Movies about priests

Movies about priests
List of the best priest movies selected by visitors to our site: The Seventh Day, Noah, Little Boy, Deliver Us from Evil, The Priest, Season of the Witch, Silence, Paul, Apostle of Christ, Priest, Ossessione.

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Genre
Country
Markimdb: 4.4
Genrehorror, detective
CountryUSA
CharactersDemons, Priests, Heroes, Mentors
PlotExorcism, Superpowers, Death, Supernatural, Chase
PlaceUSA
StyleTense, Disturbing

A renowned exorcist teams up with a rookie priest for his first day of training. As they plunge deeper into hell on earth, the lines between good and evil blur, and their own demons emerge.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:18
CharactersGods, Angels, Giants
PlotSurvival, Disasters, Apocalypse, End of the world, Adventure
PlaceJungle, Nature, Forest, Deserts
StyleExciting, Action, Fascinating, Serious

A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, military, history
CountryMexico, USA
Duration02:16
CharactersSamurai, Doctors, Family, Priests
PlotWar, Survival, Funeral
PlaceVillage, Japan, USA, Small cities
TimeWorld War II
StyleUnexpected ending, To cry, Cute, Touching

An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredocumentary, crime
CountryUSA
CharactersPriests
PlotInvestigation, Cheating
StyleMakes me think, Touching, Depressive, Disturbing

Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. Victims' stories and a disturbing interview with O'Grady offer a view into the troubled mind of the spiritual leader who moved from parish to parish gaining trust ... all the while betraying so many.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military
CountryRussia
Duration02:04
PlotWar, On real events, Religious
TimeGreat Patriotic War

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Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:38
CharactersWitch, Knights
PlotLove, Travel, Death, Supernatural, Witchcraft
TimeMiddle Ages
StyleGothic

A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, Italy
Duration02:19
CharactersPriests
PlotTime travel, Loneliness, Religious, Fear
PlaceJapan, Asia
StyleBy books, Philosophical, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Tense

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:25
CharactersInvestigators
PlotAdventure, Travel, Friendship, Pursuit, Religious
PlaceRoman Empire
StylePsychological problems, Action, To cry, Fascinating, Serious

Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell. Haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds, Paul wonders if he's been forgotten as he awaits his grisly execution. Before Paul's death, Luke resolves to write another book that details the birth of what will come to be known as the church.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:38
CharactersGay, Priests
PlotMystery
PlaceEngland
StyleAction, Soulful, Makes me think, Touching, Serious

Father Greg Pilkington is torn between his call as a conservative Catholic priest and his secret life as a homosexual with a gay lover, frowned upon by the Church. Upon hearing the confession of a young girl of her incestuous father, Greg enters an intensely emotional spiritual struggle deciding between choosing morals over religion and one life over another.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryItaly
Duration02:14
PlotPassion, Love triangle
PlaceItaly
StyleAction, By books, Smart, Serious

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Markimdb: 8.9
Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music
CountryFrance
Duration02:30
CharactersFamily
PlotLove, Revenge, Fidelity, Hatred
PlaceParis, France
TimeMiddle Ages
StyleAtmospheric

A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quadimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:02
CharactersDemons, Doctors, Police, Family, Lawyers
PlotOn real events, Exorcism, Investigation, Death, Supernatural
PlaceCourt, College, Hospitals
TimeHalloween
StyleTense, Disturbing

When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:44
CharactersTeachers, Students, Nuns, Priests
PlotInvestigation, Gifts
PlaceSchool
StyleSoulful, Tense, Depressive, Serious

In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, western, detective
CountryNetherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:45
CharactersHorses, Priests, Mute
PlotLove, Revenge, Obsession
PlaceWild West, Small cities
StyleTwisted plot, Tense

In the menacing inferno of the old American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:15
CharactersPriests
PlotLove, Passion, Justice
PlaceEngland
StyleSerious

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genreadventure, western
CountryItaly, Spain, West Germany
Duration02:58
CharactersHorses, Cowboys, Heroes
PlotTravel, Skirmishes, Treasures
PlaceWild West, Deserts, Texas, Tomb
StyleExciting, Action, Heavy, Tense, Epic

While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryMexico, Spain, Argentina, France
Duration01:58
CharactersPriests
PlotLove

