The Crimes of Padre Amaro is a 2002 Spanish romantic drama film directed by Carlos Carrera. It is based on a 1875 novel of the same name by Eca de Queiroz. The story centers on young Father Amaro, who has just recently become a priest. He notices a young girl named Amelia who has feelings for. This causes conflict internally and externally as Amaro’s actions are condemned by the church and if word were to get out about his actions, he would be removed from the church.
The movie shows the catholic church in a bad way by showing that Father Benito is involved in an affair and is dealing with crime lords, helping them run their operations and providing his protection. This caused controversy when the movie was about to release as many catholic organizations were unhappy with the movie’s portrayal of catholic priests. They condemned it and tried to stop it from getting screened. Despite that however, the movie got released and performed very well commercially, at least partially due to the controversy.
The affair of Amaro and Amelia leads to Amelia getting pregnant and Father Benito learning about their relationship. While Father Benito tries to threatens to tell everyone about Amaro and Amelia, Amaro counters him by threatening to expose Father Benito’s love affair, which he had learned about earlier in the film. Amaro, trying to safe keep his job as a priest, tells Amelia to abort the child, which goes wrong an ends up with Amelia dead.
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