Monk Movies

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...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for centuries. He liberates Russia from foreign...

Two monks on a mission choose very different paths

Essene is about daily life in a Benedictine monastery and the resolution of conflict between personal needs and the institutional and organizational...

The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in SUNRISE/SUNSET. Granted total access to His Holiness for 24 hours, this...

Alfonso, Eduardo and Cristina get lost when visiting a forest. A strange monk finds them and takes them to an ancient convent. There, the three...

Story of four young monks left alone in their remote monastery in Myanmar. Shot entirely in newly-opened Myanmar with non-actors, the film bridges...

A young lad delves into the local folk tale of a murderous monk for an upcoming exhibition. While out taking stills for the project, he disappears...

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

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...

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...

The Cistercian monks of Austria are holy men who rise at 4:30 a.m., pray for more than four hours a day and have devoted their lives to God. They're...

In 2020, three filmmakers visited Britain’s most haunted village - Pluckley, in Kent - to shoot a documentary about its many legendary ghosts,...

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...

When a young monk gets creative in the scriptorium, things take an unexpected turn as his doodles come to life!

After taking a wrong turn, a young man somehow falls into a mysterious cave and becomes hopelessly lost. As he searches for a way out, the journey he...

Two gay men, one of whom is a monk, meet and develop a romantic relationship. The relationship however cannot last and the men break up. One of the...