The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.

Francesco

2020

English

5.9

♡ 5

71%

Evgeny Afineevsky Director

Armen Sarkissian as Self

Charles Scicluna as Self

Mark Shriver as Self

Sergio Rubín as Self

Francesco takes an unsparing look at the most pressing challenges of the 21st-century, asking deep questions about the human condition. The film is guided by Pope Francis who, with tremendous humility, wisdom, and generosity, offers moving lessons from his life that illuminate what it will take to build a better future. In doing so, he addresses issues such as climate change, immigration, peace and religious tolerance, LGBTQ support, gender and identity justice, and economic equality.

A Man for All Seasons

1966

English

7.7

♡ 16

89%

Fred Zinnemann Director

Leo McKern as Cromwell

Susannah York as Margaret

John Hurt as Rich

Corin Redgrave as Roper

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.

Le bon roi Dagobert

1963

French

5.2

♡ 2

Pierre Chevalier Director

Alain Morat as Bébert / Sigisbert

Darío Moreno as Charibert - le frère de Dagobert

Pierre Gualdi as Le frère portier

Darry Cowl as Le maître- bourreau Richardic

Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they know is he had eight wives and reunited Francia. The ignorant knave's irreverent imagination turns that into a harem and a ludicrous war without armies, loaded with anachronisms, in a race against rival king Charibert for the crown of Reims. The king's right hand, archbishop Eloi, the later patrons saint of carpentry, is portrayed as an inventor.

The Pope Drops In

2023

English

4.3

♡ 2

Bill McAdams Jr. Director

Ted J. Weil as Aloysius Fyodor Pavlonovich 'Weebus' Kamarozov

Michael Bath as David Paul Sheba

Angel Kerns as Reporter

Marcus M. Mauldin as The Pope

What would you do if your business partner stole your business and your wife, and then told you he wouldn’t become a Christian unless the Pope showed up at his house and asked him? You kidnap the Pope and take him on a road trip to end all road trips, to save him and your wife.

Holy Silence

2020

English

7.1

♡ 1

Steven Pressman Director

Marco Barricelli as Pope Pius XII

David Strathairn as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

As World War II looms, Pope Pius XI calls on a humble American priest to help him challenge the evils of Nazism and anti-Semitism. But death intervenes, and Pope Pius XII now carries out a very different response to Hitler and the Holocaust.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965

English

7.2

♡ 15

86%

79%

Action

based on novel or book

Carol Reed Director

Andrea Giordana as Michelangelo's Assistant

Piero Pastore as Nobleman on Battlefield

Gino Marturano as Soldier

Nino Musco as Tavern Customer

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

Pope Joan

2009

English

6.7

♡ 9

64%

Sönke Wortmann Director

Nicholas Woodeson as Arighis

Oliver Cotton as Arsenius

John Goodman as Pope Sergius

Iain Glen as Village Priest

A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks.

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

2018

English

6.7

♡ 22

81%

Wim Wenders Director

Angela Merkel as Herself

Donald Trump as Himself

Vladimir Putin as Himself

Joe Biden as Himself

Pope Francis responds to questions from around the world, discussing topics including ecology, immigration, consumerism and social justice.

The Pope: Answers

2023

Spanish

7.1

83%

Action

Documentary

pope

questions from the audience

talk

Marius Sánchez Director

Medha Palnati as Self

María Losantos as Self

Dora Dayana Morán as Self

Celia Fernández as Self

Ten young people from all over the world meet in Rome with Pope Francis with the aim of talking and conveying to him the main concerns of their generation. What awaits them is an unprecedented meeting, a face-to-face conversation, and a unique event.

The Pope Must Diet

1991

English

5.1

♡ 8

25%

religious controversy

vatican

vatican (holy see)

Peter Richardson Director

Alex Rocco as Cardinal Rocco

John Sessions as Dino

Adrian Edmondson as Father Rookie

Beverly D'Angelo as Veronica Dante

A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968

English

7.0

♡ 13

43%

74%

based on novel or book

Michael Anderson Director

Niall MacGinnis as Capuchin Monk

Leo McKern as Cardinal Leone

Barbara Jefford as Dr. Ruth Faber

Laurence Olivier as Premier Piotr Ilyich Kamenev

Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon the sudden death of the Pope, leader of the Catholic Church, he must face a challenging destiny that will put the future of the entire world in his hands.

