Clerical Sleuths in the Movies and on TV
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- DirectorAnthony PageStarsRichard BurtonDominic GuardDavid BradleyTwo boys try to drive a strict priest mad with their confessed sins at a boarding school in England.
- DirectorMoira ArmstrongStarsMaria AitkenRenée AshersonBrenda BruceA reporter is asked to look into the mysterious death of a nun who died in a locked room at a convent.The nuns aren't the actual sleuths, but they do assist one of their former convent students who is investigating a crime that occurred there. Anyone who enjoys clerical sleuths will like this serial, which aired as part of "Armchair Thriller." There are five additional episodes:
"Part 2: The Chapel"
"Part 3: The Black Nun"
"Part 4: Witness and Wills"
"Part 5: Powers of Darkness"
"Part 6: Death and Decision" - DirectorChristopher SmithStarsEddie RedmayneSean BeanCarice van HoutenSet during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
- StarsMichael CraigJohn Rhys-DaviesTessa Peake-JonesIn the village of Danedyke St Mary the Reverend Septimus Treloar, a former Chief Inspector, investigates mysterious goings on linked to his church.
- DirectorRobert HamerStarsAlec GuinnessJoan GreenwoodPeter FinchWorks of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
- CreatorAlessandro BencivenniDomenico SaverniEnrico OldoiniStarsNino FrassicaNathalie GuettàFrancesco ScaliTerence Hill stars as Don Matteo, a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He's a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn't want to help.
- DirectorChristopher HiblerStarsTom BosleyTracy NelsonRobert PrescottFrank Dowling has to solve the mystery of a young man who is obsessed with finding his natural parents.TV movie that was followed two years later by the TV series "Father Dowling Mysteries"
- StarsKenneth MoreDennis BurgessGraham CrowdenBased on the stories of G.K. Chesterton, a British Catholic Priest solves mysteries.
- CreatorRachel FlowerdayTahsin GunerStarsMark WilliamsJohn BurtonSorcha CusackIn the early 1950s, Father Brown, a Roman Catholic priest based in the fictional Cotswold village of Kembleford, uses his distinctive skills to solve various crimes.
- DirectorEdward SedgwickStarsWalter ConnollyPaul LukasGertrude MichaelFather Brown is trying to stop a known theft taking 10 diamonds and showing he is wrong in the eyes of god.
- CreatorDean HargroveJoel SteigerStarsTom BosleyTracy NelsonMary WickesAn amiable, inquisitive Chicago priest moonlights as a detective and is assisted by a rather worldly, lock-picking nun.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDavid JanssenSusannah YorkPaul CoufosIn San Francisco, a police detective, aided by a Catholic nun, investigates the case of a priest who falls to his death from the Golden Gate bridge.
- CreatorDaisy CoulamStarsRobson GreenTessa Peake-JonesAl WeaverA Cambridgeshire clergyman finds himself investigating a series of mysterious wrongdoings in his small village of Grantchester.
- StarsArt CarneyJanis PaigeJanet MargolinPolice Chief Paul Lanigan and David Small, a rabbi in Cameron, California, are friends and both solve crimes in the local town. They also spent many evenings socializing but the wives usually got angry when the talk turned to the latest crimes.
- DirectorLaurence Schwab Jr.StarsLeslie NielsenRussell CollinsPat EnglundA dear old woman is supposed to inherit the fortune of her uncle, Dr. John Rant, as soon as she finds his will. He tells her only that it's in a book and that she probably won't recognize it when she sees it. This cryptic clue results in the inheritance going to another relative, and the late Dr. Rant is not happy about this.
- StarsDerek JacobiMichael CulverJulian FirthThe medieval era cases of a Crusader-turned-Monk who investigates mysteries in the Norman English town of Shrewsbury.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsSean ConneryChristian SlaterHelmut QualtingerAn intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
- StarsJohn TurturroRupert EverettDamian HardungIn 1327, an enlightened friar and his young apprentice investigate a series of mysterious deaths at an abbey risking the wrath of a powerful Inquisitor. Television adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel 'The Name of the Rose'.
- DirectorBrian HelgelandStarsHeath LedgerMark AddyShannyn SossamonA young priest is sent to Rome to investigate the troubling death of the head of his order.
- StarsAnnette CrosbiePaul ShelleyPeter EganA clergyman, famous for his support of left-wing causes, dies, and surprises his family by leaving a great deal of money to a Conservative Member of Parliament. Why?
