Nun

After her son is hit by a car and killed on his seventeenth birthday, Manuela (Cecilia Roth) makes her way back to Barcelona, where she had previously lived with the boy's father. There she comes into contact with a number of quirky individuals, including a transsexual male prostitute, a pregnant nun, and a lesbian actress.

Two nuns from a French convent arrive in a small New England town with a plan to build a children's hospital. They enlist the help of several colorful characters in achieving their dream including a struggling artist, a popular composer, and a renowned racketeer.

In the hot plains of central Greece, the Orthodox monasteries of Metéora are perched atop sandstone pillars, suspended between heaven and earth. Down in the valley, the eternal cycles of farm life – birth, milking, slaughter – provide a stark contrast to their ascetic world. The young monk Theodoros and the nun Urania have devoted their lives to the strict rituals and practices of their community. A growing affection for one another puts their monastic life under question. Torn between spiritual devotion and their human desire, they must decide which path to follow.

Narra la historia de seis jóvenes internas en un siniestro colegio que pasan sus días atemorizadas por una temible monja.
are boarders in a sinister school where they spend every single day terrorised and maltreated by a fearsome nun. One day the nun discovers that one of the girls is pregnant. Scandalised by this turn of events, she tries to purify her. The girls watch as their friend is tortured and decide to help her. The nun was never seen again and the school suddenly closed a few weeks afterwards. Seventeen years later, each of the six girls has built their individual lives. They have lived hoping they would become distanced from this terrible secret. But when two of the girls are brutally murdered, they realise that the nun is back.

Mithilfe von aufgezeichneten Telefonaten der DDR-Staatssicherheit, Radiomitschnitten und Amateurfilmmaterial rekonstruiert "ZDF-History" nun erstmals jene packenden Stunden vor dem Fall der Mauer.

Franco Prosperi directs this shocking exploitation film about three crooks on the lam who seek refuge in a remote beach house and discover, to their delight, that it's occupied only by a nun and a handful of Catholic schoolgirls. The thugs rape and brutalize the women until the nun leads the girls in a bloody rampage of vengeance.

Viridiana, a young novice about to take her final vows as a nun, accedes to a request from her widowed uncle to visit him. Moved purely by a sense of obligation, she does so. Her uncle is moved by her resemblance to his late wife to attempt to seduce Viridiana, and tragedy ensues. In the aftermath, Viridiana tries to assuage her guilt by creating a haven for the destitute folk who live around her uncle's estate. But from these good intentions, too, comes little good.