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Hollywood movies are full of religious nuts. There’s a whole sub-genre of films about mad evangelists like Reverend Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) in The Night of the Hunter (1955) and his counterpoint, the tongues-speaking, Max Cady (Robert De Niro) in Cape Fear (1991).
- 14 'Breakthrough'
- 13 'Amazing Grace'
- 12 'Signs'
- 11 'Silence'
- 10 'The Tree of Life'
- 9 'Hacksaw Ridge'
- 8 'The Ten Commandments'
- 7 'Ben-Hur'
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 62%
Based on the true story of a young boy named John Smith, Breakthrough revolves around the miraculous recovery of John (Marcel Ruiz), who falls through the ice of a frozen lake and is declared dead for over an hour. But his mother, Joyce Smith, holds out hope and desperately prays for her son's recovery. John's heart begins to beat again through the power of prayer, and in defiance of initial medical expectations, he finally makes a full recovery. Breakthrough is a rare example of a faith-base...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 68%
Helmed by future The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader director Michael Apted, Amazing Grace follows the true story of William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd) as he converts to Christianity and fights to end the slave trade in Great Britain. As Wilberforce fights with Parliament to outlaw slavery in England, we also pivot to the story of John Newton (played here by Albert Finney), the writer of the titular hymn for which the film is named. As the stories of Wilberforce and Newt...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 75%
The most speculative movie on this list, M. Night Shyamalan's Signs is a powerful film that wrestles with the notion of divine providence and the struggles of maintaining faith in the face of grief. Mel Gibson plays a former Episcopalian priest, Graham Hess, as he fights to raise his two young children in the wake of their mother's death. With the help of his brother Merrill (Joaquin Phoenix), things get even more tricky when aliens invade the Earth. While many have speculated that the aliens...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 83%
Directed by Martin Scorcese, Silence is a theological and historical drama based on the novel of the same name by Shūsaku Endō. Starring Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver as Jesuit priests on a mission to Edo period Japan, they hope to locate their missing mentor (Liam Neeson) and spread their faith to the far reaches of the map. Unfortunately, things don't come easy as the Japanese officials stand steadily in their way. While Silence is a bit controversial, it does an excellent job portraying...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84%
Director Terrence Malick's Tree of Life is arguably one of the first and biggest mainstream films to deal with the concept of faith, pulling explicitly from the Bible's Book of Job. The movie follows the adult Jack O'Brien, played by Sean Penn, as he reflects deeply on his childhood, with his parents being played by Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain. One of the most theologically profound aspects of this movie is the attention it gives to two opposing forces of humanity: the way of grace and the...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84%
Years after Mel Gibson put together The Passion of the Christ, he opted to tell the story of a young combat medic named Desmond Doss (played by Andrew Garfield) during the Second World War. Hacksaw Ridge is the result, following Seventh-day Adventist Doss, a conscientious objector who decides to enter the Pacific battlefield to save lives rather than kill them. Doss' strong faith, honorable courage, and desire to see life preserved is the backbone to this powerful biographical drama. It's no...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 84%
Charlton Heston's foremost biblical epic, directed by Cecil B. Demille, The Ten Commandments is a masterwork in American filmmaking that brings the story of Moses from the Book of Exodus to life. As Heston's Moses confronts Yul Brynner's Pharaoh Rameses II for the salvation of the Hebrew people, it's clear that this Old Testament classic has remained a filmmaking marvel for a reason. Heston (who doubles as Moses and the voice of God) is a powerful presence here, and though his work in Ben-Hur...
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85%
Speaking of Charlton Heston... One of the most spectacular period movies on record, The Best Years of Our Lives helmer William Wyler's astounding epic is based on the most popular Christian novel of the 19th century: Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The story follows a wrongly convicted and enslaved Jewish noble whose adventures parallel, and even intertwine, with the story of Jesus Christ. Featuring Charlton Heston's best performance, Ben-Hur won a record 11 Oscars (only matched...
The son of God, Jesus Christ is being shown to the world. Today it is harder than ever to defend our faith, but it is also more necessary. Here are 18 movies to watch with your family or church small group to help you as you stand firm and defend your faith.
- Jesus of Nazareth (1977) And now to perhaps the most respected, highly acclaimed and critically successful faith-based movie around Jesus, the Advent of Christianity and an account that combines all the four New Testaments.
- The Seventh Seal (1957) Having been ranked as the eighth-greatest film of world cinema by the revered Empire magazine in 2010, renowned European auteur Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Seventh Seal’ could be described as the metaphorical meeting with death.
- Andrei Rublev (1966) Rated by critics worldwide as one of the finest films of all time, Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Andrei Rublev’ features the life of Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev.
- Hacksaw Ridge (2016) A documentary-based biographical drama, ‘Hacksaw Ridge‘ is my favourite on this list. The movie tells the tale of a pacifist medical officer Desmond Doss who is a devout Adventist Christian and a conscientious objector, i.e.
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- The Bible: In The Beginning... While "The Bible: In The Beginning..." isn't the first movie to be based on the Bible, or even the oldest movie on our list, it's a good place to start, given the Book of Genesis is literally the first book of the Bible.
- Noah. While Biblical epics were Old Hollywood's bread and butter, Hollywood's relationship with Bible-based movies for the past 40 years has been, well, odd.
- Jesus Christ Superstar. Let's get this out of the way first — there's no Biblical evidence that Jesus Christ was a high tenor who sang throughout his earthly ministry.
- The Miracle Maker. A movie about the life of Jesus Christ, but told in stop-motion, claymation style, à la Rankin/Bass, sounds like a "SNL" skit in really poor taste.
Aug 29, 2023 · Here we will countdown the 10 best reviewed Christian movies that you need to add to your watchlist. From animation to live action, these films all scored high with both critics and everyday viewers for their inspirational messages and positive values.
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Dec 21, 2020 · Even with movie theatres closed, over a dozen Christian movies were released in 2020 and 2021. Here are 15 of our favorite faith-based films with an inspirational message.
