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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK, Ireland
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Diane, a young woman growing up in Australia in the mid 1960s, walks away from her fiancé to join a convent after being sure she has a calling to the faith. The Catholic Church and its followers are struggling with huge changes. The Pope has died, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere
Plot:
nun, convent, teachers and students, clergy, monk, bishop, radical, friends, church, family relations, religions or cults, power relations ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An adaptation of nine stories from Bocaccio's "Decameron": A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a ...
Style:
anthology, sexy, erotic, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, medieval, male pubic hair, adult humor, naked man, male nudity, erection, siblings relations, infidelity, sexual relations, sex with a priest, forbidden love ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 14th century, year 1971
Place:
italy, europe, germany, naples italy
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: Argentina
Story:
Ramiro meets Damián again after years without seeing each other. Damián always has some shady business going on. This time he wants to go in a search of a certain treasure hidden in an abandoned convent. Lara, Ramiro's girlfriend, ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, suspense, gothic, moody
Plot:
curse, treasure hunt, supernatural, abandoned building, haunted, paranormal, unsettling, betrayal, isolation, recklessness, claustrophobia, convent ...
Place:
latin america
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the life of Saint Martin de Porres
Style:
religious drama, spiritual, historical drama, inspirational, uplifting ...
Plot:
saint, religion, poverty, biopic, charity, humility, catholicism, faith, compassion, loyalty, faith based, servant ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
latin america
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Decameron forbidden is a 1972 Italian comedy, directed by Carlo Infascelli. The film, which counts among the starring actors such as Orchidea De Santis, Gabriella Giorgelli, nut Crostarosa and Carlo De Carvalho, is inspired by Boccaccio's ...
Style:
sex comedy, period piece, erotic, costume drama, satirical ...
Plot:
medieval, adultery, convent, friendship, sexploitation, escape, sexually liberated, moral ambiguity, coming of age, sex, erotica, female nudity ...
Time:
14th century
Place:
florence
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, ...
Style:
political thriller, dark comedy, action drama, emotional, suspenseful ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, revolution, political violence, terrorism, manhunt, revolutionary, white supremacist, car chase, heist, betrayal, new identity, stoner ...
Place:
california
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483
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Summer 1900, Switzerland.
Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and return to the family farm. Stifled by the suffocating and strict rules of the village, walking in her ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
female pubic hair, mountain, death of sister, desire, convent, nun, diary, female protagonist, loss of sister, nudity, snow, faith ...
Time:
1900s, year 1900, 19th century
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A sexually-promiscuous priest is stabbed to death inside a church
Style:
poliziottesco
Plot:
rape, convent, sex scene, murder, stalker, whodunit, nun, self flagellation, female nudity, priest, orphan, christian faith ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In order to receive an inheritance, Howie Goldman must comb the globe and find a woman with a deposit box number tattooed on her derrière.
Plot:
inheritance, mob boss, sheik, belly dancer, harem, crocodile, convent, mafia, opera, heir, hospital, nun ...
Place:
rome italy, cuba, italy, saudi arabia, africa ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.
Style:
poliziottesco
Plot:
women in prison, prison, women's prison, woman with a gun, exploitation, prisoner, escape, convent, cockfight, slavery, women, nunsploitation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan ...
Style:
semi serious, rough, touching, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
couples, forbidden love, medieval, plague, young lovers, illness, love affair, love and romance, countryside, unrequited love, death, love ...
Time:
middle ages, 14th century, medieval times
Place:
italy, europe, florence
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Stanley is infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works with him. He meets George Spiggott AKA the devil and sells his soul for 7 wishes, which Stanley uses to try and make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock ...
Style:
dark comedy, witty, surreal, funny, satanic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
deal with the devil, devil, heaven, unrequited love, satire, wish come true, farce, alternate reality, infatuation, temptation, contract, wish fulfillment ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london, europe, england
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A knight returning from the Crusades takes on a dragon and becomes a legend.
Style:
serious, exciting, light, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
dragon, sword, mother superior, clergy, good versus evil, wooing, rivalry, danger, nun, catholic priest, heroes, sorcery ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 12th century
Place:
england, europe, holy land, middle east
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
St. Agatha is set in the 1950s in small town Georgia. A pregnant con woman named Agatha is on the run and seeks refuge in a convent hidden in deafening isolation. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark lair ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, brutal, disturbing, spooky ...
Plot:
sect, violence, fear, convent, dark secret, pregnant woman, nun, torture, sex scene, nightmare, salvation, danger ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Spain, 1949. Narcisa, a novice, arrives at an old convent, converted into a girls' school, to work as a teacher.