The young Father Amaro is put to the test. He is sent to Mexico to help take care of aging Father Benito when he meets a 16-year-old girl that he begins and affair with. It turns out the girls mother had been having an affair with Father Benito. Father Amaro must soon choose between the holy or the sinful life.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
CountryItaly
Duration01:27
CharactersInvestigators

In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Romania
Duration01:30
CharactersDemons, Nuns, Fathers
PlotFighting Evil, Supernatural, Religious, Ghosts
StyleUnexpected ending, Tense, Creepy, Depressive

When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in “The Conjuring 2” as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryChina, USA
Duration01:56
CharactersPriests, Orphans
PlotLove, Love triangle, Political
PlaceJapan, China, Asia
StyleAction, Serious

With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:44
CharactersPriests
PlotLove, Abduction, Passion, Supernatural, Ghosts
PlaceNight Clubs
StylePsychological problems, Fascinating, Serious, Disturbing

Most Beautiful Island is a chilling portrait of an undocumented young woman's struggle for survival as she finds redemption from a tortured past in a dangerous game.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
CharactersPriests, Partners
PlotInvestigation, Friendship, Mystery
PlaceVillage, England
StyleAction, By books, Smart, Serious, Disturbing

Drama series set in 1953, against the backdrop of the real hamlet of Grantchester. The drama focuses upon the life of Sidney Chambers, a charismatic, charming clergyman who turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Hong Kong
Duration02:31
CharactersMafia, Gangsters, Gangsters, Hired assassins, Police
PlotLove, Skirmishes, Investigation, Betrayal, Chase
PlacePrison
StyleInteresting, Unexpected ending, Action, Oscars, Fascinating

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genrehorror
CountryUSA, Israel, United Kingdom
CharactersDemons, Family, Parents
PlotExorcism, Death, Supernatural
StyleAction, Heavy, Tense, Serious, Disturbing

After a series of disturbing supernatural events in his home, Joel a young single father, comes to suspect that his young son may be possessed. Soon Joel receives a visit from Father Lambert, a controversial exorcist in town whose last patient died during his treatment. As increasing chilling occurrences begin to unfold, the priest informs a resistant Joel that unless he can successfully perform an exorcism, the devil will soon take full control of his boy.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryFrance, Italy
CharactersPriests
PlotSeduction, Meaning of life
PlaceVillage, France
TimeWorld War II
StyleSoulful, Gloomy, Touching, Depressive, Serious

In World War II, the widow Barny sees the Italian soldiers arriving in occupied Saint Bernard while walking to her job. Barny lives with her daughter and works correcting tests and feels a great attraction toward her boss Sabine. When the Germans arrive, Barny sends her half-Jewish daughter to live in a farm in the countryside and finds that Sabine's brother has been arrested and sent to a concentration camp. The atheist Barny decides to baptize her daughter to protect her and chooses priest Léon Morin to discuss with him themes related to religion and Catholicism and Léon lends books to her. Barny converts to the Catholicism and becomes closer to Léon, feeling an unrequited desire for him.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:19
CharactersCriminals, Priests
PlotTravel, Religious, Mythology, Meaning of life
PlaceUSA
StyleMakes me think, Serious

When a pastor is shaken by the visible faith of a street-corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a journey that impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:49
PlotObsession, Religious
PlacePrison, Nature
StyleUnexpected ending, Tense, Creepy, Disturbing

Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryPoland, France
PlotLove, Death, Cheating, Blackmail, Funeral
PlacePrison, Village, Party, Cemetery, Small cities
StyleSoulful, Makes me think, Touching

The story of a 20-year-old Daniel who experiences a spiritual transformation while living in a Youth Detention Center. He wants to become a priest but this is impossible because of his criminal record. When he is sent to work at a carpenter’s workshop in a small town, on arrival he dresses up as a priest and accidentally takes over the local parish. The arrival of the young, charismatic preacher is an opportunity for the local community to begin the healing process after a tragedy that happened there.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Romania, France, Italy
Duration02:08
CharactersArtists, Artists
PlotOn real events
PlaceFrance
StyleGloomy, Touching, Serious

Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:29
CharactersNuns, Priests, Nurses
PlaceAfrica, Hospitals
TimeWorld War II
StyleSoulful, By books, Makes me think, Touching, Serious

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.





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