Monk Movies

The plot of the film unfolds in the ancient monastery of Dokhiar on the west coast of Mount Athos, on the Aegean peninsula. This peninsula is given to...

The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in SUNRISE/SUNSET. Granted total access to His Holiness for 24 hours, this i...

A cinematic story of drama after the drama and war that rages on in people's hearts even after the war. The hero, an Orthodox Christian monk, finds hi...

The story of a single swallow who, taking a rest from southward flight at a mission in California, ultimately brings about the famed migration of swal...

In contact with the Boa Gym, an exalted young monk rediscovers the power of his carnal envelope and undertakes a radical transformation to save his ag...

A song cycle about love, death, and whiskey. A camera breaks and four friends drink in an interwoven tale spanning seven centuries, with a murderous s...

Thich Nhat Hanh, monk, zen teacher, writer and peace activist, born in Vietnam in 1926, was the organiser of a non-violent resistance movement after t...

A monk accidentally came across a stray dog. But he was ostracized by the villagers and kept attacking the dogs. Until one day I happened to meet Mr....

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for centuries. He liberates Russia from foreign oppres...

The Cistercian monks of Austria are holy men who rise at 4:30 a.m., pray for more than four hours a day and have devoted their lives to God. They're a...

A group of friends get trapped in a haunted abbey with no easy way of escaping.

Comedy pilot about wacky monks in a monastery.

In 2020, three filmmakers visited Britain’s most haunted village - Pluckley, in Kent - to shoot a documentary about its many legendary ghosts, and to...

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

Two gay men, one of whom is a monk, meet and develop a romantic relationship. The relationship however cannot last and the men break up. One of the me...

Drama about a monk of the Bavarian church.

Cast into a violent and bloody world of murder, Hereward, a novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne - a book of great beauty and powe...

A young man's fight between love and the monastic discipline.