| Good Omens (2019) | 8.0 | |
| Benedetta (2021) | 6.7 | |
| The Nun (1966) | 7.5 | |
| Ida (2013) | 7.4 | |
| Body & Soul (1993) | 7.9 |
Convent movies and TV shows – page 4
Best films
New films
| Gloria! (2024) | 6.5 | |
| Nundead (2023) | 4.1 | |
| The Last Bath (2020) | 6.0 | |
| The Leopard (2025) | 7.5 | |
| Miracle (2021) | 6.6 |
List of convent movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A chronicle of an eccentric Italian-American family in New York City in the 1950's and 60's. Young Teresa dreams of joing the convent, over the objections of her family.
Style:
independent film, period piece, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
catholic, superstition, forbidden love, butcher, wedding, flashback, college, nun, religion, letter, christian, arranged marriage ...
Time:
60s, 1940s, year 1993, 1950s, 50s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After receiving bad news, Natalia, a young novice, returns home, where her sister Ángela asks her to travel with her and her friends to a mysterious place.
Style:
scary, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, suspense
Plot:
demonic possession, exorcism, sister sister relationship, female nudity, jungle, female protagonist, violence, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, demon, paranormal phenomena, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
gendarme, kidnapping, farce, beach, nothing goes right, policewoman, police, yacht, mother superior, law enforcement, comedy of errors, goofy hero ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
saint tropez, france, provence, riviera, mediterranean sea ...
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Genre: Action, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
A group of fugitives end up killing an international businessman Casanovva's girlfriend, after entrapping the couple in a reality show. Furious, Casanovva sets out to avenge her death.
Style:
tense, crime drama, suspense, dark, twisted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gang, murder, revenge, retribution, entrapment, robbery, deception, moral ambiguity, manipulation, businessman, vigilante, violent ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
Style:
sensual, sexual, art house, historical drama, contemplative ...
Plot:
nun, lesbian, catholic, convent, religion, lgbt, monastery, monk, nunsploitation, unrequited love, impossible love, bible ...
Time:
18th century, year 1966
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Biography
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The plot is loosely based on the legend from Galicia in north-west Spain of the founding by St Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) of the Convent of San Francisco near Santiago de Compostela in 1214 with the help of a poor charcoal burner named Cotolay, ...
Style:
period piece, pastoral, folk tale, meditative, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, medieval, miraculous event, pilgrimage, faith, religious, humility, spirituality, obedience, legend, generosity, inspiration ...
Time:
13th century, medieval times, middle ages
Place:
galicia, spain
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This horror story involves a woman hiding out with four pastel colored poodles in a desert gas station with the loot from a heist while her boy friend does prison time. A meteorite crashes near the station transforming the woman into an alien being ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, scary, dark comedy ...
Plot:
desert, space and aliens, dark humor, nun, male to female cross dressing, female nudity, prison, deadly creature, mutant, sex with alien, monster, gay ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new mexico
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Detective Joe Garvey is called in to a mysterious case: a ballerina has been slayed on stage during a performance, it seems she didn't even fight. At her house Garvey finds her 14 years old precocious sister Tinsel. She's not very ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, grindhouse, independent film, serious ...
Plot:
murder, cannon, orphan, conspiracy, police, revenge, on the run, supernatural ability, chases and races, danger, law enforcement, psychopath ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a mission in China in 1935, Agatha Andrews is a rigid missionary beset by Mongolian bandits led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan. With her are her assistant Jane Argent, staff members Emma Clark, Miss Russell and Miss Binns, head of the British ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
warlord, female doctor, war refugee, doctor, mission, religions or cults, power relations, rivalry, danger, society, life is a bitch, faith ...
Time:
20th century, year 1966, 1930s, year 1935, 60s
Place:
china, mongolia, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A detective tries to remain loyal to his partner, and his best friend - a mobster.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
police investigation, police brutality, gangster, greed, adaptation, crime family, tough heroes, gambling, organized crime, police corruption, gunfight, cop ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jerry tries to seduce his girlfriend Monica via hypnosis, but it accidentally makes her want to enter a convent and take a vow of chastity instead. Jerry tries to get her out by disguising himself to a priest and later as a nun. Alas, his rescue ...
Style:
independent film, cynical, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
nun, religions or cults, couples, disorder, convent, unfulfilled love, heist, love affair, clergy, vengeance, love and romance, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, psychopath, supernatural ability, uncover truth, mentally unstable, obsessive quest, obsession, hidden identity, danger, clergy, life is a bitch, doctors and patients ...
Place:
brazil, latin america, paris france, france, europe
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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, costume drama, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
nun, catholicism, catholic church, lesbian, mother superior, priest, flagellation, confession, lgbt, altar boy, coming of age, sexual repression ...
Time:
year 1964, year 1954, 60s, year 2017, 90s
Place:
tennessee
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Spain, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the 16th century, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman joins a convent and becomes a spiritual leader.
Style:
historical drama, serious, dramatic, period piece, meditative ...
