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1. Derry Girls (2018–2022)
TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy
The personal exploits of a 16-year-old girl and her family and friends during the Troubles in the early 1990s in Northern Ireland.
Stars: Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Louisa Harland, Tara Lynne O'Neill, Kathy Kiera Clarke
Votes: 59,524
2. Lady Bird (2017)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
In 2002, an artistically inclined 17-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges
Votes: 331,524 | Gross: $48.96M
3. The Sound of Music (1965)
G | 172 min | Biography, Drama, Family
A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn
Votes: 261,963 | Gross: $163.21M
4. Benedetta (2021)
Unrated | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphné Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Votes: 25,661
5. Annabelle: Creation (2017)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll-maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they become the target of the doll-maker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto, Brad Greenquist
Votes: 151,427 | Gross: $102.09M
6. The Woman in the Wall (2023–2024)
TV-MA | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Lorna Brady wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house with no idea who the dead woman is. She doubts herself, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts of sleepwalking.
Stars: Ruth Wilson, Daryl McCormack, Simon Delaney, Philippa Dunne
Votes: 5,818
7. Death Wish (1974)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks. In self-defense, the vengeful man kills muggers on the mean streets after dark.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats
Votes: 44,217 | Gross: $22.00M
8. The Howling (1981)
R | 91 min | Horror
After a bizarre and near deadly encounter with a serial killer, a television newswoman is sent to a remote mountain resort whose residents may not be what they seem.
Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone
Votes: 40,319 | Gross: $17.99M
9. Hudson Hawk (1991)
R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot.
Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn
Votes: 60,466 | Gross: $17.22M
10. El Conde (2023)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Fantasy, History
After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, Paula Luchsinger
Votes: 13,597
11. Freejack (1992)
R | 110 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Bounty hunters from the future transport a doomed race car driver to New York City in 2009, where his mind will be replaced with that of a dead billionaire.
Director: Geoff Murphy | Stars: Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Rene Russo, Anthony Hopkins
Votes: 17,512 | Gross: $17.13M
12. Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama
A body's found on the shore of a lake. Police Chief Jesse Stone starts an investigation. It turns out to be a pregnant high school student. There's also a case of a persistent wife beater. Jesse starts seeing a shrink and dating.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth, Orla Brady
Votes: 5,558
13. The Trouble with Angels (1966)
PG | 112 min | Comedy, Family
Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of bewildered Sisters.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Hayley Mills, Binnie Barnes, Camilla Sparv
Votes: 5,803
14. Ida (2013)
PG-13 | 82 min | Drama
A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela
Votes: 60,799 | Gross: $3.83M
15. The Innocents (2016)
PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History
1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.
Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne
Votes: 11,634 | Gross: $1.06M
16. Yes, God, Yes (2017)
R | 11 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A good Catholic fifteen-year-old girl finds herself having tempting thoughts after an innocent AOL chat turns unexpectedly racy.
Director: Karen Maine | Stars: Natalia Dyer, John Doherty, Joe Reece, Merissa Czyz
Votes: 1,923
17. The Sound of Music Live! (2013 TV Special)
TV-PG | 180 min | Biography, Drama, Family
A live telecast of the famous Rodgers and Hammerstein musical.
Directors: Rob Ashford, Beth McCarthy-Miller | Stars: Carrie Underwood, Stephen Moyer, Laura Benanti, Christian Borle
Votes: 3,958
18. Shark Exorcist (2014)
71 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
A demonic nun unleashes holy hell when she summons the devil to possess a great white shark.
Director: Donald Farmer | Stars: Angela Kerecz, Bobby Kerecz, Channing Dodson, Madison Carney
Votes: 1,947
19. Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! (1968)
G | 93 min | Comedy
An old-line Mother Superior is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls of St. Francis Academy on a bus trip across the United States.
Director: James Neilson | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes
Votes: 1,828
20. Trinity Blood (2005)
TV-MA | Animation, Action, Drama
In a futuristic world of an unsteady truce between humans and vampires a superhuman priest battles to secure a peaceful co-existence.
