Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "absolution"

1. Rosemary's Baby (1968)

Approved | 137 min | Drama, Horror

A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer

Votes: 235,008

2. The Last Duel (2021)

R | 152 min | Action, Drama, History

The Knight Jean de Carrouges must settle the dispute over his wife Marguerite by challenging his former friend to a duel to the death.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Harriet Walter

Votes: 181,855 | Gross: $10.85M

3. The Reader (2008)

R | 124 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain

Votes: 259,732 | Gross: $34.19M

4. In Bruges (2008)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.

Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Berrington

Votes: 461,309 | Gross: $7.76M

5. The Pope's Exorcist (2023)

R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller

Follow Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's leading exorcist, as he investigates the possession of a child and uncovers a conspiracy the Vatican has tried to keep secret.

Director: Julius Avery | Stars: Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Alexandra Essoe, Franco Nero

Votes: 82,813

6. The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart.

Stars: Ian McShane, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Atwell

Votes: 33,102

7. Bad Lieutenant (1992)

NC-17 | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption.

Director: Abel Ferrara | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Brian McElroy, Frank Acciarito, Peggy Gormley

Votes: 47,847 | Gross: $2.00M

8. The Conformist (1970)

R | 113 min | Drama

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Enzo Tarascio

Votes: 33,675 | Gross: $0.54M

9. Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)

PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Romance

Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to not be defined by his condition.

Director: Thor Freudenthal | Stars: Charlie Plummer, Andy Garcia, Taylor Russell, AnnaSophia Robb

Votes: 13,524

10. The Rite (2011)

PG-13 | 114 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

American seminary student Michael Kovak travels to Italy to take an exorcism course.

Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: Colin O'Donoghue, Anthony Hopkins, Ciarán Hinds, Alice Braga

Votes: 102,632 | Gross: $33.05M

11. Ophelia (I) (2018)

PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A reimagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective.

Director: Claire McCarthy | Stars: Daisy Ridley, Mia Quiney, Calum O'Rourke, Nathaniel Parker

Votes: 13,047 | Gross: $0.05M

12. The Dinner (I) (2017)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Two sets of wealthy parents meet for dinner to decide what to do about a crime their sons have committed.

Director: Oren Moverman | Stars: Michael Chernus, Taylor Rae Almonte-Roman, Steve Coogan, Charlie Plummer

Votes: 9,590 | Gross: $1.32M

13. Pilgrimage (II) (2017)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, History

In 13th-century Ireland, a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.

Director: Brendan Muldowney | Stars: Tom Holland, Richard Armitage, Jon Bernthal, Nikos Karathanos

Votes: 6,427

14. The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

Approved | 90 min | Horror

During a mysterious epidemic in a small Cornish village, the local doctor summons his professor friend for help.

Director: John Gilling | Stars: André Morell, Diane Clare, Brook Williams, Jacqueline Pearce

Votes: 5,642

15. The Ruling Class (1972)

PG | 154 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Hugh Owens

Votes: 6,799

16. The Order (2003)

R | 102 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A young priest is sent to Rome to investigate the troubling death of the head of his order.

Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Shannyn Sossamon, Benno Fürmann

Votes: 18,465 | Gross: $7.66M

17. Priest (1994)

R | 98 min | Drama, Romance

A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.

Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson

Votes: 11,030 | Gross: $4.18M

18. The Official Story (1985)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, History

During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Director: Luis Puenzo | Stars: Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe, Hugo Arana

Votes: 10,854 | Gross: $0.03M

19. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.

Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: Claude Laydu, Nicole Ladmiral, Jean Riveyre, Adrien Borel

Votes: 12,709

20. Retaliation (2017)

R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller

An adult victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past.

Directors: Ludwig Shammasian, Paul Shammasian | Stars: Orlando Bloom, Janet Montgomery, Alex Ferns, Charlie Creed-Miles

Votes: 1,632

21. The Tracker (2002)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Western

Fanatic is a government trooper who is heading an expedition to find an Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman. Others in the expedition are the Follower, a greenhorn trooper, the Veteran, and the Tracker.

Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau, Grant Page

Votes: 3,295

22. Being Flynn (2012)

R | 102 min | Drama

Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.

