The Devils (film) The Devils (film) The Devils is a 1971 British historical drama horror film directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. Russell's screenplay is based partly on the 1952 book "The Devils of Loudun" by Aldous Huxley, and partly on the 1960 play "The Devils" by John Whiting, also based on Huxley's book. The film is a dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest executed for witchcraft following the supposed possessions in Loudun, France. Reed plays Grandier in the film and Vanessa Redgrave plays a hunchbacked sexually repressed
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun humiliation at the hands of the priest and the mother superior. The movie is part of a genre known as "nunsploitation". Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun (German: "Die Liebesbriefe einer portugesischen Nonne") is a 1977 West German-Swiss movie directed by Jesús Franco and produced by Erwin Dietrich, loosely based on the "Letters of a Portuguese Nun" attributed to Mariana Alcoforado. It starred Susan Hemingway and William Berger. Franco co-wrote the screenplay with producer Dietrich. It tells the story of Maria, a girl in Inquisition-era Portugal, whom a priest sees cavorting with a boy.