Films like The Magdalene Sisters
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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The Boys of St. Vincent
Film · 1994 · also dramaThe true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage, run by a religious community in Newfoundland.
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Sleepers
Film · 1996 · also dramaTwo gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him fo...
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Cracks
Film · 2009 · also dramaJealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Film · 1975 · also dramaA petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cru...
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Novitiate
Film · 2017 · also dramaIn the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.
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In the Name of the Father
Film · 1993 · also dramaA small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to p...
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Dead Man Walking
Film · 1995 · also dramaA death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
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The Wonder
Film · 2022 · also dramaHaunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
Film · 1985 · also dramaThe story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The othe...
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The Beguiled
Film · 1971 · also dramaOffbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object o...
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