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The Trouble with Angels is a 1966 American comedy film about the adventures of two girls in an all-girls Catholic school run by nuns. The film was the final theatrical feature to be directed by Ida Lupino and stars Hayley Mills (her first post-Disney film role), Rosalind Russell, and June Harding.
Benedetta is a 2021 biographical psychological drama film co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Virginie Efira as Benedetta Carlini, a nun in the 17th century who joins an Italian convent while a young child and later has a lesbian love affair with another nun, while seeing religious visions.
Nine-year-old Evelyn Doyle and her two brothers, Maurice and Dermot, are left motherless when their mother leaves their drunkard, out-of-work father Desmond Doyle.When Desmond's mother-in-law reports the situation to the authorities, a judge decrees that the children are prohibited by law from being left in a broken home; they are placed in Church-run orphanages.
Novitiate is a 2017 American drama film written and directed by Maggie Betts in her feature directorial debut.Starring Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, Morgan Saylor, Dianna Agron, Julianne Nicholson, Liana Liberato, Denis O'Hare, and Maddie Hasson, the film follows a young woman (Qualley) who starts to question her faith as she trains to become a nun.
Girls Town (1959 film) God Is the Bigger Elvis; H. ... Love and Mercy: Faustina; M. Madeline (1998 film) ... Films about Catholic nuns.
With the Catholic Church, there's always this sense that if you're silent, you're complicit." Cillian Murphy confers with director Tim Mielants on the set of "Small Things Like These."
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows is a 1968 American comedy film directed by James Neilson and starring Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens and Binnie Barnes.Written by Blanche Hanalis, the film is based on a story by Jane Trahey about an orthodox mother superior who is challenged by a progressive younger nun when they take the girls of St. Francis Academy on a bus trip across the United States.
A novice nun at the convent is grieving the death of another nun. Confined to her cell, she engages in morning prayer. Later the Abbess discloses to Beaulieu that several nuns at the convent were raped by Soviet soldiers, relating that the experience was nightmarish, and they wish to keep this a secret. Seven of the nuns are pregnant.