Monastery Movies

Into Great Silence (German: Die Große Stille) is a documentary film directed by Philip Gröning that was first released in 2005. It is an intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of...

A Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C has been learned. With a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where t...

In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a skull is found. Lady Sylvia takes the skull for use in worshiping her pagan god, The White Worm, who craves for the taste of virginal flesh.

Falsely accused for cheating in a martial arts competition, two boyhood friends are banished from their Shaolin Temple and go their separate ways. As adults, they join opposing sides in a civil war. W...

Tintin and Captain Haddock try to discover what is so desirable about their old and apparently worthless ship.

In a post-nuclear world, a happy family of ranchers is beseiged by a roving band of ne'er do well marauders who want to eat the men and mate with the women. Having already killed and eaten an entire m...

The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Ari...

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since they crossed the Mediterranean Sea. Together with other refugees, she is given shelter for the winter in a Swiss catholic mo...

An adventuresome young man goes off to find himself, and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is al...

Robert Culp plays Bracken, whose life seems perfect until his wife Ellen and their children are kidnapped by terrorists one day. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police, Ellen's ex hu...

Young and lively artist lives at the monastery while restoring the interiors and pays attention to the very old monk who is going to pass away soon.

Three monks are making their way from Germany to a monastry in Italy, because they cannot afford the rent for their facility any longer.

When the townspeople of a small Mexican village start disappearing, the locals point the suspicion at two young visitors. The only solution is for the two to unearth the legend of a madman in this sup...

50 years ago Jørgen Lauersen Vig bought Hesbjerg Castle, situated in the Danish country side, with the purpose of turning it into a monastery. Now, many years later, he is about to realize his old dre...

A British spy ship was sunk and had a hi-tech device on board. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds the British launching instructions before the Soviets get to it.

A nightclub singer seeks refuge in a convent with gay nuns.

A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but also finds some things worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman ...

Five monks live harmoniously in the monastery but suddenly their peace is disturbed by a gang of construction workers. The leader of the church sold the monastery to the town council, and now their be...

A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promi...

Mother Superior wants Deloris Van Cartier to do the nun's habit again to help a run-down Catholic school. If trying to reach out to a class full of disinterested students wasn't bad enough, the sister...

Four strippers take a vacation and wind up at a Spanish resort complex that, despite the hotel receptionist's claims of it being fully booked, appears to be completely empty. After one of the girls my...

A singer in Reno witnesses a mob murder and the cops put her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the ot...

It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of...

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.

A young woman is interested in an older millionaire. She moves into his mansion with him after having sex with him. After she gets rid of him, she goes after his child.

In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher Elizabeth Magrino visits the monastery in order t...

In the Seventeenth Century, while Hungary is fighting the Turks, the population of a small village in...

Goldmund was sent to the monastery by his father to atone for the sins of his mother, who abandoned them. He met a brilliant, scholarly novice named Narcissus at that location. A deep life-long friend...

Drama set in 1940 about a peasant who traverses Cyprus to pray at a monastery.

A virtuous monk descends to the depths of sin and depravity after Satan sends an unholy temptress to lead him astray.

18-year old David grew up assuming that his mother and his father have died when he was a baby. He was raised by a monk and is close to completing High School. He gets into a fight during a party and ...

Ambrosio (Franco Nero) is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk's robes. After he has committed numerous crimes, it appears that he will be caught and punish...

The terrifying thriller tells the story of Sara (Lydia Bosch, 'Grand Hotel'), a popular novelist who after suffering a serious accident, it is host to a monastery in the north section of Italy in whic...

A man of the cloth finds his faith challenged both by the death of one of his closest relatives and the aftermath of the crime in this thriller. When a man is murdered under mysterious circumstances, ...

A documentary about the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the Netherlands.

Mateho, an officer of the Inquisition and rational man of science, visits a remote monastery to investigate a bizarre murder of a monk. And you guessed it: something evil is afoot. But is the terror m...

Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of the famous vaudeville-opérette "Mam'zelle Nitouche")...

The nine year old Larissa lives in the Luneburg Heath. She is in the clique "The Timies", which is devoted to historical events and facts. In this summer holidays, Larissa's cousins from Berlin are vi...

Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price.

This first feature film from Indian playwright Anand Gandhi, tells three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances: a visually impaired Egyptia...

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

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 ste...

A group of college students break into an abandoned convent and become possessed by demonic spirits.

The English botanist and the American promoter went to the Himalayas to look for the legendary Yeti.

Golden Swallow (Cheng Pei-pei) is a fighter-for-hire who has been contracted by the local government to retrieve the governor's kidnapped son. Holding him is a group of rebels who are demanding that t...

The life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev is the subject of this film. After drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually gains a reputation for h...

The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and sets ou...