The Best Religious Movies

What are your favorite movies that are about or deal with religion? A couple of my favorites are Life of Brian and Dogma.

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dogma
fiddler
ten commandments
prince of egypt
song of bernadette

prince of egypt

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1. Ordet (1955)
2. Life of Brian
3. The Last Temptation of Christ
4. A Man for All Seasons
5. The Apostle
6. Kundun

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"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."- Groucho Marx

The Last Temptation of Christ
The Song of Bernadette
Jesus of Nazareth

The Song of Bernadette and Passion of The Christ are definitely the top two religious films of all-time.

Life of Brian

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The Passion of Joan of Arc; one of the most haunting, and intense films ever made.

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I like The Apostle very much.

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

Ditto...

And I also like a documentary called In the Light of Reverence (2001) …

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The Passion of the Christ and Jesus of Nazareth.

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" I see in your eyes, the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, whe we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. May and hour of wolves and shattered shields before the age of men comes crashing down, but it is not this day! This day we Fight! For all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand men of the west!!"
-Aragorn: The Lord of the Rings the Return of the King

I'm with Pid; The Apostle is fantastic.

Obviously The Passion of the Christ is somewhere on the list, though I couldn't say where, really. The Excorcist is around there, too. Stigmata takes the cake for most disappointing religiously-themed film, in my book.

I was waiting for someone to say the exorcist and I was surprised it took this look. I didn't mention it myself because I found it dissapointing. I guess there was just too much hype built up around it.

i forgot godspell...

also the trouble with angels

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The Exorcist or Sister Act.

I'm just kidding about Sister Act.

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Everyone has great choices. I'd like to add...

The Bishop's Wife (1947)

Black Narcissus (1947)

The Robe (1953)

Before I get slaughtered, Groundhog Day's full of Buddhist philosophy - a man reliving his day over and over until he gets it right.



and finally...

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