The Name of the Rose and similar movies and shows

An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

In 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'.

The medieval era cases of a Crusader-turned-Monk who investigates mysteries in the Norman English town of Shrewsbury.

A 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.

Madrid, in the seventeenth century. Abandoned at the doorstep of a monastery, Ambrosio has been brought up by the Capucin Friars. After becoming a friar himself, he becomes an unrivaled preacher whose sermons draw crowds and earn him the admiration of all. Admired for his extreme rigor and absolute virtue, Ambrosio is certain he is safe from any temptation. But Satan has not said his final word...

We write the year 1370, the time of the Inquisition. Two popes are fighting a fierce battle for domination in the Catholic Church: Clement VII in Avignon and Urbanus VI in Rome. Grand Inquisitor Guillermo Barnal is commissioned by Clement VII to investigate a satanic murder. An abbot was crucified at his church, after which his body was set on fire. A Jewish father and son are found near the scene of the crime. The inquisitors see the two as perfect scapegoats and arrest them. But on the day of the trial the father makes a desperate attempt to save his son: he claims that the young man is not his son at all. He is not even a Jew but a Christian. His name is Nicolas and he has been adopted as a child. To everyone's surprise, Barnal believes the story and decides to release Nicolas. But then again a murdered clergyman pops up. And this time the crucified corpse also shows signs of the 'black death' .

A 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.

When a medieval monk unexpectedly dies in a horrific way, the Church sends Mateho the Inquisitor, a rational man of science, to investigate the alleged 'witch'. When Mateho himself becomes implicated as more monks die mysteriously, he must learn that science cannot explain the horrors around him, before he is seduced by the evil that haunts this monastery.

In 13th-century Ireland, a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across a landscape fraught with peril.

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.

The young Isenhart grows at the castle guards to Laurin. Together with his friend Konrad he receives all the privileges of nobility. But it happens a cruel murder: Anna Isenhart's great love is brutally murdered - in her breast a gaping hole in her heart is missing. Isenhart vows to bring the murderer to the track. When he witnesses a murder further, having the same profile, he makes the acquaintance of Henning and his foster father, Gunther Medicus. Isenhart is fascinated by Henning, who appears to him in many ways similar: educated, interested, a pioneer of his time! Together they set off on the hunt for the killer and find incomprehensible: The murderer is a genius - and he is very close to them ...

In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

The story of time-tested loyalty of two friends during Europe's 16th-century Inquisition. Orphans Martin and Georg bond as children, but walk very different paths as adults. Georg follows his calling to join the church, while Martin becomes an army captain. When fate places Martin in the role of executioner, he must choose between friendship and fundamentalist doctrine.

Set in the 16th century, a sheriff working on a series of murders has to choose between his conscience and protecting his family when he's tied to the crimes.

Colombia 1662: In the Spanish colonies there the Inquisition: apostates are tortured, burned witches. The indigenous people are demonized and in the middle are two friends into enemies. The doctor Alfonso should marry the eldest daughter of the wealthy Don Ramon, but her other two sisters hedges of deadly intrigue. Father Guzman plays a spy of the church is a dangerous game that will be fatal for him and the mysterious Esmeralda turned all men's head.

In 1348, with the horrors of the Black Death haunting Europe, English soldiers return home from war with a French nobleman as hostage. When people in their home village soon after begin to die, it is believed that the Black Death has struck once more. However, there are other dark reasons behind the sudden deaths.

Set 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.

Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart.

The English town of Kingsbridge works to survive as the King leads the nation into the Hundred Years' War with France while Europe deals with the outbreak of the Black Death.

In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors - commoners.

In the 1580's English colonists arrive in what was to become North Carolina and find supernatural terror.

Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War. Flanders, 1568: Italian minstrel Campanelli tells he followed a Dutchman, the robber of a golden chalice, but failed to prevent him being taken -after banging a country-girl- by the men of a rigid farmer Netelneck, who has him tied-up inside a huge shit-container. After Campanelli frees him, the gold stays inside, and the Dutchman is killed, but the minstrel turns to offer the paying audience a happier version. Seven years later, he scares the Dutchman's posthumous son into bringing him food and convinces the kid he can fly, like his dad, who is on a grand ship, but fails to drag the gold out and is blinded and chased by Netelneck. Fourteen years later, the minstrel returns and tricks Netelneck into diving after the gold himself so he can drawn the bastard, then sets the 'little Dutchman' on the road to find his father, who proves a mere thief living in a beached shipwreck. Both join a brigand band, but it ends up arrested by the Spaniards and imprisoned under the authority of Netelneck's son, who has him thrown in an oubliette forced to scoop water, but Lotte, his only lover ever, notices something she gave him and believes her son, now she's Netelneck junior's wife, is the little Dutchman's...

A series of murders take place in 16th-century Seville, where the plague has taken hold; a condemned man faces the Inquisition as he attempts to save the son of a friend by speaking out.

The monk Ambrosio is renowned for his faith and his strength of will, a saint in the eyes of the populace. However, when he discovers the beautiful Matilda hidden in his own monastery, all his repressed passions begin to show themselves.