, transformation, trial, lycanthropy, mind game, dangerous attraction, dangerous animal, legends and myths ...
Time: 1850s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Torture Dungeon (1969)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In Medieval England, a sadistic duke plots to kill off all the heirs to the throne of England so he can claim he title crown for himself.
Style: psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema
Plot: freak, murder, torture, decapitation, pitchfork, duke, hunchback, sword, female nudity, blood, sex, horse ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 693
Blue Blood (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A debauched young aristocrat entrusts the running of his country house to Tom, the butler, on whom he depends absolutely. Before long the servant begins to dominate his master, to the alarm of the newly hired German nanny who senses sinister, ...
Style: offbeat, independent film, weird
Plot: haunted house, witch, haunted, folklore, occult, class society, nanny, servant, manor, high society, lower class, satire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 ⇓
25%
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The Runner Stumbles (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Beau Bridges and Tammy Grimes.
Plot: nun, convent, religion, catholic priest, priest, catholic church, catholic, priest in love
Time: year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Black Narcissus (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
Story: Himalayas, 1934. A remote clifftop palace once known as the ‘House of Women’ holds many dark secrets. When the young nuns of St. Faith attempt to establish a mission there, its haunting mysteries awaken forbidden desires that seem destined to ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, powerful, period drama
Plot: nun, convent, forbidden love, religious faith, religion, new life, female protagonist, women, catholic, apocalypse, interwar period, distopia ...
Time: 1930s
Place: himalaya, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Lady of Monza (1969)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan.
Plot: nunsploitation, nun, monk, catholic, sexploitation, lgbt, priest, female nudity, evil nun, convent, catholic priest, mother superior ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Virgin Report (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Part documentary, part mockumentary, part sexploitation, all Franco. Starting in the Garden of Eden we are taken on a voyage around the world that covers various rites of passage and cultures deflowering of the virgin.
Style: sensual, sexy, erotic, semi documentary, freeze frame ...
Plot: exploitation, adam and eve, kama sutra, puritan, taboo, wedding night, erotic fantasy, sex education, puritanism, sexploitation, loss of virginity, birth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
 6.7
 99
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 ⇓
23%
 5.2
 905
The Demons (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.
Style: queer horror, grindhouse, suspense, disturbing, twisted ...
Plot: inquisition, female homosexuality, nun, possession, lesbian nun, convent, torture, virus, exorcism, lgbt, female exploitation, murder of a nude woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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