Catholicism movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant catholicism movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing and controversial films and TV shows about / with catholicism, religion, catholic, priest, church, religious, society, clergy, catholic church and death plots mostly in Drama, Mystery and Horror genres shot in USA, Italy, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as catholicism: The Boys of St. Vincent (1992), Charles, Emperor King (2015), Novitiate (2017), The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002), Angels & Demons (2009), Liam (2000), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Damien (2016), The Rite (2011).

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The Boys of St. Vincent (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
Style: realistic, disturbing, bleak, sad, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pedophilia, child abuse, catholic priest, child molestation, man boy relationship, catholic orphanage, pedophile priest, homosexual rape, orphanage, child molester, childhood, underage sex ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: canada, newfoundland
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Charles, Emperor King (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: The series tells the story of Charles I or Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, one of the most powerful men Europe has met, the ruler of a empire as great in size as in diversity. As the life of Charles of Habsburg is told since his arrival to Spain, it ...
Style: serious, factual, captivating, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: aristocracy, spanish history, king, royal family, european history, renaissance, catholicism, society, church, royalty, rivalry, love and romance ...
Time: 16th century
Place: spain, portugal
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 6.7
 5K
Novitiate (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: 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.
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot: nun, catholic church, monastery, lesbian, catholicism, vatican, priest, mother superior, confession, catholic, flagellation, lgbt ...
Time: year 1964, year 1954, 60s, year 2017, 90s
Place: tennessee
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The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he begins and affair with. It turns out the girls mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. ...
Style: controversial, harsh, stylized, touching, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lust, abortion, celibacy, religion, clergy, forbidden love, priest in love, catholicism, corruption, sin, priest, hypocrisy ...
Time: year 2002
Place: mexico, latin america
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 6.7
 308K
Angels & Demons (2009)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon investigates a mysterious symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. He discovers evidence of the unimaginable, the rebirth of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati, the most powerful ...
Style: exciting, intellectual, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: conspiracy, murder, twists and turns, illuminati, investigation, catholicism, vatican, riddles and clues, danger, secret society, religions or cults, religion ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, harvard university, geneva switzerland
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 6.9
 3K
Liam (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: fascism, catholicism, youth, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, unemployment, sin, life is a bitch, starving child, society, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, ireland, middle east, europe, united kingdom ...
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The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, brutal, controversial, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nun, convent, life is a bitch, human spirit, corporal punishment, mistreatment, catholic church, evil nun, religion, sexual harassment, humiliation, catholic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 2002
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
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The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L'viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life story of Ukrainian Catholic Cardinal Josyf Slipyj,
Style: tense, serious, realistic, epic, spiritual ...
Plot: pope, catholic church, politics, clergy, vatican, catholic, catholicism, cold war, state affairs, society, revolution, political unrest ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, china, asia, rome italy, italy ...
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 6.8
 8K
Damien (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After discovering his origins, Damien Thorn must cope with life as the Anti-Christ.
Style: serious, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, horrifying ...
Plot: religion, antichrist, catholicism, devil, supernatural, evil, destiny, mysticism, secret, bible prophecy, satanism, religious ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.0
 102K
The Rite (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, ...
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, demonic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, exorcism, church, supernatural horror, clergy, demonic possession, good versus evil, vatican, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, teachers and students, catholic ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, xian
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 6.7
 14K
We Have a Pope (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an ...
Style: psychological, realistic, humorous, witty, clever ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: religion, cardinal the priest, vatican, pope, identity crisis, catholic church, self discovery, catholic, introspection, self involved, self fulfillment, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
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 7.5
 2K
The Miracle (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: During the incursion in a mob boss' hideout, Police finds a Virgin Mary plastic sculpture which weeps blood. There is no answer to the mystery, but the power of the enigma will make crazy the people who will get in touch with this event, ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: catholicism, police, investigation, police detective, who done it, murder investigation, murder, partner, police investigation, law enforcer, suspicion, police officer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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 7.1
 11K
30 Coins (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Father Vergara—an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict—lives in a remote village in Spain. Hoping to be lost and forgotten, Vergara’s demons catch up to him.
Style: dark, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, scary ...
Plot: exorcism, vatican, clergy, curses spells and rituals, catholicism, religion and supernatural, female nudity, god or devil, religion, priest, supernatural, supernatural power ...
Place: spain
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The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Malta, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story: When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon and cryptographer, Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, clever, suspense, mind bending ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: conspiracy, holy grail, treasure hunt, religion, twists and turns, christianity, investigation, ancient mystery, conspiracy theory, riddles and clues, secrets, secret society ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 1st century, 21st century
Place: london, italy, paris france, europe, england ...
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Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Ale, a deeply disturbed young man subject to seizures, benignly decides to murder members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.
Style: art house, psychological thriller, disturbing, atmospheric, black and white ...
