Tag Archives: catholic church

On the Waterfront

IMDB Rating: 8.40
30783 votes

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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry's brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey's sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.
Actors
Terry MalloyMarlon Brando
Father BarryKarl Malden
Johnny FriendlyLee J. Cobb
Also posted in 1954, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Black Robe

IMDB Rating: 7.20
2185 votes

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In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls in love with the Algonquin chief's beautiful daughter underneath the imposing and magnificent mountains. Dread and death follows them upriver.
Actors
Father LaforgueLothaire Bluteau
DanielAden Young
AnnukaSandrine Holt
Also posted in 1991, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (0)

The Agony and the Ecstasy

IMDB Rating: 6.90
1551 votes

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Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not on the battlefield uniting Italy, the Pope nags Michelangelo to speed up his painful work on the frescoes.
Actors
MichelangeloCharlton Heston
Pope Julius IIRex Harrison
Contessina de'MediciDiane Cilento
Also posted in 1965, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (0)

Schindler’s List

IMDB Rating: 8.90
209352 votes

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"Schindler's List" is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler's motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.
Actors
Oskar SchindlerLiam Neeson
Itzhak SternBen Kingsley
Amon GoethRalph Fiennes
Also posted in 1993, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, War | Comments (0)

From Hell

IMDB Rating: 6.80
40554 votes

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The infamous Jack the Ripper case set in London of 1888. The Ripper has been running amok in the Whitechapel district murdering and dissecting prostitutes. Scotland Yard Inspector Fred Abberline, aided by his partner, Peter Godley, are on the case to figure out who this serial killer is and why he is killing these women in such a brutal manner. Abberline is an opium addict and when "chasing the dragon" he is able to have visions of the future, a certain psychic ability that allows him to solve cases. As Abberline and Godley investigate the crimes, they become acquainted with the prostitutes who were friends and colleagues of the victims. Abberline begins to fall in love with Mary Kelly, one of the prostitutes, or as the nobles called them "unfortunates", being hunted down by Jack the Ripper. Abberline digs deeper and deeper into the conspiracy and attempts to solve the case before Mary Kelly is the next victim.
Actors
Inspector Frederick AbberlineJohnny Depp
Mary KellyHeather Graham
Sir William GullIan Holm
Also posted in 2001, Crime, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

X2

IMDB Rating: 7.80
88194 votes

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Having returned from the north after finding nothing, Wolverine/Logan watches over the school students for a night as Charles Xavier visits Magneto in his plastic confinement prison and Storm and Jean Grey search for a teleporter mutant known as Nightcrawler who attempted to assassinate the president. Things become deadly as William Stryker, a scientist who has experimented on mutants, leads a siege on Xavier's mansion- few mutants escape. With the school no longer safe, Magneto out of prison and forming a temporary alliance with the X-Men, and Professor Xavier in the hands of Stryker; the mutants team up to stop Stryker's plans to wipe the mutants off the face of the Earth.
Actors
Professor Charles XavierPatrick Stewart
LoganHugh Jackman
WolverineHugh Jackman
Also posted in 2003, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Shoes of the Fisherman

IMDB Rating: 6.70
986 votes

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After twenty years in a Siberian labor camp, Kiril Lakota, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lvov, is set free. The Catholic Archbishop is released and sent to Rome, where the ailing Pope makes him a Cardinal. The world is in a state of crisis - a famine in China is exacerbated by United States restrictions on Chinese trade and the ongoing Chinese-Soviet feud. When the Pontiff dies, Lakota finds himself elected Pope. But the new Pope Kiril I is plagued by self-doubt, by his years in prison, and by the strange world he knows so little about. This movie contains extensive information about Catholic faith & practice, as a television news reporter steps in from time-to-time to explain the procedures involved in selecting a new Pope.
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Kiril LakotaAnthony Quinn
Piotr Ilyich KamenevLaurence Olivier
Fr. David TelemondOskar Werner
Also posted in 1968, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Verdict

IMDB Rating: 7.70
7879 votes

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Frank Galvin is a down-on-his luck lawyer, reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing. Former associate Mickey Morrissey reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit that he himself served to Galvin on a silver platter: all parties willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, he suddenly realizes that perhaps after all the case should go to court: to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients, and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
Actors
Frank GalvinPaul Newman
Laura FischerCharlotte Rampling
Mickey MorrisseyJack Warden
Also posted in 1982, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Fame

IMDB Rating: 6.30
5338 votes

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At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia.
Actors
AngeloEddie Barth
AngeloEddie Barth
CocoIrene Cara
Also posted in 1980, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music | Comments (0)

The Blues Brothers

IMDB Rating: 7.90
48437 votes

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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their "mission from god" they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?
Actors
'Joliet' Jake BluesJohn Belushi
Elwood BluesDan Aykroyd
Reverend Cleophus JamesJames Brown
Also posted in 1980, Action, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Music, Musical | Comments (0)
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