Plot:
saint, convent, biopic, religious, catholic, catholic saint, nun, mysticism, spiritual journey, a vision, catholicism, loyalty ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, 17th century
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Poland, Belgium
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, suspenseful, exciting, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot:
abbess, syphilis, world war two, nun, violence against women, russian soldier, religion, pregnant from rape, snow, motherhood, red cross, soviet soldier ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, year 1940, post world war two, year 1945
Place:
france, poland, berlin germany
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he ...
Style:
sexy, serious, suspenseful, erotic, sad ...
Plot:
betrayal, revenge, dangerous attraction, love triangle, vengeance, couple relations, adultery, unfaithful wife, passion, love, desert, contract killer ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
mexico, latin america
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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:
sensual, erotic, sexploitation film
Plot:
incest rape, nunsploitation, lesbian nun, inquisition, nun, depravity, evil nun, sexual torture, father daughter incest, female masturbation, father daughter sex, erotica ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Olivia Pascal stars as Vanessa who was raised in a convent after the death of her parents. Due to an inheritance she travels to Hong Kong to find out the inheritance is a chain of bordellos
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
female nudity, female pubic hair, strong sexual content, female masturbation, girl, seduction, inheritance, infidelity, convent, sexual desire, mansion, adultery ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, asia
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Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, ...
Style:
satanic, gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot:
convent, nunsploitation, female monster, hysteria, curses spells and rituals, occult, telekinesis, religious fanaticism, erotica, evil nun, male nudity, nun ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, 1800s, year 1865
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, Czech Republic, Latvia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A young novice sneaks out of her convent to deal with a matter that cannot be delayed.
Style:
detective, surprise ending
Plot:
convent, newcomer, countryside, police investigation, bad cop, female nudity, rape, nun, police, plot twist, police detective, missing woman ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
romania
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism.
Style:
gloomy, bleak
Plot:
exorcism, catholic priest, possessed girl, demonic possession, priest, hallucination, demon, evil, mexican woman, apparition, nun, self mutilation ...
Time:
1920s
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Romania
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After a traumatic miscarriage, Lola and her husband Adolfo adopt Tin and Tina, a lovely albino brother and sister with an ultra-catholic education that makes them interpret Holy Bible verbatim.
Style:
dread, detective, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
hospital, adopted daughter, foster home, parents and children, adopted son, adoptive father, foster child, parenthood, parent child relationship, parents, foster parent, abortion ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
France, 1914. The destinies of four women intersect : Marguerite, a mysterious Parisian prostitute, Caroline, propelled to the head of the family factory, Agnes, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent and Suzanne, a feminist nurse.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, period drama
Plot:
feminist, feminism, women, bonding, female protagonist, female pubic hair, military, great war, world war, accidental incest, brothel, world war one ...
Time:
1910s, year 1914
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a plethora of difficulties Spaniards faced at the time. Spanish super star Carmen Maura plays a nun ...
Plot:
female homosexuality, lgbt, lesbian, equality, gays and lesbians, gay, woman woman relationship, catholicism, lesbian relationship, inquisition, trial, convent ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young woman recalls how her father (a fallen priest), her mother (a woman with a secret past) and her teenage sister returned with her to live in their ancestral home after the family business failed. She was plagued with mysterious problems of ...
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic
Plot:
sex party, nudity, country, female nudity, underground, retreat, depression, sea, suicide, capitalist, convent, mute ...
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (portrayed by Sydney Penny), a young shepherdess who claimed to have seen numerous apparitions of the Lady in White at Lourdes in 1858. ...
Plot:
catholic, asthma, mother superior, saint, catholic saint, obedience, pride, bad news, mistrust, newcomer, guardian angel, 17 year old ...
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Sisterhood is powerful. Before leaving for a mission in Africa, Runa, a nun, visits her sister three years after entering the convent when her sister stole Runa's boyfriend. Runa comes to forgive and to help her sister make enough money buying ...
Style:
erotic
Plot:
nun, voyeur, rape victim, pink film, nudity, lesbian nun, rape, gang rape, masturbation, outdoor sex, lesbian, coitus ...
Place:
africa, australia
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
During the Prussian army's invasion to Poland in 1793, a young Polish nobleman Jakub is saved from the imprisonment by a stranger who wants in return to obtain a list of Jakub's fellow conspirators. Following his mysterious saviour across ...
Style:
gothic, slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, mate swapping, strong sexual content, surrealism, folk horror, nun, female nudity, winter, half brother half brother relationship, backwoods slasher, symbolism, shooting ...
Time:
18th century, 1790s
Place:
prussia, eastern europe, europe, poland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In and around the castle Camelot, brave Cornel Wilde (as Lancelot) and virtuous Brian Aherne (as King Arthur) vie for the affections of lovely Jean Wallace (as Guinevere).
Style:
arthurian, exciting, semi serious, stylized, saga ...
Plot:
king arthur, arthurian legend, medieval, camelot, sorcery, sword and sorcery, treachery, damsel in distress, knight, sword fight, rescue, battles ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, year 1963
Place:
britain
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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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