Abbess movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant abbess movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, period drama, crying, captivating and gloomy films and TV shows about / with abbess, convent, nun, priest, mother superior, catholic, monk, catholic church, religion and clergy plots mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres shot in France, USA, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as abbess: Within the Convent (1978), Dark Habits (1983), The Innocents (2016), Mariette in Ecstasy (1996), Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), The Nun and the Devil (1973), The Lady of Monza (1969), Tulip Fever (2017), Marketa Lazarov? (1967), Wondrous Boccaccio (2015).

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Within the Convent (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of the institution to enforce strict rules on these unfortunate women. At the same time, a particularly disturbed nun manages to ...
Style: erotic, sensual, romantic, naughty, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: convent, nunsploitation, abbess, nun, erotica, clergy, church, sex scene, scandal, monk, catholic, sensuality ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy
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 6.5
 8K
Dark Habits (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.
Style: dark comedy, erotic, surreal, social, hispanic ...
Plot: satire, lgbt, catholic, catholic church, gays and lesbians, nun, drug addiction, religion, gay, lgbtq, surrealism, sin ...
Time: year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place: spain, europe
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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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Mariette in Ecstasy (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
Plot: nun, trance, convent, mother superior, abbess, religious, religious conversion, faith, religion, religious fundamentalism, belief in god, religious faith ...
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Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
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
Plot: mother superior, nun, nunsploitation, lgbt, fetish, erotica, exploitation, monk, humiliation, lust, sex scene, bare breasts ...
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The Nun and the Devil (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the ...
Style: grindhouse
Plot: lesbian nun, nunsploitation, convent, voyeur, lesbian, religion, sleaze, monk, lesbian sex, fondling, female nudity, lust ...
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The Lady of Monza (1969)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan.
Plot: nunsploitation, nun, monk, catholic, sexploitation, lgbt, priest, female nudity, evil nun, convent, catholic priest, mother superior ...
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 6.2
 23K
Tulip Fever (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.
Style: costume drama, period piece, touching, suspense, sincere ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: painter, adultery, doctor, sex scene, artist, portrait, extramarital affair, nude painting, love affair, female nudity, thief, female orgasm ...
Time: 17th century, year 2017
Place: netherlands, amsterdam
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The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Lucita has been locked away in a convent by her family in order to keep her away from her lover, Esteban. The pair make plans to elope, but Esteban is accused of heresy before Lucita can escape. Hiding in the convent, Esteban discovers the ...
Style: sexy, sexploitation film
Plot: nunsploitation, erotica, nun, evil nun, convent, exploitation, clergy, sleaze, church, mental disorder, valentine's day, cruelty ...
Place: italy
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Marketa Lazarov? (1967)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Mikolás and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlík. During one of their "jobs" they end up with a young German hostage whose father escapes to return news of the kidnapping and robbery to the King. Kozlik ...
Style: art house, surreal, philosophical, experimental, black and white ...
Plot: medieval, brother sister incest, folk horror, rape, knight, winter, kidnapping, renaissance, magic realism, female nudity, highwayman, christianity ...
Time: middle ages, near future, year 1967, 13th century
Place: eastern europe, czechoslovakia, balkan, slovakia, czech republic ...
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Wondrous Boccaccio (2015)
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, suspenseful ...
Plot: forbidden love, plague, couples, illness, young lovers, love affair, love and romance, countryside, medieval, unrequited love, convent, death ...
Time: middle ages, 14th century, medieval times
Place: italy, europe, florence
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 6.5
 28
Cradle Song (1961)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a Castilian convent of the late nineteenth century, the community of cloistered nuns celebrates the onomastic of their superior with a poem. She is also visited by the doctor, Don Jose, who diagnosed a disease with poor prognosis. Shortly after a ...
Plot: religion, baby, mother superior, convent, orphan, catholic orphanage, abbess, nun
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Shogun's Joys of Torture (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: One of the most famous of cult director Ishii Teruo's films. A young magistrate recalls three tales of heinous crimes committed by women and brutal punished that ensued. Not for the faint of heart.
Style: anthology, slasher, suspense, dark fairy tale, grindhouse ...
Plot: sadism, torture, decapitation, sexual torture, cruelty, female nudity, violence, flagellation, exploitation, extreme, violent, anarchy ...
Time: 17th century
Place: japan
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Christmas Lilies of the Field (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Sometime after the events in 'Lilies of the Field' (1963) Homer Smith returns to the Church he helped build to find the nuns have taken in a group of homeless children.
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, nun, black history, christian, convent school, mother superior, catholic orphanage, church, catholic priest, catholic school, chapel, convent ...
