Monastery Movies

A murdering skyjacker parachutes to safety and poses as a novice monk in an isolated New Mexico monastery.

Fortuna, a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl, has had no news of her parents since they crossed the Mediterranean Sea. Together with other refugees, she is...

An adaptation of the story with the same name by Portuguese writer Alexandre Herculano.

For the first time, cloistered sisters agree to be filmed for one year in all aspects of their lives. The nuns of Berthierville, the only Francophone...

A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff.

The nine year old Larissa lives in the Luneburg Heath. She is in the clique "The Timies", which is devoted to historical events and facts. In this...

A documentary about the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the Netherlands.

Celestin is the singing teacher in a monastery and Denis is one of her students. They both dream about the life outside. (It's a Swedish version of...

A Monk living in 9th century Ireland must contend with grief, despair, isolation and his own identity, on a far-off desolate rock.

Abbess Maria leads the only Orthodox women's monastery in Germany. Together with 13 sisters of international origin, she tries to escape the mundane...

In the distant future, in a monastery on the lonely Neptune moon of Athos, a mysterious crime unfolds. An artificial intelligence responsible for...

The Sion monastery in Netherlands can hold 120 monks, but only 8 remained in 2013. Together, the remaining group bands together to help build their...

Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and organizational...