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Priest
The deeply held religious convictions of an idealistic young priest are challenged when he must face extraordinary events within his own congregation.

The Passion of Joan of Arc
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.

Alice, Sweet Alice
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?

Antibodies
Antikörper
When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.

The Winter War
Talvisota
After Nazi Germany invades Poland in September 1939, Russia attacks Finland two months later. Finnish reservists leave home and go to war. Brothers Martti and Paavo Hakala, farmers from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia, serve in a Finnish platoon. A five-part television miniseries extension of Pekka Parikka's 1989 film of the same name.

Body of Christ
Mi primera comunión
After receiving his first communion, Pablo can’t stop thinking about Sebastián, the beautiful altar boy.

The Way of the Wicked
An odyssey about two women trying to stop a young girl from biting the Host at her First Communion.

Hannah Cohen's Holy Communion
A spirited 7-year-old, growing up in Dublin in the 1970's, can't wait to make her Catholic Holy Communion. The only problem is - she's a Jew.