Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "disguised-as-a-nun"

1. Idle Hands (1999)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A teenage slacker's right hand becomes possessed with murderous intent.

Director: Rodman Flender | Stars: Devon Sawa, Seth Green, Elden Henson, Jessica Alba

Votes: 46,786 | Gross: $4.00M

2. Sister Act (1992)

PG | 100 min | Comedy, Family, Music

When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.

Director: Emile Ardolino | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn

Votes: 108,484 | Gross: $139.61M

3. Paddington 2 (2017)

PG | 103 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.

Director: Paul King | Stars: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins

Votes: 94,116 | Gross: $40.44M

4. Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

When eccentric man-child Pee-wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane Salinger

Votes: 59,132 | Gross: $40.90M

5. Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)

GP | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

When a former Civil War soldier saves a nun from a gang of bandits, they team up to help the Mexicans in their war against the French.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Manolo Fábregas, Alberto Morin

Votes: 30,600 | Gross: $11.50M

6. 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998)

PG | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

The three unstoppable Ninja brothers fight to save their hero (Hulk Hogan) and Mega Mountain Amusement Park from the vicious kid-hating Medusa (Loni Anderson).

Director: Sean McNamara | Stars: Loni Anderson, Hulk Hogan, Jim Varney, Victor Wong

Votes: 12,406 | Gross: $0.38M

7. Black Mama White Mama (1973)

R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Black prostitute and a white revolutionary must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison, then pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the Army.

Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden

Votes: 3,642 | Gross: $0.19M

8. Firewalker (1986)

PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache hoard of gold.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett Jr., Melody Anderson, Will Sampson

Votes: 7,676 | Gross: $11.83M

9. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013)

Unrated | 122 min | Drama, History

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.

Director: Arnaud des Pallières | Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, Delphine Chuillot, David Kross

Votes: 9,205

10. The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)

PG | 85 min | Adventure, Comedy, War

An aging Sir Hector Geste (Trevor Howard) takes a young greedy wife who's after his famed Blue Water sapphire, but his sons hide the gem and join the French Foreign Legion in North Africa.

Director: Marty Feldman | Stars: Marty Feldman, Ann-Margret, Michael York, Peter Ustinov

Votes: 2,631

11. The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials (1979)

96 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi

In St. Tropez, French gendarme Cruchot and his men battle petroleum-drinking, human-looking, metallic aliens.

Director: Jean Girault | Stars: Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Maurice Risch, Jean-Pierre Rambal

Votes: 9,462

12. Droid Gunner (1995)

R | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A futuristic bounty hunter is assigned to track down four female androids smuggled to Earth for illicit purposes.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Marc Singer, Matthias Hues, Rochelle Swanson, Robin Clarke

Votes: 970

13. Weekend at Dunkirk (1964)

Approved | 119 min | Drama, War

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.

Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Spaak, Georges Géret, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Votes: 1,910

14. Judex (1963)

Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Favraux, an unscrupulous banker receives a threatening note signed only "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and seemingly faces his fate.

Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob, Théo Sarapo

Votes: 2,844

15. Get Charlie Tully (1972)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime

Charlie Tully and womanizing Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000, but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for conning an American and a dog. Reggie puts the money in a... See full summary »

Director: Cliff Owen | Stars: Dick Emery, Derren Nesbitt, Ronald Fraser, Pat Coombs

Votes: 493

16. The Red Danube (1949)

Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance, War

Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet ... See full summary »

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Ethel Barrymore, Peter Lawford, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 717

17. Beware the Gorilla (2019)

90 min | Comedy, Family

Lorenzo is a family lawyer who, after splitting from his wife Emma, lost everything, including the children safekeeping. After he visited a zoo he decides to defend the rights of a gorilla ... See full summary »

Director: Luca Miniero | Stars: Frank Matano, Cristiana Capotondi, Pasquale Petrolo, Francesco Scianna

Votes: 292

18. The Ugliest Woman in the World (1999)

TV-MA | 108 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi

2012 Madrid DF. Lola Otero, the ugliest woman in the world, suffers the cruelty of the people until at 18 a surgery transforms her into a beauty. When the mutilated corpse of an old woman is discovered, it seems Lola as suspicious.

Director: Miguel Bardem | Stars: Elia Galera, Roberto Álvarez, Javivi, Héctor Alterio

Votes: 648

19. A Man Called Sarge (1990)

PG-13 | 88 min | Comedy, War

The French Foreign Legion will never be the same after the uproarious World War II exploits of Sgt. Duke Roscoe and his band of military misfits. It's a hilarious "war movie" that will leave you shell-shocked with laughter.

Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Gary Kroeger, Gretchen German, Marc Singer, Jennifer Runyon

Votes: 553

20. The Pact of Silence (2003)

R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A priest who is also a doctor investigates the mysterious illness of a young nun who shares a dark secret with her twin sister who is a convicted child murderer.

