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The 1977 British satirical comedy film Nasty Habits is based on Muriel Spark’s novel The Abbess of Crewe, and is an amusing satire of the Watergate scandal. Glenda Jackson is especially fine as the Abby’s […]
Director Fred Walton’s 1987 American neo-noir mystery thriller The Rosary Murders is based on a novel by William X Kienzle, and stars Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Josef Sommer and Belinda Bauer. A disturbed Detroit priest-and […]
‘Mother of God: I’ve killed a nun!’ Catholic nuns hide refugee Jewish children from the Nazis in World War Two wartime northern Italy, then risk their lives to help them escape to Palestine, in the […]
The often hilarious 1990 British caper comedy Nuns on the Run stars ideal Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane, who give winningly amusing performances as bank robbers who hide in a nunnery dressed as nuns. Writer-director […]
The 1943 French film Les Anges du Péché [Angels of the Street] [Angels of Sin] is a well-crafted and deeply felt, though rather obscure, esoteric and slightly melodramatic début film by French master Robert Bresson. […]
The 1966 comedy film The Trouble with Angels stars Hayley Mills and June Harding as naughty schoolgirls running wild in a Pennsylvanian Catholic convent boarding school, where canny Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) tames and civilises […]
Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel brings the full force of his wit and irony to bear on his attack against Catholicism in his 1969 comedy drama The Milky Way [La Voie Lactée], which focuses on the […]