9 Films & TV Shows Set In Holy See During The 20th Century
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The Two Popes
🇻🇦 Holy See 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1970s The 1950s The 2000s The 2010sFrustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
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Amen.
🇻🇦 Holy See 🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇵🇱 Poland The 1930sTwo Men Two Worlds One Cause — Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
🇻🇦 Holy See The 1980sA reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
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End of Days
New York 🇻🇦 Holy See The 1970s The 1990sPrepare for the end. — On 28 December 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, Satan decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen bride—a 20-year-old woman named Christine York. The world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist named Jericho Cane.
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The Godfather: Part III
🇮🇹 Italy New Jersey New York 🇻🇦 Holy See The 1970s The 1980sAll the power on earth can't change destiny. — In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
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The Scarlet and the Black
🇻🇦 Holy See The 1940sFr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, but O'Flaherty's activities become so large that the Nazi's decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican. O'Flaherty continues his work in a variety of disguises. Based on a true story. Written by John Vogel
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Monsignor
🇻🇦 Holy See The 1940sForgive me, Father for I have sinned. I have killed for my Country, I have stolen for my Church, I have loved a Woman, and I am a Priest. — The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
🇻🇦 Holy See The 1980sIn a last desperate effort to prevent World War III, a secret meeting is arranged. One man is called upon to succeed where all the world leaders have failed. That man was once a prisoner in a Russian labor camp. He is now the Pope. — All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear nightmare.
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The Cardinal
Massachusetts 🇻🇦 Holy See The 1930s The 1920s The 1910sA motion picture that spans two decades of conflict and drama as it tells the story of a young American and his rise to prince of the church. — A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
