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The Pope's Exorcist(2023)

R
| 1h 43min | Horror, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 1,090 votes)

Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, investigates a young boy's terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.

The Omen(2006)

R
| 1h 50min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 451 votes)

A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.

Corpus Christi(2019)

1h 56min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 227 votes)

A pious 20-year-old juvenile delinquent is sent to work at a sawmill in a small town; on arrival, he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of this young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened a year prior.

The Sessions(2012)

R
| 1h 35min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 239 votes)

Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Green to lose his virginity.

Innocent Voices(2005)

2h | Drama, War
4.1/5 (with 197 votes)

A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.

Hunger(2008)

1h 36min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 494 votes)

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.

Tales of Erotica(1973)

1h 28min | Comedy
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Four women of Gubbio – Angelica, Violetta, Lisa and Bettina – are conducted before the court by their lovers and husbands.

Phenomena(2023)

1h 34min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 59 votes)

Madrid, Spain, 1998. The many resources and skills of Gloria, Paz and Sagrario, three middle-aged women investigating paranormal events, are put to the test when their leader, Father Pilón, has an unpleasant encounter.

When the Lights Went Out(2012)

1h 26min | Thriller, Drama, Horror
2.9/5 (with 50 votes)

Yorkshire, 1974, the Maynard family moves into their dream house. It's a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken nightmare as the family discovers a horrifying truth, a truth that will make the history books. The house is already occupied by the most violent poltergeist ever documented, a poltergeist that will tear you from your bed as you sleep and drag you helplessly into the darkness.

The Priests(2015)

1h 43min | Mystery, Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

To save a girl in danger, a priest and deacon jump into a mysterious case.

Directed by Jang Jae-hyun - With Kim Yun-seok

Léon Morin, Priest(1961)

2h 10min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.5/5 (with 58 votes)

In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to live on a farm in the countryside and finds that Sabine's brother has been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. The atheist Barny decides to baptize her daughter to protect her and chooses priest Léon Morin to discuss with him themes related to religion and Catholicism and Léon lends books to her. Barny converts to Catholicism and becomes closer to Léon, feeling an unrequited desire for him.

Angels with Dirty Faces(1938)

NR
| 1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 125 votes)

In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.

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The Day of the Beast(1995)

R
| 1h 43min | Action, Comedy, Horror, Crime, Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 218 votes)

The story revolves around a Basque Roman Catholic priest dedicated to committing as many sins as possible, a death metal salesman from Carabanchel, and the Italian host of a TV show on the occult. These go on a literal "trip" through Christmas-time Madrid to hunt for and prevent the reincarnation of the Antichrist.

Going My Way(1944)

NR
| 2h 6min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.4/5 (with 66 votes)

Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of boys looking for direction, eventually winning over the aging, conventional Parish priest.

Directed by Leo McCarey - With Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Risë Stevens, Frank McHugh, James Brown, Gene Lockhart, ...

Priest(1995)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 51 votes)

Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.

Hell Baby(2013)

R
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Horror
2.6/5 (with 96 votes)

After she and her husband move into a haunted house, a woman gives birth to a demonic infant that wreaks havoc.

The Borderlands(2013)

R
| 1h 29min | Horror
2.7/5 (with 95 votes)

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

Directed by Elliot Goldner - With Gordon Kennedy

Clergy(2018)

2h 13min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 74 votes)

A few years back tragic events tied the fate of three Catholic priests. From then on they meet on every anniversary of the disaster to celebrate their survival. On an everyday basis they have their ups and downs. Lisowski works at the curia in a big city, has a career and is dreaming of the Vatican. Problem is, archbishop Mordowicz, an opulent church official who uses his political influence to build the largest sanctuary in Poland, gets in his way. The second priest, Trybus, is a village parson. He ministers to a poor community and gives in to human weaknesses more and more often. Kukuła is not faring well either. Despite his fervent faith, he loses the trust of his parishioners actually overnight. Soon the stories of the three clergymen are going to join once again.

True Confessions(1981)

R
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 59 votes)

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

In the Name of...(2013)

NR
| 1h 42min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 49 votes)

The contemporary story of a priest who launches a centre for troubled youth in a small parish. He is a good priest and is well-liked by his congregation, which remains unaware of his complicated past.

The Cardinal(1963)

NR
| 2h 55min | Drama, History, War
3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

The Prayer(2018)

1h 47min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 43 votes)

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.

The Boys of St. Vincent(1992)

1h 33min | Drama, Crime
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.

Directed by John N. Smith - With Henry Czerny, Greg Thomey, Michael Wade, Brian Dooley

The Devil and Father Amorth(2018)

1h 8min | Documentary, Horror
2.5/5 (with 46 votes)

William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman named Cristina for the ninth time. Prior to filming, Cristina had purportedly been experiencing behavioural changes and “fits” that could not be explained by psychiatry, and which became worse during Christian holidays.

Directed by William Friedkin

Satan’s Triangle(1979)

1h 14min | TV Movie, Mystery, Horror
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean known as Satan's Triangle.

Directed by Sutton Roley - With Doug McClure

Enamorada(1946)

1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.8/5 (with 22 votes)

In Mexican Revolution times, a guerrilla general and his troops take the conservative town of Cholula, near by Mexico City. As the revolutionaries mistreat the town's riches, Armendáriz falls for beautiful and wild Beatriz Peñafiel, the daughter of one of the town's richest men.

The Priest's Children(2013)

1h 33min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 27 votes)

Don Fabijan is a young priest who comes to serve on an unnamed small island in the Adriatic. In order to help increase birth rate on the island, he decides to pierce condoms before they are sold. He therefore teams up with the newsagent Petar and the pharmacist Marin. After they abolish all forms of birth control on the entire island, the consequences become more and more complicated.

Come Into the Light(2005)

1h 30min | Drama, Crime, History
3.6/5 (with 41 votes)

In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end.

The Left Hand of God(1955)

NR
| 1h 27min | Adventure, Drama, Western
3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.

Silentium(2004)

1h 56min | Thriller, Crime, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 29 votes)

A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.

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