Director: Paul Weitz | Stars: Paul Dano, Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, Olivia Thirlby

Votes: 17,833 | Gross: $0.53M

23. Perfect Obedience (2014)

99 min | Drama

Julian, a young seminarian, is sent to live with Los Cruzados de Cristo, where he will have to follow a hard spiritual journey to achieve "the perfect obedience".

Director: Luis Urquiza | Stars: Juan Manuel Bernal, Sebastián Aguirre, Juan Ignacio Aranda, Luis Ernesto Franco

Votes: 1,054

24. Absolution (1978)

R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Two boys try to drive a strict priest mad with their confessed sins at a boarding school in England.

Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Billy Connolly

Votes: 1,894

25. The Statement (2003)

R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller

Tale of a former Nazi executioner who becomes a target of hitmen and police investigators.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Alan Bates, Jeremy Northam

Votes: 5,549 | Gross: $0.76M

26. Bless Me, Ultima (2012)

PG-13 | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.

Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Luke Ganalon, Joseph A. Garcia, Miriam Colon, Benito Martinez

Votes: 1,592 | Gross: $1.55M

27. Men with Guns (II) (1997)

R | 127 min | Adventure, Drama

Humberto Fuentes is a wealthy doctor whose wife has recently died. In spite of the advice of his children, he takes a trip to visit his former students who now work in impoverished villages... See full summary »

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado, Dan Rivera González, Tania Cruz

Votes: 2,890 | Gross: $0.74M

28. Angry Harvest (1985)

R | 105 min | Drama, Romance, War

In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers ... See full summary »

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Wojciech Pszoniak, Gerd Baltus

Votes: 867

29. The Devil's Playground (1976)

107 min | Drama

Fred Schepisi's first feature is this lushly photographed period drama detailing a young boy's coming-of-age in a strict Catholic seminary in 1950s Australia.

Director: Fred Schepisi | Stars: Charles McCallum, John Frawley, Arthur Dignam, Nick Tate

Votes: 1,312

30. Perceval (1978)

Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Music, Romance

The exploits of Sir Perceval, a legendary exemplar of knightly chivalry and one of the champions of King Arthur's Round Table.

Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, André Dussollier, Solange Boulanger, Catherine Schroeder

Votes: 1,569

31. The Child I Never Was (2002)

86 min | Crime, Drama

The true-life story of 19-year-old Jürgen Bartsch, a German pedophile serial killer who murdered four boys, based on his correspondence, over the course of eight years, with German American author Paul Moor.

Director: Kai S. Pieck | Stars: Tobias Schenke, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Ulrike Bliefert, Walter Gontermann

Votes: 645

32. The English Surgeon (2007)

TV-14 | 93 min | Documentary

This documentary offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon (Henry Marsh) situated in Ukraine as we are exposed to the overwhelming dilemmas he has to face and the burden he has to carry throughout his profession.

Director: Geoffrey Smith | Star: Henry Marsh

Votes: 759

33. Absolution (2015)

92 min | Drama, Thriller

A couple are rushing to hospital for a premature birth when they commit a hit-and-run. When the new mother befriends a woman whose comatose husband was hit by a car, a nightmarish spiral of guilt and revenge unfolds.

Director: Petri Kotwica | Stars: Laura Birn, Eero Aho, Mari Rantasila, Teijo Eloranta

Votes: 444

34. Gebürtig (2002)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a ... See full summary »

Directors: Robert Schindel, Lukas Stepanik | Stars: Peter Simonischek, Ruth Rieser, August Zirner, Katja Weitzenböck

Votes: 233

35. Tarpan (The Absolution) (1995)

Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, History

To cure their sick daughter, a couple travel to a village to clean a well used by the upper caste families. Little do they know that the well harbours demons of men and women who have been killed.

