Monk Movies, Movies about Monk

Here we've displayed a list of the best Monk films : Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring(2003), Samsara(2001), The Secret of Kells(2009), Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion(2003), A Touch of Zen(1971), In Search of Kundun With Martin Scorsese(1998), Travelers and Magicians(2003), Powaqqatsi(1988), The Giant Buddhas(2005), Colonel Wolodyjowski(1969), Of Gods and Men(2010), The Great Impostor(1960) ... ...

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Spring

A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk in an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.

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Samsara

A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's ... See full summary »

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The Secret of Kells

A young boy in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids is beckoned to adventure when a celebrated master illuminator arrives with an ancient book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers.

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Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

A film about the state of Chinese occupied Tibet and its history of oppression and resistance.

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A Touch of Zen

A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.

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In Search of Kundun With Martin Scorsese

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Travelers and Magicians

The two men embark on parallel, if separate, journeys. Their yearning is a common one--for a better and different life. Dondup, delayed by the timeless pace of his village, is forced to ... See full summary »

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Powaqqatsi

An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.

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The Giant Buddhas

A filmmaker's investigation into the destruction of giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan.

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Colonel Wolodyjowski

In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.

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Of Gods and Men

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.

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The Great Impostor

A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.

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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

When a bored Holmes eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon after an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.

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Night Sun

Young nobleman Baron Sergio Giuramondo, after discovering that his bride-to-be was the king's mistress, leaves Naples in disgust to become a monk. But his quest for perfect solitude is ... See full summary »

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Brother Orchid

When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.

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The Da Vinci Code

A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.

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Hypocrites

The parallel stories of a modern preacher and a medieval monk, Gabriel the Ascetic, who is killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Truth, which is also represented by a ghostly naked girl who flits throughout the film.

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Horror Express

While travelling on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a lifeform that is absorbing the minds of the passengers and crew.

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The Stormriders

Comprised of fifteen vignettes of varying lengths, The Sadness of Sex (1998) is about love, but more specifically about the phases of courtship that lead to the inevitable break-up.

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A Walk With Love and Death

In a story set during the Hundred Years War, a student who has abandoned his studies in Paris, pairs with a young noblewoman with whom he has fallen in love.

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Outside the Law

In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing, a kind-hearted student of Confucian ... See full summary »

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Black Death

Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.

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Headshot

Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.

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The Trial of Joan of Arc

Espionage story telling how British and American security agents outwit ruthless and cunning traitors trying to steal secret project plans.

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Sorceress

A Dominican friar visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect ... See full summary »

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The Pit and the Pendulum

Horror film set in 1492 Toledo, Spain, depicting the cruel deeds of a monk named Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.

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The Legend of Zorro

Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.

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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale

Fictional chronicle of Squanto's life prior to and including the arrival of the "Mayflower" in 1620.

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The Garden of Allah

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

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Eat Pray Love

A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

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