THEME EXPLORATION

clergy and confession

17 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS

Persona
1966 · Ingmar Bergman

Los amantes pasajeros (I’m So Excited!
2013 · Pedro Almodóvar

Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
2005 · Paul Schrader

Goodbye Julia
2026 · Mohamed Kordofani

I Confess
1953 · Alfred Hitchcock

Crimes of the Heart
1986 · Bruce Beresford

Fear
1965 · Ritwik Ghatak

Juste avant la nuit
1971 · Claude Chabrol

Léon Morin, prêtre
1961 · Jean-Pierre Melville

Stranger Within a Woman
1966 · Mikio Naruse

All’onorevole piacciono le donne (Nonostante le apparenze…e purché la nazione non lo sappia)
1972 · Lucio Fulci

Clockers
1995 · Spike Lee

Drive My Car
2021 · Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Ryūsuke Hamaguchi

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack
1970 · Mario Bava

World Within, World Without
1991 · Mrinal Sen

Beauty Is Not a Sin
2024 · Nicolas Winding Refn

The Banishing
2021 · Christopher Smith

DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS

Ingmar Bergman Sweden

His films like 'The Seventh Seal' and 'Winter Light' profoundly explore faith, doubt, and the confession of spiritual crisis between individuals and clergy.

François Truffaut France

His examination of guilt, redemption, and moral confession in films like 'The Soft Skin' and 'Mississippi Mermaid' reveals the psychology behind secrecy and absolution.

Robert Bresson France

His masterpiece 'Diary of a Country Priest' is a meditation on faith, confession, and the spiritual torment of a clergyman wrestling with his calling and mortality.