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

1. Community (2009–2015)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

A suspended lawyer is forced to enroll in a community college with an eccentric staff and student body.

Stars: Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Chevy Chase

Votes: 293,285

2. Monster (2022–2024)

TV-MA | 534 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The story of a cannibalistic serial killer named Jeffrey Dahmer, a.k.a. the Milwaukee Monster.

Stars: Evan Peters, Richard Jenkins, Molly Ringwald, Niecy Nash

Votes: 155,226

3. Constantine (2005)

R | 121 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror

Supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine helps a policewoman prove her sister's death was not a suicide, but something more.

Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Rachel Weisz, Djimon Hounsou, Shia LaBeouf

Votes: 374,019 | Gross: $75.98M

4. The White Queen (2013)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, History, Romance

Three different, yet equally relentless women vie for the throne in 15th-century England.

Stars: Aneurin Barnard, Rebecca Ferguson, Amanda Hale, Faye Marsay

Votes: 31,371

5. Santa Clarita Diet (2017–2019)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Horror

Sheila and Joel are married real estate agents who live and work in Santa Clarita, California. When Sheila dies, their lives take a dark turn.

Stars: Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson, Skyler Gisondo

Votes: 76,089

6. Women Talking (2022)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama

Do nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.

Director: Sarah Polley | Stars: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Frances McDormand

Votes: 41,919

7. The Lodge (2019)

R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.

Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Richard Armitage

Votes: 57,793

8. The Society (2019)

TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.

Stars: Kathryn Newton, Gideon Adlon, Sean Berdy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo

Votes: 36,740

9. Fools Rush In (1997)

PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After a one-night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.

Director: Andy Tennant | Stars: Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek, Jon Tenney, Carlos Gómez

Votes: 39,605 | Gross: $29.29M

10. The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

PG-13 | 126 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.

Director: Michael Showalter | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio

Votes: 38,899

11. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson

Votes: 53,220 | Gross: $4.36M

12. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

R | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano, Rossy de Palma

Votes: 46,425 | Gross: $7.18M

13. Brideshead Revisited (2008)

PG-13 | 133 min | Drama, Romance

A poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to World War II.

Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Matthew Goode, Patrick Malahide, Hayley Atwell, Thomas Morrison

Votes: 13,664 | Gross: $6.41M

14. The Demons (1973)

R | 79 min | Horror

A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Anne Libert, Carmen Yazalde, Doris Thomas, Karin Field

Votes: 915

15. Viridiana (1961)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo

Votes: 26,118

16. Under Her Control (2022)

TV-MA | 109 min | Drama

When a fashion employee thinks she will have to end her promising career after getting pregnant, her boss offers to adopt the child.

Director: Fran Torres | Stars: Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Cumelen Sanz, Younes Bachir, Mark Camacho

Votes: 1,943

17. Man in the Wilderness (1971)

GP | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Left for dead after a bear attack, a fur-trapper recuperates and pursues his former companions through dangerous Indian territory.

Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon, Percy Herbert

Votes: 3,477

18. Cosmic Sex (2015)

TV-MA | 97 min | Drama

One night, Kripa is on the run from sex and violence when he meets Sadhavi, a woman who strangely resembles his dead mother. She gives him shelter and teaches him to travel inwards through sex.

Director: Amitabh Chakraborty | Stars: Rituparna Sen, Ayushman Mitra, Biplab Banerjee, Papia Ghoshal

Votes: 857

19. The Last Bath (2020)

95 min | Drama

A nun is called upon to adopt her 15-year-old nephew, and as a consequence religion, family and love become entangled.

Director: David Bonneville | Stars: Anabela Moreira, Martim Canavarro, Margarida Moreira, José Manuel Mendes

Votes: 337

20. Japan (2002)

R | 122 min | Drama

A painter from the big city goes to a remote canyon to commit suicide. To reach some calmness, he stays at the farmstead of Ascen, an old, religious woman. Although but a few words are spoken, love grows.

