What would Jesus watch?
by vmv-rantanen | created - 21 Jun 2015 | updated - 30 Mar 2017 | PublicMovies with strong Christian connotations.
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1. The Big Trees (1952)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Western
A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wymore, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 1,857
Quakers against overt logging.
2. The Redemption of Henry Myers (2014)
Not Rated | 101 min | Western
Henry Myers lives a hard life. After his latest heist goes wrong and his partners betray him and leave him for dead, Henry is surprised to find extraordinary kindness from a widow and her ... See full summary »
Director: Clayton Miller | Stars: Drew Waters, Erin Bethea, Jaden Roberts, Ezra Proch
Votes: 417
Western with ample Christian thematics. About remorse and forgivness.
3. The Book of Eli (2010)
R | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A drifter fights his way across a ravaged, post-apocalyptic America while protecting a sacred book that holds the secrets to humanity's salvation.
Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Stars: Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Gary Oldman
Votes: 339,426 | Gross: $94.84M
Bible in the post-apocalyptic world.
4. Pale Rider (1985)
R | 115 min | Drama, Western
A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, Carrie Snodgress, Sydney Penny
Votes: 64,713 | Gross: $41.41M
Eastwood as a preacher/gunslinger.
5. Noah (2014)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Noah is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson
Votes: 267,085 | Gross: $101.20M
Vegan-Noah and worries on ecological catastrophe.
6. Dogma (1999)
R | 130 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven.
Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Bud Cort
Votes: 228,691 | Gross: $30.65M
A zany religious comedy. Rather good, even though it stars Affleck and Damon.
7. Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend (1957)
Passed | 87 min | Western
In Medicine Bend, a crooked businessman has the town mayor and sheriff in his pocket while his henchmen raid the wagon trains passing through the region.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Randolph Scott, James Craig, Angie Dickinson, Dani Crayne
Votes: 814
A Randolph Scott western with Brethren.
8. God's Gun (1976)
R | 94 min | Western
A priest and his twin brother take turns defending a small town from the vicious Clayton gang.
Director: Gianfranco Parolini | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Jack Palance, Richard Boone, Sybil Danning
Votes: 1,638
Lee van Cleef as the preacher/gunfighter.
9. Black Robe (1991)
R | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg
Votes: 7,667 | Gross: $8.21M
Jesuit amongst Indians in Canada.
10. Hellfire (1949)
Passed | 90 min | Western
A reformed gambler turned preacher partnered with a pretty female fugitive outlaw runs into an old pal who's also a marshal, and they both fall for the same bad gal.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Bill Elliott, Marie Windsor, Forrest Tucker, Jim Davis
Votes: 400
Western.
11. The Mission (1986)
PG | 125 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally, Aidan Quinn
Votes: 65,701 | Gross: $17.22M
Jesuits in South America against lusohispanic conquest.
12. Cromwell (1970)
G | 139 min | Biography, Drama, History
Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.
Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin
Votes: 6,963 | Gross: $1.37M
The Puritan Cromwell, an essential character in the 17th century English revolution.
13. Winstanley (1975)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, War
Winstanley explores the attempt by Gerrard Winstanley who formed 'The Diggers' and with a group of followers attempted to form a small farming community in one of the first proto-Communist attempts at collective agriculture.
Director: Kevin Brownlow | Stars: Miles Halliwell, Jerome Willis, Terry Higgins, Phil Oliver
Votes: 386
Gerrard Winstanley was the leader of the Christian libertarian socialist Levellers.
14. Thomas Müntzer (1956)
134 min | Drama, War
Director: Martin Hellberg | Stars: Wolfgang Stumpf, Margarete Taudte, Wolf Kaiser, Martin Flörchinger
Votes: 40
Müntzer, a Protestant priest who - unlike Luther - sided with the oppressed peasants of 16th century Germany.
15. Ich, Thomas Müntzer, Sichel Gottes (1989 TV Movie)
119 min | Biography
Director: Kurt Veth | Stars: Veit Schubert, Claudia Michelsen, Arno Wyzniewski, Hartmut Puls
Votes: 16
Another movie on Müntzer.
