Dialogue with the Carmelites (French: Le dialogue des Carmélites, Italian: I dialoghi delle Carmelitane, also known as The Carmelites) is a 1960 French-Italian historical drama film written and directed by Raymond Léopold Bruckberger and Philippe Agostini and starring Jeanne Moreau, Alida Valli, Madeleine Renaud, Pascale Audret, Pierre Brasseur and Jean-Louis Barrault.

It's the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, Carmelite nuns who were guillotined in Paris in 1794 in the waning days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, after refusing to renounce their vocation.

[1][2] During the difficult years of the French Revolution, the young noblewoman Bianca, on the advice of her father, the Marquis de la Force, has entered the cloistered convent of the Carmelites of Compiègne.

Soon the revolutionary authorities and the people begin to harass the nuns, accusing them of being reactionary enemies of the homeland, who grab riches and give hospitality to fugitives.

Bianca de la Force, with courage, climbs the gallows in place of Mother Mary of the Incarnation, who is the only one to be saved and who alone will continue to practice the teaching of Carmel.