The Exorcist: Believer
When their daughters disappear for three days and then turn up changed to the core, their parents enlist help from an expert on demonic possession: Chris MacNeil (Ellen Burstyn). After…
The Exorcist III
Lieutenant Kinderman (George C. Scott) investigates several gruesome murders that remind him of a serial killer who was executed years ago, as well as a diabolical case from the 1970s……
Boy from Heaven
Young Adam (Tawfeek Barhom), the son of a fisherman, goes to the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo to study, but is soon drawn into a murder investigation. The director’s best…
Lilies of the Field
When Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) makes a stop in the Arizona desert, he meets a group of German-speaking nuns whose mother superior (Lilia Skala) believes that she can make Homer…
Passion of Joan of Arc: Saint on Trial
Renée Jeanne Falconetti. Photo: Gaumont After making the film Master of the House in 1925, the Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer spent time in France and learned that he was…
The Nun
In 1952, a nun hangs herself in a Romanian monastery; the Vatican sends their best investigator (Demián Bichir) together with a young novitiate (Taissa Farmiga) to look into what’s going…
Fanny and Alexander: Dark Christmas
Bertil Guve. Photo: SFI Ingmar Bergman would have been 100 years old next year, so in his honor Stockholm’s leading department store dedicated their annual Christmas window display to Fanny…
Spotlight: Breaking a Catholic Curse
Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, Brian d'Arcy James, Michael Keaton and John Slattery. Photo: Open Road Films There’s a scene near the end of the film that will get the adrenaline…
Carrie
Bullied teenage girl Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz) discovers that she has telekinetic powers, but her mother (Julianne Moore) believes it is the work of the devil. This remake of…
Carrie
17-year-old Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is abused both at school and at home by her religious fanatic of a mother (Piper Laurie), but Carrie discovers that she has telekinetic powers.…