Stars: Hiroki Tôchi, Troy Baker, Russell Wait, R. Bruce Elliott
Votes: 2,902
21. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Passed | 137 min | Drama, War
A young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner
Votes: 3,103
22. The Private War of Major Benson (1955)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
As a disciplinary measure, the Army transfers a heavy-handed Major to a ROTC academy where he must shape-up cadets and improve the school's overall ratings.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, William Demarest, Tim Hovey
Votes: 983
23. Women Is Losers (2021)
84 min | Drama
In 1960s San Francisco, a once-promising catholic school girl, Celina Guerrera, sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest in a future for herself that sets new precedents for the time.
Director: Lissette Feliciano | Stars: Lorenza Izzo, Bryan Craig, Chrissie Fit, Simu Liu
Votes: 415
24. No Place to Hide (1992)
R | 98 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A tough L.A. cop and the teen sister of the ballerina whose murder he's investigating become targeted by a sinister cult that secretly runs the city.
Director: Richard Danus | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Drew Barrymore, Illana Diamant, Martin Landau
Votes: 788 | Gross: $0.14M
25. Cold Heaven (1991)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to life.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Theresa Russell, Mark Harmon, James Russo, Will Patton
Votes: 1,127
26. White Fang (1973)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Family, Western
The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Franco Nero, Virna Lisi, Fernando Rey, John Steiner
Votes: 936
27. Children of Divorce (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
Directors: Frank Lloyd, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Einar Hanson
Votes: 415
28. Valérie (1969)
R | 97 min | Drama
A seminal Quebec erotic film about a curious girl who leaves her convent to explore the Montréal hippy scene, becomes a prostitute and meets her true love who doesn't know she's a hooker, that started erotic film genre in Canada.
Director: Denis Héroux | Stars: Danielle Ouimet, Guy Godin, Andrée Flamand, Kim Wilcox
Votes: 168
29. Don't Tell (2017)
110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
With help from a local lawyer, a young abuse survivor finds the courage to speak out when having a voice is her only option.
Director: Tori Garrett | Stars: Jack Thompson, Aden Young, Sara West, Rachel Griffiths
Votes: 419
30. Kongo (1932)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Horror
This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a ... See full summary »
Director: William J. Cowen | Stars: Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce
Votes: 1,128
31. Rebel Hearts (2021)
99 min | Documentary
A look at Los Angeles's Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, nuns who challenged the patriarchal conventions of the Catholic Church 50 years ago and are still taking a stand today.
Director: Pedro Kos | Stars: Anita Caspary, Helen Kelley, Corita Kent, Pat Reif
Votes: 168
32. 21 and a Wake-Up (2009)
R | 123 min | Drama, War
The film is based on real events, focusing on the lives of three young nurses, one of whom undertakes a treacherous journey up the Mekong River to Cambodia to save a very young ... See full summary »
Director: Chris McIntyre | Stars: Amy Acker, Danica McKellar, Faye Dunaway, Todd Cahoon
Votes: 162
33. The Prayer (2018)
107 min | Drama
Thomas is a drug addict. In an effort to put an end to his habit, he joins a community of former addicts who live isolated in the mountains and use prayer as a way to cure themselves.
Director: Cédric Kahn | Stars: Anthony Bajon, Damien Chapelle, Alex Brendemühl, Louise Grinberg
Votes: 1,288
34. The White Sister (1923)
143 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman becomes a nun when she believes her sweetheart has been killed, then things get complicated when he returns alive.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Lillian Gish, Ronald Colman, Gail Kane, J. Barney Sherry
Votes: 540 | Gross: $0.66M
35. Sinners (2002 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Set in the ultra conservative Ireland of the 60s, Catholic Theresa is in trouble in a country where women are punished if they become pregnant out of wedlock.
Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Anne-Marie Duff, Doireann Ní Chorragáin, Siomha Murray, Niamh McGrath
Votes: 192
36. Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game (2017)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Dr. Abe Mandelbaum has just moved into a new manor with his ailing wife. After forming an unlikely friendship with a womanizing gambler, their relationship is tested when they each try to ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Weiner | Stars: Martin Landau, Paul Sorvino, Maria Dizzia, Ann Marie Shea
Votes: 317
37. Scandal at Scourie (1953)
Passed | 90 min | Drama
After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Agnes Moorehead, Donna Corcoran
Votes: 591
38. Mother Angelica Live Classics (1983– )
TV-G | 60 min | Talk-Show
Flagship EWTN series hosted by Mother Angelica, mother-superior of a Franciscan cloistered monastery and the founder of EWTN network. Features Bible studies, catechetical homilies, a live studio audience, guests and call-in questions.
