Nun-a-Thon
May 25th, 2009
I bought this for 5 dollars the other day:
If a silly movie about nuns can’t help me feel better, nothing will. (Is that nun on the right holding a shotgun? I can only hope.) When I get to Belgium, I am going to have a nun-a-thon and watch every nun movie I can find.
My list so far:
- Sound of Music (I’ve already memorized the movie, but it never gets old)
- Trouble with Angels (It’s got that girl from Parent Trap, it must be good, right?)
- The Nun’s Story (Audrey Hepburn FTW)
- La Monja (Stupidest Horror Movie trailer I ever saw)
- Sister Act 1 + 2 (I liked these better in Italian.)
Any suggestions?
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May 25th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Nuns on the Run (Eric Idle of Monty Python)
May 25th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Agreed! It’s hilarious!
May 25th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
BLUES BROTHERS! they’re on a mission from god…
May 25th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
The Blues Brothers. Just for the Penguin. Sure, it’s only one nun in the entire movie, but STILL!
May 25th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
The Nun. It’s a horror movie, and if I recall kinda cheesy. But hey, cheesy can be good. ;p
May 25th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Ditto on Nuns on the run
May 25th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Nuns on the Run – two convicts hide out in a convent – Eric Idle from Monty Python is one of the convicts… it’s a fun movie
May 25th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
and I guess it would help to read comments above me before hitting submit… sorry about that
May 25th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
There was a female comedy troupe that did a few shows under the title “Nunsense”. You’ll probably have a hell of a time trying to find one, but there’s enough funny material in them to make it worth a try.
May 25th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
I know it’s not a Film but the second series of Pushing Daisies involved one of the characters becoming a nun!
May 25th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
“The Trouble with Angels” was actually good enough to rate a sequel – “Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows”
Also you are forgetting “The Sound of Music”
May 25th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
May 25th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I’ve never actually seen it, but there’s a 1967 tv series called the flying nun that is about…well, a nun that can fly :O
May 25th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Trouble With Angels is great! You’ll have the theme song stuck in your head for days! There was also a sequel called “Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows” that was ok, not as good as the first one, but the only nun road movie I’ve ever heard of.
May 25th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
There was an old 1960’s tv show “The Flying Nun” starring Sally Field. The first (possibly only?) seasons are available on Netflix.com
May 26th, 2009 at 12:14 am
how about The Singing Nun starring Debbie Reynolds? apparently based on a true story, and it’s about a nun…who sings!
May 26th, 2009 at 1:27 am
Let’s see, Unrikk already suggested Nun’s on the Run, so:
Let’s start with the story of Sister Luc Gabriel / Sister Smile / Luc Dominique / Jeanine Deckers, a Belgian nun with an unhappy flirtation with fame):
Soeur Sourire (opened in Belgium April 30, might still be in theaters there when you get there)
The Singing Nun (an older telling of the tale)
Other movies with prominent nunnery:
Agnes of God
Bells of St. Mary
Black Narcissus (Note: Anglican Nuns)
Dead Man Walking
Doubt
La Religieuse
Song of Bernadette
Suor Omicidi
There’s even a sub-genre of undercover nuns , but they tend to act unnunley (what would an actual word for that be?):
Hudson Hawk
Change of Habit
Also, no nuns that I remember, but some good old catholic mayhem can be found in The Boondock Saints, I think you’d like it
Check out http://www.nunsploitation.net for some commentary on a wide range of nun films, the good, the bad, and the quite profane.
May 26th, 2009 at 1:57 am
Lilies of the Field.
May 26th, 2009 at 4:42 am
Nun of That
May 26th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Not a film, but there was a TV series called Father Dowling Mysteries with a crime-fighting, mystery-solving priest/nun duo
May 26th, 2009 at 10:19 am
I feel so out of it I know no nun-movies….I wonder if there’s a movie about Nunjas…. that has to be the worst Idea I’ve ever had
May 26th, 2009 at 11:08 am
two mules for sister sara
May 26th, 2009 at 11:09 am
cannonball run 2
May 26th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
i don’t know if this would be insulting or not, but there is this realllllly bad horror movie (if you can call it a horror movie) called ” Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter”. Can’t remember if it has nuns in it… but it does have Jesus impaling vampires!
you can check out the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LRIypcaIX4&feature=related
May 26th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
The Flying Nun; was a great tv series in the 60s with Sally Field. There’s a box set of the series on DVD.
