Posts Tagged ‘nun’

The Sound of Music (1965)

Friday, March 12th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer | Richard Haydn | Peggy Wood | Anna Lee | Portia Nelson | Ben Wright | Daniel Truhitte | Norma Varden | Marni Nixon | Gilchrist Stuart | Evadne Baker | Doris Lloyd | Charmian Carr | Nicholas Hammond
Directors: Robert Wise
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

Bless the Child (2000)

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Kim Basinger | Jimmy Smits | Holliston Coleman | Rufus Sewell | Angela Bettis | Christina Ricci | Michael Gaston | Lumi Cavazos | Dimitra Arliss | Eugene Lipinski | Anne Betancourt | Ian Holm | Helen Stenborg | Matthew Lemche | Dan Warry-Smith
Directors: Chuck Russell
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Omens and concepts of good vs. evil have no place in Maggie O’Connor’s well-ordered, practical universe. Her life revolves around her job as a nurse at a busy New York hospital, until one rainy night, her sister Jenna abandons her newborn, autistic daughter at her home. Maggie takes the baby in, and she becomes the daughter she never had. Six years later Jenna suddenly re-appears with a mysterious new husband, Eric, and abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis (Jimmy Smits), an expert in ritual homicide and occult-related crime, takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently missing children. The little girl, it soon becomes clear, is more than simply “special.” She manifests extraordinary powers that the forces of evil have waited centuries to control, and her abduction sparks a clash between the soldiers of good and evil that can only be resolved, in the end, by the strength of one small child and the love she inspires in those she touches.

Vertigo (1958)

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: James Stewart | Kim Novak | Barbara Bel Geddes | Tom Helmore | Henry Jones | Raymond Bailey | Ellen Corby | Konstantin Shayne | Lee Patrick | Jack Ano | John Benson | Paul Bryar | Bruno Della Santina | Carlo Dotto
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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John “Scottie” Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.

Ms .45 (1981)

Monday, April 20th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Zoë Lund | Albert Sinkys | Darlene Stuto | Helen McGara | Nike Zachmanoglou | Peter Yellen | Editta Sherman | Vincent Gruppi | S. Edward Singer | Stanley Timms | Faith Peters | Lawrence Zavaglia | Alex Jachino | Jack Thibeau
Directors: Abel Ferrara
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A mute woman gets raped twice coming home from work and decides to take matters into her own hands. She dresses suggestively and roams the streets alone, reaking vengeance upon anyone who tries to take advantage of her. Eventually her secret life spills over into her regular life in the fashion industry.

Prime Evil (1988)

Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: William Beckwith | Christine Moore | Mavis Harris | Max Jacobs | Tim Gail | George Krause | Ruth Collins | Amy Brentano | Jeanne Marie | Gary Warner | Iraida Cruz | Roseanna Peterson | Cameron Kell | Nicole Sislian | Phil Murphy
Directors: Roberta Findlay
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A coven of devil-worshiping monks living in New York City search for victims for their sacrificial ceremonies.

Doubt (2008)

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Amy Adams | Viola Davis | Lloyd Clay Brown | Joseph Foster | Michael Roukis | Mike Roukis | Bridget Megan Clark | Lydia Jordan | Paulie Litt | Matthew Marvin | Evan Lewis | Dennis Albanese | Timothy J. Cox
Directors: John Patrick Shanley
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Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx, it centers on a nun who grows suspicious when a priest begins taking too much interest in the life of a young black student. Is she being overly protective or not protective enough? And can she work within the system to discover the truth?

Thunder on the Hill (1951)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Claudette Colbert | Ann Blyth | Robert Douglas | Anne Crawford | Philip Friend | Gladys Cooper | Michael Pate | John Abbott | Connie Gilchrist | Gavin Muir | Phyllis Stanley | Norma Varden | Valerie Cardew | Queenie Leonard | Patrick O'Moore
Directors: Douglas Sirk
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Convicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert) becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.

The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)

Monday, January 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Quinn | Laurence Olivier | Oskar Werner | David Janssen | Vittorio De Sica | Leo McKern | John Gielgud | Barbara Jefford | Rosemary Dexter | Frank Finlay | Burt Kwouk | Arnoldo Foà | Paul Rogers | George Pravda | Clive Revill
Directors: Michael Anderson
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After twenty years in a Siberian labor camp, Kiril Lakota, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lvov, is set free. The Catholic Archbishop is released and sent to Rome, where the ailing Pope makes him a Cardinal. The world is in a state of crisis - a famine in China is exacerbated by United States restrictions on Chinese trade and the ongoing Chinese-Soviet feud. When the Pontiff dies, Lakota finds himself elected Pope. But the new Pope Kiril I is plagued by self-doubt, by his years in prison, and by the strange world he knows so little about. This movie contains extensive information about Catholic faith & practice, as a television news reporter steps in from time-to-time to explain the procedures involved in selecting a new Pope.

Black Narcissus (1947)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Deborah Kerr | Flora Robson | Jean Simmons | David Farrar | Sabu | Esmond Knight | Kathleen Byron | Jenny Laird | Judith Furse | May Hallatt | Shaun Noble | Eddie Whaley Jr. | Nancy Roberts | Ley On | Maxwell Foster
Directors: Michael Powell
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Five young British nuns are invited to move to a windy “palace”, former house of the concubines of an old general, in the top of a mountain in Mopu, Himalaya, to raise the convent of Saint Faith Order, a school for children and girls, and an infirmary for the local dwellers. Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) is assigned as the superior sister, and her liaison with civilization is the rude government agent Mr. Dean (David Farrar). The lonely and exotic place and the presence of Mr. ‘Dean awake the innermost desires in the flesh of the sisters, and Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron) becomes mad with the temptation.

Torch Singer (1933)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Claudette Colbert | Ricardo Cortez | David Manners | Lyda Roberti | Baby LeRoy | Charley Grapewin | Sam Godfrey | Florence Roberts | Virginia Hammond | Mildred Washington | Cora Sue Collins | Helen Jerome Eddy | Albert Conti | Ethel Griffies | James Burke
Directors: Alexander Hall
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Sally Trent has an illegitimate child, but cannot support her and gives the baby up for adoption. The father, Michael Gardner, leaves for China not knowing about the baby, and she assumes he has abandoned her for life. She gets a job as a torch singer, changes her name to Mimi Benton, and becomes notorious for her drinking and philadering. Mimi fills in on a children’s radio program as the character “Aunt Jenny,” singing and telling bedtime stories, and eventually uses the airtime to find her long lost daughter, part with her wild lifestyle, and reunite with Michael.