Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

Summary: Little Billy witnesses his parents getting killed by Santa after being warned by his senile grandpa that Santa punishes those who are naughty. Now Billy is 18 and out of the orphanage, and he has just become Santa himself.

Release Date: November 09, 1984

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Director: Charles E. Sellier Jr.

Writers: Paul Caimi

, Michael Hickey

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: R

Production: TriStar Pictures, Slayride

Distributor: TriStar Pictures, Aquarius Releasing, USA Home Video (II), International Video Entertainment (IVE), Avid Home Entertainment, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Brainstorm Media, Screenvision, Scream Factory, Image Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,065,000

Domestic: $ 2,491,460

The Longest Day (1962)

Summary: The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

Release Date: October 04, 1962

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Directors: Ken Annakin

, Andrew Marton

, Gerd Oswald

Writers: Cornelius Ryan

, Romain Gary

, James Jones

Runtime: 2 h 58 min

MPAA: G

Production: Darryl F. Zanuck Productions

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, Magnetic Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

Summary: Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.

Release Date: November 16, 2007

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Mike Newell

Writers: Ronald Harwood

, Gabriel García Márquez

Runtime: 2 h 19 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Line Cinema, Stone Village Pictures, Cholera Love Productions, Grosvenor Park Media, Warner Bros. Pictures Mexico

Distributor: New Line Cinema

Countries: United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Colombia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 45,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,607,608

International: $ 26,968,269

The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Summary: 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Henry King

Writers: George Seaton

, Franz Werfel

Runtime: 2 h 36 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Twilight Time, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)

Summary: At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.

Release Date: February 21, 1946

Genre: Drama

Director: Leo McCarey

Writers: Dudley Nichols

, Leo McCarey

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Rainbow Productions

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, National Telefilm Associates (NTA), Image Entertainment, Republic Pictures Home Video, Republic Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, Olive Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 21,333,333

International: $ 4,645

Hawk the Slayer (1980)

Summary: With the aid of his companions, a man seeks to defeat his evil brother who has taken a nun hostage.

Release Date: December 18, 1980

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Terry Marcel

Writers: Terry Marcel

, Harry Robertson

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Incorporated Television Company (ITC), Marcel/Robertson Productions Limited, Chips Productions

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Ida (2013)

Summary: A novice nun about to take her vows uncovers a family secret dating back to the German occupation.

Release Date: October 25, 2013

Genre: Drama

Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Writers: Pawel Pawlikowski

, Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Opus Film, Phoenix Film Investments, Canal+ Polska, Eurimages, Phoenix Film Poland, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Portobello Pictures

Countries: Poland, Denmark, France, United Kingdom

Language: Polish

Domestic: $ 3,827,060

International: $ 7,329,776

Sister Act (1992)

Summary: When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her ide...

Release Date: May 29, 1992

Genres: Comedy, Family, Music

Director: Emile Ardolino

Writer: Paul Rudnick

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Touchwood Pacific Partners 1

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Video, Touchstone Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Touchstone Home Entertainment, Disney+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 31,000,000

Domestic: $ 139,605,150

International: $ 92,000,000

Saving Silverman (2001)

Summary: A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman.

Release Date: February 09, 2001

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Crime

Director: Dennis Dugan

Writers: Hank Nelken

, Greg DePaul

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Columbia Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment

Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Mill Creek Entertainment, Reel Corporation, Reel DVD

Countries: United States, Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,402,030

International: $ 6,684,676

The Mighty Macs (2009)

Summary: In the early '70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach of a tiny girls' Catholic college that has no gym and is in danger of being sold, and she determines to steer her team to their first national championship.

Release Date: October 21, 2011

Genres: Drama, Sport

Director: Tim Chambers

Writers: Tim Chambers

, Anthony Gargano

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: G

Production: Quaker Media

Distributor: Freestyle Releasing, Quaker Media, Affirm Films, Freestyle Digital Media, Ocean Avenue Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,891,936

The Little Hours (2017)

Summary: In the Middle Ages, a young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns. Introduced as a deaf mute man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.

Release Date: June 30, 2017

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Jeff Baena

Writers: Giovanni Boccaccio

, Jeff Baena

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Gunpowder & Sky, StarStream Media, Bow and Arrow Entertainment, Destro Films, Dublab Media, Gunpowder & Sky, Productivity Media, Foton Pictures, Exhibit

Distributor: Gunpowder & Sky, Gunpowder & Sky, Paramount+

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,647,175

Lilies of the Field (1963)

Summary: A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.

Release Date: July 05, 1963

Genre: Drama

Director: Ralph Nelson

Writers: James Poe

, William E. Barrett

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Rainbow Productions

Distributor: CBS, CBS/Fox, Key Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Twilight Time, HBO Max, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 240,000

Benedetta (2021)

Summary: A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.

Release Date: December 03, 2021

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Writers: David Birke

, Paul Verhoeven

, Judith C. Brown

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: SBS Productions, Pathé, France 2 Cinéma, Belga Productions, Belga Films Fund, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Ciné+, Cinémage 13, Cofimage 30, Cofinova 15, France Télévisions, Indéfilms 7, Nederlands Filmfonds, Palatine Etoile 16, Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Distributor: IFC Films

Countries: France, Belgium, Netherlands

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 24,350,000

Domestic: $ 354,481

International: $ 3,910,872

Papillon (1973)

Summary: A French convict in the 1930s befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence in the South American penal colony on Devil's Island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.

Release Date: December 19, 1973

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writers: Dalton Trumbo

, Lorenzo Semple Jr.

, Henri Charrière

Runtime: 2 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Les Films Corona, General Production Company, Solar Productions

Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures, Allied Artists Home Video, MGM/CBS Home Video, CBS Video, CBS/Fox, Warner Home Video

Countries: France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 53,267,000

Mommie Dearest (1981)

Summary: The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.

Release Date: September 25, 1981

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Frank Perry

Writers: Christina Crawford

, Frank Yablans

, Frank Perry

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,032,261

Agnes of God (1985)

Summary: When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.

Release Date: September 27, 1985

Genres: Drama, Mystery

Director: Norman Jewison

Writer: John Pielmeier

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Delphi IV Productions

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Mill Creek Entertainment, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 25,627,836