Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "vow-of-silence"

1. Hellboy (2019)

R | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Caught between the worlds of the supernatural and human, Hellboy battles an ancient sorceress bent on revenge.

Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: David Harbour, Milla Jovovich, Ian McShane, Sasha Lane

Votes: 99,026 | Gross: $21.90M

2. Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Directors: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris | Stars: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear, Abigail Breslin

Votes: 518,630 | Gross: $59.89M

3. The Hangover Part II (2011)

R | 102 min | Comedy

Two years after the bachelor party in Las Vegas, Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug jet to Thailand for Stu's wedding. Stu's plan for a subdued pre-wedding brunch, however, goes seriously awry.

Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha

Votes: 535,205 | Gross: $254.46M

4. Happiness for Beginners (2023)

TV-14 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Helen signs up for a wilderness survival course, a year after getting divorced. She discovers through this experience that sometimes, you have to get really lost in order to find yourself.

Director: Vicky Wight | Stars: Ellie Kemper, Luke Grimes, Nico Santos, Blythe Danner

Votes: 18,386

5. Life of Brian (1979)

R | 94 min | Comedy

Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

Director: Terry Jones | Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam

Votes: 422,030 | Gross: $20.05M

6. Truth or Dare (I) (2018)

PG-13 | 100 min | Horror, Thriller

A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someone - or something - begins to punish those who tell a lie or refuse the dare.

Director: Jeff Wadlow | Stars: Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane, Hayden Szeto

Votes: 63,441 | Gross: $41.41M

7. Death Note (I) (2017)

TV-MA | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A high school student named Light Turner discovers a mysterious notebook that has the power to kill anyone whose name is written within its pages, and launches a secret crusade to rid the world of criminals.

Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: Nat Wolff, LaKeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley, Shea Whigham

Votes: 90,532

8. Speak (2004)

PG-13 | 89 min | Drama

After a blurred trauma over the summer, Melinda enters high school a selective mute. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak.

Director: Jessica Sharzer | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth Perkins, Richard Hagerman, Allison Siko

Votes: 29,463

9. Acts of Vengeance (2017)

R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.

Director: Isaac Florentine | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Karl Urban, Paz Vega, Clint Dyer

Votes: 13,649

10. Andrei Rublev (1966)

R | 189 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko, Nikolay Sergeev

Votes: 57,104 | Gross: $0.10M

11. American Splendor (2003)

R | 101 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Chris Ambrose

Votes: 52,400 | Gross: $6.00M

12. Ironclad (2011)

R | 121 min | Action, Drama, History

In thirteenth-century England, a Knights Templar and a few of the Barons men fight to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John.

Director: Jonathan English | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Jason Flemyng, Brian Cox, James Purefoy

Votes: 43,674

13. Bedazzled (1967)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.

Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch

Votes: 9,830

14. The Innocents (2016)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, History

1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Director: Anne Fontaine | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza, Vincent Macaigne

Votes: 11,623 | Gross: $1.06M

15. The Last of Sheila (1973)

PG | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A year after Sheila is killed by a hit-and-run driver, her wealthy husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Richard Benjamin, James Coburn, James Mason, Dyan Cannon

Votes: 8,428

16. The Frisco Kid (1979)

PG | 119 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way, he is nearly burned at the stake by Native Americans and almost killed by outlaws.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio

Votes: 11,508 | Gross: $9.35M

17. The Seventh Cross (1944)

Passed | 112 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. The Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. This story about one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh cross.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy

Votes: 3,003

18. The Nun's Story (1959)

Approved | 149 min | Drama

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft

Votes: 11,715 | Gross: $12.80M

19. Nude Nuns with Big Guns (2010)

Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller

A left-for-dead nun forced into prostitution embarks on a deadly revenge mission to do the Lord's work, punishing sinners in a strictly personal vigilante Holy War.

Director: Joseph Guzman | Stars: Asun Ortega, David Castro, Perry D'Marco, Maxie Santillan Jr.

Votes: 6,294

20. The Assault (2014 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sam Gleason lives in a town where high school football is the backbone of the community. When she accuses a member of the team of committing heinous acts against her on a night she can't even remember, will anyone believe her?

