A LIBRARY OF RELIGIOUS-THEMED AND SPIRITUAL FILMS

By: Kenji

Bab Aziz, The Prince who Contemplated his Soul

Not yet on this site: Never Take No for an Answer (Cloche)

I expanded the list’s original parameters to include films that take a critical look at religions, such as Tales of the Taira Clan, Ceddo, The Ritual, The Milky Way, Dogville, The Magdalene Sisters, Viridiana..

See Kim Packard’s list A Touch of Buddhism

The Gospel according to St Matthew

• 01
  Agnes of God
  Norman Jewison
• 02
  Andrei Rublev
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 03
  After Life
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 04
  Angels of the Streets
  Robert Bresson
• 05
  The Apostle
  Robert Duvall
• 06
  The Ascent
  Larisa Shepitko
• 07
  Ashik Kerib
  Sergei Parajanov
• 08
  Augustine of Hippo
  Roberto Rossellini
• 09
  Au hasard Balthazar
  Robert Bresson
• 10
  Au revoir les enfants
  Louis Malle
• 11
  Bab'Aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul
  Nacer Khemir
• 12
  Babette's Feast
  Gabriel Axel
• 13
  Baraka
  Ron Fricke
• 14
  Becket
  Peter Glenville
• 15
  Ben-Hur
  William Wyler
• 16
  Birdsong
  Albert Serra
• 17
  Black God, White Devil
  Glauber Rocha
• 18
  Black Narcissus
  Michael Powell
• 19
  Black Robe
  Bruce Beresford
• 20
  Blissfully Yours
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 21
  Blue Like Jazz
  Steve Taylor
• 22
  The Boys of St. Vincent
  John N. Smith
• 23
  Breaking the Waves
  Lars von Trier
• 24
  Brightness
  Souleymane Cissé
• 25
  Brilliant Moon
  Neten Chokling
• 26
  Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame
  Hana Makhmalbaf
• 27
  Mandara
  Im Kwon-taek
• 28
  The Burmese Harp
  Kon Ichikawa
• 29
  Cave of Forgotten Dreams
  Werner Herzog
• 30
  Ceddo
  Ousmane Sembène
• 31
  Central Station
  Walter Salles
• 32
  Century of Birthing
  Lav Diaz
• 33
  Chariots of Fire
  Hugh Hudson
• 34
  Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
  Danièle Huillet
• 35
  The Cloud-Capped Star
  Ritwik Ghatak
• 36
  The Color of Paradise
  Majid Majidi
• 37
  The Color of Pomegranates
  Sergei Parajanov
• 38
  Come, Come, Come, Upward
  Im Kwon-taek
• 39
  Cries and Whispers
  Ingmar Bergman
• 40
  The Cup
  Khyentse Norbu
• 41
  Day of Wrath
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 42
  The Decalogue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 43
  Deliver Us from Evil
  Amy Berg
• 44
  Dersu Uzala
  Akira Kurosawa
• 45
  The Devil's Trap
  František Vláčil
• 46
  Diary of a Country Priest
  Robert Bresson
• 47
  Din of Celestial Birds
  E. Elias Merhige
• 48
  Dogville
  Lars von Trier
• 49
  Donkey in a Brahmin Village
  John Abraham
• 50
  The Double Life of Véronique
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 51
  Drifter
  Cao Guimarães
• 52
  Early Summer
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 53
  Earth
  Deepa Mehta
• 54
  Egg
  Semih Kaplanoğlu
• 55
  The Elephant Man
  David Lynch
• 56
  The End of a Priest
  Evald Schorm
• 57
  L'enfant
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 58
  Enlightenment Guaranteed
  Doris Dörrie
• 59
  Essene
  Frederick Wiseman
• 60
  Eternity and a Day
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 61
  Eureka
  Shinji Aoyama
• 62
  Fanny and Alexander — The Television Version
  Ingmar Bergman
• 63
  The Flowers of St. Francis
  Roberto Rossellini
• 64
  Friendly Persuasion
  William Wyler
• 65
  Gandhi
  Richard Attenborough
• 66
  The Given Word
  Anselmo Duarte
• 67
  The Goddess
  Satyajit Ray
• 68
  The Golem: How He Came into the World
  Carl Boese
• 69
  The Gospel According to St. Matthew
  Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 70
  Gran Torino
  Clint Eastwood
• 71
  The Green Ray
  Éric Rohmer
• 72
  Groundhog Day
  Harold Ramis
• 73
  Guelwaar
  Ousmane Sembène
• 74
  Heaven Can Wait
  Ernst Lubitsch
• 75
  Himala
  Ishmael Bernal
• 76
  The Holly and the Ivy
  George More O'Ferrall
• 77
  The Holy Girl
  Lucrecia Martel
• 78
  The Holy Mountain
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
• 79
  A Hometown in Heart
  Yoon Yong-kyu
• 80
  Hope
  Yilmaz Güney
• 81
  The Horse Thief
  Tian Zhuangzhuang
• 82
  The House is Black
  Forugh Farrokhzad
• 83
  I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 84
  Ikiru
  Akira Kurosawa
• 85
  In the Name of God
  Patricio Guzmán
• 86
  Into Great Silence
  Philip Gröning
• 87
  Into the Wild
  Sean Penn
• 88
  Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
  D.W. Griffith
• 89
  The Island
  Pavel Lungin
• 90
  I, the Worst of All
  María Luisa Bemberg
• 91
  It's a Wonderful Life
  Frank Capra
• 92
  Jeanne la Pucelle I: The Battles
  Jacques Rivette
• 93
  Jeanne la Pucelle II: The Prisons
  Jacques Rivette
• 94
  Jesus of Montreal
  Denys Arcand
• 95
  Johanna
  Kornél Mundruczó
• 96
  Kiki's Delivery Service
  Hayao Miyazaki
• 97
  Landscape in the Mist
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 98
  The Last Temptation of Christ