Director: Carlos Reygadas | Stars: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores, Yolanda Villa, Martín Serrano

Votes: 3,990

21. Ge.hen'nah (2010)

12 min | Short, Drama

A drama set in a small rural town in Lebanon about Yvette who is past 30, unmarried, devoutly religious and still living with her parents. Today, she is preparing to go to a retreat. It's a... See full summary »

Director: Mauro Mueller | Stars: Christine Choueiri, Khitam Al Lahham, Boutros Rouhana, Laura Kossaify

Votes: 10

22. Zenne Dancer (2011)

104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A feature film about an unusual trio: Daniel, a German photo-journalist in Istanbul without much knowledge about Turkish values. Can, a flamboyant, out and proud male belly dancer with lots... See full summary »

Directors: Caner Alper, Mehmet Binay | Stars: Kerem Can, Giovanni Arvaneh, Erkan Avci, Tilbe Saran

Votes: 2,865

23. Spectre (2006 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An elderly writer visits the small village where he grew up and as he walks through he catches a glimpse of the same woman he fell in love with in his youth but she has not aged at all! He follows her, but is not ready for what he finds

Director: Mateo Gil | Stars: Juan José Ballesta, Natalia Millán, Jordi Dauder, Victoria Mora

Votes: 1,200

24. Susana (1951)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama

An unstable young woman escapes from a reformatory for very, very wayward girls and deceptively finds shelter in the kind home of a frighteningly nice and decent family. Little by little, ... See full summary »

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Rosita Quintana, Fernando Soler, Víctor Manuel Mendoza, María Gentil Arcos

Votes: 2,278

25. Catching Faith (2015)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Family, Sport

From the outside, Alexa has the perfect life. Her son is the high-school football star, her daughter a straight-A student, and her husband the CFO of a booming start-up company. But her ... See full summary »

Director: John K.D. Graham | Stars: Lorena Segura York, Garrett Westton, Bill Engvall, Alexandra Boylan

Votes: 528

26. Prudence and the Pill (1968)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

A wealthy London banker, his wife, his mistress, and his family and servants all get into hijinks when they swap birth-control medicines in an effort to deceive each other.

Directors: Fielder Cook, Ronald Neame | Stars: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Robert Coote, Irina Demick

Votes: 601

27. Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977)

122 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.

Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti, Renzo Carboni

Votes: 3,052

28. Hadewijch (2009)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

A young nun is expelled from a convent because of her extreme devoutness and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.

Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Julie Sokolowski, Karl Sarafidis, Yassine Salime, David Dewaele

Votes: 2,121 | Gross: $0.00M

29. Alumim (2021– )

50 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Follows a group of boys from the margins of Israeli society who become the main suspects of a girl's rape and their lives are thrown into upheaval.

Stars: Yoalah Brinson, Yehuda Levi, Shani Cohen, Yaniv Biton

Votes: 152

30. The Love She Sought (1990 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

Agatha McGee (Dame Angela Lansbury), an aging schoolteacher at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota, questions her life's existence when she must start battling new Bishop Richard Baker (... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Denholm Elliott, Cynthia Nixon, Gary Hershberger

Votes: 924

31. There Was a Little Boy (1993 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Wealthy Gregg and his wife, English teacher Julie, were happy parents until their little boy Robby was stolen while she took a bath. Their lives have taken off again, but they keep hoping ... See full summary »

Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: Cybill Shepherd, John Heard, Scott Bairstow, Elaine Kagan

Votes: 303

32. Reporting for Duty (2023– )

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Crime

Where the clumsy Suzano becomes the chief officer after being transferred from the countryside.

Stars: Henrique Neves, Leandro Hassum, Babu Carreira, Digão Ribeiro

Votes: 233

33. Catching Faith 2 (2019)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Family, Sport

The Taylor family struggles with drama and heartbreak as they face a football injury, an illness, and a career change, all while planning a wedding.

Director: John K.D. Graham | Stars: Bill Engvall, Erin Ross, Denise Morris, Lorena Segura York

Votes: 113

34. Pureza (2022)

101 min | Drama

In the '90s, a mother looks for her missing son and finds farms with slave labor practices in the Amazon region.

Director: Renato Barbieri | Stars: Dira Paes, Matheus Abreu, Flavio Bauraqui, Sergio Sartorio

Votes: 296

35. Rebel Hearts (2021)

99 min | Documentary

A look at Los Angeles's Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, nuns who challenged the patriarchal conventions of the Catholic Church 50 years ago and are still taking a stand today.

Director: Pedro Kos | Stars: Anita Caspary, Helen Kelley, Corita Kent, Pat Reif

Votes: 167

36. Judgement (V) (2012)

15 min | Short, Drama

The religious girl Katharina is having an affair with the son of her much older husband. In an attempt to discover her secret lover, her husband ties her up to a chair for 3 days, waiting ... See full summary »

Director: Jacqueline Landau | Stars: Sandra Elsfort, Jørn Faurschou, Jon Lange

37. Papi (I) (2020)

88 min | Drama

Papi recounts a day in the life of Sonia, an 8-year-old girl with a vibrant imagination. Her flashbacks and surreal flights of fancy shed light on her relationship with her father, who is only ever known as the elusive "Papi" figure.

