Nuns movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant nuns movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, suspenseful, serious, independent film and psychological films and TV shows about / with nun, convent, priest, religion, clergy, female nudity, church, mother superior, catholic and murder plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as nuns: Bad Sister (2015), Che Dio Ci Aiuti (2011), Virgin Territory (2007), Sister Mary (2011), Forgive me Father (2017), The Innocents (2016), The Hottest Summer (2023), Welcome to Mercy (2018), The Nun (2018), The Killing of Sister George (1968).

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 4.7
 2K
Bad Sister (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a fatal ...
Style: captivating, sexy, weird
Plot: nun, teacher student sex, attempted seduction, older woman younger man sex, seductress, teacher student romance, stalker, older woman younger man relationship, forbidden love, suspicion, sin, sex scene ...
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Che Dio Ci Aiuti (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
TV show
Story: Che Dio ci aiuti is an Italian television TV series.
Style: light, suspenseful, humorous, entertaining, weird
Plot: belief in god, nun, amateur detective, investigation, danger, uncover truth, mind game, society, church, stereotypes, secret society, girlfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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Virgin Territory (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The film is set in Tuscany during the Black Death. As in the Decameron, ten young Florentines take refuge from the plague. But instead of telling stories, they have lusty adventures, bawdy exchanges, romance and swordplay. There are randy nuns, ...
Style: sexy, semi serious, humorous, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: womanizer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, horny, lifestyle, contests and competitions, love and romance, society, wooing, couple relations, marriage proposal, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2007, 17th century, 14th century
Place: europe, italy, florence
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 3.1
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Sister Mary (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Homophobic detective Mark Rima (James Vallo) must "partner" up with the very gay and flamboyant Detective Chris Riant (Shawn Quinlan) to stop a serial killing Nun (Judy Tenuta) from offing 5 band members otherwise known as "The Ex ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, gay, police investigation, partner, secret agent, friendship, witnessing a crime, law enforcement, amateur detective, reluctant partners, gay slur, church ...
Time: 21st century
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Forgive me Father (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: What happens when you rediscover the love of your youth? In principle, you would live a love story, but this chapter of your life cannot be written because it is prevented by a religious order. This is the plot of 'Perdóname, Señor.' The ...
Style: captivating, sincere
Plot: unrequited love, confronting the past, redemption, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, religious faith, dealing with the past, gang, mafioso, nun, mafia, religion, homecoming ...
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 7.3
 12K
The Innocents (2016)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their ...
Style: social, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot: world war two, abbess, syphilis, religion, violence against women, pregnant from rape, motherhood, priest, feminist, lie, secret, interracial relations ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, post world war two, year 1940, year 1945
Place: france, poland
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The Hottest Summer (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Each year Lucia volunteers at a Summer Camp in Sicily. This summer however, will be the hottest on record, not just because of the crazy weather, but also because of Nicola, the new soon-to-be-priest deacon who, besides being extremely handsome, ...
Style: lgbt cinema
Plot: summer, forbidden love, priest, church, sexual tension, flirting, teenage girl, female nudity, nun, promise, first sexual experience, holy communion ...
Place: sicily
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Welcome to Mercy (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When a single mother begins to experience symptoms of the stigmata, she seeks the help of a local priest and nun to help her understand what is seen and unseen.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, bleak, scary, spooky ...
Plot: priest, daughter, isolation, catholic, obsession, supernatural, haunted by the past, monastery, getting home, supernatural horror, shark, mythology ...
Place: latvia
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 5.3
 169K
The Nun (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspense, bleak, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: exorcism, supernatural, ghost, supernatural horror, nun, paranormal, demon, evil nun, priest, murder, nightmare, suicide ...
Time: 2010s, year 1952, 1950s, 20th century
Place: romania, rome italy, xian
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The Killing of Sister George (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: When June Buckridge (Beryl Reid) arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught (Susannah York) realises that things are going to ...
Style: sexual, dark comedy, independent film, soap opera, sadistic ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, older woman younger woman relationship, lgbtq, sex, infidelity, satire, jealousy, doll, obsession, female nudity ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, europe
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Sister Mary Explains It All (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: As Sister Mary delivers a lecture on sin and its consequences, she's interrupted by several of her former students, who have little positive to say about how a Catholic education has impacted their lives.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining ...
Plot: nun, religions or cults, clergy, society, disorder, church, rivalry, catholic school, christmas, belief in the afterlife, lifestyle change, humour ...
Time: 21st century
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Lines of Wellington (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 151 min.
Story: Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s intimate epic.
Style: serious, stylized, exciting, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot: napoleonic wars, troops, soldier, invasion, wartime life, battle zone, on the run, life is a bitch, military, war, napoleonic era, napoleon bonaparte ...
Time: 19th century
Place: portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
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A Certain Magical Index (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Kamijo is a student in Academy City, where people use science to develop supernatural abilities. The guy’s got a lot of heart – luckily for a young nun named Index. She’s on the run from a sorcery society that covets the astonishing 103,000 ...
Style: anime, stylized, romantic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: school, supernatural ability, supernatural power, supernatural, wizard, magical power, parallel universe, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, parallel world, friendship, science, alternate reality ...
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 6.1
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The 14 (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set in London’s East End, The 14 (aka The Wild Little Bunch aka Existence) is based on the true story of fourteen children who struggle against overwhelming pressures to stay together after the death of their single mother.