16. Heaven with a Gun (1969)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Western
In a frontier town, gunslinger-turned-preacher Jim Killian is caught in the middle of a violent range war between cattlemen and sheep-men.
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey, John Anderson
Votes: 1,090
Gunslinger goes religious.
17. Hawaii (1966)
Approved | 189 min | Drama
An American missionary and his wife travel to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
Directors: George Roy Hill, Arthur Hiller | Stars: Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman
Votes: 3,559 | Gross: $34.56M
A humourless missionary in Hawaii.
18. The Last Station (2009)
R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A historical drama that illustrates Russian author Leo Tolstoy's (Christopher Plummer's) struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.
Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Helen Mirren, James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti
Votes: 19,163 | Gross: $6.62M
A movie on the Christian anarchist Leo Tolstoy.
19. Legion (2010)
R | 100 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
When a group of strangers at a dusty roadside diner come under attack by demonic forces, their only chance for survival lies with an archangel named Michael, who informs a pregnant waitress that her unborn child is humanity's last hope.
Director: Scott Stewart | Stars: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton, Lucas Black
Votes: 111,990 | Gross: $40.17M
God loses faith in humanity and starts wiping it out.
20. The Second Coming (2003)
144 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Steven Baxter is the Son of God, and can produce the miracles to prove it. How does the world react when he announces it has to produce a Third Testament within five days, or else it's Judgment Day?
Stars: Lesley Sharp, Annabelle Apsion, William Travis, Christopher Eccleston
Votes: 1,510
The second coming.
21. Priest (2011)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A warrior priest disobeys church law to track down a pact of vampires who have kidnapped his niece.
Director: Scott Stewart | Stars: Paul Bettany, Cam Gigandet, Maggie Q, Karl Urban
Votes: 124,155 | Gross: $29.14M
Priests against vampires.
22. The Name of the Rose (1986)
R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin
Votes: 117,277 | Gross: $7.15M
Franciscans play Sherlock Holmes.
23. Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Passed | 137 min | Drama, Family, Romance
The pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Richard Eyer
Votes: 7,740
Quakers during the US civil war.
24. Trapped by the Mormons (1922)
97 min | Drama, Crime
Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music.
Director: Harry B. Parkinson | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Louis Willoughby, Ward McAllister, Olaf Hytten
Votes: 170
An anti-Mormon silent film.
25. Trapped by the Mormons (2005)
69 min | Comedy, Thriller
Isoldi Keane is the the top recruiter in all of Mormondom -- using his mesmeric powers to ensnare young girls into his evil Mormon web of passion, polygamy and pamphlets! Will young Nora be... See full summary »
Director: Ian Allen | Stars: Stacey Whitmire, Emily Riehl-Bedford, Monique LaForce, Richard Renfield
Votes: 40
Mormonsploitation.
26. Brigham Young (1940)
Approved | 114 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1844, after the assassination of Mormon leader Joseph Smith by an angry mob in Illinois, the Mormons choose Brigham Young as their new leader and follow him to a new promised land in Utah.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 1,140
Movie about the Mormon prophet nro 2.
27. The Book of Zombie (2010)
61 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A small, sleepy Utah town gets an undead wake-up call when all of the townspeople of Mormon faith suddenly transform into flesh-eating ghouls! Now, a group of 'non-believers' unaffected by ... See full summary »
Directors: Paul Cranefield, Scott Kragelund, Erik Van Sant | Stars: Brian Ibsen, Larisa Peters, Andrew Loviska, Paul Cantu
Votes: 153
Zombie outbreak in Mormon Utah.
28. Bonhoeffer (2003)
TV-14 | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Dramatic documentary about the young German pacifist and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer who resisted the Nazi regime and was hanged two weeks before World War II was over.
