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Directed by Catherine HardwickeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Fantasy,
Historical,
PeplumThemes Films set in Africa,
Pregnancy films,
Christmas films,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Films based on the Bible,
Portrayals of Jesus in film,
Films about virginityActors Keisha Castle-Hugues,
Shohreh Aghdashloo,
Oscar Isaac,
Hiam Abbass,
Stanley Townsend,
Ciarán HindsRating68%
The plot begins with the portrayal of the Massacre of the Innocents in the Nativity. The remainder of the movie portrays the annunciation (conception) and birth of Jesus Christ to explain why King Herod the Great (Ciarán Hinds) ordered the murder., 2h
Directed by Xavier BeauvoisOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
HistoricalThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about religionActors Lambert Wilson,
Michael Lonsdale,
Olivier Rabourdin,
Philippe Laudenbach,
Jacques Herlin,
Goran KostićRating71%
The film opens with a quotation from the Book of Psalms, Psalm 82:6–7: "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." The monks' peaceful routine of prayer, medical assistance, and community interaction is soon interrupted by the threat of an Islamic fundamentalist group. When their elected leader, Christian (Lambert Wilson), declines the protection of the corrupt civil authority, the monks divide amongst themselves on the question of whether to stay or flee Algeria. Before a decision is reached, a group of fundamentalists, led by Ali Fayattia, enters the monks' compound in force on Christmas Eve and demands their doctor and his medical supplies. Christian refuses their requests and cites the Quran as proof of the monks' goodwill. With a mixture of surprise and respect, Fayattia leaves the compound and grants it his protection until his capture, torture and death at the hands of government forces. Despite the growing danger, the monks come to consensus on the moral importance of maintaining their committed lives with, and ministry to, the local population, even when faced with violence and death. Ultimately, the terrorists seize most of the monks during a nighttime raid and hold them hostage. As the captive monks trudge a snowy path towards a grim fate, the film concludes with the spiritual testament of prior Christian de Chergé, bravely written in the face of death., 1h37
Directed by Eran RiklisOrigin IsraelGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about families,
Films about religion,
Political films,
Films about Jews and JudaismActors Hiam Abbass,
Makram J. Khoury,
Clara Khoury,
Ashraf Barhom,
Julie-Anne Roth,
Melanie PeresRating73%
Set in the summer of 2000, Mona (Clara Khoury), a young Druze woman living at Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, is about to marry a successful Syrian actor. Following the hostilities between Israel and Syria there is now the demilitarised UNDOF zone between occupied Golan and Syria observed by United Nations staff. Crossing of the zone is extremely rare as it is only granted by both sides under special circumstances. It has taken 6 months to obtain permission from the Israeli administration for Mona to leave the Golan. When Mona crosses she will not be able to return to her family on the Golan even to visit. Mona is a bit hesitant also because she doesn't know her husband-to-be., 1h39
Directed by Ismaël FerroukhiOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
War,
HistoricalThemes French war films,
Films about religion,
Political films,
Films about Islam,
Histoire de France,
L'Occupation allemande en FranceActors Tahar Rahim,
Michael Lonsdale,
Lubna Azabal,
Farid Larbi,
Stéphane Rideau,
Christopher BuchholzRating65%
In occupied Paris, the young unemployed Algerian, Younes Ben Daoud, makes a living on the black market. He is arrested by the police, and to avoid prison he agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque. The police suspect that the mosque leadership, including its rector Si Kaddour Benghabrit, is helping resistance fighters and protecting North African Jews by giving them Muslim birth certificates., 2h25
Directed by Dean WrightOrigin MexiqueGenres Drama,
War,
Action,
HistoricalThemes Films about religionActors Andy García,
Eva Longoria,
Eduardo Verástegui,
Peter O'Toole,
Bruce Greenwood,
Oscar IsaacRating65%
The film opens with screen titles describing the anti-Catholic provisions of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico. Civil war erupts when newly elected Mexican president, Plutarco Elías Calles (Rubén Blades), begins a violent and relentless crackdown against the country's Catholic faithful. The film depicts the carnage by showing churches being set on fire, Catholic priests murdered and countless faithful peasants killed, then having their bodies publicly hang on telegraph poles as a warning to others., 3h1
Directed by István SzabóOrigin HongrieGenres Drama,
War,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about religion,
Political films,
Films about Jews and JudaismActors Ralph Fiennes,
Rosemary Harris,
Rachel Weisz,
Jennifer Ehle,
Hanns Zischler,
Deborah Kara UngerRating74%
The 19th-century patriarch of the Hungarian-Jewish Sonnenschein family is a tavern owner, who distills and makes his own popular liquor in Austria-Hungary. From the recipe, the liquor, called "Taste of Sunshine," is commercially made by the next generation of the family who gain great wealth and prestige from the business. That generation of the family lives many happy and privileged years and the children are highly educated. The oldest son, Ignatz (the first of 3 generational roles played by Ralph Fiennes), a fast rising judge, falls in love and has an affair with his first cousin, Valerie (Jennifer Ehle), against his father's wishes. The second son, Gustave (James Frain), becomes a medical doctor. Ignatz is asked by a chief judge to change his Jewish surname if he wishes to be promoted within the judiciary. Ignatz, his brother, and his cousin Valerie all happily change their last name to Sors - a "more Hungarian" name., 1h47
