Memorable movie nuns to watch

'Benedetta' (2021) - Paul Verhoeven's biographic drama about Catholic mystic and lesbian nun Benedetta Carlini (1590–1661) stars Belgian actress Virginie Efira.

'Novitiate' (2017) - Margaret Qualley is the novitiate in question, a young woman who starts to question her faith as she trains to become a nun in Maggie Betts' directorial debut.

'The Nun' (2018) - Young novitiate Sister Irene and Roman Catholic priest Father Burke become embroiled in the supernatural as they uncover an unholy secret in Romania during the early 1950s.

'The Nun's Story' (1959) - Adapted from the 1956 novel of the same name by Kathryn Hulme, itself based on the life of Belgian nun Marie Louise Habets (1905–1986).

'Agnes of God' (1985) - In this neo-noir drama, Meg Tilly plays Sister Agnes Devereaux, a novice nun who is discovered with a dead newborn in her quarters.

'Bianco, rosso e...' (1972) - Also known as 'White Sister' and 'The Sin,' 'Bianco, rosso e...' is a comedy film that features Italian actress Sophia Loren as Sister Germana.

'Machete' (2010) - Among the characters appearing in the messy and violent 'Machete' is April Booth (Lindsay Lohan), the self-styled "nun with a gun."

'Bluebeard' (1972) - Raquel Welch portrays Sister Magdalena, a novice nun, who becomes one of the victims of Baron von Sepper (Richard Burton), a 1930's fictional serial killer known as "Bluebeard."

'Black Narcissus' (1947) - This British psychological drama stars Deborah Kerr as Sister Clodagh, one of a group of nuns struggling to establish a remote convent in the Himalayas.

'The Trouble with Angels' (1966) - 'The Trouble with Angels' was directed by Ida Lupino, widely regarded as the most prominent female filmmaker to come out of Hollywood in the 1950s.

'The Song of Bernadette' (1943) - Jennifer Jones stars as Bernadette Soubirous (1844–1879), the French saint whose visions led to the founding of the Marian shrine of Lourdes.