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1. V for Vendetta (2005)
R | 132 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
Director: James McTeigue | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea
Votes: 1,181,932 | Gross: $70.51M
2. Spotlight (I) (2015)
R | 129 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber
Votes: 503,333 | Gross: $45.06M
3. Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
PG | 85 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track - again?
Director: Ken Finkleman | Stars: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr
Votes: 56,995 | Gross: $27.15M
4. The Beast (1975)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In order to inherit a fortune a young woman agrees to marry a young man. She soon discovers that his family harbours a dark past involving a monstrous beast.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti
Votes: 5,367
5. Doubt (I) (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Mystery
A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
Director: John Patrick Shanley | Stars: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis
Votes: 136,284 | Gross: $33.42M
6. Righteous Kill (2008)
R | 101 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Two veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.
Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Carla Gugino, 50 Cent
Votes: 92,331 | Gross: $40.08M
7. Miss Meadows (2014)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A proper elementary-school teacher moonlights as a vigilante.
Director: Karen Leigh Hopkins | Stars: Katie Holmes, James Badge Dale, Callan Mulvey, Jean Smart
Votes: 10,120
8. The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
PG-13 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet
Votes: 94,107 | Gross: $20.98M
9. Bad Education (2004)
NC-17 | 106 min | Crime, Drama
An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Votes: 63,522 | Gross: $5.21M
10. Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020)
TV-MA | 102 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A group of technology-dependent teenagers goes to offline camp and faces a deadly danger lurking in the woods.
Director: Bartosz M. Kowalski | Stars: Julia Wieniawa-Narkiewicz, Michal Lupa, Wiktoria Gasiewska, Stanislaw Cywka
Votes: 14,148
11. The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
R | 114 min | Drama
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Director: Peter Mullan | Stars: Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone, Anne-Marie Duff
Votes: 28,505 | Gross: $4.89M
12. The Boys of St. Vincent (1992 TV Movie)
93 min | Biography, Drama
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Henry Czerny, Johnny Morina, Brian Dooley, Philip Dinn
Votes: 1,987 | Gross: $0.20M
13. Tromeo and Juliet (1996)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
Tromeo, a filmmaker, falls in love with Juliet, the daughter of a former partner who tried to steal his business from him.
Director: Lloyd Kaufman | Stars: Jane Jensen, Will Keenan, Valentine Miele, William Beckwith
Votes: 6,881
14. Forgive Me for Raping You (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama
About a depraved priest who lures innocent suburban girls into sexual slavery.
Director: Bill Zebub | Stars: Steve Nebesni, Eidolona, Taylor Trash, Kathy Rice
Votes: 380
15. Religulous (2008)
R | 101 min | Documentary, Comedy, War
Bill Maher's take on the current state of world religion.
Director: Larry Charles | Stars: Bill Maher, Tal Bachman, Jonathan Boulden, Steven Burg
Votes: 60,285 | Gross: $13.00M
16. The General (1998)
R | 124 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Sean McGinley, Maria Doyle Kennedy
Votes: 9,272 | Gross: $1.21M
17. By the Grace of God (2018)
137 min | Crime, Drama
Three men, abused by the same priest during their childhood, engage in a fight for justice that will expose their personal experiences and question their life with their wife, family, and colleagues.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud, Éric Caravaca
Votes: 8,255
18. Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
Not Rated | 101 min | Documentary, Crime
Documentary about Father Oliver O'Grady, a Catholic priest who was relocated to various parishes around the United States during the 1970s in an attempt by the Catholic Church to cover up his rape of dozens of children.
Director: Amy Berg | Stars: Oliver O'Grady, Thomas Doyle, Adam, Jeff Anderson
Votes: 10,848 | Gross: $30.58M
19. The Club (2015)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Marcelo Alonso
Votes: 12,021 | Gross: $0.03M
20. The Butcher Boy (1997)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Drama
The antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Stephen Rea, Fiona Shaw, Eamonn Owens, Alan Boyle
Votes: 11,490 | Gross: $1.82M
21. Men of Hard Skin (2019)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama
José Celestino Campusano's exploration of sex, power and ecclesiastical abuse in Argentine society is a complex and often confrontational piece of work, posing tough questions without resorting to easy answers.
