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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.
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.
The Singing Nun (film) Sister Act; Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit; Sister Death; Sister Mary (film) Sister Smile (film) The Song of Bernadette (film) Sor Tequila; The Sound of Music (film) The Staircase (1998 film)
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.
Brides of Christ is an Australian television miniseries produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1991. [1]The series takes place behind the walls of a Sydney convent school and deals with the struggles of both the Roman Catholic nuns and the young students to adapt to the many social changes taking place within the church and the outside world during the 1960s.
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.
Ann Louise Gilligan – Irish Roman Catholic feminist theologian married to Senator Katherine Zappone; was a nun before leaving to pursue an academic career; Jacqueline Grennan Wexler (born Jean Marie Grennan; August 2, 1926 – January 19, 2012), commonly known as Sister J, was an American Roman Catholic religious sister who rose to prominence when she, as President of Webster College, strove ...
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known as Magdalene laundries), homes for women who were labelled as "fallen" by their families or society. The homes were maintained by individual religious orders, usually by the Catholic Church.