  Martin Scorsese
• 99
  Late Spring
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 100
  Léon Morin, Priest
  Jean-Pierre Melville
• 101
  Lilies of the Field
  Ralph Nelson
• 102
  A Little Monastery in Tuscany
  Otar Iosseliani
• 103
  Lorna's Silence
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 104
  Lourdes
  Jessica Hausner
• 105
  Love
  Károly Makk
• 106
  Love Exposure
  Sion Sono
• 107
  Maborosi
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 108
  The Magdalene Sisters
  Peter Mullan
• 109
  Major Barbara
  Gabriel Pascal
• 110
  A Man Escaped
  Robert Bresson
• 111
  A Man for All Seasons
  Fred Zinnemann
• 112
  Marketa Lazarová
  František Vláčil
• 113
  The Milky Way
  Luis Buñuel
• 114
  The Mirror
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 115
  The Mission
  Roland Joffé
• 116
  A Moment of Innocence
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
• 117
  Monty Python's Life of Brian
  Terry Jones
• 118
  Mother and Son
  Aleksandr Sokurov
• 119
  Mother Joan of the Angels
  Jerzy Kawalerowicz
• 120
  Munyurangabo
  Lee Isaac Chung
• 121
  My Night at Maud's
  Éric Rohmer
• 122
  The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey
  Vincent Ward
• 123
  Nazarín
  Luis Buñuel
• 124
  The New World
  Terrence Malick
• 125
  The Night of the Hunter
  Charles Laughton
• 126
  Night of the Shooting Stars
  Paolo Taviani
• 127
  Night Sun
  Paolo Taviani
• 128
  No Greater Love
  Michael Whyte
• 129
  Nostalghia
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 130
  The Nun
  Jacques Rivette
• 131
  The Nun's Story
  Fred Zinnemann
• 132
  Of Gods and Men
  Xavier Beauvois
• 133
  On est loin du soleil
  Jacques Leduc
• 134
  Ordet
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 135
  Paris, Texas
  Wim Wenders
• 136
  Passage to Buddha
  Jang Sun-woo
• 137
  The Passion of Joan of Arc
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
• 138
  Pather Panchali
  Satyajit Ray
• 139
  Perceval le Gallois
  Éric Rohmer
• 140
  Pickpocket
  Robert Bresson
• 141
  Ponette
  Jacques Doillon
• 142
  Rabea el adawaya
  Niazi Mostafa
• 143
  Raining in the Mountain
  King Hu
• 144
  The Return
  Andrei Zvyagintsev
• 145
  The Ritual
  Girish Kasaravalli
• 146
  The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
  Éric Rohmer
• 147
  Rosetta
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 148
  The Sacrifice
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 149
  Sansho the Bailiff
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 150
  Saint Tukaram
  Vishnupant Govind Damle
• 151
  The Seventh Seal
  Ingmar Bergman
• 152
  Silence
  Masahiro Shinoda
• 153
  Silent Light
  Carlos Reygadas
• 154
  Simon of the Desert
  Luis Buñuel
• 155
  Solaris
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 156
  The Son
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 157
  The Song of Bernadette
  Henry King
• 158
  The Song of Ceylon
  Basil Wright
• 159
  Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
  Marc Rothemund
• 160
  The Spirit of the Beehive
  Víctor Erice
• 161
  Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
  Kim Ki-duk
• 162
  Stalker
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 163
  Stars in My Crown
  Jacques Tourneur
• 164
  Still Life
  Jia Zhangke
• 165
  Street Angel
  Frank Borzage
• 166
  Sunrise
  F.W. Murnau
• 167
  The Suspended Vocation
  Raúl Ruiz
• 168
  Syndromes and a Century
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 169
  Taira Clan Saga
  Kenji Mizoguchi
• 170
  Ten Canoes
  Rolf de Heer
• 171
  Tender Mercies
  Bruce Beresford
• 172
  Thérèse
  Alain Cavalier
• 173
  Three Colors: Blue
  Krzysztof Kieślowski
• 174
  Through a Glass Darkly
  Ingmar Bergman
• 175
  Tierra
  Julio Medem
• 176
  Tokyo Story
  Yasujirô Ozu
• 177
  A Touch of Zen
  King Hu
• 178
  Travellers and Magicians
  Khyentse Norbu
• 179
  2001: A Space Odyssey
  Stanley Kubrick
• 180
  Umberto D.
  Vittorio De Sica
• 181
  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 182
  Under the Sun of Satan
  Maurice Pialat
• 183
  Valley of the Bees
  František Vláčil
• 184
  Viridiana
  Luis Buñuel
• 185
  Visions of Lourdes
  Charles Dekeukeleire
• 186
  Walker
  Tsai Ming-liang
• 187
  Wanderers of the Desert
  Nacer Khemir
• 188
  Water
  Deepa Mehta
• 189
  Wheel of Time
  Werner Herzog
• 190
  Whistle Down the Wind
  Bryan Forbes
• 191
  White Darkness
  Richard Stanley
• 192
  Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
  Bae Yong-Kyun
• 193
  The Wicker Man
  Robin Hardy
• 194
  Wild Strawberries
  Ingmar Bergman
• 195
  The Wind Will Carry Us
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 196
  Window Water Baby Moving
  Stan Brakhage
• 197
  Wings of Desire
  Wim Wenders
• 198
  Winstanley
  Kevin Brownlow
• 199
  Winter Light
  Ingmar Bergman
• 200
  Witness
  Peter Weir
• 201
  Word and Utopia
  Manoel de Oliveira
• 202
  Worldly Desires
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul