Mother superior movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant mother superior movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, psychological, disturbing, serious, controversial and humorous films and TV shows about / with mother superior, nun, convent, female nudity, priest, monk, catholic, nunsploitation, religion and clergy plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Biography genres shot in USA, Italy, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mother superior: Sister Emanuelle (1977), Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973), Novitiate (2017), Benedetta (2021), La passion de Bernadette (1990), Naughty Nun (1972), The Castro's Abbess (1974), Sacred Flesh (2000), Agnes of God (1985), Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984).

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Sister Emanuelle (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Emanuelle has renounced her life of lust to become a cloistered nun. But when she is assigned to a remote convent school for wayward girls, this delectable Bride Of Christ will face temptations that include a teenage nymphomaniac, a horny escaped ...
Style: naughty, erotic, surprise ending, sexploitation film
Plot: emmanuelle, nun, nunsploitation, lesbian seduction, lesbian nun, sexploitation, erotica, lesbian sex, corruption, sex, black emanuelle, lgbt ...
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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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 6.7
 5K
Novitiate (2017)
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, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot: nun, catholic church, monastery, lesbian, catholicism, vatican, priest, mother superior, confession, catholic, flagellation, lgbt ...
Time: year 1964, year 1954, 60s, year 2017, 90s
Place: tennessee
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 6.7
 25K
Benedetta (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, 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, sentimental, lgbt cinema, psychological, erotic ...
Plot: lesbian, nun, lgbt, convent, lesbianism, lesbian romance, nunsploitation, catholicism, lesbian relationship, fall in love, crucifix, lesbian sex ...
Time: 17th century, 2020s
Place: italy, europe, florence
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La passion de Bernadette (1990)
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: saint, catholic, mother superior, asthma, catholic saint, pride, obedience, photograph, horse, doctor, blood, innocence ...
Place: france
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 5.3
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Naughty Nun (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story: To spite her father, a young woman enters a convent. However, the woman's old boyfriend shows up and tries to win her back.
Style: sex comedy, erotic, sexy, raunchy comedy, costume drama ...
Plot: mother superior, lgbt, nunsploitation, male star appears nude, male nudity, nun, pitchfork, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, sexual attraction, adultery, infidelity ...
Time: 17th century, medieval times
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The Castro's Abbess (1974)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.
Plot: nunsploitation, nun, convent, mother superior, catholic church, catholic, abbess, catholic priest, bishop, middle aged, priest, erotica ...
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 3.3
 551
Sacred Flesh (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Taunted by visions of Mary Magdalene, who reveals the confessions of the younger nuns at the convent, the Mother Superior's mind is filled with the violent, sexual acts of her fellow sisters.
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, sensual, disturbing ...
Plot: nun, convent, nunsploitation, clergy, lesbian sex, priest, female nudity, lust, erotica, obsession, dangerous attraction, destructive relationship ...
Time: 18th century
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 6.6
 8K
Agnes of God (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough ...
Style: atmospheric, intense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot: nun, mental illness, psychiatrist, murder, investigation, clergy, religion, trial, convent, life is a bitch, women, psychiatry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: montreal, quebec, canada
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Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Little Billy witnesses his parents being brutally murdered by Santa. Years later, when he has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa Claus, his childhood trauma materializes once again.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, scary, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, christmas, santa claus, murder, survival, holiday, holiday horror, killer santa claus, psychopath, winter, obsession, exploitation ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 70s, year 1974, year 1971
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
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Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968) is a movie comedy starring Rosalind Russell and Stella Stevens. The film is a sequel to The Trouble with Angels (1966) and was written by Blanche Hanalis from a story by Jane Trahey, and directed by James ...
Style: road movie, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night, family outing
Plot: mother superior, nun, clergy, catholic, convent, church, monk, nunsploitation, girl power, religion, boarding school, bishop ...
