Monk Movies

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Grandson of legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland...

Daily life in a Benedictine monastery follows resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and organizational priorities of...

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...

Released in 1901

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

The story of a single swallow who, taking a rest from southward flight at a mission in California, ultimately brings about the famed migration of...

A hilarious adventure of a 6-year-old orphan named Joy and a small wooden temple of disciples. During the great famine, the temple was engulfed in...

A group of friends get trapped in a haunted abbey with no easy way of escaping.

Two monks on a mission choose very different paths

An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.

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...

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

A young man's fight between love and the monastic discipline.

Thich Nhat Hanh, monk, zen teacher, writer and peace activist, born in Vietnam in 1926, was the organiser of a non-violent resistance movement after...

In medieval Serbia, a young monk, a master of herbal medicine, grabs the attention of warlord's wife.

When a little spider is about to be injured by a child in the lower world she is rescued by the young monk. She follows him home and meditates in the...

There is a religious congregation founded by Saint Igneous, a saint and martyr who is believed to have been burned alive for spreading the faith....

The plot of the film unfolds in the ancient monastery of Dokhiar on the west coast of Mount Athos, on the Aegean peninsula. This peninsula is given...

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...