Director: José Celestino Campusano | Stars: Wall Javier, Germán Tarantino, Claudio Medina, Juan Salmeri
Votes: 408
22. Retaliation (2017)
R | 91 min | Drama, Thriller
An adult victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past.
Directors: Ludwig Shammasian, Paul Shammasian | Stars: Orlando Bloom, Janet Montgomery, Alex Ferns, Charlie Creed-Miles
Votes: 1,635
23. Are All Men Pedophiles? (2013)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
What is the difference between us and pedophiles?
Director: Jan-Willem Breure | Stars: Jan-Willem Breure, Dick Swaab, Corine de Ruiter, Savannah van Zweeden
Votes: 6,332
24. Judgment (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
Director: Tom Topor | Stars: Keith Carradine, Blythe Danner, Jack Warden, David Strathairn
Votes: 436
25. Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)
TV-14 | 106 min | Documentary
Alex Gibney explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church, following a trail from the first known protest against clerical sexual abuse in the United States and all the way to the Vatican.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Alex Gibney, Terry Kohut, Gary Smith, Pat Kuehn
Votes: 4,095
26. M (II) (2018)
105 min | Documentary
After 15 years of self-imposed exile, Menahem gets back to his ultra-orthodox home town of Bnei Brak, where he wants to face the traumatic childhood experiences of long-lasting sexual abuse within the Khasidic community.
Director: Yolande Zauberman | Stars: Menachem Lang, Talleen Abu Hanna
Votes: 342
27. The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later (1992 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Drama
Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted ... See full summary »
Director: John N. Smith | Stars: Henry Czerny, Sebastian Spence, Lise Roy, David Hewlett
Votes: 568
28. L'éventreur de Notre-Dame (1975)
Not Rated | 95 min | Horror
A madman conducts a private inquisition to exorcise demons by torturing women to death.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Catherine Lafferière, Jesús Franco, Pierre Taylou
Votes: 957
29. Procession (2021)
R | 118 min | Documentary
A group of survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests battle for justice.
Director: Robert Greene | Stars: Joe Eldred, Mike Foreman, Ed Gavagan, Dan Laurine
Votes: 1,400
30. Our Fathers (2005 TV Movie)
R | 130 min | Drama
A dramatized account of the hidden sexual abuse and scandal that shook the foundation of the Catholic Church, and the characters, events, and policies that brought the abuse and scandal into existence.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Ted Danson, Christopher Plummer, Brian Dennehy, Daniel Baldwin
Votes: 573
31. Almost Mercy (2015)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror
Jackson and Emily aren't like the other kids. Two burgeoning sociopaths on the brink of total meltdown. Ticking time bombs seeking revenge. Who will unravel first?
Director: Tom DeNucci | Stars: Bill Moseley, Kane Hodder, Nick Principe, Ian Lyons
Votes: 1,180
32. El Bosque de Karadima (2015)
98 min | Drama
Real-life powerful Catholic priest Fernando Karadima committed crimes of child abuse and pedophilia between the 1980s and 2000s. The film follows the struggle of his victims, to be able to reveal the truth and look for justice.
Director: Matias Lira | Stars: Luis Gnecco, Benjamín Vicuña, Ingrid Isensee, Pedro di Girolamo Campos
Votes: 1,002
33. Isle of Darkness (1997)
83 min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big-city life, Julie, a newly-qualified young teacher from Copenhagen, takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern Norway. Julie finds... See full summary »
Director: Trygve Allister Diesen | Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, Paul-Ottar Haga, Sina Langfeldt, Martin Slaatto
Votes: 516
34. Twist of Faith (2004)
TV-MA | 87 min | Documentary
A man confronts the trauma of past sexual abuse as a boy by a Catholic priest only to find his decision shatters his relationships with his family, community and faith.
Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Jeff Anderson, Barbara Blaine, David Clohessy, Sandy Comes
Votes: 985 | Gross: $0.00M
35. Tell No One (2019)
121 min | Documentary
The documentary follows the true and elaborate depiction of pedophilia in the Polish Catholic Church.
