Monk Movies

A haiku film poem. the early morning waiting for the monks. the voices. the fire. the wat drum.

Story of the merits of the revered abbot Luang Pho Khoon.

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 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...

Two monks on a mission choose very different paths

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...

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...

Released in 1901

Buelwa is a film about a monk forced to leave the monastery and explore the streets of Thimphu (Bhutan). His life turns upside down.

This documentary focuses on the journey of Merton, a bohemian who went from communism to Catholicism before finding his calling as a monk cloistered...

We carefully select only those that seem to be a psychic phenomenon from posts on SNS and mysterious videos sent to the staff! In addition, it...

A drifter is picked up by police in connection with the disappearance of a young couple on a remote, windswept island months before. But the drifter...

Norway, 928 AD. Hákon Haraldsson—the youngest son of Norway’s king—is betrayed by his brother Erik Bloodaxe and shipwrecked...

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

Documentary about the Buddhist nun Setouchi Jakucho, who continued writing until her death in November 2021 at the age of 99. Features words of...

What does it mean to follow one’s calling into an abbey and a brewery? Inspired by the growth of the American craft beer movement, a group of...

In the last fifty years the culture of Zen has spread far beyond Japan. Zen centers and zen retreats have sprung up throughout America and Europe. ...