En amerikansk nonne begiver sig ud på en ny rejse, da hun slutter sig til et fjerntliggende kloster i det italienske landskab. Men hendes varme velkomst bliver hurtigt til et levende mareridt, da hun opdager, at hendes nye hjem rummer en uhyggelig hemmelighed og ubeskrivelige rædsler.

Maria er en noget uregerlig ung kvinde, der bliver guvernante for kaptajn von Trapp's syv moderløse børn. Børnene er blevet strengt opdraget af deres far, men langsomt vinder Maria dem for sig og lærer dem at synge. Selv den dybfrosne kaptajn lykkes det hende at tø op.

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.

Det 17. århundrede - Pesten hænger som en mørk skygge over Italien. Novicen Benedetta Carlini har nogle chokerende religiøse syner af Jesus - syner, der inspirerer hende til at udleve sit begær efter magt og seksuel tilfredsstillelse. Snart indleder hun derfor et lesbisk forhold til en anden nonne fra klosteret - noget som den katolske kirke ikke ser med milde øjne på.

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

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.

Historien udspilles i Polen i de tidlige 1960'ere. Ida har mistet begge sine forældre under Anden Verdenskrig og er vokset op i et kloster. Som ung novice er hun klar til at aflægge nonneløftet, men først må hun opsøge sin sidste nulevende slægtning. Hendes seksuelt frigjorte og noget letlevende tante Wanda vender op og ned på Idas liv, og artige hemmeligheder bringes for en dag.

Italien, 1347. Alessandra, Fernanda og Ginevra er tre lunefulde nonner, der keder sig i et kloster, hvor Fader Tommasso holder godt øje med dem. En flot ny opsynsmand introduceres for søstrene som døvstum for at modvirke fristelse, men snart opstår en rus af hormoner, stofmisbrug og syndig sviren.

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.

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.

Nonnen er en amerikansk film fra 1959, som handler om den belgiske nonne Sister Luke, der bliver udstationeret i Belgisk Congo med de bedste intentioner om at udøve sit virke som Guds tjener. Det bliver dog sværere og sværere for hende at forholde sig neutralt til sine omgivelser, og hun må genoverveje de ideologier, hun har valgt at følge.

Filmen er instrueret af Fred Zinnemann og blev nomineret til otte Oscars.

Lægen Walter Fane bliver gift med den smukke Kitty, der kommer fra en prominent familie. Walters arbejde fører dem til Shanghai, hvor Kitty indleder et forhold til den britiske vicekonsul Charles. Da Walter opdager Kittys affære, så melder han sig frivilligt til at arbejde i en kinesisk landsby ramt af kolera. Det daglige arbejde i landsbyen sætter parrets forhold i perspektiv og giver deres liv ny mening.

Irland i 60'erne. Margrets synd er, at hun bliver voldtaget af sin fætter, Bernadettes at hun er smuk og Roses at hun er ugift mor. De tre placeres mod deres vilje i et kloster og behandles som slaver. Reglerne i klostret er meget strenge, pigerne skal knokle 364 dage om året og udover det hårde arbejde bliver de sultet, pryglet og ydmyget på de værst tænkelige måder.

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.

Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.

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.

A young Englishwoman is drawn to an island in the Black Sea in an attempt to discover her mysterious connection to a remove convent--a crumbling edifice that has been constructed over a labyrinth of Lovecraftian horrors.

A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the Inquisition.

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