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Pages in category "Nunsploitation films" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Nunsploitation, along with nazisploitation, is a subgenre that ran a parallel course alongside women in prison films in the 1970s and 1980s. As with prison films, they are set in isolated, fortress-like convents where the all-female population turns to lesbianism and perversity. The element of religious guilt allows for lurid depictions of ...
Lest anyone think Paul Verhoeven’s latest shocker was intended to be a serious look at sexuality in religious service, the promotional poster for the film plastered around the Cannes Film ...
The Devils is a 1971 historical psychological horror-drama film written, produced and directed by Ken Russell, and starring Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed. [3] A dramatised historical account of the fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft after the possessions in Loudun, France, the plot also focuses on Sister Jeanne des Anges, a sexually repressed ...
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Reviewer Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a mediocre review, writing that "its plot twists can be seen from a mile away. But that doesn’t prevent it from being sufficiently unsettling, even for those viewers who’ve never had their knuckles rapped by a nun."
Mickey Reece's "Agnes" debuts Dec. 10 on VOD and in limited U.S. theaters, including OKC's Rodeo Cinema.
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.