Plot: epilepsy, brother sister relationship, catholicism, death of mother, matricide, blindness, prostitute, dysfunctional family, suicidal tendency, death, reckless driving, alienation ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
Place: italy, europe
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing ...
Style: scary, demonic, satanic, suspense, dark ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: supernatural, devil, demon, religion, courtroom, priest, supernatural horror, investigation, demonic possession, exorcism, legal, courtroom drama ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
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Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 659 min.
TV show
Story: In this eleven parts British television serial, Charles Ryder's involvement with members of the aristocratic Marchmain/Flyte family is followed throughout the years between the two World Wars.
Style: costume drama, sitcom, spiritual, avant garde, historical drama ...
Plot: homosexual subtext, world war two, friendship, catholicism, alcoholism, gay, lgbt, atheist, religion, catholic, gay interest, mistress ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: england, venice, oxford university, paris france
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Keeping the Faith (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popular young men living and working on New York's Upper West Side. When Anna Reilly, once their childhood friend and now grown into a beautiful ...
Style: romantic, humorous, touching, funny, realistic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: rabbi, love story, love triangle, priest, catholicism, friendship, love and romance, love, judaism, women, unrequited love, jewish culture ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 7.3
 298K
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Style: scary, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, demonic possession, paranormal investigation, demon, single mother, supernatural horror, psychic, fear, child in peril, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 2016, 2010s, year 1976, year 1977 ...
Place: england, peru, london
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 7.7
 143K
Midnight Mass (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 450 min.
TV show
Story: An unsettlling omen washes ashore in the wake of the storm. Later, when the locals gather for a potluck, tragedy strikes - and a miracle occurs.
Style: mystical, scary, suspense, mysterious, spiritual ...
Plot: vampire, community, supernatural, secret, supernatural horror, priest, religious fanaticism, catholicism, island, paranormal, ex convict, religion ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
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Stolen Summer (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of the Lord, and not that of the Devil. ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, cult classic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: judaism, afterlife, friendship, childhood, coming of age, youth, boy, catholicism, mentor, friendship between boys, family relations, rabbi ...
Time: year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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 7.0
 372K
Constantine (2005)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of ...
Style: dark fantasy, gothic, suspense, satanic, stylized ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, demon, occult, devil, angel, exorcism, good versus evil, demonic possession, heaven and hell, hell, superhero, suicide ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, mexico
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 6.4
 51K
Black Death (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, dark, bleak, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: medieval, plague, knight, witch, sword and sorcery, monk, obsessive quest, danger, dealing with death, bubonic plague, inquisition, heroic mission ...
Time: middle ages, 14th century, medieval times, year 2010
Place: england, europe
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The Devil and Father Amorth (2017)
Genre: Documentary
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman named Cristina for the ninth time. Prior to filming, Cristina had purportedly been experiencing behavioural changes and “fits” that could not be ...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: catholic church, priest, catholicism, christianity, exorcism, catholic priest, religious, supernatural ability, supernatural, danger, teenager, youth ...
Place: italy
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 7.0
 55K
Warrior Nun (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A 19-year-old orphan named Ava wakes up in a morgue with a new lease on life and a divine artifact embedded in her back. She discovers she is now part of an ancient order that has been tasked with fighting demons on Earth, and powerful forces ...
Style: scenic, unusual plot structure, captivating, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: nun, female protagonist, religion, supernatural, female warrior, angel, superhero, religion and supernatural, battles, demon, fantasy world, vatican ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: spain
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then ...
Style: scary, demonic, dark, suspense, spooky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: exorcism, paranormal investigation, supernatural, demon, psychic, paranormal phenomena, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, demonic possession, murder, ghost, terror ...
Time: 2020s, 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: usa, connecticut, massachusetts
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The Girl King (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Finland, Canada, Germany, Sweden, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Style: period piece, realistic, captivating, emotional, serious ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian interest, royal family, lesbian love, love interest, lesbian sex, unrequited love, female nudity, lgbt, queen, biopic, forbidden love ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times
Place: europe
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 5.5
 62K
The Omen (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: demon, devil, murder, killer child, devil worship, evil child, antichrist, 666, prophecy, parents and children, hospital, death ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, rome italy, europe, new york ...
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Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Morocco, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Style: sentimental, emotional, serious, sincere, period piece ...
Plot: gay, world war two, couples, friendship, religion, catholic, nobility, oxford, love and romance, friends, siblings relations, society ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 50s, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place: england, oxford university, britain, venice, morocco ...
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 7.4
 63K
Bad Education (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two children, Ignacio and Enrique, know love, the movies and fear in a religious school at the beginning of the 1960s. Father Manolo, director of the school and its professor of literature, is witness to and part of these discoveries. The three are ...
Style: disturbing, neo noir, sexy, controversial, melancholic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: sexual abuse, transsexual, gay, child abuse, transvestism, boarding school, male nudity, teacher, transsexuality, gender, lgbt, coming of age ...
Time: year 2004, 80s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
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