The Two Popes

2019

English

7.6

♡ 80

89%

88%

Action

based on a true story

Fernando Meirelles Director

Cristina Banegas as Lisabetta

Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict

Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis

Alessandro Piavani as Swiss Guard #2

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.

Galileo

1975

English

6.5

♡ 3

Joseph Losey Director

Judy Parfitt as Angelica Sarti

Margaret Leighton as Elderly Court Lady

Vernon Dobtcheff as First Secretary

Aileen Lewis as Woman

Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.

GHOST: Rite Here Rite Now

2024

English

8.6

♡ 18

Alex Ross Perry Director

Sharlotte Gibson as Chamber Ghoulette

Vanessa Nichole as Dancer

Maralyn Facey as Sister Imperator

Liz Fenning as Young Sister Imperator

Whether you’re a devoted disciple looking to relive treasured memories of the GHOST live spectacle or among the curious uninitiated, RITE HERE RITE NOW will put you right there: putting your phones down and living in the moment—as a shadow of uncertainty looms—completely spellbound and in the thrall of this bombastic yet intimate cinematic portrait of GHOST.

Immoral Tales

1973

French

5.6

♡ 13

Walerian Borowczyk Director

Mathieu Rivolier as

Gerard Tcherka as

Kjell Gustavsson as

Fabrice Luchini as André / Julie's cousin - Story 1

Four erotic tales from in various historical eras. The first, 'The Tide', is set in the present day, and concerns a student and his young female cousin stranded on the beach by the tide, secluded from prying eyes. 'Therese Philosophe' is set in the nineteenth century, and concerns a girl being locked in her bedroom, where she contemplates the erotic potential of the objects contained within it. 'Erzsebet Bathory' is a portrait of the sixteenth-century countess who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins, while 'Lucrezia Borgia' concerns an incestuous fifteenth-century orgy involving Lucrezia, her brother, and her father the Pope.

Amen.

2002

French

7.2

♡ 34

ss (nazi schutzstaffel)

vatican

vatican (holy see)

War

Costa-Gavras Director

Richard Durden as Ambassador Taylor

Justus von Dohnányi as Baron Von Otter

Ulrich Mühe as Doctor

Ulrich Tukur as Kurt Gerstein

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.

Il pap'occhio

1980

Italian

6.5

♡ 1

Comedy

pope

religion

Renzo Arbore Director

Roberto Benigni as Benigni

Isabella Rossellini as Isabella

Martin Scorsese as TV director

Mariangela Melato as Unchosen actress

The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. In order to particularly grab the wandering flock, a priest invites the comedians from "The Other Sunday," an actual comedy program on Italian television, to perform on this new channel.

The Pope's Exorcist

2023

English

6.1

♡ 244

51%

Julius Avery Director

Carrie Munro as Adella

Laurel Marsden as Amy

Ralph Ineson as Asmodeus

Russell Crowe as Father Gabriel Amorth

Father Gabriele Amorth, Chief Exorcist of the Vatican, investigates a young boy's terrifying possession and ends up uncovering a centuries-old conspiracy the Vatican has desperately tried to keep hidden.

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara

2023

Italian

7.0

♡ 4

86%

Marco Bellocchio Director

Filippo Timi as Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli

Barbara Ronchi as Marianna Padovani Mortara

Fabrizio Gifuni as Pier Gaetano Feletti

Paolo Calabresi as Sabatino Scazzocchio

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.

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Francesco

A Man for All Seasons

Le bon roi Dagobert

The Pope Drops In

Holy Silence

The Agony and the Ecstasy

Pope Joan

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

The Pope: Answers

The Pope Must Diet

The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Two Popes

Galileo

GHOST: Rite Here Rite Now

Immoral Tales

Amen.

Il pap'occhio

The Pope's Exorcist

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara