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The Sound of Music (film)
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. It is based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse, itself based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. Set in Salzburg, Austria, it is a fictional retelling of Maria von Trapp's experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938.
The Name of the Rose
1986 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Ida
2013 film directed by Paweł Pawlikowski
The Nun's Story
1959 film by Fred Zinnemann
Sister Act
1992 film directed by Emile Ardolino
Of Gods and Men
2010 film by Xavier Beauvois
Black Narcissus
1947 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Lilies of the Field
1963 film directed by Ralph Nelson
The Bells of St. Mary's
1945 film by Leo McCarey
Immaculate
2024 film directed by Michael Mohan
Benedetta
2021 film by Paul Verhoeven
The Devils
1971 film by Ken Russell
Agnes of God
1985 film by Norman Jewison
Mother Joan of the Angels
1961 film by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Come to the Stable
1949 film by Henry Koster
Joachim and the Apocalypse
2024 Italian drama film
Agnus Dei
2016 film by Anne Fontaine
The Nun
2013 film by Guillaume Nicloux
Thérèse
1986 film by Alain Cavalier
The Little Hours
2017 film directed by Jeff Baena
Novitiate
2017 film by Maggie Betts
The Ritual
2025 film directed by David Midell
Into Great Silence
2005 film by Philip Gröning
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
2009 film by Margarethe von Trotta
Killer Nun
1979 film by Giulio Berruti
Dialogue with the Carmelites
1960 film by Philippe Agostini, Raymond Léopold Bruckberger
Sister Death
2023 film by Paco Plaza
The Singing Nun
1966 film by Henry Koster
The Trygon Factor
1966 film by Cyril Frankel
The Trouble with Angels
1966 film by Ida Lupino
The Seventh Room
1995 film by Márta Mészáros
Meteora
2012 film by Spiros Stathoulopoulos