Director: Martin Doblmeier | Stars: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Adele Schmidt, Richard Mancini, Martin Doblmeier
Votes: 410 | Gross: $0.16M
Documentary on one of the most admirable theologians, the resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
29. Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, History
The story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction, who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions cost him his life.
Director: Eric Till | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Johanna Klante, Robert Joy, R.H. Thomson
Votes: 810 | Gross: $0.30M
30. Red State (2011)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
Director: Kevin Smith | Stars: Michael Parks, Melissa Leo, John Goodman, Michael Angarano
Votes: 67,236 | Gross: $1.10M
Crazy Christian cult.
31. Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 192 min | Biography, Drama
The real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Powers Boothe, Ned Beatty, Irene Cara, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 1,656
The story of Jim Jones and the People's Temple.
32. Let Us Prey (2014)
Not Rated | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
Held in a remote police station, a mysterious stranger takes over the minds and souls of everyone inside.
Director: Brian O'Malley | Stars: Liam Cunningham, Pollyanna McIntosh, Bryan Larkin, Hanna Stanbridge
Votes: 10,748
A different kind of view on one of the key figures in Christianity.
33. Winter Light (1963)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama
A small-town priest struggles with his faith.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom, Max von Sydow
Votes: 27,099
A small town priest struggles with his faith.
34. The Seventh Seal (1957)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy
A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe
Votes: 198,506
Another Bergman classic.
35. Gabriel (2007)
R | 114 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Gabriel the archangel fights to bring light back to purgatory - a place where darkness rules - and save the souls of the city's inhabitants.
Director: Shane Abbess | Stars: Andy Whitfield, Dwaine Stevenson, Samantha Noble, Michael Piccirilli
Votes: 14,272
An action film.
36. The Reaping (2007)
R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller
A former Christian missionary, who specializes in debunking religious phenomena, investigates a small town which seems to be suffering from the 10 biblical plagues.
Director: Stephen Hopkins | Stars: Hilary Swank, David Morrissey, AnnaSophia Robb, Idris Elba
Votes: 44,646 | Gross: $25.12M
Biblical plagues.
37. The Rapture (1991)
R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A telephone operator living an empty, amoral life finds God and loses him again.
Director: Michael Tolkin | Stars: Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Darwyn Carson, Patrick Bauchau
Votes: 6,031 | Gross: $1.28M
Title says it all.
38. The Day of the Beast (1995)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Bent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still hope?
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Álex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura, Terele Pávez
Votes: 23,791 | Gross: $0.02M
Anti-christ.
39. The Book of Life (1998)
Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Fantasy
The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New... See full summary »
Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Martin Donovan, PJ Harvey, Dave Simonds, Thomas Jay Ryan
Votes: 2,115
Jesus gets second thoughts on ending the world.
40. Apocalypse: Caught in the Eye of the Storm (1998 Video)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Two news broadcasters, through investigation, find that they were left behind after the biblical rapture.
Director: Peter Gerretsen | Stars: Leigh Lewis, Richard Nester, Sam Bornstein, David Roddis
Votes: 617
Post-rapture.
41. The Late Great Planet Earth (1978)
PG | 91 min | Documentary, Drama
Events that are prophesied in the Bible are illustrated to show that civilization is headed for doomsday.
Directors: Robert Amram, Rolf Forsberg | Stars: Orson Welles, Hal Lindsey, Babetta, Emile Benoit
Votes: 368 | Gross: $19.50M
A documentary raving about the imminent coming apocalypse.
42. Heaven Is Hell (2014)
115 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
After an untimely death, a devout Christian finds her beliefs shattered when she awakens in a war-ravaged Heaven and joins a rogue band of biblical characters battling against a corrupt God and a treacherous archangel.
Directors: Mike Meyer, Chris Sato | Stars: Lindsey Marks, Christopher Marcum, Ethan Henry, Mark ViaFranco
Votes: 54
Civil war in Heaven against the corrupted God.
43. Years of the Beast (1981)
Not Rated | 98 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A fast-moving, feature-length dramatic film that portrays the events in the book of Revelation.
