Movies and TvShows featuring "cloister" theme.

In Lilies of the Field, a wandering construction worker offers his services to a group of nuns who are hoping to build a chapel in the Arizona desert. Despite their initial doubts, the worker's perseverance and the nuns' determination bring them together to fulfill their shared goal. The film explores themes of faith, resilience, and the power of community.

In this action-packed adventure, the daughter of legendary musketeer D'Artagnan sets out to avenge her father's death. She disguises herself as a man and becomes a skilled swordswoman, facing off against powerful adversaries and uncovering a conspiracy that threatens the kingdom of France.

In 18th-century France, a young woman joins a convent seeking solace but instead finds herself subjected to religious abuse and sadistic cruelty. She must navigate the oppressive and manipulative atmosphere of the convent, facing rejection from her mother, a mother superior who takes pleasure in humiliation, and a malevolent nun who holds power over the entire convent. As she struggles with her own religious beliefs and the torment inflicted upon her, she uncovers dark secrets and fights to maintain her sanity and assert her rights as a woman.

The Duchess of Langeais is a drama, music, and romance movie set in 19th century Paris. It tells the story of a passionate love affair between a married woman and a French soldier. The movie explores themes of obsession, kidnapping, and the consequences of unrequited love. With elements of secrecy and vengeance, the plot takes unexpected twists and turns, captivating the audience with its period drama setting and complex characters.

Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...

An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest.

In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, Mariette Baptiste, educated daughter of the local doctor, enters the cloistered convent of Our Lady of the Afflictions as a postulant. Her religious fervor, understated but determined, makes an impact on the small community of nuns whose days and nights are measured in a round of prayer and farm work changing only with the seasons. Their ordered life is disrupted, however, as Mariette begins to fall into a series of trances from which she awakens with stigmata, which heal as spontaneously as they appear. The feelings of skepticism, jealousy and adoration evoked in the nuns, Mariette's own response and that of the Mother Superior are delicately, indelibly presented.

At 165 pounds, and allegedly made from the skins of 160 donkeys, the Codex Gigas is the world's largest and most mysterious medieval manuscript. Filled with satanic images and demonic spells, according to legend, the cursed text sprang from a doomed monk's pact with the Devil. Now, Nat Geo follows a team of scientists as they embark on an unprecedented quest to unravel the secrets behind the book's darkened pages. Using ultra-violet fluorescence imaging, handwriting analysis and a re-creation of the text, forensic document experts attempt to uncover the cryptic truth behind this ancient Devil's Bible.

Greener Mountains is a family friendly, coming-of-age story about finding your place in the world.

Menios is an unrepentant womanizer with countless victories on his resume. Eventually he decides to settle down and marry Sula. Paradoxically, although his friends called him small "Gkomenio" for obvious reasons, fails to demonstrate the capabilities of the Gannet, which remains unblemished even after the honeymoon. On the one disappointment Menios and the other pressures of mother-who wants grandchild, lead him to the monastery of his uncle, where they stylite monk. There by the grace of God, meets various women that seek a "blessing" of ...

The Dragon Painter is a silent film about a Japanese artist named Tatsu and his obsession with a princess he has never met. Tatsu believes that the princess is his muse and it drives him to create beautiful paintings. However, his obsession causes him to become isolated and misunderstood by others. When he finally meets the princess, he discovers that she is married and his world shatters. Tatsu's art takes a dark turn and he becomes consumed by his own madness. The film explores themes of love, obsession, and the power of art.

Investigates the life a young man who has decided to enter a Jesuit monastery in Venice, but is then overcome by agonizing doubts before his ordination.

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.

The Organ is a drama set in the times of the wartime Slovak State. A young Polish deserter and gifted organist finds shelter from the fascists in a Slovak Franciscan monastery. He gets into a conflict with the local organist and choir leader, a man limited in his world views and spiritual values. The collision of talent and beauty with pettiness and closed-mindedness leads to envy and ill will, which draw young Felix away from his temporary hiding place and back to the dangers of war.