Amen. (2002), True Confessions (1981), The White Sister (1923), Angels & Demons (2009), Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), Talk of Angels (1998), Lost Souls (2000), Judgment (1990) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Roman Catholic Church movies.
Storyline: In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.
Plot Keywords: chemist, priest, nazi, diplomat, son, incredible, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1940s Los Angeles, Detective Tom Spellacy (Robert Duvall) probes into the savage murder of a woman found dumped in an empty lot. At the same time, he investigates a priest found dead in a whorehouse. Spellacy's brother (Robert De Niro), a Catholic priest, is meanwhile attempting to expand his church through Jack (Charles Durning), a shady contractor. While the two police cases and the real estate deal seem a world apart, Spellacy discovers an insidious connection involving money and power.
Plot Keywords: contractor, priest, police detective, brother, corrupt businessman, dark, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lillian Gish is the daughter of a rich Italian count who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Lillian stands to inherit a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits the property herself, throwing Lillian into poverty. Fortunately, she is engaged to marry the dashing officer Ronald Coleman, but he is captured by Arabs on an expedition to Africa. Dedicating her life to his memory, Lillian becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and returning to Italy! The climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.—Ed Lengel <egl2r@faraday.clas.virginia.edu>
Plot Keywords: heiress, italian soldier, half sister, father, love interest, nun, passionate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Following the murder of a physicist, Father Silvano Bentivoglio, a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and a scientist, Vittoria Vetra, are on an adventure involving a secret brotherhood, the Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four altars of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An assassin, working for the Illuminati, has captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions.
Plot Keywords: priest, doctor, pope, love interest, thrilling, suspenseful, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this follow-up to "The Trouble with Angels", the wry but wise Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy For Girls accompanies a group of nuns including modern, progressive Sister George, with their high-spirited students on a bus trip across America to a California peace rally. Along the way, they encounter a series of adventures that include multiple bus problems, an overnight stay at a Catholic school for boys run by Father Chase, a Western dude ranch owned by millionaire Mr. Farriday, a flamboyant movie director shooting a Western on location, and a bunch of menacing biker toughs.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: nun, movie producer, woman, student, millionaire, bishop, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is the story of a young Irish woman who comes to Spain to escape from the pressures she feels about her impending marriage to a political activist in Ireland. But in Spain in the 1930's, taking a job of governess in a wealthy family, she finds the same kinds of political unrest. In fact, it isn't long before she finds herself attracted to a married man who is similarly involved in the struggle against fascism and Franco. This awakens her to her nature that brings her to such men and resolves for her what she must do about the life she left in Ireland.—BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: governess, doctor, son, wife, lesbian, priest, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of Catholics go to a mental institution to perform exorcism in the murderer George Viznik (Brad Greenquist). Father Lareaux (Sir John Hurt), Deacon John Townsend (Elias Koteas), Father Frank Page (Brian Reddy), and the teacher Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder), who was possessed and exorcised in the past, unsuccessfully try to exorcise the man and Father Lareaux is deeply affected and falls into a coma. Maya brings the Viznik's coded writings and after deciphering it, she concludes that the writer Peter Kelson (Ben Chaplin) might be the Antichrist to be incarnated by Satan. She seeks him out but the atheist Peter, who has been raised by his uncle Father James (Philip Baker Hall), does not believe in her. But when strange things happen to him, Peter meets Maya and they investigate together the chance to save his soul.
Plot Keywords: roman catholic, leader, journalist, young woman, priest, detective, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on a true story, this film focuses on a husband and wife -- Pete (Keith Carradine) and Emmeline Guitry (Blythe Danner) -- whose faith in the Roman Catholic Church is rocked when they discover that their child (Michael Faustino) was molested by a priest (David Strathairn). Pete no longer wants to attend church, but Emmeline cannot abandon her faith. Only when they find out that other children were molested, and that the church has covered it up, do they proceed with legal action.
Plot Keywords: parent, son, pedophile, priest, psychiatrist, doctor, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In his quest to reincarnate his bitten ladylove, 19th-century vampire-hunter Dr. Abraham Van Helsing (Rhett Giles) becomes an immortal. Decades later, when blood-drained bodies begin arriving at the hospital where Van Helsing works in contemporary Los Angeles, the good doctor recruits and trains a new batch of vampire hunters. With the help of the Rev. Cefalu (Anthony Turk), Van Helsing and his team struggle to find and destroy Sebastien (Andreas Beckett) -- the last of Dracula's line.
Plot Keywords: van helsing, vampire, doctor, priest, prostitute, nurse, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wills (John Larroquette) is an ex-cop who pairs up with Bobby (Bronson Pinchot), a wacky psychic, to form the "Second Sight Detective Agency." Bobby's clairvoyant abilities come in handy during their investigations. When a nun (Bess Armstrong) recruits them for a case involving car theft, they suddenly find themselves dealing with the abduction of a prominent cardinal (William Prince) who has a chance of becoming the next pope. Bobby's psychic powers go haywire as they pursue the case.
Plot Keywords: ex-cop, detective, psychic, nun, cardinal, parapsychologist, amusing ...
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