Director: D. Paul Thomas | Stars: Gary Bayer, Alana Rader, Malcon McCaiman, Jerry Houser
Votes: 276
Yet another apocalyptic religious movie.
44. 3faltig (2010)
95 min | Comedy
Hage, the Holy Spirit, is writing a musical, when Jesus returns to earth at Christmas to prepare the apocalypse. To prevent this, Hage tries to convince him that mankind is worth saving with the help of a beautiful striptease dancer.
Director: Harald Sicheritz | Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Christian Tramitz, Roland Düringer, Adele Neuhauser
Votes: 395
A comedy on how the Holy Spirit tries to convince Jesus not to destroy mankind - with the help of a stripper.
45. God v. Satan: The Final Battle (2008 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary, History
Christians, Jews and Muslims believe there will a final battle between God and Satan. Believers and scholars are interviewed. Artwork and staged reenactments depict the end times.
Director: Lisa Quijano Wolfinger | Stars: Avery Brooks, Jonathan Kirsch, Paul S. Boyer, Hassan Qazwini
Votes: 99
A documentary.
46. End of Days (1999)
R | 122 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
At the end of the century, Satan visits New York in search of a bride. It's up to an ex-cop who now runs an elite security outfit to stop him.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak
Votes: 116,733 | Gross: $66.89M
Arnold fights Satan.
47. The Congregation (2011)
11 min | Short, Horror, Thriller
John Christner returns from war to find that he has been shunned by his Amish family and friends for violating their beliefs. However, when a mysterious plague threatens the community, John may be their only hope for survival.
Director: Michael Foulke | Stars: Ross Marquand, Bruce Davison, Daniel Roebuck, Liesel Kopp
Votes: 42
The Amish and zombies!
48. Iniquitous (I)
98 min | Horror | Announced
A group of catholic students traveling abroad unlock a curse after descending into the catacomb ruins of an old Roman church and awaking it's demons.
Post-apocalyptic.
49. Silhouette City (2008)
88 min | Documentary
An immersive journey into American Christian fascism, tracing it from the margins to the mainstream.
Director: Michael Warren Wilson | Stars: Michelle Goldberg, Chris Hedges, D. James Kennedy, Robert Jay Lifton
Votes: 17
An expose on Christian right-wing.
50. Priest (1994)
R | 98 min | Drama, Romance
A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own.
Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Robert Carlyle, Cathy Tyson
Votes: 11,035 | Gross: $4.18M
Gay Catholic priest.
51. The Devils (1971)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Votes: 18,672 | Gross: $1.13M
About the legendary Urbain Grandier.
52. Nuevo mundo (1978)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, History
A story of a priest set in 16th century Mexico who converted the local pagan population to Christianity by making a statue of the Virgin Mary resembling a native woman.
Director: Gabriel Retes | Stars: Aarón Hernán, Tito Junco, Bruno Rey, Juan Ángel Martínez
Votes: 102
Banned by the Vatican.
53. Jesus of Montreal (1989)
R | 120 min | Drama, Romance
A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Lothaire Bluteau, Catherine Wilkening, Johanne-Marie Tremblay, Rémy Girard
Votes: 7,550 | Gross: $1.60M
A passion play spills over to real life.
54. Six-Hundred & Sixty Six (1972)
89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A group of people inside an underground complex which possesses high tech computers which tracks world events consider all options as nuclear war is at hand,air supplies may last only eight days and Biblical prophesy unfolds.
Director: Tom Doades | Stars: Joe Turkel, Byron Clark, John O'Connell, Ed DeLatte
Votes: 35
Apocalyptic stuff in a bunker.
55. I Confess (1953)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A priest, who comes under suspicion for murder, cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne
Votes: 23,270
56. Small Town Murder Songs (2010)
R | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.
Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly | Stars: Jill Hennessy, Amy Rutherford, Peter Stormare, Vladimir Bondarenko
Votes: 3,039 | Gross: $0.03M
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