- StarsJosef MeinradErnst Fritz FürbringerGuido WielandGerman adaptation of G.K. Chesterton's "Father Brown" stories
- StarsAleksandr FeklistovPolina KutepovaTimofey TribuntsevThe action takes place in Russia at the end of the 19th century, in the fictional Trans-Volga province. The synodal inspector Bubentsov comes from the capital to the provincial center, the city of Zavolzhsk, with the task of conducting an investigation into the appearance of manifestations of paganism in the province and the suppression of such, by converting apostates to true Orthodoxy. In the course of his investigation, he goes out to the zytyakov - a local people, although they have adopted Christianity, but still retaining many pagan beliefs and customs. Local residents, including the supreme authorities, the governor and the bishop-lord, do not at all agree to meet the inspector in his case - they have lived side by side with the beggars for many years, are accustomed to their neighborhood and do not want to arrange any repressions on religious grounds. However, Bubentsov, intending to curry favor with the capital's chief prosecutor, is not at all going to back down from his plan.Russian adaptation of the Boris Akunin novel "Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog"
- StarsOttfried FischerPeter Heinrich BrixHans-Michael RehbergCurate Guido Braun is a slightly unconventional Catholic priest from Bavaria. Mundane bishop Himmelrath and his equally ambitious right hand keep posting Braun in different parishes all over Germany, sometimes as punishment, sometimes as troubleshooter. Each time at least one serious crime occurs there, and Braun's detective gifts come in handy, whether the police collaborates or mistrusts him.
- DirectorJofin T. ChackoStarsMammoottyNikhila VimalManju WarrierA priest and a police officer are trying to solve a set of mysterious suicides. As their investigation closes in, they discover another crime with even farther-reaching consequences.
- CreatorMichael AmoStarsRyan RobbinsAlex Paxton-BeesleyJessica Clement"Pure" tells the story of Noah Funk, a newly-elected Mennonite pastor, who is determined to rid his community of drug traffickers by betraying a fellow Mennonite to the police.
- StarsRenato RascelArnoldo FoàVittorio FanfoniItalian adaptation of G.K. Chesterton's "Father Brown" stories
- DirectorPaul McGuiganStarsWillem DafoePaul BettanyMarián AguileraA priest on the lam takes up with a traveling band of actors, who then discover a murder has occurred and try to solve it by recreating the crime in a play.
- DirectorFred WaltonStarsDonald SutherlandCharles DurningBelinda BauerA priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsBarnard HughesMichael McGuireGeorge HearnA Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
- CreatorDavid LevyStarsGeorge KennedyRamon BieriSallie ShockleySamuel "Sarge" Cavanaugh is a priest at the St. Aloysius Parish in San Diego, California. He is known as Sarge because of his police background of working for nine years as a homicide detective in the area in which he tries to help out with guidance to his parishioners in their struggle to cope with the problems of a metropolitan environment.
- StarsEmrys JamesFabio TestiCatherine SpaakItalian adaptation of G.K. Chesterton's "Father Brown" stories
- CreatorJude TindallStarsLorna WatsonJerry IwuMax BrownThe investigations of Sister Boniface of St Vincent's Convent - nun, moped rider, wine maker and part-time forensic scientist.
- DirectorSuzanne SchiffmanStarsTchéky KaryoChristine BoissonJean CarmetA Dominican friar visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies.
- DirectorDouglas SirkStarsClaudette ColbertAnn BlythRobert DouglasConvicted murderess Valerie Carns (Ann Blyth) is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary (Claudette Colbert) becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.
- DirectorMark GatissStarsLouise JamesonJohn CastleEleanor BronOn his deathbed vicar Rant makes a secret confession to his niece Mary Simpson. Some twenty years later young librarian William Garrett is asked by elderly John Eldred to locate a book called 'The Tractate Middoth' but a mysterious cloaked figure takes the book from the shelves and Eldred panics and leaves. On a second attempt to find the book Garrett is confronted by the mysterious borrower, a rotting ghost, the encounter causing him to faint. He goes to the seaside to recover and, by coincidence, stays with Mrs Simpson and her daughter. He learns that she is the cousin of Eldred, who cheated her out of an inheritance when Rant died though a will in her favour was actually made and hidden in the pages of the Tractate Middoth . Eldred finally obtains the book but Rant, witnessed by Garrett, exacts vengeance from beyond the grave.
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsSheila DunnAnne BlakeFrank MillsThe Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of Medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an Abbey library. Studying a stained glass window they uncover clues leading to a treasure hidden by a disgraced Abbot.