The Nun's Story

★★★★★

Turkish title: İnsanlık uğruna

“From the very beginning, she was not like the others...”

1959 · 2 h 29 min

Directed by Fred Zinnemann

Drama

Watch trailer

Cast

Audrey Hepburn Peter Finch Edith Evans

Credits

Written by: Robert Anderson

Plot

A Belgian doctor's daughter becomes a nun and serves in the Congo, struggling with obedience and her own conscience.

Sinekatalog’s take

Fred Zinnemann's drama follows a Belgian nurse struggling between faith and conscience. Audrey Hepburn gives a restrained, deeply felt performance in a serious, handsome and moving spiritual drama.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (12,890 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

If you liked this

Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.

• A Hatful of Rain 1957 · Fred Zinnemann · IMDb 7.1 · Same director
• The Men 1950 · Fred Zinnemann · IMDb 7.1 · Same director
• Black Narcissus 1947 · Powell & Pressburger · IMDb 7.7 · Viewers also liked
• Witness for the Prosecution 1957 · Billy Wilder · IMDb 8.4 · Viewers also liked
• Lifeboat 1944 · Alfred Hitchcock · IMDb 7.6 · Viewers also liked
• Tea and Sympathy 1956 · Vincente Minnelli · IMDb 7.3 · Same movement