The Magdalene Sisters

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 30 Aug 2002 · English

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 18 Jul 2018 · English

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.

The Third Miracle

Movie · 5.8 / 10 · 18 Nov 1999 · English

The Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood...

Father Stu

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 13 Apr 2022 · English

The true-life story of boxer-turned-priest. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long moves to Los Angeles to find money and fame. While scraping by as a supermarket clerk, he meets Carmen, a Sunday school teacher who seems immune to his bad-boy charm. Determined to win her over, the longtime agnostic starts going to church to impress her. However, a motorcycle accident leaves him wondering if he can use his second chance to help others, leading to the surprising realization that he's meant to be a Catholic priest.

The Starling Girl

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 12 May 2023 · English

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

The Baby of Mâcon

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 17 Sept 1993 · English

In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

Dead Man Walking

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 29 Dec 1995 · English

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.

Nymphomaniac: Vol. I

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 25 Dec 2013 · English

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

Lolita

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 27 Sept 1997 · English

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Cracks

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 4 Dec 2009 · English

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

Pretty Baby

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 5 Apr 1978 · English

In 1917 New Orleans, a 12-year-old girl is raised in a brothel by her prostitute mother.

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 19 Feb 1998 · English

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a Tibetan saddle tramp Lao Jin to learn horse herding.