Ισπανία, 1949. Η Narcisa, μια δόκιμη μοναχή, φτάνει σε ένα παλιό μοναστήρι, που έχει μετατραπεί σε σχολείο θηλέων, για να εργαστεί ως δασκάλα.
Κατά τον μεσαίωνα, τρεις μοναχές, η Αλεσάντρα, η Φερνάντα και η Γινέβρα, διάγουν μια ήσυχη ζωή στη μόνη τους. Οι ημέρες τους περνούν με την καθημερινή ρουτίνα του μοναστηριού, με το να κατασκοπεύει η μία την άλλη και με τον μαλώνουν για τις μικροδουλειές. Όταν μια συγκεκριμένη και βαριά προσβολή κάνει έναν χωρικό να φύγει, ο πάτερ Τομάσο φέρνει στη μονή έναν νέο βοηθό, τον Μασέτο, έναν νεαρό κι αρρενωπό υπηρέτη που είναι εξαναγκασμένος να κρύβεται από τον εξοργισμένο αφέντη του. Στις μοναχές θα παρουσιαστεί ως κωφάλαλος για να αποθαρρύνει κάθε πειρασμό. Αλλά ο Μασέτο έχει ήδη ξεκινήσει την πάλη να κρατήσει την κάλυψη του, καθώς οι καλόγριες έχουν επιδοθεί σε όργια πειρασμών, αλλά και ακραίο ανταγωνισμό μεταξύ τους.
Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christian mystic, composer, philosopher, playwright, poet, naturalist, scientist, physician, herbalist and ecological activist.
The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to their baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: first she sends her son abroad and then has the baby kidnapped, making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In order to pursue her love of writing, Juana enters the convent and gains international renown. When the Inquisition comes, the local Vicereine becomes Juana's protectress and erotic muse, and soon begins a thrilling romance of startling passion and intensity.
Margaret (Lena Headey) is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl Monro (David Threlfall). Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire (Catherine Schell). She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother Monica (Julie Walters), who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.
In 1921, Titanus released a three-part serial based on a popular Italian novel from the turn of the 20th century: Nobody’s Children by Ruggero Rindi. The tale of lovers thwarted by class differences, of illegitimate children and parental recognition denied was a major success for producer Gustavo Lombardo and leading lady Leda Gys.
This is the life story of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, a Chinese-Filipina nun who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Religious of the Virgin Mary.