Directed by Eran RiklisOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
AdventureThemes Films about religion,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Road moviesActors Stephen Dorff,
Ashraf Barhom,
Alice Taglioni,
Mira Awad,
Ali Suliman,
Abdallah El AkalRating65%
During the 1982 Lebanon War, an Israeli fighter pilot, Yoni, is shot down over Beirut and captured by the Palestine Liberation Organization. Fahed, a precocious young Palestinian refugee who is angered by the death of his father in an Israeli air attack, agrees to help Yoni escape and lead him out of the city if Yoni will get him over the border and back to his family's ancestral village, where Fahed intends to plant an olive tree that his father had been tending in Beirut. As they embark on a hazardous road trip across the war-ravaged country, Yoni and Fahed move from suspicion and mutual antagonism to a tentative camaraderie as they make their way closer to the place they both call home., 2h3
Directed by Joseph LoseyOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
War,
Thriller,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Films about religion,
L'usurpation d'identité,
Political films,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Escroquerie,
Histoire de France,
L'Occupation allemande en France,
La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemandeActors Alain Delon,
Michael Lonsdale,
Jeanne Moreau,
Juliet Berto,
Francine Bergé,
Jean BouiseRating74%
Paris, January 1942. France is occupied by the Nazis. Robert Klein, apparently apolitical, is a well-to-do art dealer, Roman Catholic and Alsatian by birth, who takes advantage of French Jews who need to sell artworks to raise cash to leave the country. One day, the local Jewish newspaper, addressed to him, is delivered to his home. He learns that another Robert Klein who has been living in Paris, a Jew sought by the police, has had his mail forwarded to him in an apparent attempt to destroy his social reputation and make him a target of official anti-Semitism. He reports this to the police who remain suspicious that he may be reporting this scheme to disguise his own true identity. His own investigations lead him in contradictory directions, to Klein who lives in a slum while having an affair with his concierge and to Klein who visits a palatial country estate where he has seduced an apparently Jewish married woman. When the art dealer cannot locate the other Klein, authorities require him to offer proof of his French heritage. While waiting for the documentation to arrive, he struggles to track down his namesake and learn his motivation. Before he can resolve the situation by either means, he is caught up in the July 1942 roundup of Parisian Jews. He is reunited with Jews who once were his clients as they board boxcars for Germany., 2h11
Directed by Jean-Jacques AnnaudOrigin ItalieGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Assassinat,
Films about magic and magicians,
Films about religion,
Witches in film,
Serial killer filmsActors Sean Connery,
F. Murray Abraham,
Christian Slater,
Michael Lonsdale,
Valentina Vargas,
Helmut QualtingerRating76%
As an old man nearing the end of his life, Adso, youngest son of the Baron of Melk recounts how, as a young novice in 1327, he accompanied his mentor, the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville to a Benedictine abbey in Northern Italy. The abbey had been chosen as the site for a theological debate between the Franciscan order and the Pope on the poverty of Christ. The abbey is already home to a famed scriptorium where scribes copy, translate or illuminate books. The mysterious recent death of the monk Adelmo of Otranto - a young but famous illuminator - has stirred fears among the abbey's devout inhabitants. The Abbot seeks help from William, known for his deductive powers. The illuminator's death cannot be dismissed as a suicide because the body was found at the foot of a tower having only a window which cannot be opened. William is reluctant to involve himself, though he is persuaded not only because of the intellectual challenge, but also because of his desire to disprove fears of a demonic culprit in Adelmo's death. William is also motivated to act by his fears that the Abbot will summon officials of the inquisition if the mystery remains unsolved., 3h34
Directed by William WylerOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
Historical,
PeplumThemes Films set in Africa,
Seafaring films,
Christmas films,
Films about religion,
Films about sexuality,
Transport films,
Films based on the Bible,
Films about Jews and Judaism,
Road movies,
Portrayals of Jesus in film,
Chase films,
Films about virginityActors Charlton Heston,
Jack Hawkins,
Haya Harareet,
Stephen Boyd,
Hugh Griffith,
Martha ScottRating80%
In AD 26, Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) is a wealthy prince and merchant in Jerusalem, who lives with his mother, Miriam (Martha Scott); his sister, Tirzah (Cathy O'Donnell); their loyal slave, Simonides (Sam Jaffe); and his daughter, Esther (Haya Harareet), who loves Ben-Hur but is betrothed to another. His childhood friend, the Roman citizen Messala (Stephen Boyd), is now a tribune. After several years away from Jerusalem, Messala returns as the new commander of the Roman garrison. Messala believes in the glory of Rome and its imperial power, while Ben-Hur is devoted to his faith and the freedom of the Jewish people.