Director: Jason Winn | Stars: Gary Weeks, Khandi Alexander, Erin Cole, Malik Yoba

Votes: 1,224

21. Harry and Tonto (1974)

R | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto.

Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, René Enríquez, Herbert Berghof

Votes: 6,228 | Gross: $1.26M

22. Good Morning (1959)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Two boys begin a silence strike to press their parents into buying them a television set.

Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake

Votes: 11,069

23. The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)

Passed | 89 min | Drama, Western

In the western frontier town of Cross Creek, storekeeper George Temple is a polite and soft spoken man with a secret past. When 3 bank robbers on the lam stop in town to change horses, George's past comes back to haunt him.

Director: Russell Rouse | Stars: Glenn Ford, Jeanne Crain, Broderick Crawford, Russ Tamblyn

Votes: 3,583

24. Before the Rain (1994)

Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War

Three interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London.

Director: Milcho Manchevski | Stars: Katrin Cartlidge, Rade Serbedzija, Grégoire Colin, Josif Josifovski

Votes: 15,870 | Gross: $0.76M

25. The Magic Flute (1975)

G | 135 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music

The story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil.

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ulrik Cold, Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård

Votes: 5,267

26. The Nasty Girl (1990)

PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, History

When a young woman investigates her town's Nazi past, the community turns against her.

Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Monika Baumgartner, Elisabeth Bertram

Votes: 2,758 | Gross: $2.28M

27. Circle of Iron (1978)

R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A young martial artist embarks on an adventure, encountering other martial artists in battle until one day he meets an aging blind man who will show him the true meaning of martial arts and life.

Director: Richard Moore | Stars: David Carradine, Jeff Cooper, Christopher Lee, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 2,610

28. The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021)

89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

The daughter in a strict religious family is interrogated after the death of her family's uncanny matriarch.

Director: Edoardo Vitaletti | Stars: Stefanie Scott, Daniel Pearce, Philip Hoffman, Matthew Stannah

Votes: 1,778

29. St. Agatha (2018)

TV-MA | 103 min | Horror, Thriller

In the 1950s in small-town Georgia, a pregnant young woman named Agatha seeks refuge in a convent.

Director: Darren Lynn Bousman | Stars: Carolyn Hennesy, Hannah Fierman, Courtney Halverson, Lindsay Seim

Votes: 6,182

30. Cockfighter (1974)

R | 83 min | Drama

In the Deep South, a trainer of fighting cocks takes a vow of silence and gambles his loves and possessions in a bid to win a championship.

Director: Monte Hellman | Stars: Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton, Ed Begley Jr.

Votes: 2,622

31. Le Chat (1971)

86 min | Drama

In 1971 Courbevoie (France), former typographist Julien Bouin and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, which is soon to be ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal

Votes: 2,413

32. Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015)

Not Rated | 164 min | Action, Drama, Musical

While recovering from an assassination attempt four days before his coronation, a stern prince is replaced by a romantic lookalike.

Director: Sooraj R. Barjatya | Stars: Salman Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Deepak Dobriyal

Votes: 23,534 | Gross: $4.36M

33. Convicted (1950)

Passed | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A D.A. becomes the prison warden where he tries to help an inmate he prosecuted, because he believes his sentence was excessive.

Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell, Dorothy Malone

Votes: 1,492

34. Vision - Aus dem Leben der Hildegard von Bingen (2009)

Unrated | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life story of the multi-talented German nun Hildegard von Bingen. The film portrays an original woman - best known as a composer and religious visionary - whose grand claims often run ... See full summary »

Director: Margarethe von Trotta | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung, Lena Stolze

Votes: 1,305 | Gross: $0.43M

35. The Statue (1971)

R | 84 min | Comedy

A Nobel Prize-winning professor suspects his wife of infidelity when she makes and unveils an 18-foot statue of him with private parts recognizably not his own.

Director: Rod Amateau | Stars: David Niven, Virna Lisi, Robert Vaughn, Ann Bell

Votes: 313 | Gross: $0.22M

36. Ave Maria (I) (2015)

15 min | Short, Comedy

The silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.