Plot:
convent, nun, evil nun, girls' school, newcomer, psychic, teenage girl, supernatural horror, solar eclipse, miraculous event, terror, blindness ...
Time:
year 1939, 1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1949
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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, period drama
Plot:
mother superior, nun, lgbt, arranged marriage, erotica, suicide, fetish, exploitation, monk, murder, convent, flagellation ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Yuko Moriyama stars in this ninja period piece as one of seven women determined to exact revenge on the evil lord Akinari Katou and “The 7 Spears”, the band of soldiers he commands. Trained assassins and skilled in sorcery, these men took over ...
Style:
period drama
Plot:
female ninja, ninja, samurai, magic, convent, revenge, martial arts, exploitation, female fight, mistress, nun, assassin ...
Place:
japan
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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.
Style:
religious drama, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
faith, abbess, sacrifice, introspection, commitment, spiritual journey, character study, monk, loss, identity crisis, platonic, celibacy ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Scotland Yard investigators have to prevent the murder of Victoria Dickman when her name is found on a death list.
Style:
parody, humorous, gothic, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
master criminal, police detective, nun, murder, police, investigation, police investigation, inspector, law enforcement, goofy hero, estate, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
scotland yard, england, london
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexual, witty ...
Plot:
infidelity, convent, sexual content, profanity, friends, screwball, family relations, couples, artists and showbiz, writer's life, love and romance, gender ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, france, paris france, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Only a few songs as Elvis plays it straight as Dr John Carpenter. Mary Tyler Moore stars opposite as an incognito nun with a mission to help Dr Elvis clean up the ghetto he lives in. Can the King compete against God for Mary's heart?
Style:
psychotronic, political, cult classic, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot:
nun, autism, elvis presley, church, clergy, nunsploitation, forbidden love, rape, passionate kiss, disability, monk, convent ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
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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, semi serious, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
young lovers, nun, convent, performer's life, bittersweet, prodigy, hidden identity, love and romance, nothing goes right, society, clergy, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Belgian nun, Sister Ann is sent to another order where she's at first committed to helping troubled souls like, Nichole and little Dominic. When Father Clementi hears Sister Ann's uplifting singing style, he takes her to a talent ...
Style:
retro, captivating, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
nun, religion, catholic, church, biopic, clergy, faith, father son relationship, jukebox, missionary, recording studio, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
belgium, africa, europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Cruel captors of the war in the pacific.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, world war, convent, battles, war, military, state affairs, escapades, heroes, danger, soldier, political unrest ...
Time:
60s
Place:
the philippines, japan, asia
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264
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
The Life of saint Maria Faustyna Kowalska, a Polish Nun.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, uplifting ...
Plot:
catholic, saint, christian, nun, catholic saint, monk, convent, society, supernatural ability, hopes, clergy, family relations ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Style:
breathtaking, epic, stylized, historically accurate, phantasmagoric ...
Plot:
knight, medieval, barbarian, sword fight, sword and shield, epic battle, spanish history, war, duel, swashbuckler, islam, battles ...
Time:
middle ages, 11th century, medieval times, year 1961
Place:
spain, europe, valencia spain, africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The life of little St. Therese of Lisieux, depicted in minimalist vignettes. Therese and her sisters are all nuns in a Carmelite convent. Her devotion to Jesus and her concept of "the little way" to God are shown clearly, using plain ...
Style:
slow cinema, spiritual, aesthetic, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
saint, catholic, nun, spirituality, convent, christian, religion, erotica, girl, catholic saint, victorian england, spirit ...
Time:
year 1986, victorian era, 80s
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A troubled young woman is thrown out of a convent and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
religious faith, convent, hopes, koran, love, muslim, religions or cults, self discovery, clergy, human nature, youth, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A man goes to a convent with exciting news, one of the nuns is an heir to a fortune! The man causes the nuns to become obsessed with him as he tries to find the right heir.
Style:
sex comedy, lighthearted, slapstick, sexploitation film
Plot:
convent, inheritance, napoleonic era, sexploitation, scandal, priest, monk, mother superior, nun, convent school, exploitation, nunsploitation ...
Time:
year 1970
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film’s premise had to do with a wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love (Rossano) imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies ... Rossano’s character’s final great act of love was to “expire in the ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic, sensual, art house, romantic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coming of age, mentor protege relationship, eroticism, intimate, passion, sexually liberated, character study, gay sex, nunsploitation, sorcery, priest, nun ...
Time:
70s
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