The Apparition is an internationally co-produced drama film, directed by Xavier Giannoli, from a screenplay by Giannoli, Jacques Fieschi and Marcia Romano.

Under the papacy of Sir John Brannox under the name of John Paul III, Vatican tries to clean its good name after a series of sexual scandals that jeopardized the institution itself.

The plot centers on the conclave of 1458, which took place five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks.

In October 1867, Papal Rome, under the rule of Pius IX, is shaken by a bomb explosion in the sewers of the barracks of Palazzo Serristori, which kills twenty-three French Papal Zouaves.

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The Pope Must Die (U. S.

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.

The film begins during a thunderstorm in 1505, as Luther is returning to his home.

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.

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

Francesco, the spoiled son of Pietro Bernardone, a wealthy textile merchant, returns from fighting in the war between Assisi and Perugia a changed man.

The film closely follows the "American" version of Brecht's play Galileo. In 1609 Galileo is a mathematics professor in Padua, Italy.

In 1976, at a Boston Police station, two policemen discuss the arrest of Fr. John Geoghan for child molestation.

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London-based journalist Martin Sixsmith has lost his job as a government adviser. He is approached at a party by the daughter of Philomena Lee.

Shortly after the death of Charlemagne, a girl called Johanna is born in Ingelheim am Rhein. She is the daughter of a village priest (Iain Glen).

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.