Faith
"faith" Movies and TV Shows
#1
172 Days
Synopsis:
Zira was united with Amer for 172 very memorable days. Fate separated, Amer left too soon, leaving many sweet memories for Zira.
Starring:
Bryan Domani,
Abun Sungkar,
Yasmin Napper
Plot:
religious,
love,
life,
based on real people,
female protagonist,
couple,
parent,
islam,
muslim,
faith
...
#2
The Exorcist: Believer
Synopsis:
Since his wife's death, Victor has raised his daughter Angela alone. After she and her friend return from a three-day disappearance with missing memories, they begin displaying frightening behavior reminiscent of the MacNeil possession fifty years prior.
Starring:
Ann Dowd,
Antoni Corone,
E.J. Bonilla
#3
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Synopsis:
When her family moves from New York City to New Jersey, an 11-year-old girl navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.
Starring:
Rachel McAdams,
Abby Ryder Fortson,
Kathy Bates
Plot:
christianity,
new jersey,
adolescence,
based on novel or book,
1970s,
menstruation,
puberty,
city,
dramedy,
love
...
#4
Knock at the Cabin
Synopsis:
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
Starring:
Rupert Grint,
Nikki Amuka-Bird,
Dave Bautista
#5
Winter Light
Synopsis:
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Starring:
Max von Sydow,
Ingrid Thulin,
Gunnar Björnstrand
Plot:
atheist,
loss of faith,
prayer,
sweden,
doubt,
lack of connection,
faith,
priest,
existentialism,
religion
...
#6
Wild Strawberries
Synopsis:
Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unhappy daughter-in-law, Marianne, in order to receive an honorary degree from his alma mater. Along the way, they encounter a series of hitchhikers, each of whom causes the elderly doctor to muse upon the pleasures and failures of his own life. These include the vivacious young Sara, a dead ringer fo…
Starring:
Ingrid Thulin,
Gertrud Fridh,
Naima Wifstrand
Plot:
professor,
road movie,
nostalgia,
dream,
swedish summer,
strawberry,
aging,
voice over narration,
flashback,
self discovery
...
#7
Viridiana
Synopsis:
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her un…
Starring:
Silvia Pinal,
José Calvo,
Margarita Lozano
Plot:
nun,
novice,
da vinci last supper,
suspected rape,
wedding veil,
drugged,
barefoot,
suicide by hanging,
jumping rope,
female feet
...
#8
The Seventh Seal
Synopsis:
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act …
Starring:
Max von Sydow,
Bertil Anderberg,
Bibi Andersson
Plot:
chess,
death,
knight,
death personified,
church,
medieval times,
black death,
existentialism,
surrealism,
christianity
...
#9
The Rescuers
Synopsis:
What can two little mice possibly do to save an orphan girl who's fallen into evil hands? With a little cooperation and faith in oneself, anything is possible! As members of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society, Bernard and Miss Bianca respond to orphan Penny's call for help. The two mice search for clues with the help of an old cat named Rufus.
Starring:
Pat Buttram,
Eva Gabor,
Jeanette Nolan
Plot:
alligator,
bayou,
mouse,
albatross,
diamond,
orphan,
dragonfly,
animal hero,
new york city,
orphan girl
...
#10
The Poseidon Adventure
Synopsis:
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
Starring:
Shelley Winters,
Leslie Nielsen,
Jack Albertson
#11
The Night of the Hunter
Synopsis:
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Starring:
Shelley Winters,
Peter Graves,
James Gleason
Plot:
widow,
preacher,
southern gothic,
spanking,
psychopath,
cult film,
money,
doll,
death,
promise
...
#12
The Name of the Rose
Synopsis:
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence – which is considerable.
Starring:
Sean Connery,
F. Murray Abraham,
Christian Slater
Plot:
middle ages,
abbey,
monk,
franciscan,
14th century,
death,
order,
wealth,
novice,
investigation
...
#13
The Hurricane
Synopsis:
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Starring:
Denzel Washington,
David Paymer,
Clancy Brown
#14
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Synopsis:
This biblical drama focuses on the teachings of Jesus, including the parables that reflect their revolutionary nature. As Jesus travels along the coast of the Sea of Galilee, he gradually gathers more followers, leading him into direct conflict with the authorities.
Starring:
Enrique Irazoqui,
Margherita Caruso,
Susanna Pasolini
Plot:
palestine,
judea,
galilee,
divine conception,
angel,
three wise men,
birth,
messiah,
israel,
escape
...
#15
The Count of Monte Cristo
Synopsis:
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.
Starring:
Henry Cavill,
Guy Pearce,
Luis Guzmán
Plot:
violence,
revenge,
escape,
treasure,
prison,
priest,
whipping,
sword fight,
color remake of black and white film,
fireworks
...
#16
The African Queen
Synopsis:
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Starring:
Katharine Hepburn,
Humphrey Bogart,
Robert Morley
Plot:
boat,
leech,
stuck in mud,
missionary,
torpedo,
death sentence,
repairing an engine,
german military,
steamship,
boat pilot
...
#17
Sister Act
Synopsis:
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—and identification by the mob.
Starring:
Whoopi Goldberg,
Kathy Najimy,
Maggie Smith
#18
Signs
Synopsis:
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Starring:
Mel Gibson,
Joaquin Phoenix,
M. Night Shyamalan
Plot:
crop circle,
extraterrestrial,
crop,
faith,
farm,
farmhouse,
car accident,
water,
asthma attack,
pet dog
...
#19
Scrooged
Synopsis:
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing staff member Eliot Loudermilk on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Starring:
Carol Kane,
Alfre Woodard,
Bill Murray
Plot:
ghost,
christmas,
compassion,
greed,
redemption,
tv show,
unemployment,
christmas show,
hallucination,
based on novel
...
#20
Rome, Open City
Synopsis:
During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the leader of the Resistance is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
Starring:
Maria Michi,
Anna Magnani,
Aldo Fabrizi