Keyword: inquisition

The Name of the Rose

6.9

2019

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In 1327, an enlightened friar and his young apprentice investigate a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey risking the wrath of a powerful Inquisitor. Television adaptation of Umberto Ecos novel The Name of the Rose.

Black Death

6.4

2010

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Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.

The Name of the Rose

8.2

1986

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An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

The Devils

7.9

1971

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In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually-repressed nun.

Season of the Witch

5.6

2011

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14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce that her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.

Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

5.4

1977

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16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra DAires convent, secretly run by Satanists.

History of the World: Part I

7.2

1981

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Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

The Demons

5.5

1973

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A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the inquisition.

Dangerous Beauty

7.3

1998

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A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.

The Bells

6.4

1926

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An innkeeper murders a wealthy guest to pay off his debt, but his conscience will not allow him to get away with the crime so easily.

The Holy Inquisition

7.3

1974

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Gaspar de Carvajal, a Dominican, has not seen his family since the age of 10 when he was sent away to pursue the religious life. He attends the funeral of his father, where he notices that the body was washed, then buried in a shroud and without a coffin. Gaspar tells his confessor that he suspects his family, Jews converted to Catholicism, are still following the old ways. Father Lorenzo says this matter must be taken before the Inquisition. Alonso de Peralta, chief Inquisitor of New Spain, orders the Carvajal family arrested on the testimony of their son. Hernando, a Franciscan friar, is sent as a spy to the cell of Luis, Gaspars brother. Luiss faith converts Hernando to Judaism. Under torture, Luiss mother Francisca confesses. Each family member renounces the Jewish heresy and is allowed to leave prison. But they are warned. If they revert to Judaism a second time, they will be burnt at the stake...

Galileo

5.8

1975

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Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe. But in a rigid society ruled by an uneasy alliance of aristocracy and clergy already undermined by the Plague and the Reformation, science is a threat and enlightenment is a luxury. Faced with either death at the hands of the Inquisition or recantation to a hypocritical but all-powerful Papacy, Galileo must choose between his own life and the restless scientific curiosity that he has spurned family, friends, and wealth to pursue.

The Pit and the Pendulum

7.1

1961

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In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sisters death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.