Director: K. Bikram Singh | Stars: Savita Bajaj, Babita Bhardwaj, Pradeep Bhatnagar, Anang Desai

Votes: 77

36. Beyond the Fire (2009)

77 min | Romance

From tragedy comes a burning love, but can passion survive the torment of a sinister past

Director: Maeve Murphy | Stars: Scot Williams, Cara Seymour, Victoria Aitken, Alison Cain

Votes: 107

37. Elinan surma (1938)

124 min | Drama, History

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Director: Kalle Kaarna | Stars: Santeri Karilo, Ella Eronen, Hilkka Helinä, Kalevi Mykkänen

Votes: 32

38. Oi enohoi (1966)

74 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

December 1940. A desperate woman seeks solace for a crime by confessing to a military chaplain. The despicable deed sets in motion a chain of events, and an innocent with bloody hands has to pay. Can there be redemption for the guilty?

Director: Kostas Asimakopoulos | Stars: Petros Fyssoun, Anna Fonsou, Dimitris Myrat, Kostas Kazakos

Votes: 12

39. Death and Beauty (2009)

18 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

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Director: Ezra Peace | Stars: Hannah Fierman, Oliver Brooks, Naim Omari, Lili White

Votes: 22

40. Guang dao nian ba (1974)

110 min | Drama, War

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Director: Kong Lung | Stars: Josephine Siao, Charlie Chin, Chiao Chiao, Shan Kwan

Votes: 14

41. Absolution (I) (2017)

7 min | Short, Drama

Absolution follows escaped convict Joe as he attempts to run and hide from his past sins. When hiding out in an abandoned barn, he is forced to confront the truth about himself as he ... See full summary »

Directors: Michael John Petty, Seth Wyberg | Stars: Corey Renfree, Kaycee Cronk, Jacquie Centofanti

Votes: 6

42. Absolution the Series (2012– )

Action, Drama, Thriller

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Stars: Yuri Lowenthal, Dre Swain, Jesse Bernstein, Jamie McMahon

43. Absolution (VII) (2015)

6 min | Short, Comedy

A determined janitor accidentally takes over the confessional, giving extremely unusual advice to the penitents who come to be absolved.

Director: Dion Williams | Stars: Christine Diefenbach, Ermanno Giuro, Rory McKenna, Faezeh Parkes

44. The Decalogue (1989–1990)
Episode: Dekalog, dwa (1989)

TV-MA | 59 min | Drama

A woman with a gravely ill husband and pregnant of her lover faces a dilemma: if her husband dies, she'll keep the baby; if not, she'll abort.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Aleksander Bardini, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Artur Barcis

Votes: 5,647

45. Mystery!: Cadfael (1994–1998)
Episode: The Raven in the Foregate (1996)

TV-14 | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An unpopular Puritanical priest new to Shrewsbury refuses to give a pregnant young girl absolution resulting in her apparent suicide.

Director: Ken Grieve | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Julian Firth

Votes: 215

46. Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode: Old Man Out: Part 2 (1966)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The IMF breaks off its attempt to free an elderly cardinal. Now, Briggs & Co. must regroup and Briggs must alter his plans. On top of that, a colonel in the unnamed Eastern European country... See full summary »

Director: Charles R. Rondeau | Stars: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Votes: 386

47. The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
Episode: Battlefield (2010)

TV-MA | 47 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

William applies to have his father's title of Earl transferred to him, and discovers a mysterious knight is also a rival for the Earldom. King Stephen, frightened by Jack's appearance, ... See full summary »

Director: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan | Stars: Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell, Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne

Votes: 645

48. Ryan Reeves (2014–2018)
Episode: What are Catholic Indulgences? (2016)

7 min | Documentary, History

On the surface a Catholic Indulgences seems to be buying salvation - bypassing purgatory. The intended purpose is rather subtle. It is a cash payment typically but for someone who truly ... See full summary »

Star: Ryan Reeves

49. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Kaltes Grab (2011)

Crime, Drama

Three young women , Theresa and Antonia Aicher and their friend Katrin Hilbert have left their village for some holiday.On the road a driver is making some dangerous handling ,sudden a ... See full summary »

Director: Ulrich Zrenner | Stars: Anton Algrang, Michael Ande, Ulrike Arnold, Andreas Borcherding

Votes: 16

50. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Ein passender Tod (2011)

Crime, Drama

Helene Koppisch goes back to her apartment because she forgot a file and surprised her husband Ralf with a woman; the woman presents herself as Marion and wears her housecoat saying that ... See full summary »

Director: Ulrich Zrenner | Stars: Walter Kreye, Michael Ande, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 16