Director: Tomasz Sekielski | Stars: Franciszek Cybula, Irena Drewla, Stanislaw Gadecki, Slawoj Leszek Glodz
Votes: 3,110
36. Examination of Conscience (2019)
TV-MA | 154 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Through interviews with victims, members of the clergy, journalists and experts, this series looks at the accusations of child abuse against catholic institutions in Spain.
Votes: 489
37. Perfect Parents (2006 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama
This show is about a couple who pretend to be Catholic to get their daughter into a good school, but their lies turn into a mess of fraud, violence and murder.
Director: Joe Ahearne | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Susannah Harker, Brendan Coyle, Michelle Joseph
Votes: 155
38. In the Name of the Son (2012)
80 min | Drama
Quand une femme de foi, animatrice d'une tribune sur une station de radio catholique, dévouée à sa famille et la souffrance du monde, est confrontée à la pédophilie des prêtres et au ... See full synopsis »
Director: Vincent Lannoo | Stars: Astrid Whettnall, Philippe Nahon, Achille Ridolfi, Albert Chassagne-Baradat
Votes: 392
39. Sex Abuse in the Church: Code of Silence (2017)
52 min | Documentary
Secret internal documents reveal how Catholic Church officials protect priests accused of pedophilia and sexual abuse by moving them from country to country, sometimes as far away as Africa... See full summary »
Director: Martin Boudot
Votes: 29
40. The Silence (2020)
108 min | Documentary
Victims break their silence on the Roman Catholic priests who sexually abused them as boys in New Brunswick, Canada, from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Director: Renée Blanchar | Stars: Yvon Arsenault, Michel Bastarache, Renée Blanchar, Rita Boudreau
Votes: 8
41. Vecne tvá neverná (2018)
Comedy, Romance
Director: Milan Cieslar | Stars: Sasa Rasilov, Lenka Vlasáková, Vilma Cibulková, Natalia Germani
Votes: 63
42. Prey (III) (2019)
83 min | Documentary
A film that follows one survivor and his lawyer as they pursue justice through a public trial in the hopes of forcing the dark and hidden story of clergy sexual abuse to light.
Director: Matt Gallagher | Stars: Rob Talach, Hod Marshall, Rod MacLeod, David Katulski
Votes: 43
43. Celibacy (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
Celibacy - The argument basically is that in the mix of sex education that now goes on in schools throughout the western world, about how to have safe sex, one crucially important issue has... See full summary »
Director: Antony Thomas | Star: Ralph Pinto
Votes: 23
44. The Culpable (2015)
95 min | Crime, Drama
The life and faith of a Catholic prison minister is shaken when his friend and colleague is taken into custody under suspicion of sexual abuse, which drives him to discover the truth.
Director: Gerd Schneider | Stars: Sandra Borgmann, George Tounas, Sebastian Blomberg, Kai Schumann
Votes: 255
46. Zabawa w chowanego (2020)
87 min | Documentary
The documentary follows the story of two brothers who were sexually abused by the same priest of Polish Catholic Church.
Director: Tomasz Sekielski | Stars: Mariusz Blaszczak, Henryk Gulbinowicz, Arkadiusz Hajdasz, Andrzej Hurny
Votes: 477
47. Night Corridor (2003)
73 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When Sam searches for answers in the mysterious accident that has befallen his twin, he soon wonders if anyone close to him can be trusted.
Director: Julian Chi-Chiu Lee | Stars: Daniel Wu, Kara Wai, Feng Ku, Eddy Ko
Votes: 219
48. Weed (2015)
TV-14 | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Josué a successful young professional accepts the family challenge of keeping his cousin Kenny away from marijuana, without revealing to anyone that he also shares this vice. Together, ... See full summary »
Director: Enrique Pérez Him | Stars: Eric De León, Milko Delgado, María Elena Mena, Natalie Medina
Votes: 35
49. Mieszko Minkiewicz: Dorosly facet (2022 TV Special)
67 min | Comedy
Director: Mieszko Minkiewicz | Stars: Pawel Konkiel, Mieszko Minkiewicz
50. Holy Water-Gate: Abuse Cover-up in the Catholic Church (2004 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
Examines nineteen years of an emerging crisis in the Catholic Church.
Director: Mary Healey Jamiel | Stars: John Bambrick, Barbara Blaine, William Cloutier, Thomas Doyle
Votes: 19