Time: 60s
Place: california, usa, new mexico, pennsylvania, arizona
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The Countess Died of Laughter (1973)
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: sexploitation film
Plot: priest, mother superior, convent school, monk, nun, exploitation, nunsploitation, sex, female nudity, catholic schoolgirl, sexploitation, inheritance ...
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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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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover ...
Style: feel good, teen, black comedy, erotic, light ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: nun, music, teacher, women, hip hop, blues, black, dancing, mentor, high school, female protagonist, african american ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: california, san francisco, usa, las vegas
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Nunsense 3: The Jamboree (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Third in the Nunsense series of musicals.
Plot: puppet, nun, mother superior, broadway, amnesia, catholic priest, monk, nurse, priest, broadway musical, nun costume
Place: nashville tennessee
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 8.1
 26K
Viridiana (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Style: controversial, black and white, surreal, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: religion, satire, dark humor, nun, catholic, morality, voyeurism, idealism, rape, loser, farm, priest ...
Time: year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place: spain, madrid, europe
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The Flying Nun (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: The Flying Nun is an American sitcom produced by Screen Gems for ABC based on the 1965 book The Fifteenth Pelican, by Tere Rios. It starred Sally Field as Sister Bertrille. The series originally ran on ABC from September 7, 1967, to April 3, 1970, ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous
Plot: nun, convent, monk, women, love, humour, newcomer, mother superior, catholic school, catholic, religion, priest ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: latin america, puerto rico
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 6.5
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Sister Smile (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: nun, convent, ambition, musician's life, follow your dream, showbiz, mother superior, society, against the rules, rising to stardom, life is a bitch, rise and fall ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
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Dixie: Changing Habits (1983)    TVM (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dixie is caught operating a whore house, and is sentenced to 90 days house arrest in a convent! Can Dixie bend to the ways of the convent nuns to avoid jail?
Plot: nun, mother superior, convent, financial crisis, brothel, prostitution, punishment, religion, catholic, hardship, blackmail, courtroom ...
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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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The Tattoo Chase (1989)
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: disguise, mafia, hospital, mob boss, airport, inheritance, belly dancer, nun, heir, convent, sheik, harem ...
Place: cuba, saudi arabia, havana cuba, africa, rome italy ...
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The Sex Therapist (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Alvin is your average guy, except for the fact women find him irresistible and chase him everywhere. He tries to avoid them and get psychiatric help but gets used by the psychiatrists as a gigolo to treat other patients instead.
Style: sex comedy, slapstick, interesting
Plot: sex therapy, psychiatrist, exploitation, erotica, sleaze, sexual blackmail, psychotherapy, gigolo, skydiving, hidden camera, mother superior, car chase ...
Time: 1910s
Place: australia
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The Trouble with Angels (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Coming of age story for two girls, Mary Clancy and Rachel Devery, who find themselves as students at the St. Francis Academy, a catholic boarding school for girls. The story spans three years and follows the girls and their many pranks including ...
Style: touching, retro, not serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: nun, coming of age, catholic, feminist, school, friendship, boarding school, clergy, high school, feminism, christian, teenager ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: philadelphia
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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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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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Saving Silverman (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, absurd, slapstick comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night
Plot: kidnapping, fiance fiancee relationship, friendship, tough girl, stupidity, faked death, dark humor, nun, farce, friendship between men, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, thailand
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Nuns on the Run (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, laugh out loud ...
Plot: cross dressing, nun, chase, priest, fish out of water, farce, on the run, disguise, convent, disorder, odd couple, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england
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The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, stylized, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: obsession, high society, nun, kidnapping, unrequited love, duchess, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfilled love, love affair, social differences, tragic love ...
Time: 19th century, year 2007, victorian era, 1810s, 1820s
Place: paris france, france, africa, spain, europe
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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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 6.3
 4K
Alucarda (1977)
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, atmospheric ...
Plot: convent, witchcraft, female monster, hysteria, nun, nunsploitation, occult, curses spells and rituals, danger, friendship, female pubic hair, telekinesis ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s, year 1865, 1800s
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