Stigmata
1999 Dir. Rupert Wainwright After her mother posts her some rosary beads that belonged to a recently deceased Priest, Frankie (Patricia Arquette) begins to exhibit explicit signs of the stigmata – wounds on her body that mirror those inflicted upon Christ when he was crucified. The stigmata are usually only suffered by the devoutly religious – but Frankie is an atheist. Father Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne) is dispatched by the Vatican to investigate, and disprove, this seemingly miraculous phenomenon. When he witnesses Frankie’s affliction for himself, and realises it has no logical explanation, he agrees to help her. They eventually discover a vast conspiracy within the Vatican to cover up religious texts written by Jesus. The film opens with Kiernan going to South America to study a statue of the Virgin Mary that has cried tears of blood since the death of a renowned local priest. The priest discovered texts he believed were written by Jesus and even though they contradict the co...