Monk Movies

When the townspeople of a small Mexican village start disappearing, the locals point the suspicion at two young visitors. The only solution is for...

Schaedler's film tells the fascinating story of Tibetan monk Gendun Choephel whose robes ultimately proved to be too constricting for his imagination...

A naive country girl new to the big city gets involved in the underground sex scene.

Anthony is in the Phillipines visiting his father. He inadvertently interferes with the affairs of local gangster Quino, who also happens to be a...

"Ajey: The Untold Story of a Yogi" is a biographical film based on the life of Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. It is inspired...

Four hardened crooks break out of prison. Hunted down, with nowhere to run, they seek refuge in the only place the police cannot follow, a Cistercian...

In 1543, at the University of Salamanca, in Spain, Fray Antonio Román, an Augustinian monk who spreads humanist ideas, considered heretical,...

Nepal 1950. A mysterious, unexplored country. The Swiss geologist Toni Hagen, was the first European to pass through the "forbidden" kingdom. He...

After surviving a deadly attack, a guard on the Soviet-Chinese border decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he's...

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...

Sue, a sophisticated swindler is in trouble when he's being chased by a venturesome, Agent Kongdaj. Tired of running away and convinced by his...

In his own way, Anatoli Ljutuk is a legend of Tallinn's Old Town - a man from Western Ukraine who has built a unique world on Laboratory Street, the...

Set in the meditative quietude of a Himalayan village, Tathagat is a poetically shot tale of guilt. Following the journey of a monk questioning his...

Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir...

Two monks on a mission choose very different paths

Disguised as a Holy Monk of the Golden Light Temple, Tian Yuan challenges the high priest of Shaolin for ultimate rule of the holy place. But just as...

1957, New York. A Tibetan monk rents an automatic sequence computer. His goal is to list all of the names of God. Two Western engineers are hired to...

A young libertine after a series of love affairs, to escape the wrath of the betrayed husband disguises himself as a monk and hides in a convent...

A young Polish deserter and gifted organist finds shelter from the fascists in a Slovak Franciscan monastery. He find himself in conflict with the...

In the last fifty years the culture of Zen has spread far beyond Japan. Zen centers and zen retreats have sprung up throughout America and Europe. ...