May 26th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Actually the movie Two Front Teeth featured a secret order of Ninja Nuns.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:08 am
http://www.opensalon.com/blog/retrodaddy/2009/05/18/whats_your_favorite_nun_movie
Here’s great picks ^^
May 27th, 2009 at 11:12 am
There’s a manga I love called “Chrno Crusade” (sometimes spelled “Chrono Crusade”) about a nun with guns named Rosette who fights alongside a demon named Chrono. I can’t really recommend anything else, that manga and this webcomic are the only things I’ve ever seen with nuns in them.
May 27th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
http://www.horrorexpress.com/moviereview/the-nun
THE NUN
The tagline is “Not all water is holy”, lol
May 27th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
I bet it’s an umbrella.
May 28th, 2009 at 12:58 am
Two Mules for Sister Sarah. It has Clint Eastwood!
May 28th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I don’t really know of any nun movies besides what’s on your list…however, my friend and I saw a hilarious calendar called “Nuns Having Fun!” And apparently, it’s also a book!
http://www.amazon.com/Nuns-Having-Fun-Maureen-Kelly/dp/0761150412/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243524376&sr=8-1
=D
Oh, and Google image search “nuns having fun” for hilarity galore!
May 28th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I wouldn’t call it a nun move perse but a good religious themed one is Babette’s Feast.
It won the 1987 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
May 28th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
i love this movie
May 28th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Virgin Territory involves a really amazing convent of nuns xD
The Killer Nun.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Nuns on the Run for sure!!!
May 28th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
First off, congrats on graduating!
Secondly, love the comic
Thirdly, that’s no shotgun, that’s a problem solver
May 29th, 2009 at 2:09 am
Two Mules for Sister Sara… Clint Eastwood and Shirley McClaine in the Old West.
May 30th, 2009 at 1:00 am
I forgot to mention, for horror films, there’s “The Convent”, which was easily one of the worst horror movies ever made (when Coolio’s your premier cameo, things have gone horribly wrong), but there’s certainly no lack of nuns in it – one of whom teaches her students to “HAIL SATAN”. The usual tripe.
May 30th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Not sure if anyone said it
but try “The Flying Nun”
it’s not a movie, it was a tv series about a nun who can…well…fly
June 1st, 2009 at 1:54 am
Angels in the outfield is good
June 1st, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I can’t give you a film, but I can give you a song: Sister Josephine by Jake Thackray
June 1st, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Oh wait, actually there is a film that goes with that song. It’s called “Sister Josephine Kicks the Habit” It’s extremely funny.
June 1st, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Nunsense. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YTBMxX49bM
June 1st, 2009 at 3:12 pm
You should look up Two Mules for Sister Sarah. Great movie.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:53 pm
I’ve totally seen La Monja. It had so much potential. So much.
June 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 am
Can’t think of any nun movies that haven’t already been mentioned, but if you’re interested in reading, I highly recommend A Nun in the Closet by Dorothy Gilman. A fun book.
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:03 pm
It’s a bit …erm…unpleasant, but Ken Russell’s 1971 film The Devils features a large number of (very debauched) nuns (among many other religious figures, most of them mad). Great film, but pretty violent and horrific in places. Definitely not to everyone’s taste.
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:20 am
therese is another film completely about nuns.
June 3rd, 2009 at 3:12 am
Yo, La Peor De Todos (I, The Worst Of All.)
See this one if at all possible! It’s a serious historical drama about the life of Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz, a 17th century poet. Plus there are lesbian nuns… which I kinda love.
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:49 am
OH man you people stole my idea. Nuns on the run happens to be a running joke in my family. good shite there!
June 3rd, 2009 at 11:58 pm
You should see Naughty Nuns 2: Beat your beef or The Sin sisters: Blessed is he who cums. L.O.L. Jk.
June 7th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Try the movie NASTY HABITS. It is a spoof on Watergate set in a nunnery. Released in 1977 “In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.”
June 10th, 2009 at 12:23 am
There’s Nuns on the Run. I’ve never seen it, but it’s sitting on a shelf at my best friend’s house.
June 18th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
The follow up to The Trouble with Angels — Where Angels Go Trouble Follows.
It’s hilarious, but, doesn’t have Haley Mills in it. regardless, just as funny as the first.
June 18th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
D’oh forgot. My friend Lilith is in a movie called Nun of That. It’s awesome sounding too. Go Go dancing Nun for the win!
June 29th, 2009 at 7:44 am
In the movie Bedazzled (the original, British one, not the remake) there’s a scene with nuns that will make you the happiest person in the world. I don’t think I can watch that scene without laughing hysterically. Sure it’s a comedy about a deal with the devil…but it has LEAPING NUNS. The remake doesn’t even come close.