Movies and TvShows featuring "anti-clericalism" theme.

Viva Maria! is a comedy adventure film set in the early 1900s. It follows the story of two vaudeville performers named Maria who become involved in a revolution in a fictional country. The film parodies the spaghetti western genre and explores themes of rebellion and female empowerment.

In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, a diverse group of individuals come together to form a resistance movement against the oppressive regime. They face hardships, danger, and internal conflicts as they fight for freedom and justice.

Un Chien Andalou is a surreal and avant-garde short film directed by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. The film consists of a series of unrelated and dreamlike scenes that defy traditional narrative structure. It features iconic imagery such as a razor cutting an eye, a severed hand, and ants emerging from a hole in a man's palm. Un Chien Andalou is considered a seminal work of surrealist cinema and has had a lasting impact on the art film genre.

In the year 1825, a shoemaker named Giovanni becomes involved in the fight for Italian independence. He is unexpectedly appointed as a bishop and finds himself caught between his liberal ideals and the conservative traditions of the Catholic Church. As Italy struggles for freedom, Giovanni must navigate the political and religious landscape while facing personal challenges and questioning his own beliefs.

Tristana, an orphaned young woman, is taken in by a wealthy older man who becomes her guardian. As she grows up, Tristana starts to yearn for freedom and explores her own desires. This leads to complicated male-female relationships, unrequited love, and societal clashes. Tristana's journey involves struggles with her physical disability, societal expectations, and personal independence.

A young British man named David travels to Spain to fight for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, encountering love, loss, and betrayal along the way. Inspired by his experiences, David becomes committed to the cause of collectivization and the fight against fascism.

A drama about an army officer turned surveyor in a small valley, struggling to build a new life in a foreign country.

In the year 2500, a knight from outer space crash-lands in medieval times and falls in love with a beautiful princess. As their forbidden love unfolds, they face a culture clash and must navigate the challenges of their different worlds.

Bezhin Meadow: Sequences from an Unfinished Film is a controversial drama about a lost film that explores themes of oppression, revolution, and propaganda. The story follows a group of individuals, including a worker, a prisoner, and a peasant, as they navigate the challenges of Russian revolution. The film also delves into the relationships between father and son, and the clash between traditional and modern ideologies. The controversy surrounding the film arises from its anti-clericalism and homoerotic undertones. It features scenes depicting a homoerotic fight, an arsonist, a death of a mother, and a politically incorrect portrayal of the church.

A student and a French nobleman's daughter find themselves entangled in a tragic love story amidst a peasant rebellion and the turmoil of 14th-century France.

Analytical view of one of the least reported conflicts of national cinema: the Cristero movement that developed in the regions of western Mexico between 1926 and 1929, highlighting the inability to be faithful to both the Church and the State.

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.

Evocation of the life of Bernadette Soubirous, the eldest of four children, who, at the age of fifteen, experiences a religious vision at the Massabielle grotto near Lourdes.

The last Diveyevo nun, Mother Margarita, tells not only the historical, but, most importantly, the spiritual truth - about how the revolution was carried out, how the monastery of St. Seraphim was ruined, how a handful of “Seraphim novices” found the strength to resist the grandiose destructive machine for decades. This ruthless Moloch physically destroyed tens of millions of people, and spiritually almost the entire country, crippled future generations, but could not do anything with the nun, whose spiritual strength and beauty amaze and teach the viewer even today.