The Magdalene Sisters (2003)

The Magdalene Sisters full movie is released on Aug 29, 2003. Watch The Magdalene Sisters online - the English Drama movie from United Kingdom , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $21,107,578. The Magdalene Sisters is directed by Peter Mullan and created by Peter Mullan with Geraldine McEwan and Anne-Marie Duff. The Magdalene Sisters is available online on Amazon Video and Google Play Movies.

A thoroughly mind-provoking film about 3 young women who, under tragic circumstances, see themselves cast away to a Magdalene Asylum for young women in 1964. One of many like institutions, the asylums are run like prisons and young girls are forced to do workhouse laundry and hard labor. The asylum, one of many that existed in theocratic Catholic Ireland, is for supposedly 'fallen' women. Here, young girls are imprisoned indefinitely and endure agonizing punishments and a long, harsh working system which leaves them physically drained and mentally damaged. As the girls bond together, it soon becomes clear that the only way out of the Magdalene convent is to escape, but with twisted Sister Bridget running the wing, any chances seem limited...