Director: Basil Khalil | Stars: Maria Zreik, Huda Al Imam, Shady Srour, Ruth Farhi

Votes: 1,373

37. La siciliana ribelle (2008)

Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama

The true story of 17-year-old Sicilian Rita Atria (Veronica D'Agostino) -- who broke the Sicilian Mafia's code of silence and testified against the "family business" after both her father ... See full summary »

Director: Marco Amenta | Stars: Veronica D'Agostino, Gérard Jugnot, Marcello Mazzarella, Mario Pupella

Votes: 1,902 | Gross: $0.07M

38. Monkey Love (2002)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Romance

To spice up her ho-hum life, college senior Amy sleeps with Aaron and Dil, her two best friends since the 3rd grade. But her best-laid plans turn their perfect, if predictable, platonic triangle into a tangled web of supercharged emotions.

Director: Mark Stratton | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Seamus Dever, Amy Stewart, Mary Margaret Robinson

Votes: 255

39. Rebel Hearts (2021)

99 min | Documentary

A look at Los Angeles's Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, nuns who challenged the patriarchal conventions of the Catholic Church 50 years ago and are still taking a stand today.

Director: Pedro Kos | Stars: Anita Caspary, Helen Kelley, Corita Kent, Pat Reif

Votes: 168

40. When in Rome (1952)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Joseph Calleia, Carlo Rizzo

Votes: 334

41. Diary of an African Nun (1977)

13 min | Short, Drama

A nun reflects on her thoughts and feeling about her life.

Director: Julie Dash | Stars: Barbara O, Marnita Carraway, Fred Carraway, Donald Carraway Jr.

Votes: 89

42. The Quiet Room (1996)

PG | 92 min | Drama

A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.

Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Celine O'Leary, Chloe Ferguson, Paul Blackwell, Phoebe Ferguson

Votes: 596

43. Thou Shalt Not Kill (1939)

Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A Reverend tries to help a youth who has moved to a small town ,where he is ostracized for frequenting a waitress, he is later accused of murdering her when he tries to see an apparently more wholesome girl instead.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Charles Bickford, Owen Davis Jr., Doris Day, Paul Guilfoyle

44. The A-Team (1983–1987)
Episode: Children of Jamestown (1983)

TV-PG | 44 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The A-team rescues a girl from a cult and then takes on the cult leader to save others and get back Hannibal's boots.

Director: Christian I. Nyby II | Stars: George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Melinda Culea, Dwight Schultz

Votes: 580

45. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: The Ikon of Elijah (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Carpius owns an antique shop in Cyprus and is quite excited to hear that a local monastery may be in possession of a very valuable icon. Knowing that a client would pay a fortune for it, he... See full summary »

Director: Paul Almond | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Oscar Homolka, Sam Jaffe, Arthur Gould-Porter

Votes: 438

46. Blackadder II (1986)
Episode: Beer (1986)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Blackadder finds himself hosting a drinking competition on the same night he is entertaining his puritanical relatives.

Director: Mandie Fletcher | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson

Votes: 1,121

47. Knight Rider (1982–1986)
Episode: The Ice Bandits (1984)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A collection of diamonds is stolen from a Foundation sponsored charity auction. Michael and Kitt follow one of the thieves to the Monestary of the Grape in Napa. Here a plastic surgeon is ... See full summary »

Director: Georg Fenady | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Patricia McPherson, Bruce Fairbairn

Votes: 240

48. Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Episode: The Monastery Show (1983)

TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family

Laverne goes to a convent for a much needed retreat, but she can't get used to the nuns' vow of silence.

Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Penny Marshall, David L. Lander, Eddie Mekka, Cristy Dawson

Votes: 87

49. Remington Steele (1982–1987)
Episode: Vintage Steele (1983)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Laura is reunited with a former lover when he seeks the help of Remington Steele investigations after finding a corpse in vat of wine. The investigation eventually leads to a nearby ... See full summary »

Director: Larry Elikann | Stars: Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan, James Read, Janet DeMay

Votes: 182

50. The Storyteller (1987–1989)
Episode: The Three Ravens (1988)

TV-G | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A witch weds a widowed king. Finding that his children pose a threat to her, she transforms the three boys into ravens. The girl escapes but is told she must remain silent for three years, or the boys will be trapped in raven form forever.

Director: Paul Weiland | Stars: John Hurt, Miranda Richardson, Jonathan Pryce, Joely Richardson

Votes: 249