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

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

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

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