Movies: Magdalene asylum

  • 2024
    Small Things Like These

    Small Things Like These (2024)

    Small Things Like These

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    While working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by...

    Small Things Like These
  • 2002
    The Magdalene Sisters

    The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

    The Magdalene Sisters

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    Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum....

    The Magdalene Sisters
  • 2018
    The Devil's Doorway

    The Devil's Doorway (2018)

    The Devil's Doorway

    5.42018HD

    In the autumn of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific....

    The Devil's Doorway
  • 2002
    Sinners

    Sinners (2002)

    Sinners

    7.32002HD

    Powerful drama set in 1960s Ireland about a young, unmarried mother-to-be whose family sends her to a convent. There, out of sight of society, her work in the laundry provides her with close friendships, which bring hope and relief from daily prayer ...

    Sinners
  • 1998
    Sex in a Cold Climate

    Sex in a Cold Climate (1998)

    Sex in a Cold Climate

    7.41998HD

    Interlocking interviews of 4 women interred in various Magdalene asylums and/or orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being "too pretty"....

    Sex in a Cold Climate
  • 2017
    Mother & Baby

    Mother & Baby (2017)

    Mother & Baby

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    For decades, Catholic Ireland locked its children into institutions if they were conceived out of wedlock - punishment for the sinning mothers. Revealing the children's perspectives, and including powerful archive, this documentary offers a painful y...

    Mother & Baby
  • 2021
    Untold Secrets

    Untold Secrets (2021)

    Untold Secrets

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    Gives voice to the experiences of Irish institution survivors and focuses on the life and upbringing of one survivor, Anne Silke. Silke was fostered out of the St. Mary, Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home in Tuam at the age of 9 to the Killileas, a pro...

    Untold Secrets
  • 2022
    Ireland's Dirty Laundry

    Ireland's Dirty Laundry (2022)

    Ireland's Dirty Laundry

    92022HD

    The tragic and shocking story of the notorious Magdalene Laundries, a shameful system, created by the Irish State but supported by all strata of Irish society, which enslaved more than ten thousand women between 1922 and 1996....

    Ireland's Dirty Laundry