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1. Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)

Not Rated | 117 min | Drama

A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating.

Director: Lars von Trier | Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf

Votes: 131,506 | Gross: $0.79M

2. Legend of the Seeker (2008–2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

After the mysterious murder of his father, a son's search for answers begins a momentous fight against tyranny.

Stars: Craig Horner, Bridget Regan, Bruce Spence, Craig Parker

Votes: 36,277

3. The Devils (1971)

R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.

Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian

Votes: 18,656 | Gross: $1.13M

4. 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: 33,683 | Gross: $0.54M

5. Heaven Help Us (1985)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A new transfer student to St. Basil's Boys' Prep School tries to fit in while romantically pursuing a troubled young girl.

Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Andrew McCarthy, John Heard, Mary Stuart Masterson

Votes: 4,981 | Gross: $6.07M

6. Agnes of God (1985)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama, Mystery

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.

Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly, Anne Pitoniak

Votes: 8,049 | Gross: $25.63M

7. Luther (2003)

PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History

During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

Director: Eric Till | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Peter Ustinov, Alfred Molina

Votes: 16,002 | Gross: $5.79M

8. The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

R | 97 min | Horror, Romance

Horror film set in 1492 Toledo, Spain, depicting the cruel deeds of a monk named Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.

Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William Norris, Mark Margolis

Votes: 5,451 | Gross: $0.00M

9. Evelyn Prentice (1934)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

The neglected wife of a high profile attorney dallies with a unscrupulous womanizer and finds herself involved in blackmail and murder.

Director: William K. Howard | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel, Rosalind Russell

Votes: 1,868

10. The Reckoning (2003)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A priest on the lam takes up with a traveling band of actors, who then discover a murder has occurred and try to solve it by recreating the crime in a play.

Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Paul Bettany, Marián Aguilera, Trevor Steedman

Votes: 6,392 | Gross: $0.26M

11. Esterno notte (2022)

330 min | Crime, Drama, History

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

Stars: Fabrizio Gifuni, Margherita Buy, Toni Servillo, Fausto Russo Alesi

Votes: 1,684

12. Day of Wrath (1943)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History

The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Kirsten Andreasen

Votes: 11,077

13. I, the Worst of All (1990)

R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, History

This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself... See full summary »

Director: María Luisa Bemberg | Stars: Assumpta Serna, Dominique Sanda, Héctor Alterio, Lautaro Murúa

Votes: 719 | Gross: $0.05M

14. Double Indemnity (1973 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Richard Crenna, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Webber, Samantha Eggar

Votes: 616

15. Monsieur Vincent (1947)

Not Rated | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

St. Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among peasants and nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles.

Director: Maurice Cloche | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Aimé Clariond, Jean Debucourt, Lise Delamare

Votes: 994

16. The Good and the Bad (1976)

R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The story takes place in France from 1935 to 1945 where a gang use a Citroën car to hold up stores and banks.

Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Marlène Jobert, Jacques Dutronc, Brigitte Fossey, Bruno Cremer

Votes: 367

17. Christopher Columbus (1949)

Not Rated | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.

Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Kathleen Ryan

Votes: 611

18. The Confidant (2012)

TV-14 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, History

New husband Adam reluctantly takes a job with state security in a totalitarian country, thus becoming a secret police agent. This "contract with the devil" helps secure a flat for the happy... See full summary »

Director: Juraj Nvota | Stars: Jirí Mádl, Michaela Majerníková, Ondrej Vetchý, Jan Budar

Votes: 250

19. Fe, Esperanza, Caridad (1974)

Action, Comedy, Drama

A trilogy featuring Nora Aunor giving life to the stories of 3 women: Fe, an emerging movie Superstar who has an invalid husband; Esperanza, a young wife living in a middle-class ... See full summary »

Directors: Lamberto V. Avellana, Gerardo de Leon, Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Nora Aunor, Dindo Fernando, Ruben Rustia, Jay Ilagan

Votes: 20

20. Chernigovsky Skete (2012)

47 min | Documentary

The story of Chernigovsky Skete in Sergiyev posad.

Director: Sergey Andryushkin | Star: Denis Sysoev

21. Elder. Archimandrite Cyril (Pavlov) (2016)

65 min | Documentary, Biography

Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov) was the fraternal confessor of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. The responsibility of being the confessor of three Russian patriarchs fell on the shoulders of Father Kirill.

Director: Larisa Shapran | Stars: Aristarkh Livanov, Cyril Pavlov

22. 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

23. Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974)
Episode: Sex and Violence (1969)

TV-14 | 34 min | Comedy

Flying Sheep, French Lecture on Sheep-Aircraft, A Man With Three Buttocks, A Man With Two Noses, Musical Mice, Marriage Guidance Counselor, The Wacky Queen, Working-Class Playwright, A ... See full summary »

Directors: John Howard Davies, Ian MacNaughton | Stars: John Cleese, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones

Votes: 1,373

24. The Tudors (2007–2010)
Episode: Destiny and Fortune (2008)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, History, Romance

Anne goes to her death continuing to pronounce her innocence and that of the accused men.

Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Natalie Dormer, Nick Dunning

Votes: 870

25. The Tudors (2007–2010)
Episode: The Death of a Queen (2009)

TV-MA | 50 min | Drama, History, Romance

Forced to recant, Aske is hanged in Yorkshire, Cromwell coerces Brandon to execute more rebels as examples, and Jane suffers complications in childbirth.

Director: Ciaran Donnelly | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, James Frain, Annabelle Wallis

Votes: 616

26. The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
Episode: Master Builder (2010)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

Tom Builder, his children, Ellen and her son Jack arrive at Kingsbridge Priory in the hope of finding work. The church is in need of repair but Prior Philip has no money and is unable to ... See full summary »

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

Votes: 723

27. The Shadow of the Tower (1972)
Episode: The King Without a Face (1972)

50 min | Biography, Drama, History

The year is now 1501 and Henry is now finally secure on the throne with his promising son Arthur about to marry Catherine of Aragon, however in the shadows tragic events are lying in wait for the King.

Director: Peter Moffatt | Stars: James Maxwell, Norma West, John Bennett, Noel Johnson

Votes: 17

28. Vinari (2014– )
Episode: Zápisník (2014)

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Director: Dan Wlodarczyk | Stars: Václav Postránecký, Tereza Kostková, Hynek Cermák, Pavel Liska