Cathleen grows up in an unstable family in 1950s rural Tennessee; after being exposed to a Catholic girls' school and watching her mother, Nora's, life falling apart she becomes increasingly religious herself and decides to join a convent when she is seventeen.

After Rev. David Hill is released from prison (as seen in the previous film), controversy is sparked against Dave's St. James Church, which is on college campus grounds.

In April 2005, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is called to Vatican City after the death of Pope John Paul II to elect a new pope.

Stella Days is a 2011 film directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan and starring Martin Sheen as a Roman Catholic priest in rural Ireland during the mid-1950s.

The Other Side of the Wind is an American-French experimental film directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited by Orson Welles, released in 2018 after more than forty years in development.

After promising 1100 employees that they would protect their jobs, the managers of a French factory decide to suddenly shut down the plant.

Young and charming, newly elected Pius XIII, aka Lenny Belardo, is the first American Pope in history.

Taking place in the 1760s France, a young girl named Suzanne Simonin is forced by her parents to become a nun.

Daniel has a spiritual awakening while in a juvenile detention center, serving a sentence for second-degree murder, but his criminal background prevents him from pursuing his dream of becoming a priest upon release.

Alexandre, François and Emmanuel were victimized as children by the venerable and predatory Father Bernard Preynat.

On the death of the pope, the conclave meets in Rome. Early ballots end with black smoke, since none of the main candidates reaches the quorum.

Our Fathers is a 2005 American made-for-television drama film directed by Dan Curtis and starring Ted Danson, Christopher Plummer, Brian Dennehy and Ellen Burstyn.

Thierry has been unemployed for 18 months, having lost his job as a factory worker. At the age of 51, he lands a new job as a security guard in a supermarket.

Anna is a 14-year-old spending the summer holidays with her mother in her grandfather's family home in Brittany. The grandfather is old and confined to his bedroom.

The film opens with a quote from Céline's Journey to the End of the Night: "Traveling is very useful: it makes your imagination work.

For years, as pastor of an affluent, suburban Catholic parish, Father Tim Farley has maintained a close relationship with his congregation by delivering folksy homilies filled with practical advice and adhering to clerical policies without waver.

The plot revolves around a young man who has become a religious fanatic and gradually drags his surroundings and the whole school into obscurantism, which ultimately leads to disaster.

The film opens with pub landlord and frequent holidaymaker Vic Flange (Sid James) openly flirting with the sassy saucepot widow Sadie Tompkins (Barbara Windsor) as his battleaxe wife, Cora (Joan Sims), looks on with disdain.

Thérèse is a film about the life of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. It was first released in 1986, and directed by Alain Cavalier.

In 1980, Lee Strobel is an atheist journalist and investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune.