Confession (disambiguation)

A confession is an acknowledgement of fact by one who would have otherwise preferred to keep that fact hidden.

Confession may also refer to:

Law

• Confession (law), a statement by a suspect in crime which is adverse to that person

Religion

• Confession (religion), the acknowledgment of one's sinfulness or wrongdoings
  • Confession (Judaism)
  • Confession (Lutheran Church)
  • Sacrament of Penance, during which Catholics confess their sins
• Creed, also known as a confession of faith
• Confessionalism (religion), assent to the whole of a movement's or denomination's teachings

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• The Confession (1920 film), an American film directed by Bertram Bracken
• Confession (1929 film), an American film directed by Lionel Barrymore
• Confession (1937 film), an American remake of the 1935 German film Mazurka
• Confession (1955 film), a British film by Ken Hughes
• The Confession (1964 film), a film by William Dieterle
• The Confession (1970 film), a French-Italian film by Costa-Gavras
• The Confession (1999 film), an American drama starring Ben Kingsley
• The Confession (2002 film), a Turkish drama
• The Confession (2010 film), a British short film by Tanel Toom
• Confession (2014 film), a South Korean film starring Ji Sung
• Confession (2015 film), a South Korean film starring Kim Young-ho
• The Confession (2013 film), a Hallmark Channel TV movie
• Confession (2022 film), a South Korean mystery thriller film

Literature

• "Confession", a 12th-century Latin poem attributed to the Archpoet
• Confession (Bakunin), an 1851 autobiographical work by Mikhail Bakunin
• Confession (Leo Tolstoy), an 1882 short work on religion by Leo Tolstoy
• A Confession (Gorky), a 1908 novel by Maxim Gorky
• The Confession (novel), a 2010 novel by John Grisham
• The Confession, a 2004 novel by Olen Steinhauer

Music

Bands

• Confession (band), an Australian hardcore/metalcore band
• The Confession (band), an American heavy metal music group

Albums

• Confession (Ill Niño album), 2003
• Confession (Pets Tseng album), 2019

Songs

• "Confession" (song), by Florida Georgia Line
• "Confession", by Collective Soul from See What You Started by Continuing
• "Confession", by Gary Numan from Outland
• "Confession", by Lagwagon from Double Plaidinum
• "Confession", by Samantha Fox from I Wanna Have Some Fun
• "Confession", by Toby Fox, a track from the soundtrack of the 2015 video game Undertale
• "Confession", by Uriah Heep from High and Mighty
• "Confession", by MacKenzie Porter from Nobody's Born with a Broken Heart
• "Confession I", and "Confession II", by Shinhwa from Winter Story
• "The Confession", by Laura Nyro from Eli and the Thirteenth Confession

Television/web series

Series

• Confession (American TV series), a 1958–1959 American television series
• Confession (South Korean TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series
• Confession (miniseries), a 1998 Russian documentary miniseries
• A Confession (TV series), a 2019 British television series
• The Confession (TV series), a 2011 web-series produced by and starring Kiefer Sutherland

Episodes

• "Confession" (Death Note episode), an episode of Death Note
• "Confession" (Law & Order), a 1991 episode of Law & Order
• "The Confession" (Alias), an episode of Alias
• "The Confession" (House), a 2011 episode of House
• "The Confession" (The Borgias), second-season finale episode of the historical drama The Borgias

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Confession (radio program), a 1953 summer replacement program for Dragnet on NBC
• Confession album or confession book, a kind of formulaic autograph book

See also

• Absolution (disambiguation)
• Confess (disambiguation)
• Confessions (disambiguation)
• Confessor (disambiguation)