An American nun embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbours a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.

Àustria, 1938. Maria és una novícia alegre que abandona l'abadia d'Estrasburg per convertir-se en la institutriu dels set fills d'un militar retirat, el capità von Trapp, vidu des de fa poc temps. La casa dels von Trapp funciona com una caserna, però la Maria aconsegueix tornar l'alegria als nens i guanyar-se el seu respecte i afecte.

Sister Emanuelle and Sister Nanà go to meet Mr. Cazzabriga, who has a problem: his wild-child daughter, Monica, who he wants to send to a Catholic school to remove her from temptations around the house.

Spain, 1949. Narcisa, a novice, arrives at an old convent, converted into a girls' school, to work as a teacher.

Una monja del segle XVII arriba al convent de Pescia, a la Toscana. Pateix visions religioses i eròtiques inquietants i l'ajuda una companya, tot i que la relació entre les dues dones es converteix en una història d'amor romàntic.

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.

When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.

Garfagnana, Italy, 1347. The handsome servant Masseto, fleeing from his vindictive master, takes shelter in a nunnery where three young nuns, Sister Alessandra, Sister Ginevra and Sister Fernanda, try unsuccessfully to find out what their purpose in life is, a conundrum that each of them faces in different ways.

St. Agatha is set in the 1950s in small town Georgia. A pregnant con woman named Agatha is on the run and seeks refuge in a convent hidden in deafening isolation. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a dark lair where silence is forced. Ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of will power Agatha has is tested. She soon learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the odd people that lurk inside its halls. Agatha must now find a way to discover the unyielding strength needed to escape and save her baby before she’s caged behind these walls forever.

Don Jaime, un vell gentilhome espanyol, viu retirat i solitari a la seva hisenda des de la mort de la seva dona, ocorreguda el mateix dia del casament. Un dia rep la visita de la seva neboda Viridiana, novícia en un convent, que té una gran semblança amb la seva dona.

La jove Gabrielle comença el noviciat en un convent i es converteix en la germana Luke. Aviat manifesta el desig d'anar a treballar al Congo com a infermera i l'envien a una escola de medicina tropical, on els seus progressos provoquen l'antipatia de la germana Pauline. Luke, pertorbada per aquest fet, demana consell a la mare Marcel·la, que li aconsella demostrar humilitat suspenent els exàmens. Però ella no pot evitar superar-los i passa a treballar en un sanatori mental, on l'ataca una interna esquizofrènica. Finalment, la destinen al Congo, on ha de treballar amb el doctor Fortunati, un home competent i no-creient, que es mofa de la seva devoció religiosa.

L'any 1920, el Walter i la Kitty, un matrimoni anglès, viuen a Xangai. No hi ha amor entre la parella i aviat la Kitty comença una relació amb un altre home, el Charlie. Quan en Walter, que és metge, descobreix la infidelitat, accepta traslladar-se a un poble remot de la Xina per lluitar contra la còlera i força a la Kitty a marxar amb ell.

L'Anna és una jove novícia que en la Polònia de 1960 i a punt de prendre els seus vots com a monja, descobreix un fosc secret de família que data de la terrible època de l'ocupació nazi. Amb la seva tia, recentment trobada, iniciarà un viatge en el que ambdues s'enfrontaran amb les conseqüències del seu passat.

Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly caught flirting with the boys. All have to work in a laundry under the strict supervision of the nuns, who break their wills through sadistic punishment.

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

La comissaria de Cruchot es trasllada a un nou edifici amb un equipament d'última generació i a més a més amb quatre membres nous, que no són altres que quatre dones policies. Tots es barallen per entrenar les noves reclutes. Però les coses es compliquen quan una darrere l'altra les policies van sent segrestades.

A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of the institution to enforce strict rules on these unfortunate women. At the same time, a particularly disturbed nun manages to poison herself and many of the other novitiates in yet another scandal which is covered up by church authorities.

During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.

A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.

In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.