Priest in love movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant priest in love movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, captivating, sexy, emotional and touching films and TV shows about / with priest in love, priest, religion, forbidden love, male female relationship, female nudity, catholic church, clergy, catholic and church plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in USA, Italy, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as priest in love: The Crime of Father Amaro (2023), The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002), The Confession (2016), The Thorn Birds (1983), The Proposition (1998), The Crime of Father Amaro (2005), Magdalene (1988), Touch of a Soul (1998), Broken Vows (1987), Camila (1984).
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List of priest in love movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Portugal
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on Eça de Queiroz's 1875 novel, the plot takes place in Leiria, Portugal, at the end of the 1860s, and follows the story of the forbidden passion between Amaro, a young priest, and Amélia, "the most beautiful girl in Leiria". ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece, serious, art film, dramatic ...
Plot:
priest in love, forbidden love, priest, female nudity, sex with a priest, religion, brothel, social criticism, literary, celibacy, catholic church, woman ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, 1870s
Place:
portugal
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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, sexual, stylized, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
abortion, celibacy, forbidden love, religion, clergy, lust, priest in love, catholicism, temptation, sin, hypocrisy, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, tokyo, spain
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Under the German occupation, in a small French town, the arrival of a new priest arouses the interest of all women... Barny, a young communist and atheist woman, can not however be more indifferent. Driven by curiosity, the young skeptic went to the ...
Style:
spiritual, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
faith, belief in god, priest in love, religious faith, nazi occupation, religion, confession, atheist, moral transformation, priest, life is a bitch, changing lives ...
Time:
year 2016, 1940s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
TV show
Story:
This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, family saga, captivating, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, clergy, catholic priest, friendship, love and romance, couple relations, tragic love, priest in love, family life, society, destiny ...
Time:
50s, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is ...
Style:
melancholic, absurd, sincere, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
priest in love, adultery, love triangle, dangerous attraction, human nature, family problems, fall in love, society, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, murder, surrogate father ...
Time:
1930s, year 1998, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
boston, usa, europe, england, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
O Crime do Padre Amaro ("The Crime of Father Amaro") is a novel by the 19th-century Portuguese writer José Maria de Eça de Queiroz. It was first published in 1875 to great controversy.
Style:
captivating, disturbing
Plot:
sex with a priest, forbidden love, virginity, making love, seduction, priest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, priest in love, monk, attempted seduction, male female relationship, religious conversion ...
Place:
portugal, mexico
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Father Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the beautiful prostitute Magdalene. He struggles to change her situation and make a new life for her, and while doing so, they fall in love. Mohr struggles ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, poignant, sentimental, erotic ...
Plot:
forbidden love, religious, moral dilemma, religious conflict, redemption, temptation, compassion, reputation, power struggle, forgiveness, small town, sacrifice ...
Time:
19th century, medieval times
Place:
austria
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A priest falls in love with a young artist. Their secret affair is revealed and the Media try to destroy both of them. Apart from their affair, the dirty past of the priest is discovered by a reporter. Nothing can stop them from being together. Or ...
Style:
controversial, tense
Plot:
priest in love, forbidden love, affair, religious conflict, secret relationship, mature, moral dilemma, corruption, sacrifice, privacy invasion, investigative reporter, passion ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he becomes embroiled in a plot which ultimately shakes his faith to its very foundation. Intrigued by the dying man's mention of "Nim," and ...
Style:
religious drama
Plot:
priest in love, forbidden love, gay husband, temptation, redheaded woman, sexual attraction, suicide attempt, murder, catholic church, police detective, sexual desire, young widow ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Buenos Aires of the 1840s, a young Jesuit and a wealthy socialite fall in love and begin a torrid affair. They escape from the city, and, in disguise, set up house in a village, assuming they are safe and beyond the cares of anyone. However, both ...
Style:
cult classic, manga, romantic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
forbidden love, sensuality, attraction, desire, passion, girl, religion, first love, love, tragic love, priest in love, love and romance ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Two passionate lovers have a relationship that was doomed from the start. Father Williams, a catholic priest and young Rosemary begin a seemingly innocent association, but the relationship quickly turns intensely physical.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, captivating, controversial ...
Plot:
obsession, clergy, against the rules, forbidden love, couples, society, sexual harassment, murder, priest in love, sex, tragedy, catholic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A married woman (Basinger) falls in love with a Benedictine monk.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, sexual, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
mermaid, forbidden love, family relations, self discovery, clergy, couples, estrangement, family problems, religions or cults, love and romance, homecoming, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention.
Style:
sex comedy
Plot:
female nudity, blasphemy, priest, lust, extortion, pills, mental institution, guilty conscience, nun, sex in car, sexual attraction, eavesdropping ...