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Flavia the Heretic (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.
Style: disturbing, gothic, erotic, controversial, slasher ...
Plot: convent, nunsploitation, torture, medieval, nun, exploitation, catholic, religion, erotica, devil, violent, feminist ...
Time: middle ages, 15th century, 13th century
Place: southern italy, europe, italy, xian
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In This House of Brede (1975)
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.
Plot: monk, faith, christian, catholic, convent, drastic change of life, japanese girl, newcomer, catholicism, loss of daughter, mother superior, priest ...
Place: london
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The Singing Nun (1966)
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, composer, christian, bad father, convent, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: belgium, africa, europe
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Francis of Assisi (1961)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of a lusty, fighting young adventurer who exchanged his sword for a cross
Style: biblical, serious, realistic, captivating, crying ...
Plot: saint, christian, monk, biopic, medieval, catholic, religion, nun, church, ancient, pope, singing ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, year 1961, ancient times, 13th century
Place: israel, sahara, italy, jerusalem
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 7.5
 3K
The Nun (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 140 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: art house, historical drama, sensual, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot: nun, religion, convent, lgbt, catholic, monk, nunsploitation, priest, suicide, fetish, swing, communism ...
Time: 18th century, year 1966
Place: france, europe
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I, the Worst of All (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A viceroy and an archbishop take their posts in Mexico. A local nun, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651-1695), intrigues them. The viceroy and his wife find her brilliant and fascinating. The prelate finds her a symbol of European laxity. He engineers ...
Style: biblical, psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: writers, art, artist, women, religion, catholic, writer's life, biopic, catholicism, poetry, lesbian, hospital ...
Time: 17th century, ancient times
Place: latin america, spain, mexico
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The Sound of Music (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.
Style: feel good, sentimental, christian film, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, toddlers, kids ...
Plot: world war two, nanny, love, love story, love and romance, convent, mischievous children, beautiful scenery, nazi, nun, children, single father ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, 50s, 1900s ...
Place: austria, europe, alps
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Robin and Marian (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Robin Hood is an old man when he returns with his best friend Little John to England after the Crusades. Maid Marian has entered a nunnery, King Richard is a raving lunatic, his Brother John a moron, and the age of great adventure has seemed to have ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, stylized, period piece ...
Plot: robin hood, knight, medieval, folk hero, tragic love, aging, swashbuckler, nun, rivalry, danger, old love, unfulfillment ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, year 1976, 12th century
Place: england, france
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Madame Bovary (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and purses scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile ...
Style: realistic, melancholic, sexy, costume drama, intense ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, husband wife relationship, literature, family life, tragic hero, village life, life is a bitch, village, love affair, hopes, destructive relationship ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, victorian era, year 1991, 1850s
Place: normandy, france, europe, switzerland
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Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (1977)
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Horror
Country: West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: 16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists. Her confessor is in collusion with the Mother Superior. Maria is tortured, forced into sex with men, women, and the horned Devil, and told that it's all a ...
Style: suspense, mindfuck, sensual, sexy, erotic ...
Plot: nun, inquisition, nunsploitation, satanism, convent, letter, sex, sexploitation, female protagonist, confession, blood, public execution ...
Place: portugal
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Hawk the Slayer (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band ...
Style: cult classic, fantasy adventure, funny, semi serious, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, family outing
Plot: sword and sorcery, medieval, barbarian, magical sword, wizard, magic, good versus evil, vengeance, star wars, pop culture, camp, guy ...
Time: year 1980, medieval times, middle ages
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The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: Spain, UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
Style: humorous, cult classic, funny, fast, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: musketeer, swashbuckler, female villain, three musketeers, sword fight, fencing, vengeance, strangulation, murder, royalty, seduction, sorcery ...
Time: 17th century
Place: france, england, italy, europe, paris 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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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, contemplative, period drama
Plot: survival, investigation, destiny, social decay, life is a bitch, escapades, clergy, danger, haunted by the past, murder, religions or cults, twins ...
Time: year 2004, 18th century
Place: peru, latin america, spain, andes mountains
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Mozart's Sister (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: classical music, musician, prodigy, domineering father, family relations, against the rules, musician's life, follow your dream, composer, gender, dishonesty, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 18th century
Place: europe, london, english channel, vienna, paris france ...
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Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist ...
Style: atmospheric, sincere, contemplative, captivating, serious ...
Plot: nun, gender, convent, medieval, saint, healing power, composer, visionary, monk, seer, prodigy, catholic church ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, ancient times, 12th century
Place: germany, europe, rome italy
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