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Kanopy
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7.7
/29806/
75
/519/
74
/448/
3.8
/13776/
91
/149/
89
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83
/38/
cc age 16+

The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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Curiosity Stream
80
7.6
/106769/
75
/2615/
73
/1677/
3.7
/56932/
91
/199/
89
/2159/
77
/42/
cc age 15+

Philomena (2013)
A woman searches for her adult son, who was taken away from her decades ago when she was forced to live in a convent.
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Hulu
78
6.7
/33641/
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/1675/
66
/418/
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/140375/
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/122/
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82
/28/
cc age 13+

Small Things Like These (2024)
In 1985, 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 the Catholic Church.
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The Roku Channel
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5.3
/4653/
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54
/173/
2.8
/8374/
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/25/
46
/35/
48
/4/

The Devil's Doorway (2018)
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.
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7.6
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The Forgotten Maggies (2009)
The Forgotten Maggies focuses on the human rights aspect surrounding the Magdalene Laundries, including testimonies from women and an exploration of the High Park exhumation where 155 Magdalene women were exhumed in 1993
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8.1
/24/
85
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Ireland's Dirty Laundry (2022)
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.
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63
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7.6
/204/
40
/2/
73
/3/

Sinners (2002)
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 and penance. (Radio Times)
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6.3
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Untold Secrets (2021)
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 prominent political family from Tuam. Untold Secrets recounts her often brutal and abusive treatment at the hands of her foster family and reveals never seen before interviews with fellow survivors. Although Silke is now deceased the documentary gives a posthumous voice to Anne and possibly some closure to her family.
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8.1
/431/
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/2/
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Sex in a Cold Climate (1998)
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".


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