Mo’fuckin’ Carl Dreyer’s Ordet.
Bergman’s Winter Light
I’d second the recommendation of Ordet, but would also add the following:
Breaking the Waves
The Exorcist
Lady in the Water
It’s A Wonderful LIfe
Mr. Deeds Goes To Town
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Pocketful of Miracles
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try dardenne’s le fils (the son)
The Apostle
Killer of Sheep
We are talking English language films right?
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Diary of a Country Priest
DEFINITELY Ordet
Less obvious films with the theme of faith vs. doubt:
Peter Pan (clap your hands if you believe).
The Music Man (the thinkology method of music education)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (pod people taking over the earth? are you crazy?)
Rear Window (is it a murder if you don’t see it happen?)
The World of Henry Orient (how does the faith we develop in innocence hold up to experience?)
GREAT answers so far.
Maybe also:
The Seventh Seal
Contact
21 Grams
Priest
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
Doubt
Stalker!
The Passion of Joan of Arc comes to mind immediately.
I second The Apostle.
Inception
12 Monkeys
Four Lions
Cool these are great. Also just thought of Dogtooth and we are actually doing doubt later in the year. If not that I might do Ordet or Stalker.
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Boring answers so far, we’ve already seen the most of them in another thread about religion and I’m quite bored myself to browse and find it right now (I’ve found enough on my list for fruitful discussions), however….the OP can easily locate it thanks to our search engine and comfortably pick anything he / she needs from there.
Well what do you know, here it is:
By the way, my thread-link contains several examples of multiple religions BESIDES CHRISTIANITY and some variations of it instead of all this Catholic-Protestant majority of films this thread will slowly increase into.
Oh, Hannah and Her Sisters is a fun one, too.
A lot of 80’s Woody Allen films deal with that sort of question. In Crimes and Misdemeanors, there’s that one scene, “History is written by the victors. If Germany had won the war, we’d have a very different understanding of the holocaust.”
All the obvious ones have been mentioned. Ordet, Diary Of A Country Priest. For ‘Faith in humanity’ themes, Nights of Cabiria.
Michael Tolkin’s The Rapture
Bill Paxton’s Frailty
John Swanbeck’s The Big Kahuna
Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men
Antonia Bird’s Priest
Danny Boyle’s Millions
Some time ago, I programmed a few “Faith and Film” series for the Episcopal church I attend in St. Louis, Missouri. The periodic screenings, which took place at the apartment of one of our priests, seated about 10 people. Over the course of three years or so, here is what I showed:
The Night of the Hunter – Charles Laughton
Sullivan’s Travels – Preston Sturges
Black Narcissus – Michael Powell
Heaven Can Wait – Ernst Lubitsch
Babette’s Feast – Gabriel Axel
Diary of a Country Priest – Robert Bresson
Crimes and Misdemeanors – Woody Allen
The Gospel According to St. Matthew – Pier Paolo Pasolini
Ordet – Carl Theodor Dreyer
Heavens Above! – John and Roy Boulting
Love and Death – Woody Allen
The Flowers of St. Francis – Roberto Rossellini
Hannah and Her Sisters – Woody Allen
Millions – Danny Boyle
The Passion of Joan of Arc – Carl Theodor Dreyer
Day of Wrath – Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Seventh Seal – Ingmar Bergman
Jesus of Montreal – Denys Arcand
Quiz Show – Robert Redford
Becket – Peter Glenville
Au revoir les enfants – Louis Malle
Forbidden Games – René Clément
Winter Light – Ingmar Bergman
49 Up – Michael Apted
Ushpizin – Gidi Dar
Should I ever revive the series, there are so many other films I would love to show, including Lars and the Real Girl (Craig Gillespie) and The Namesake (Mira Nair).
First of all, The Passion of Joan of Arc. Intolerance (Griffith /1916), L’idée (Berthold Bartosch /1932). Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlácil /1967)
Today
Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont /2009)
Shahada (Burhan Qurbani /2010)
Antichrist (Lars Von Trier /2009).
Das Weisse Band (Michael Haneke /2009)
Also, faith dos’nt have to be a religious faith but can be faith in a person, in humanity, in a plan, etc.
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Faith in a Plan:
Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Fitzcarraldo
Buffalo 66
Worlds Fastest Indian
Glengarry Gen Ross
Kill Bill
Faith in a System:
Le Samourai, or any Melville noir
The Hawk is Dying
Into the Wild
O Lucky Man
To Sleep with Anger
Stoszek
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Kill Bill
Faith in a Person:
Two Lovers
This is England
Somers Town
Bobby
Taxi Driver
To Sleep with Anger
Little Odessa
Henry Fool
2001 also a lot to say about faith and religion
Milk and Honey
Oh hai,
I’m doing faith and doubt in English just attempting to think of an appropriate film. So far can only think of a serious man. Also, faith dos’nt have to be a religious faith but can be faith in a person, in humanity, in a plan, etc. Any suggestions?