Style: independent film, wild
Plot: kitchen sink realism, youth, uncontrollable, christmas, sibling relationship, illness, death of mother, brother brother relationship, loss of mother, struggle, baby, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, london, east end london
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 6.0
 3K
Dark Waters (1993)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
Style: gothic, lovecraft, atmospheric, bleak, surreal ...
Plot: nun, supernatural, convent, beast, amateur detective, island, isolation, woman in danger, unlikely criminals, friendship, religions or cults, good versus evil ...
Time: 90s
Place: ukraine
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 3.0
 2K
Moscow Zero (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei that is missing while researching the legend about the existence of demons and an entrance to hell beneath the city.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, psychological, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, ghost, priest, investigation, survival, rescue, danger, escapades, supernatural ability, underground, occult, vampire ...
Place: russia
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Come September (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate ...
Style: retro, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, glamour, hotel, summer, fate, in love, millionaire, vacation, couples, young lovers, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
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It Couldn't Happen Here (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Pet Shop Boys Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant embark upon a journey across England - but which England? Is it the half-remembered England of their childhoods, or the brutal reality of Mrs Thatcher's late-eighties England? Along the way they come ...
Style: dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, independent film
Plot: surrealism, pop music, lgbt, nude beach, memories, peeping tom, prankster, skateboard, aerobics, bodybuilder, biker gang, cycling ...
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Murder Obsession (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film ...
Style: slasher, erotic, suspense, gothic, gothic horror
Plot: occult, serial killer, black mass, murder, paranormal, black magic, housekeeper, incest, darkroom, actor, film set, spider ...
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 6.5
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Sister Smile (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: nun, convent, ambition, musician's life, follow your dream, showbiz, mother superior, society, against the rules, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, rise and fall ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
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Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The world’s most lethal odd couple – bodyguard Michael Bryce and hitman Darius Kincaid – are back on another life-threatening mission. Still unlicensed and under scrutiny, Bryce is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife, ...
Style: buddy comedy, exciting, action comedy, captivating, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hitman, terrorism, buddies, mission, bodyguard, woman with a gun, female agent, nun, killer, agent, torture chamber, mob boss ...
Time: 2020s, future, 1950s, 50s
Place: russia, italy, europe, eastern europe, athens greece ...
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 4.1
 2K
The Convent (2018)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: 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.
Style: gothic, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, stylized
Plot: falsely accused, convent, obsession, demon, nightmare, witch, female protagonist, paranormal, fear, occult, nun, possession ...
Time: 17th century
Place: england
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The Network of Freedom (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orphans and the abandoned people. But the times have changed, the people are living a whole revolt, the Germansoldiers have entered their city and the ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: french resistance, convent, nazi officer, resistance, nun, military, war, female protagonist, world war two, military life, soldier, wartime life ...
Place: france
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 7.8
 18K
The Devils (1971)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.
Style: disturbing, controversial, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: religion, surrealism, inquisition, priest, nun, nunsploitation, witch, politics, torture, clergy, witchcraft, convent ...
Time: 17th century, year 1971, medieval times, year 2016, middle ages
Place: france, europe, london, england
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 3.3
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Sacred Flesh (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Taunted by visions of Mary Magdalene, who reveals the confessions of the younger nuns at the convent, the Mother Superior's mind is filled with the violent, sexual acts of her fellow sisters.
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, sensual, disturbing ...
Plot: nun, convent, nunsploitation, clergy, lesbian sex, priest, female nudity, lust, erotica, obsession, dangerous attraction, destructive relationship ...
Time: 18th century
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The Other Hell (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A modern priest investigates nuns' claims that the Devil is present in their nunnery.
Style: suspense, independent film, grindhouse, creepy, splatter ...
Plot: nun, possession, nunsploitation, female psychopath, serial killer, religion, killer, supernatural horror, exorcism, exploitation, disturbed person, woods ...
Time: year 1980, 80s
Place: southern italy, italy, europe
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 7.6
 104K
Philomena (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, captivating, sad ...
Plot: adoption, convent, catholic church, journalist, catholic, journalism, self discovery, religious intolerance, faith, nun, elderly, illegitimate son ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 1950s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: ireland, england, washington d.c., britain, usa ...
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Changing Habits (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An aspiring artist runs from men as a result of an early life problem that has left her relationship with her father strained. She decides to move into a convent where troubled women receive cheap lodging in exchange for work. She finds a dirty area ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, semi serious, psychological ...
Audience: date night
Plot: vampire, nun, convent, bittersweet, performer's life, against the rules, clergy, artists and showbiz, nothing goes right, fall in love, young lovers, hidden identity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In the future, a warrior nun on roller skates must rescue a seer, who is to be sacrificed by a band of mutants.
Style: apocalyptic, surreal, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: post apocalypse, woman with a gun, distopia, mutant, nun, post-apocalyptic future, rollerblading, nudity, punk rocker, warrior, sword and sorcery, human sacrifice ...
Time: future
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Nude Nuns with Big Guns (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Upon taking her vows to become a nun, Sister Sarah is abused, brainwashed and drugged into submission by the corrupt clergy. On the verge of death from a lethal dose of drugs, Sister Sarah receives a message from God telling her to take vengeance on ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: sexploitation, nunsploitation, revenge, sex, nudity, female pubic hair, female domination, strip club, nun, erotica, lesbian nun, voyeur ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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