Here we've displayed a list of the best Mother Superior films : Viridiana(1961), The Magdalene Sisters(2002), Portrait of Jennie(1948), Lilies of the Field(1963), The Nun's Story(1959), The Trouble With Angels(1966), Conspiracy of Hearts(1960), Agnes of God(1985), Robin and Marian(1976), The Red Danube(1949), Bruno(2000), The Nun(2013) ... ...
Drama
Spain|Mexico
1961
90 Minutes
Silvia Pinal Francisco Rabal Fernando Rey Margarita Lozano Victoria Zinny Teresa Rabal Jose Manuel Martin Luis Heredia
nun mother superior uncle beggar benefactor shocking raw unrestrained disheartening spain estate seduction corruption religion guilt sex temptation fall forbidden love transformation
Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
Drama
Ireland|UK
2002
119 Minutes
Geraldine McEwan Anne-Marie Duff Nora-Jane Noone Dorothy Duffy Eileen Walsh Mary Murray Britta Smith Frances Healy Eithne McGuinness Rebecca Walsh Eamonn Owens
teen girl mother superior nun rebel orphan inmate bleak disturbing ireland convent school orphanage church imprisonment sexism abuse religion pregnancy rape growing up
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Romance
USA
1948
86 Minutes
Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Ethel Barrymore Cecil Kellaway David Wayne Albert Sharpe Florence Bates Lillian Gish Henry Hull Maude Simmons Felix Bressart
painter girl gallery owner cab driver mother superior dreamy brooding creative fascinating new york city cape cod central park convent apartment pub time poverty art storm love
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1963
94 Minutes
Sidney Poitier Lilia Skala Lisa Mann Isa Crino Francesca Jarvis Pamela Branch Stanley Adams Dan Frazer
handyman nun mother superior heartwarming mellow arizona farm church desert farming construction friendship race relations religion quest rise 1960s
A travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.
Drama
USA
1959
149 Minutes
Audrey Hepburn Peter Finch Edith Evans Peggy Ashcroft Dean Jagger Mildred Dunnock Beatrice Straight Patricia Collinge Eva Kotthaus Ruth White Niall MacGinnis
nun doctor mother superior mental patient solemn emotional melodramatic tense belgian congo africa belgium medicine religious vows world war ii virginity disease faith sacrifice transformation temptation
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
Comedy
USA
1966
112 Minutes
Rosalind Russell Hayley Mills June Harding Binnie Barnes Mary Wickes Louise Hovick Camilla Sparv
student nun mother superior prankster friend classmate amusing cheeky tender boarding school catholic school pennsylvania boarding-school life boredom religion teenage rebellion coming of age growing up 1960s
Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy For Girls keep things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) and her staff of bewildered Sisters.
Drama
UK
1960
111 Minutes
nun nazi priest jew child mother superior inspiring emotional somber suspenseful convent italy concentration camp world war ii holocaust resistance religion helping others faith rescue
Catholic nuns risk their lives to help Jewish children in an Italian internment camp escape to Palestine during World War II.
Drama
USA
1985
99 Minutes
Jane Fonda Meg Tilly Anne Bancroft Anne Pitoniak Winston Rekert Gratien Gélinas
nun psychiatrist mother superior dark emotional convent murder religion investigation hypnosis quest mystery rivalry 1980s
When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.
Adventure
USA
1976
112 Minutes
Sean Connery Audrey Hepburn Robert Shaw Richard Harris Nicol Williamson Denholm Elliott Kenneth Haigh Ian Holm Ronnie Barker
robin hood richard the lion heart little john mother superior sheriff highwayman confident rousing france battlefield sherwood forest england love faith friendship idealism aging quest adventure rescue
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
Romance
USA
1949
119 Minutes
Walter Pidgeon Ethel Barrymore Peter Lawford Angela Lansbury Janet Leigh Louis Calhern Francis L. Sullivan Melville Cooper Robert Coote Alan Napier Roman Toporow
colonel mother superior major aide ballerina private tense emotional vienna convent train station rome repatriation communism faith romance duty suicide quest escape
Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael S. "Hooky" Nicobar (Walter Pidgeon) is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. His duty is to aid the Soviet ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
2000
108 Minutes
Alex D. Linz Shirley MacLaine Gary Sinise Kathy Bates Stacey Halprin Kiami Davael Joey Lauren Adams Jennifer Tilly Brett Butler
student mother superior police officer mother classmate offbeat amusing catholic school suburbia cemetery self-expression individuality divorce cross-dressing underdog 2000s
Bruno is a unique young boy genius, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Drama
2013
111 Minutes
Pauline Etienne Isabelle Huppert Louise Bourgoin Martina Gedeck Françoise Lebrun Agathe Bonitzer Alice De Lencquesaing Gilles Cohen Marc Barbé
mother superior young woman disheartening powerful france convent religion atonement sin transformation 18th century
A young woman (Pauline Etienne) learns that she is an illegitimate child and must atone for her mother's sins by becoming a nun.
Other, Drama
1979
100 Minutes
Billy Dee Williams Maria Schell Fay Hauser Judith Piquet Hanna Hertelendy Lisa Mann Bob Hastings Sam Di Bello
handyman nun mother superior love interest veteran charming inspiring heartwarming arizona the southwest church orphanage school small town construction roman catholicism helping others redemption homecoming friendship
A nun (Maria Schell) talks a veteran (Billy Dee Williams) into adding on an orphanage and kindergarten to the Arizona chapel he built her.
Mystery & Thriller
2017
90 Minutes
Susie Abromeit Amanda Brugel Allison Hossack Deborah Grover Krista Bridges Yulia Petrauskas Nora McLellan Lisa Truong Stuart Hughes Carl Alacchi Marshall Williams
mother superior nun young woman killer investigator tense suspenseful thrilling monastery canada investigation murder religion faith discovery mystery 2010s
After a mysterious death at the Abbey, Sister Talia finds herself caught in the center of the internal investigation. Under orders from the newly elected Mother Superior, she must uncover the truth behind the death before the killer strikes again.
Drama
1966
155 Minutes
Anna Karina Liselotte Pulver Micheline Presle Francine Bergé Christiane Lenier Yori Bertin Francisco Rabal
nun mother superior priest father mother lawyer bleak somber passionate dense france convent chapel village street hypocrisy patriarchy religion homosexuality parental pressure
Forced into a nunnery in 18th-century France, a woman (Anna Karina) becomes an object of lust and persecution there.