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Films set in monasteries

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The Name of the Rose

1986 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

Of Gods and Men

2010 film by Xavier Beauvois

Black Narcissus

1947 film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

1986 film by Jackie Chan, Eric Tsang

We're No Angels

1989 film by Neil Jordan

The Garden of Allah

1936 film by Richard Boleslawski

Joachim and the Apocalypse

2024 Italian drama film

1966 film directed by Jacques Rivette

Curse of Snakes Valley

1987 film by Marek Piestrak

Alucarda (Spanish: Alucarda, la hija de las tinieblas, or Alucarda, the daughter of darkness) is a 1977 Mexican supernatural horror film directed by Juan López Moctezuma, and starring Tina Romero, Claudio Brook, Susana Kamini, and David Silva. A loose adaptation of Carmilla (1872), it revolves around two teenage orphan girls living in a Catholic convent, who unleash a demonic force and become possessed. Since its release, Alucarda has achieved cult status.

2025 film directed by Bi Gan

Awarapan () is a 2007 Indian Hindi-language crime action film directed by Mohit Suri, written by Shagufta Rafique, and produced by Mukesh Bhatt. An uncredited remake of the South Korean film A Bittersweet Life, it stars Emraan Hashmi, Shriya Saran, Mrinalini Sharma, and Ashutosh Rana. In the film, gangster Shivam Pandit (Hashmi) is ordered by his boss Bharat Malik (Rana) to watch over Reema (Sharma), Malik's secret Pakistani mistress.

Raining in the Mountain

1979 film by King Hu

The Monk and the Demon

2016 film by Nikolay Dostal

I, the Worst of All

1990 film by María Luisa Bemberg

The Mysterious Monk

1968 film by Arkadi Koltsaty

2022 film directed by Vladimir Kott

2003 South Korean animated film directed by Baek-Yeob Seong

The Green Devils of Monte Cassino

1958 film by Harald Reinl

2018 film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman

2023 film directed by Christopher Smith

2022 film directed by Bartosz M. Kowalski