Stigmata is a 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright, written by Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.

The story follows an atheist hairdresser from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who is afflicted with stigmata after acquiring a rosary formerly owned by a deceased Italian priest who himself had suffered from the phenomenon.

It stars Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long, Portia de Rossi and Rade Šerbedžija.

In the Brazilian village of Belo Quinto, Father Andrew Kiernan, a former scientist and a Jesuit priest who investigates supposed miracles, examines a statue of the Virgin Mary weeping blood at the funeral of Father Paulo Alameida, who had previously experienced stigmata.

Shortly afterward, Frankie is attacked by an unseen force while bathing, and receives two deep wounds on her wrists.

While Frankie is hospitalized again, the priest sends security tapes showing the attack to the Vatican, and Andrew is sent to investigate.

Andrew emails photographs of Frankie's apartment wall to Vatican, where Brother Delmonico recognizes the words and deletes the pictures.

When Andrew rejects her, she attacks him and denounces his beliefs in a male voice, ending with Frankie levitating off the bed, crying tears of blood.

Some time later, Andrew returns to Belo Quinto and finds the original documents for the lost gospel in Alameida's church.

[8] Mancuso immediately greenlit the film upon meeting with Wainwright and being shown the screenplay, with Rick Ramage hired to work out script issues over the next nine months.

"[6] In his two-star review, Roger Ebert called it "possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism — from a theological point of view.