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, faith, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, grandfather, religion, belief in god, crisis of faith, catholic, religious faith, absent father, death of grandfather ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brittany, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
pope, world war two, catholic priest, catholic, money, forbidden love, religion, politics, female nudity, sicilian, christian, christianity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1982, 50s, 1950s, post world war two
Place:
rome italy, italy, brooklyn new york city
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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, rom com, humorous, touching, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love story, rabbi, love triangle, priest, love, catholicism, friendship, judaism, women, unrequited love, jewish culture, religion ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. The nobleman feels closer to animals despite looking like a human.
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, dark comedy ...
Plot:
loneliness, collector, tragic romance, priest in love, unrequited love, secret, fish out of water, love triangle, supernatural power, mythology, murder, hiding place ...
Time:
1830s, 19th century
Place:
central europe, europe
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who gives her sanctuary. But the killing was not a simple act of passion, as the victim had ties to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, weeping, crying ...
Plot:
sex with a priest, forbidden love, impossible love, killed during sex, sexual attraction, catholic church, castration, passion, priest, mafia, female nudity, temptation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, latin america, usa, manhattan new york city, vietnam ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France ...
Style:
erotic, period piece, sexy, gothic, sexual ...
Plot:
sexuality, writer's life, rape, priest, sex, perversion, steamy romance, aristocracy, eccentricity, fetish, sexual tension, writers ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, ancient times, year 2000, georgian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint ...
Style:
sexy, philosophical, talky, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
politics, christianity, faith, religion, kidnapping, christian, self discovery, religions or cults, obsessive quest, clergy, danger, state affairs ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
middle east, rome italy, jerusalem, israel
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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.
Style:
religious drama, emotional, atmospheric, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
nun, convent, priest, small town, character study, moral ambiguity, false accusation, scandal, investigation, working class, poverty, isolation ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s, year 1979
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Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the ...
Style:
gothic, sexy, creepy, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, inquisition, heretic, dungeon, edgar allan poe, religions or cults, danger, good versus evil, supernatural, clergy, woman in danger, telepathy ...
Time:
15th century, year 1991, medieval times, 90s, middle ages
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an ...
Style:
independent film, lgbt cinema, touching, powerful, spiritual ...
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, homosexual, gay interest, catholic priest, lgbtq, sex with a priest, sexual abuse, glbt, church, forbidden love, closeted homosexual ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
liverpool, england, united kingdom, europe, iraq
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Kyu-sik is a seminary student, who one day falls during a church service, dropping a precious, pope-blessed relic. As punishment, he and his comic relief friend Seon-dal are sent away to a small church in rural Korea to work in a sort of priest ...
Style:
romantic comedy, touching, semi serious, sincere, feel good ...
Plot:
true love, forbidden love, love story, impossible love, priest, first love, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, male female relationship, small town life, love affair ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the early 16th century Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by Cesare Borgia and his sister Lucrezia. In a ruthless power play, Cesare plots to have his sister’s husband murdered.
Style:
erotic
Plot:
sex with daughter, incest, incestuous relationship, female pubic hair, lesbian, brother and sister, murder, father daughter incest, sister, husband, sibling relationship, relationships ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely ...
Style:
suspense, gothic, atmospheric, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
religions or cults, vatican, murder, supernatural, religion, uncover truth, secret organization, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, sin, church, conspiracy theory ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, jerusalem, europe, paris france, italy ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Zombies, demons, and a mad doctor await a bus-load of folks looking for a tour of Aztec ruins. Father O'Sullivan is a Catholic priest who has lost his faith in God and who cannot forget the nun with whom he once had an affair (and a son). ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
priest in love, zombie, pagan cult, possession, possessed human, undead, day of the dead, creature feature, monster, demon, demonic possession, mad doctor ...
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Colpi di Fulmine is a film that deals with the theme of love at first sight. In the first part a psychiatrist (Christian De Sica) ends up in the cross-hair of the revenue authorities. He is innocent, but He is afraid to go to jail before he could ...
Style:
entertaining, light, feel good, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
forbidden love, love at first sight, con trick, priest in love, love and romance, love story, humour, silly humor, relationships, couple relations, lie, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
Style:
offbeat, spaghetti western, captivating, rough, serious ...
Plot:
gay subtext, outlaw, catholic priest, atheist, priest in love, love triangle, religions or cults, church, social relations, rivalry, gang, good versus evil ...
Time:
year 1961, 19th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
mexico, latin america
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
TV show
Story:
A three-part crime miniseries from the new cycle Detectives from the Holy Trinity, directed by one of the best present-day Czech film directors Jan Hrebejk. Containing retro-elements and framed by an authentic and realistic description of the crime ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, detective ...
Plot:
murder, exorcism, police investigation, police officer, coworker relationship, policewoman, priest, murder investigation, church, satanism, investigation, police procedural ...
Time:
60s
Place:
central europe, czechoslovakia
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