Stars: Mother Angelica, Jeff Cavins, Angelus Shaughnessy, Raymond Arroyo
Votes: 83
39. Gynaikes dilitirio (1993)
98 min | Comedy
Whether by mistake or design, everyone around a famous psychiatrist is bent on ruining him. His effortless composure keeps everything from falling apart; however, what happens if the poisonous women around him start making demands on him?
Director: Nikos Zervos | Stars: Spiros Papadopoulos, Ilias Logothetis, Nadia Mourouzi, Athina Tsilyra
Votes: 545
40. Bad Habits, Holy Orders (2017)
60 min | Reality-TV
Five party girls abandon booze, boys and smartphones and move into a Catholic convent in Norfolk, England for four weeks of spiritual guidance.
Star: Alison Steadman
Votes: 76
41. Trinity Blood: Genesis (2006)
R | 90 min | Animation, Action, Drama
Feature-length US theatrical release to promote the TV series Trinity Blood (2005). The film was made by combining the first four episodes of the series.
Director: Tomohiro Hirata | Stars: Chris Ayres, Greg Ayres, Troy Baker, Christopher Bevins
Votes: 11
42. Inés de Villalonga 1870 (1979)
85 min | Drama
Director: Jaime Jesús Balcázar | Stars: María Rey, Mónica Zanchi, Antonio Maroño, Daniel Martín
Votes: 34
43. Flesh for the Inferno (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror
A local community group volunteers to prepare a dilapidated Catholic school for a make-over, unbeknownst to them that a sulphurous curse stemming from the unjust and grievous punishment of a pious group of Sisters has condemned the place.
Director: Richard Griffin | Stars: Anna Rizzo, Michael Thurber, Jamie Lyn Bagley, Jamie Dufault
Votes: 136
44. One Pound Gospel (1988 Video)
50 min | Animation, Comedy, Sport
A young idealistic nun helps a gluttonous young boxer gain the self control he needs to train to become a champion.
Director: Osamu Dezaki | Stars: Tôru Furuya, Hiromi Tsuru, Ichirô Nagai, Hidekatsu Shibata
Votes: 100
45. The Sin Sister (1929)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A story of hardships in Alaska in which the true characters of five people are brought out when they are subjected to one problem or another. Some pass the tests and some don't.
Director: Charles Klein | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Lawrence Gray, Josephine Dunn, Myrtle Stedman
Votes: 24
46. Angel and Sinner (1945)
Approved | 85 min | Drama
Ten people fleeing Rouen invaded by the Prussians, Rousset nicknamed ball of tallow among them, give to a Prussian to save other passengers who still despise. However, on later nobody could underestimate her being how brave .
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Micheline Presle, Berthe Bovy, Louise Conte, Mona Dol
Votes: 221
47. Aloud (2016)
20 min | Short, Drama
1960s. Arden is an introvert kid who was brought up in a strict Catholic orphanage. Insecure about his voice, he pretends to sing during choir practice. With the arrival of Mr. Stevens, the... See full summary »
Director: Song Huang | Stars: Jonah Beres, Austin Iredale, Kate Fuglei, Dan Colman
Votes: 40
48. Mr Paul (2016 TV Movie)
92 min | Crime, Drama, History
It's 1972 and reporter Franck Jourdan is getting obsessed in an investigation to bring Paul Touvier to trial for crimes against humanity. During his quest, Jourdan discovers how Touvier remained hidden from the authorities all those years.
Director: Olivier Schatzky | Stars: Laurent Gerra, François Morel, Hélène Alexandridis, Madalina Constantin
Votes: 45
49. Port Royal (1960 TV Movie)
118 min | Drama, History
Director: Jean Vernier | Stars: Henry de Montherlant, Jean-Claude Arnaud, Marco Behar, Micheline Boudet
50. Keffer: Rouge (2015)
3 min | Short, Music
Rouge is a birth, an uprising, a war, a murder, a takeover. A music video created by director Loïc Andrieu on an exclusive track by Keffer.
Director: Loïc Andrieu | Stars: Hedi Chellouf, Jérôme Godgrand, Aliashka Hilsum, Viktoria Videnina