The Devil's Playground
Dec 23, 1977 | IMDB 6.6
107 min Watch NowDrama
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.
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IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 1987
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