Product Details

• Actors: Catherine Spaak, Suzy Kendall, Eleonora Giorgi, Umberto Orsini, Martine Brochard
• Directors: Domenico Paolella
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Italian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Noshame
• DVD Release Date: August 29, 2006
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000GI3KUS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #47,842 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Story of a Cloistered Nun" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Still a child Carmela Rosa Simoni is pushed by her father to get engaged to Enrico Della Scala and combined wedding is set. At the due moment Rosa in love with Giuliano rebels her father s decisions and due to this she is forced to enter a cloister convent. Here thanks to the help of Sister elisabetta that has an outside lover and even makes love to some of the nuns Carmela continues to meet Giuliano getting pregnant. Elisabetta jealous of Giuliano succeed to killed the guy. The church trough an anonymous letter is informed that Carmela is pregnant...Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN UPC: 882853003496 Manufacturer No: 34

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31 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Where are the lesbian scenes?, November 6, 2006

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This review is from: Story of a Cloistered Nun (DVD)

What the heck is going on here? When you make a film about a cloistered nun and the cover picture even shows a nun apparently putting the moves on a younger woman, you expect at least one good lesbian scene! But this film doesn't have any! How can that possibly be?

The beautiful young woman in the photo is the newest nun in the convent, and several of the older nuns cast covetous gazes in her direction as she removes her stylish clothing to change into her nun's habit. One slightly older nun in particular shows an interest in her, and later even tries to seduce the girl, but nothing comes of it as the girl refuses to comply. We also see a brief glimpse into this older nun's room where she happens to be entertaining another (nude) younger woman, but again we don't really see anything but that brief glance.

Again, why make a film about a beautiful young novice surrounded by older women and then not include a single good lesbian scene? I don't get it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is NOT nunsploitation - but it IS a good film!, September 17, 2009

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This review is from: Story of a Cloistered Nun (DVD)

First, let me be clear - I love exploitation/grindhouse/sexploitation movies - I grew up during that irretrievable era, and loved every friggin` minute of celluloid sleaze I could feast my eyes on. That said, I also love a GOOD movie and Arthouse film as well, unlike most of my grindhouse brethren. This movie falls into that catagory- it has a good story, realistic dialogue, great sets and costumes, a plot with a decent ending, and the leading actresses are gorgeous as well. It is also a factual story based on actual texts found in an Abbey centuries old. And for me, there was just enough nudity for this type of movie as an added perk. No, this is not "Alucarda","Images In A Convent","Sacred Flesh", Malabimba" or "Satanico Pandemonium", all of which ARE true nunsploitation flix, which I also own and enjoy. This is more like "Flavia The Heretic" or "The Nuns Of St. Archangel", movies that have aspects of exploitation within them, but are much,much more than that but, unfortunately, for lack of better classification within genre`s, get grouped together with other,lower class exploitation (remember, I`m a fan). So, if you can look past the lack of a lesbian scene, which appears or is aluded to in almost EVERY film made between 1969 and 1976 (within reason), you might just enjoy this film - I did.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Story of a Cloistered Nun, used DVD, April 16, 2011

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This review is from: Story of a Cloistered Nun (DVD)

The used DVD was in excellent condition. The movie is full of color, great scenery, and has an English option. This is the story of a woman who, as a child, was betrothed to a male child. As a young woman, she fell deeply in love with another man. Her family sent her to a nunnery at which she was exposed to strict discipline, harsh punishments, lesbianism, and political intrigue. This nun movie actually had a good plot!