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, sexy, serious, cult film, weird and erotic films and TV shows about / with abbess, nun, convent, mother superior, priest, catholic, religion, female nudity, catholic church and catholic priest plots mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres shot in France, USA, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as abbess: Within the Convent (1978), The Innocents (2016), Nasty Habits (1977), Mariette in Ecstasy (2009), Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), The Lady of Monza (1969), The Nun and the Devil (1973), The Demons (1973), Tulip Fever (2017), Benedetta (2021).
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List of abbess movies
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, sexy, controversial, romantic, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
convent, abbess, erotica, church, nun, sex scene, scandal, lgbt, catholic, exploitation, porn, fetish ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy
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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:
suspenseful, exciting, thought provoking, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, abbess, religion, syphilis, secret, lie, interracial relations, motherhood, catholic, hospital, gay, christian ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1940, year 1945
Place:
france, poland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
abbess, catholic, convent, nun, religion, catholic church, catholic priest, priest, mother superior, newcomer, candle, monsignor ...
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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:
disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot:
trance, nun, mother superior, abbess, convent, religious conversion, religious, suspense, faith, religion and supernatural, belief in god, religious fundamentalism ...
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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:
erotica, nun, evil nun, convent, cult, valentine's day, exploitation, church, mental disorder, bishop, crucifix, framed for murder ...
Place:
italy
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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 ...
Plot:
mother superior, lgbt, erotica, exploitation, fetish, nun, female nudity, lesbianism, murder, lesbian, corruption, evil nun ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan.
Plot:
sexploitation, catholic, lgbt, evil nun, female nudity, convent, priest, catholic priest, mother superior, nun, abbess, torture ...
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Genre: Drama
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 ...
Plot:
convent, lesbian, religion, lesbian sex, attempted rape, female nudity, voyeur, lust, fondling, catholic, catholic priest, abbess ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.
Style:
disturbing, queer horror, sexploitation film
Plot:
inquisition, female homosexuality, nun, sexploitation, convent, torture, lgbt, female exploitation, suspense, abbess, rape, witch burning ...
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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:
touching, melancholic, sincere, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
painter, adultery, doctor, artist, marriage, cheating wife, love affair, portrait, thief, sex scene, affair, trust ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
netherlands, amsterdam
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, a 15th century nun who was hailed as a visionary but later accused of fabricated miracles, homosexuality and other charges, and imprisoned for 35 years.
Style:
sexy, lgbt cinema, erotic, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
lesbian, nun, lgbt, lesbianism, catholicism, convent, lesbian romance, catholic, lesbian relationship, lesbian sex, crucifix, fall in love ...
Time:
17th century, 15th century
Place:
italy, europe, florence
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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, bleak, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
forbidden love, plague, illness, young lovers, couples, love affair, love and romance, countryside, convent, death, love, infidelity ...
Time:
middle ages, 14th century
Place:
italy, europe, florence
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four women of Gubbio - Angelica, Violetta, Lisa and Bettina - are conducted before the court by their lovers and husbands.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sex comedy, anthology, decamerotic
Plot:
lgbt, catholic priest, cheating wife, sex, mother superior, convent, voyeurism, bishop, female nudity, abbess, nun, priest ...
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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, orphan, convent, mother superior, nun, abbess, catholic orphanage, baby
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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, christian, catholic priest, catholic orphanage, convent school, abbess, catholic, church, priest, convent, mother superior, catholic school ...
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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, controversial, gothic, slasher, erotic ...
Plot:
convent, torture, exploitation, catholic, religion, feminist, medieval, violent, devil, cult, suspense, erotica ...
Time:
15th century, 13th century, middle ages
Place:
southern italy, italy, europe, xian
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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.
Plot:
nun, faith, christian, convent, drastic change of life, newcomer, japanese girl, catholicism, mother superior, loss of daughter, female nudity, priest ...
Place:
london
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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:
realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous, retro
Plot:
nun, religion, church, faith, bad father, christian, convent, missionary, recording studio, father daughter relationship, abusive father, father son relationship ...
Time:
60s
Place:
belgium, africa, europe
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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:
kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick, preschoolers ...
Plot:
world war two, nanny, love and romance, love, love story, mischievous children, fall in love, destiny, nun, children, convent, dancing ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938, 50s, 20th century
Place:
austria, europe, germany, alps
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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:
realistic, serious, exciting, stylized, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
robin hood, knight, folk hero, tragic love, medieval, aging, crusade, nun, rivalry, old love, unfulfillment, love ...
Time:
middle ages, 70s, 80s, 12th century
Place:
england, france
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
France, 1719. Louis 14th died four years ago, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent. He is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a little rebellion ...
Style:
serious, realistic, anthology, weird
Plot:
royal family, libertine, female nudity, amputation, cannibal, scandal, priest, prisoner, deportation, time travel, french revolution, french royalty ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
france, versailles, europe, africa, louisiana ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A priest is sent to a small parish in the Polish countryside which is believed to be under demonic possession and there he finds his own temptations awaiting.
Style:
satanic, feminist film, sexy, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
nun, religion, suspense, medieval, folk, catholic, witchcraft, female psychopath, mental disorder, possession, rabbi, murder ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
poland
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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:
sexy, erotic, satanic, weird, sexploitation film
Plot:
nun, inquisition, satanism, convent, letter, sex, lesbian sex, female protagonist, confession, torturer, torture device, public execution ...
Place:
portugal
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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:
funny, humorous, campy, parody, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot:
sword and sorcery, sword, medieval, magical sword, magic, vengeance, good versus evil, barbarian, camp, parallel universe, disaster, pop culture ...
Time:
80s, middle ages
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Genre: Action, Adventure
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, visually appealing, affectionate, melancholic, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
musketeer, three musketeers, sword fight, female villain, vengeance, strangulation, murder, swashbuckler, royalty, mentor, fight scenes, runaway ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france, england, new york, spain, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.
Style:
erotic, surreal, campy, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot:
satire, lgbt, gays and lesbians, nun, drug addiction, lgbtq, gay, catholic, religion, surrealism, drugs, sin ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, spain
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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, psychological, surreal, controversial, bleak ...
Plot:
surrealism, inquisition, religion, priest, devil, witch, nun, politics, cult, sex with a priest, clergy, macabre ...
Time:
17th century, 18th century, middle ages
Place:
france, england, london, europe
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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
Plot:
investigation, destiny, social decay, clergy, life is a bitch, escapades, survival, murder, haunted by the past, religions or cults, twins, catholic ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
peru, latin america, spain, andes mountains
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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:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
musician, prodigy, domineering father, family relations, musician's life, follow your dream, against the rules, dishonesty, gender, rebellion, artists and showbiz, siblings relations ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era
Place:
europe, paris france, brussels, london, english channel ...
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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:
sincere, atmospheric, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
nun, gender, healing power, visionary, seer, medieval, prodigy, convent, catholic church, human nature, monastery, hopes ...
Time:
12th century, middle ages
Place:
germany, europe, rome italy
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