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.

The Order

2003

English

5.1

♡ 18

10%

Brian Helgeland Director

Heath Ledger as Alex Bernier

John Schwab as American Bureaucrat

Peter Weller as Driscoll

Mark Addy as Thomas Garrett

For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.

Stigmata

1999

English

6.2

♡ 46

22%

Rupert Wainwright Director

Jonathan Pryce as Cardinal Daniel Houseman

Mark Adair-Rios as Deacon

Thomas Kopache as Father Durning

Patricia Arquette as Frankie Paige

A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's situation, a high-ranking cardinal requests that the Rev. Andrew Kiernan investigate her case. Soon Kiernan realizes that very sinister forces are at work, and tries to rescue Frankie from the entity that is plaguing her.

Lost City Raiders

2008

English

4.0

♡ 1

21%

Jean de Segonzac Director

Elodie Frenck as Cara Cahill

Ian Somerhalder as Jack Kubiak

James Brolin as John Kubiak

Robin Smith as Sailor

The year is 2048, and global warming has flooded much of Earth's land areas. A father and his two sons try to salvage treasures from sunken buildings when they are given an important assignment by the New Vatican.

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.

Incarnate

2016

English

5.3

♡ 87

18%

Brad Peyton Director

Tim Sitarz as Bouncer #1

Aaron Eckhart as Dr. Ember

John Pirruccello as Henry

Natalija Nogulich as Maggie

An exorcist comes up against an evil from his past when he uses his skills to enter the mind of a nine year old boy.

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.

Exorcist: The Beginning

2004

English

5.1

♡ 60

10%

religion and supernatural

secret

Thriller

vatican (holy see)

Renny Harlin Director

James D'Arcy as Father Francis

David Bradley as Father Gionetti

Stellan Skarsgård as Father Merrin

Alan Ford as Jefferies

Years before Father Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil’s soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa.

The Mystery of Padre Pio

2018

Spanish

7.5

♡ 5

100%

roman catholic church

vatican

vatican (holy see)

José María Zavala Director

Adolf Hitler as Self

Franco Zeffirelli as Self

Pope Paul VI as Self

Pope John Paul II as Self

The documentary offers testimonies and documents never disclosed about the plot against its protagonist, who had the stigmata of Jesus Christ in his hands, feet and side for 50 consecutive years.

Il Divo

2008

Italian

7.2

♡ 4

92%

Paolo Sorrentino Director

Achille Brugnini as Cardinale Angelini

Fanny Ardant as French Ambassador's Wife

Bruno Di Luia as General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa

Massimo Popolizio as Vittorio Sbardella

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

The Apparition

2018

French

♡ 3

73%

Xavier Giannoli Director

Anatole Taubman as Anton Meyer

Aurore Broutin as Cécile

Vincent Lindon as Jacques Mayano

Gérard Dessalles as Stéphane Mornay

Jacques Mayano, a French journalist who has lived a traumatic experience, is recruited by the Vatican to be part of a task force that must investigate the veracity of a supernatural apparition allegedly happened in a small French village.

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 Club

2015

Spanish

7.2

♡ 23

88%

Pablo Larraín Director

Williams 'Wilo' Farias as

Claudio Marín as

Felipe Ríos as Dueño de Perro

Marcelo Alonso as Padre García

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.

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.

Hudson Hawk

1991

English

5.7

♡ 58

30%

Michael Lehmann Director

Andie MacDowell as Anna Baragli

Frank Welker as Bunny the Dog

Bruce Willis as Hudson Hawk

Sandra Bernhard as Minerva Mayflower

Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy.

Resurrected

2023

English

5.3

♡ 18

Egor Baranov Director

Kristen Ariza as Agent Ortiz

Chris Gann as Detective Mays

Timothy V. Murphy as Father Flynn

Brad Greenquist as Father Hill

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.

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.

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