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Religious
see all genres ›The institutions and beliefs of faiths around the world are observed (and sometimes critiqued) in stories that touch on humanity's search for higher meaning.
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Genres / Drama / Religious
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After Six Days
Touted at the time as a "$3,000,000 Entertainment for the Hundred Millions," this Old Testament spectacle delivered what it promised, "from the creation of Adam and Eve to the parting of the Red Sea." The advertising claimed it was filmed over a period of five years at the "Exact Locations of Biblical History." Little is...Start your free trial to watch
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Anchoress
In a 14th century British village an illiterate young peasant girl becomes obsessed with Virgin Mary and, supported by the local priest, claims special powers to communicate with her. According to custom, and much to the dismay of her skeptical and often profane mother, she is enclosed in the wall of the local church,...Start your free trial to watch
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Behind Convent Walls
BEHIND CONVENT WALLS is an erotic arthouse film by cult director Walerian Borowzcyk (THE BEAST), set in a convent, where a Mother Superior tries to maintain order to prevent the nuns from temptation. But when things get out of control, the church inflicts cruel punishment to the nuns for their sins. One of...Start your free trial to watch
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The Birth, the Life and the Death of Christ
Over the course of a little more than thirty-three-and-a-half minutes (or essentially a minute for each year of what is conventionally assumed to be the entirety of his life), the full story of Jesus Christ is conveyed by French director Alice Guy. The nativity, the parables, the disciples, the miracles,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Book of the Dead
In this ravishing film of mystical beauty, master animator Kihachiro Kawamoto’s tour de force adventure tale tells the story of a young noblewoman in 8th-century Japan who leaves her home to follow the apparition of an executed prince. THE BOOK OF THE DEAD takes place as Buddhism is being introduced to...Start your free trial to watch
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Border Cafe
In a village near Iran's border with Turkey, Reyhan, a young woman with two children, faces a difficult choice when her husband dies. Instead of agreeing to marry her brother-in-law, as required by traditional law, she chooses to support her family by re-opening her late husband's restaurant. Kambozia Partovia represents...Start your free trial to watch
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Cloistered Nun: Runa's Confession
Classic Japanese nunsploitation! In this Roman Pink feature, pretty Runa joins a convent when her stepsister steals her boyfriend. But to her surprise, Runa’s life of devout religious observance doesn’t exactly turn out the way she expects. Inside her cloistered domain, she discovers more perversity than...Start your free trial to watch
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Dream No Evil
Don't pay any attention to the turtleneck-sweatered snobs who demand that the negative to this classic be burned. It does have a script (even if it appears to have been written as they filmed). DREAM NO EVIL is about a deranged young woman searching for her father. Every time the continuity becomes too confusing, a narrator...Start your free trial to watch
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Exorcism
Jess Franco directs and stars in this shocking thriller of a depraved religious fanatic. A Catholic priest, defrocked for the severity of his beliefs, writes for a French sex magazine. His editor praises his stories for their vivid erotic cruelty which, the author claims, is based on “real-life experience.” When the priest...Start your free trial to watch
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The Fiend
There's a sickness in the house on Burbott Road; a sickness not of the body, but of the soul! For several years the sinister Minister (Patrick Magee) and the religious fanatic, Birdy Wemys (Ann Todd) have warped the mind of her psychotic, sexually confused son, Kenny (Tony Beckley). But now Kenny has grown up into a big boy...Start your free trial to watch
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I fuorilegge del matrimonio
Omnibus features were particularly popular Italian exports in the 1960s as they gave audiences a sampler plate of exciting foreign directors, stars, perspectives and oft-racy themes in one easily digestible package. This rare, star-studded curio waxes very cheeky about the Catholic Church's iron-clad hold...Start your free trial to watch
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God's Land
At the stroke of midnight on the 25th of March, in the suburban Texas town of Garland, the voice of God will be heard. The directive of the Creator will pre-empt all other programming on Cable Channel 18 and there He will deliver a message of eternal love, space travel and the end of the world. Teacher Chen is beckoned...Start your free trial to watch
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The Gospel According to Saint Matthew
The birth, life, teachings and death on the cross of Jesus Christ presented almost as a cinéma-vérité documentary. Pasolini's second feature seemed a strange choice for such a revolutionary director, but it is an attempt to take Christ out of the opulent church and present him as an outcast Italian...Start your free trial to watch
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The Guernica Tree
Guernica is both a town that was leveled in a night of horror during World War II and an image, captured in paint by Pablo Picasso and on film by renegade surrealist Fernando Arrabal. THE GUERNICA TREE is Arrabal's most unflinching and personal film. It is a testimony to the horrors of war, the absurd...Start your free trial to watch
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Guyana: Crime of the Century
Nearly 1,000 people -even tiny babies and children- lay dead and rotting in the morning sun in the South American country of Guyana. All victims of cult leader Jim Jones, who had ordered the mass execution of his followers in the 1978 incident called by many "the crime of the century". A horrific...Start your free trial to watch
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Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother
Phil Mulloy doesn’t illustrate the Fourth Commandment so much as obliterate it. The parents are pill-popping, cell phone-talking creeps sitting pretty in an oil field. Typical adults in Mulloy’s dystopic universe. Their young son draws his own lesson from their abuse.Start your free trial to watch
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I Am Jesus Christ
Jesus is back on Earth at Christmas only to find it’s become less about him and more about Santa and presents. Undaunted, he takes a job as a "Store Santa" to get the true meaning of Christmas out to the kids. But the modern world is no place for an out-of-touch savior. Can Jesus take back his holiday?Start your free trial to watch