# 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 Coldrain from The Enemy Inside
* "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
* The Confession (Friday Night Lights), an episode of the TV series Friday Night Lights

### 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