🏷 Discover The Best Convent Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Unveiling the Hidden Gems of Convent-Themed Movies and TV Shows

Step into a world of mystique and intrigue as we delve into the fascinating realm of convent-themed movies and TV shows. From the eerie to the inspiring, these cinematic tales transport us to a world of spirituality, mystery, and drama. Whether you're a fan of period dramas or psychological thrillers, our curated list has something for everyone.

Cast

Julie Andrews

Christopher Plummer

Eleanor Parker

Charmian Carr

The Sound of Music (1965)

7.7 3.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Family, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 174 min.

Audience: G

Story: In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.

Plot: resistance, musical, based on true story, music competition, based on play or musical, alps mountains, governess, convent (nunnery), ...

Time: world war ii, 1930s

Place: austria

Cast

Silvia Pinal

Francisco Rabal

Fernando Rey

Josu00e9 Calvo

Viridiana (1962)

7.7 554 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Spain, Mexico

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: 15

Story: Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Style: intense

Plot: based on novel or book, nun, faith, lie, uncle, wine, devoutness, rural area, ...

Call the Midwife (2012) TV Show

7.5 263 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 15

Episodes: 117

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Style: nostalgic, bittersweet

Plot: london, england, nurse, nun, based on novel or book, midwife, hospital, doctor, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Anne-Marie Duff

Nora-Jane Noone

Dorothy Duffy

Geraldine McEwan

The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

7.4 477 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Ireland, United Kingdom

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

Plot: nun, girls' boarding school, based on true story, sin, psychological abuse, punishment, sexual harassment, religion, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: ireland

Philomena (2013)

7.3 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.

Plot: journalist, london, england, washington dc, usa, based on novel or book, nurse, faith, ...

Place: ireland

Cast

Edward Norton

Naomi Watts

Liev Schreiber

Toby Jones

The Painted Veil (2006)

7.3 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.

Plot: infidelity, based on novel or book, shanghai, china, nun, cholera, foreign aid, doctor, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: china

Cast

Audrey Hepburn

Peter Finch

Edith Evans

Peggy Ashcroft

The Nun's Story (1959)

7.2 200 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 151 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

Plot: nurse, nun, missionary, congo, sanitarium, female protagonist, hospital, tuberculosis, ...

Time: world war ii

Place: belgium

Cast

Cillian Murphy

Emily Watson

Michelle Fairley

Eileen Walsh

Small Things Like These (2024)

6.7 560 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, Ireland

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

Plot: small town, husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, choir, flashback, barbershop, catholicism, coal, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: ireland

Cast

Taissa Farmiga

Anna Popplewell

Jonas Bloquet

Storm Reid

The Nun II (2023)

6.6 2.5K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.

Plot: nun, halloween, bullying, sequel, priest, religion, church, demon, ...

Time: 1950s

Place: france

Cast

Virginie Efira

Charlotte Rampling

Daphnu00e9 Patakia

Lambert Wilson

Benedetta (2021)

6.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

Style: provocative

Plot: suicide, based on novel or book, nun, based on true story, trial, lesbian relationship, torture, mother superior, ...

Time: 17th century

Place: italy

Cast

Sydney Sweeney

u00c1lvaro Morte

Simona Tabasco

Benedetta Porcaroli

Immaculate (2024)

6.2 1.7K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: An American nun embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbours a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.

Plot: nun, pregnancy, priest, female protagonist, church, convent (nunnery), dark secret, unassuming, ...

Place: italy

Cast

Aria Bedmar

Maru Valdivielso

Luisa Merelas

Almudena Amor

Sister Death (2023)

6.0 371 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror

Country: Spain

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Spain, 1949. Narcisa, a novice, arrives at an old convent, converted into a girls' school, to work as a teacher.

Plot: nun, prequel, evil nun, convent (nunnery), novice, nunhood, post spanish civil war, girls' school

Cast

Alison Brie

Dave Franco

Kate Micucci

Aubrey Plaza

The Little Hours (2017)

5.9 661 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.

Style: lighthearted, whimsical

Plot: based on novel or book, middle ages (476-1453), convent (nunnery), nunhood, anachronistic, medieval italy, complicated

Time: 14th century