Director: Graham Guit | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Élodie Bouchez, Carmen Maura, Isaac Sharry

Votes: 1,051

21. Walk a Mile in My Pradas (2011)

Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy

A magic Christmas ornament turns two men's lives upside down when homophobic Tony starts preferring men two weeks before his wedding and his gay co-worker Steve finds himself blossoming into a ladies' man.

Director: Joey Sylvester | Stars: Nathaniel Marston, Tom Archdeacon, Tom Arnold, Mike Starr

Votes: 425

22. The Watchmaker's Apprentice (2019)

99 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Urban, an orphan, serves a greedy master watchmaker as an apprentice. When Urban grows up, he falls in love with the watchmaker's daughter Laura and wants to marry her. Before this can ... See full summary »

Director: Jitka Rudolfová | Stars: Viktor Preiss, Michael Balcar, Dana Droppová, Éva Bandor

Votes: 179

23. A Tale of Samurai Cooking: A True Love Story (2013)

122 min | Drama, History

During the Edo Period of Japan, an excellent cook marries the heir to a renowned cooking family. However, her husband is a terrible chef. With the help of her new mother-in-law, she begins to teach him the ways of the culinary arts.

Director: Yûzô Asahara | Stars: Aya Ueto, Kengo Kôra, Kimiko Yo, Riko Narumi

Votes: 573

24. Daniel (1971)

84 min | Comedy

After a one-year trip around the world, Twenty-year-old Daniel comes home to his extremely boring parents, who go along with their time in their own way. In their trendy clothes they make ... See full summary »

Director: Erik Terpstra | Stars: Peter Schaapman, Sylvia de Leur, Bob De Lange, André van den Heuvel

Votes: 32

25. Enkel resa (1988)

93 min | Comedy, Crime

An ex con antiques dealer is faced with a huge debt he's put under pressure to repay. As a solution he agrees to steal the Russian crown jewels on exhibition on board a cruise ferry.

Director: Hans Iveberg | Stars: Sven Wollter, Inger Lise Rypdal, Dan Ekborg, Gösta Engström

Votes: 189

26. A Wolf Among Lambs (1913)

15 min | Short, Drama

Don Fernando, smitten with Giulia, a Spanish dancer, persuades the young and innocent girl to run away with him. Valeska, the sister, finds a note on the table the following morning, ... See full summary »

Stars: Allen Holubar, Ruth Stonehouse, Bryant Washburn, Dolores Cassinelli

Votes: 20

27. Time Gate: Knight's Chase (1995 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Fantasy

Adventure game in the vein of Alone in the Dark about a American law student in Paris sent back through time to the 14th century to face a demonic inquisitor and the Knights Templar and save his missing fiancee.

Director: Hubert Chardot | Star: Steve Blum

28. Les mercredis de la vie (1992– )
Episode: L'argent fait le bonheur (1993)

91 min | Drama

How the mothers of a deprived suburb of Marseille will create a solidarity committee under the aegis of the parish priest. Gathered in assembly, they will invent a solution to the endemic misery of their city.

Director: Robert Guédiguian | Stars: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Pierre Banderet, Danièle Lebrun

Votes: 94

29. The A-Team (1983–1987)
Episode: The Only Church in Town (1983)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Face receives a cryptic letter from his college sweetheart and demands the Team go to Ecuador to save her. A big surprise awaits Face, not to mention a criminal gang holding everyone hostage inside a children's orphanage.

Director: Christian I. Nyby II | Stars: George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Melinda Culea, Dwight Schultz

Votes: 366

30. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Forgive Us Our Debts (1986)

TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

New evidence leads Crockett to fight against the execution of Frank Hackman, put on Death Row for murdering Crockett's old partner.

Director: Jan Eliasberg | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 485

31. My Name Is Earl (2005–2009)
Episode: Early Release (2007)

TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy

The warden reneges on his promise to Earl to grant an early release, so Earl launches a plan to escape from prison.

Director: Jason Ensler | Stars: Jason Lee, Ethan Suplee, Jaime Pressly, Nadine Velazquez

Votes: 542

32. La inolvidable (1996)
Episode: Episode #1.33 (1996)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Romance

Simon is chained in the dungeon. The soldiers are searching every house in town for Maria Teresa. Francisco de Paula discovers why Simon was arrested.

Directors: Tony Rodríguez, Rafael Suárez | Stars: Christianne Gout, Rafael Romero, Flor Núñez, Eduardo Serrano

33. Secreto de amor (2001–2005)
Episode: Episode #1.26 (2001)

45 min | Drama, Romance

Maria Clara refuses to accompany Victoria to her rendezvous. Vilma disguises herself as a nun and stalks Lisandro. Carlos Raul asks Barbara for a divorce. Padre Alberto advises Coralia to find Erasmo.

Directors: Yaky Ortega, Pepe Sánchez | Stars: Scarlet Ortiz, Jorge Aravena, Jorge Luis Pila, Aura Cristina Geithner