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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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'Damned If You Don't' is Friedrichs subversive and ecstatic response to her Catholic upbringing. Blending conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voice-overs, this film creates an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. Featuring Peggy Healey as a young nun tormented by her desire for the sultry irresistible Ela Troyano. --Kanopy.
4) Matrix
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"Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily...
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A New York Times Notable Book
Acclaimed author Ann Patchett's debut novel, hailed as "beautifully written . . . a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion” (Boston Herald)
St. Elizabeth’s, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while. Not so Rose Clinton, a beautiful,
...6) Lying awake
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English
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Sister John of the Cross has spent years serving God at a Carmelite monastery, and when she begins to see holy visions, she is viewed as a spiritual master, but she learns that her visions are due to a deadly illness and she is forced to choose between her commitment to God and her own life.
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Enjoy again a tale of friendship, faith and finding your destiny in this classic women's fiction novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. They were sisters once. In a more innocent time, three girls enter the convent. Angelina, Kathleen and Joanna come from very different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common -- the desire to join a religious order and serve as best they can. Despite the seclusion of the convent house...
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Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
2007
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Danish
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A dream becomes reality when Jørgen Laursen Vig, an elderly bachelor, wants to turn his castle into a monastery in Denmark, and a young nun, Sister Ambrosija, is sent to inspect the place. Will the man's dream come true, or will the church's ideas clash too much with his own?
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Hesperus Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A 1638 work of erotic fiction features nun-to-nun dialogues in the sexual arts "Is it right that a girl so accomplished be secluded as you are? No, no, my child, I want to share with you my most secret habits, and to give you a true notion of the deeds of a wise nun." This landmark erotic novel salaciously presents the education, one might say indoctrination, of green Catholic nun Sister Agnes at the hands of her more experienced cohort Sister Angelique....
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999. c1997
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English
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Sister Fidelma, an advocate of the Brehon law courts in 666 A.D., is sent to the small Irish village of Araglin to investigate the murder of the local chieftain, but a series of troubling incidents lead her to believe that the obvious suspect, a local deaf-mute who was found holding the murder weapon, may not be guilty.
11) Out of Order
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Out of Order six former Catholic nuns tell why they entered and why they left religious life. The women (filmmaker Diane Christian is one of them) describe their years in the convent and their return to the secular world.
12) Sister act
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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In this comedy a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent. While there she turns the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire. The sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her identity.
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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Français
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Two orphan vampires (Les Deux Orphelines Vampires) follows Henriette and Louise (Isabelle Teboul and Alexandra Pic), two blind girls of unknown origin, raised in an orphanage by two adoring nuns. Little do the nuns know, each night as the sun goes down, their "little angels" acquire night vision (they "see blue"), as well as an appetite for blood and teenage mischief.
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Five nuns confront nature--physical and human--in a remote Himalayan convent in this bestselling novel that "bears comparison with A Passage to India " (Arthur Koestler). Under the guidance of Sister Clodagh, the youngest Mother Superior in the history of their order, five European Sisters of the Servants of Mary leave their monastery in Darjeeling, India, and make their way to remote Mopu in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. There, in the...
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In 2011, Christine Toomey met an unforgettable group of Tibetan Buddhist nuns. After hearing their stories-of prison, extreme hardship, and ultimately fleeing into exile-she resolved to learn more about the private, courageous women of Buddhism: who they are, their experience of suffering, what motivates them to seek enlightenment, and what stands in their way. Toomey's quest took on even greater urgency with the sudden deaths of her father and mother,...
16) The convent
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Mother Superior Maria Ines finds a baby nestled in a suitcase on the doorstep of her convent where six women are devoted to God, solitude, and silence, but taking the baby in opens the door for Maria's romantic past to come back to haunt her.
17) St. Agnes' stand
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Putnam's
Pub. Date
1994
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English
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Nat Swanson, running from a gang of men who want to see him hang for murder, encounters the survivors of an Apache ambush in the New Mexico desert. Sister St. Agnes, the leader of the group, is convinced that Nat has been sent by God to save them, despite evidence to the contrary.
18) Angelopolis
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Viking
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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A decade had passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline's wings and the Nephilim are scheming to construct their own paradise while being pursued by angel hunter Verlaine, but Evangeline causes him to have doubts.
19) The ninth hour
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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A portrait of the Irish-American experience is presented through the story of an Irish immigrant's suicide and how it reverberates through innumerable lives in early twentieth-century Catholic Brooklyn.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A live performance of the classic musical. An aspiring nun in pre-WWII Austria leaves the abbey to become a governess for the widower Captain von Trapp's seven children and finds herself falling in love. - From WorldCat
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