Director: Noelia Quintero | Stars: Avril Alcantara, Amauris Pérez, Orlando Almonte, Olga Bucarelli

Votes: 16

38. The Real Blue Nuns (2006 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary

An investigation into nunsploitation, and why men find images of nuns involved in sexual situations erotic. The programme also controversially covers the Muslim hibab and burka.

Director: Gavin Claxton | Stars: Mary Carey, Jesús Franco, Craig Gross, Xavier Mendik

Votes: 32

39. The Lulú Club (2023)

100 min | Comedy, Drama

Nicolás, one week away from getting married, receives a letter that forces him to face his best-kept secret: he is the father of a girl he only knew at birth. He only has 3 days to recover her before she goes to the adoption system.

Director: Marcos Carnevale | Stars: Julieta Dora, Laurita Fernández, Johanna Francella, Fernando Larraín

Votes: 251

40. Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption (2000 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

Horror Video Game Presentation Featuring The Voice Talents Of Tara Strong.

Director: Ray Gresko | Stars: Nicholas Guest, Michael Benyaer, Maggie Baird, Curtis Armstrong

Votes: 293

41. Hannah Free (2009)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance

A film about a lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.

Director: Wendy Jo Carlton | Stars: Sharon Gless, Maureen Gallagher, Kelli Strickland, Ann Hagemann

Votes: 415

42. A Calling (2018)

70 min | Documentary

A priest had a plan, a nun had the courage, and a bishop had the fortitude to try something new in a small-town Catholic parish that aligns so well with the global conversations on women's rights, women religious and being Catholic today.

Directors: Marie Therese Viscio, Nicholas James Viscio | Stars: Eileen Borden, Erin Bremer, Ellen Cole, Sr. Patricia Davis

43. Anna's Engagement (1972)

87 min | Drama

Anna is a servant of an old lady for ten years. The old lady chooses a man for Anna.

Director: Pantelis Voulgaris | Stars: Anna Vagena, Smaro Veaki, Kostas Rigopoulos, Stavros Kalaroglou

Votes: 460

44. Kesha Feat. Big Freedia: Raising Hell (2019 Music Video)

3 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Official page for the music video for the song Raising Hell by Kesha.

Director: Luke Gilford | Stars: Kesha, Jeanne Carr, Gregory DePetro, Big Freedia

Votes: 34

45. Vaivaisukon morsian (1944)

110 min | Drama

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Director: T.J. Särkkä | Stars: Ansa Ikonen, Eino Kaipainen, Tauno Palo, Aku Korhonen

Votes: 60

46. Once Upon a Time in Poland (2020)

95 min | Documentary

Czech director travels to Poland to find God in the most Christian country in Europe.

Directors: Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda

Votes: 105

47. Srdicko (1987 TV Movie)

87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

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Director: Eva Sadková | Stars: Jana Hlavácová, Zdenek Zák, Ludek Munzar, Jana Preissová

Votes: 12

48. Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode: Robin Redbreast (1970)

76 min | Comedy, Drama

After a long-term relationship ends, Norah moves to a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly., if eccentric. She starts a flirtatious relationship with young gamekeeper, Rob. ... See full summary »

Director: James MacTaggart | Stars: Anna Cropper, Amanda Walker, Julian Holloway, Freda Bamford

Votes: 497

49. Ou fonefseis (2018– )
Episode: Odynes-Pains (2019)

45 min | Crime, Thriller

The oppressed daughter of a conservative and deeply religious widow falls in love with a nineteen-year-old man. But she keeps her relationship secret, not only because premarital sex is forbidden but also because he is a foreigner.

Director: Panos Kokkinopoulos | Stars: Panos Boras, Karyofyllia Karabeti

Votes: 8

50. The Undateables (2012– )
Episode: Nicholas, Sam and Shantae (2020)

47 min | Documentary, Reality-TV, Romance

Nicholas is struggling to find love, Robbie Williams super-fan Sam is looking for his own 'angel' to sing to and Shantae dreams of meeting a religious family guy.

Directors: Lucy Bauckham, Miriam Lyons, Tim Taggart, Emma Worgan | Star: Sally Phillips

Votes: 10