Best Movies About Religion?

The Prophecy (1995)

The Seventh Seal was a masterpiece.

Jan Hus (1954) was also really good. He was one of the most influential German theologions who inspired Martin Luther.

King of Kings (1927) - Got a chance to see this silent movie by Cecil B. DeMille. Not sure what I was expecting, but something inferior due to its age and the fact that it was made pre-sound. My expectation was off-base as this is a beautiful, touching film that rivals all re-makes.

Other notable movies about Jesus:
King of Kings (1961)
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

It was ok for a movie desperately trying not to be religious, except for the rocks that turned into rock encrusted transformers. They weren't in the previews. Emma Watson was excellent.

I liked Stigmata (1999) and The Seventh Sign (1988).

The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965
The Ten Commandments 1956
Dogma 1999
Ben-Hur 1959

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I haven't seen The Last Temptation, but maybe a controversial fact. i read De Niro was offered the role, but rejected, quoting I can't possibly prepare for the role, I can't study the character, there's no sufficient available info. I don't know if the Gospels are enough... But the very next year he accepted the role of the devil (as Lois Cyfer, a clevev play on words with Lucifer) in Angel Heart. I saw that one, a psycholocal supernatural thriller, I don't know how I'd rate it, I'd have to think about it. Or something like that. Maybe I'm misinformed, who knows?

I saw The daVinci Code many times, when I was extremely anti-Christian. It's a fine film regardless.

This unfortunatelly, even though I heard no other movie on Jesus even comes close, as it was done "by the book", shall wa speak, and even in Aramenian, the language Jesus spoke I think for authenticity, I'll probably never watch. Watching someone being tortured for hours, even if it's Jesus (or especially then)? Count me out (in).

A Serious Man is a masterpiece and it's better than Bergman's film about semi aquatic mammals.

This.


That movie didn't feel especially religious to me, I think religion is just the framework for the premise.

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El crimen del padre Amaro/The crime of father amaro

Not about the religion itself,but a priest who comes to find the reality of life within the church-aswell as his struggles when he falls in love with a girl who is a devoted churchgoer.

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Wise Blood (1979)

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Passion of the Christ was pretty good. Exodus was pretty crap actually and i have Noah on my computer but havent seen it yet.

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Religulous definitely. Anything that helps people think rationally about this ****. I've let religious people borrow it from me, and they bring it back admitting they were thinking clearer because of it.

Fictional- Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade are a couple of grail centered gems. Legion was surprisingly good as well (in spite of some weak performances from the supporting cast).

How many of the people mentioning Religulous actually think it's a good movie, as opposed to a movie they just stridently agree with? Because that's the topic.

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I think it's the most relevant one I could think of in response to the "we don't know" bit considering he specifically pushes that angle in the movie.

Personally, I didn't find it to be an especially exceptional documentary, but then I also haven't seen a whole lot of religious documentaries.

Generally, religious folks just aren't happy if they don't have some element of suffering in their life, but, you're right, this is not a movie I could watch several times.

... and it's Aramaic, not Aramenian. Wouldn't want the thread to get too Religulous.

And irreligious folks aren't happy if they aren't generalizing about religious folks, apparently.

Notice how none of the believers here have tried to use this thread to proselytize. You'd all find that boorish, right? So is the opposite.

Thanks for the correction. I speak Aramaic fluently

I wouldn't know. I was speaking from experience. Even though it is a milder and more traditional form of suffering, compared to what we see in the movie, I've seen and taken part in the traditional fasting and lamenting, mostly out of respect for the older generation in the family.

I own The Passion of the Christ on DVD and I generally enjoy Caviezel's films, but, this is not a go-to title for me, not even leading up to Easter.

My favorite is probably The Apostle(1997) with Robert Duvall