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The Nun's Story (1959)
United States151Min
7.5 ( 12K Votes )
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85 %Set in the 1940s, 'The Nun's Story' follows the life of Sister Luke, a young woman who enters a Belgian convent to become a nun. The film explores her struggles with obedience, her experiences as a nurse in a Belgian hospital and a tuberculosis sanitarium, and her mission work in the Belgian Congo. As she faces personal and professional challenges, including the conflict between her religious calling and her desire for independence, Sister Luke must navigate her way through a changing world marked by war, love, and loss.
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- death of father
- thinness
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- train station
- murder
- psychiatric patient
- leper colony
- crying
- paganism
- cutting someone's hair
- atheist
- microscope
- attacked by a patient
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