Exploitation films

School of the Holy Beast

The Japanese entry, and formally the most accomplished of them.

The Nun and the Devil

Convent politics played as Renaissance power-drama. More Borgia than bondage.

Behind Convent Walls

Borowczyk brings his erotic art-house eye to the convent. Beautiful, explicit and barely plotted.

Images in a Convent

D'Amato's convent, where the theology is a coat-hook for the softcore.

Successive Slidings of Pleasure

A nouveau-roman novelist makes a nunsploitation film and refuses to let it mean anything.

Alucarda

The most hysterical nunsploitation film ever made. A convent, two possessed girls, and constant screaming.

Flavia the Heretic

Far angrier and more political than the packaging suggests.

Killer Nun

Anita Ekberg, morphine, and a plot that gives up around the hour mark.

The Devils

A great film about power, finally restored after fifty-five years.