Tag Archives: faith

Keeping the Faith

IMDB Rating: 6.60
17502 votes

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A love triangle between three friends. Rabbi Jake Schram and Father Brian Finn, two friends, are out to update their religions and draw in more worshipers. With the arrival of Anna Reilly, an old childhood friend of the two, the men's lives are thrown a curve ball. Anna has become a stunning beauty with a lot of spunk and ambition, and both of them want her. A major road block to Anna for both men is their religion. Jake is up for a head position at his synagogue and taking on a non-Jewish partner is frowned upon, besides the fact that his mother disowned his brother for marrying a non-Jewish woman. Brian has given a vow of celibacy to become a priest.
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Rabbi Jake SchramBen Stiller
Father Brian FinnEdward Norton
Anna RileyJenna Elfman
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Raiders of the Lost Ark

IMDB Rating: 8.70
174706 votes

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The year is 1936. A professor who studies archeology named Inidana Jones is venturing in the jungles in South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap doing so, miraculously, he escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to humanly existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Renee Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.
Actors
Indiana JonesHarrison Ford
Marion RavenwoodKaren Allen
Dr. Rene BelloqPaul Freeman
Also posted in 1981, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Dogma

IMDB Rating: 7.30
71668 votes

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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.
Actors
MetatronAlan Rickman
GodAlanis Morissette
RufusChris Rock
Also posted in 1999, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Under the Tuscan Sun

IMDB Rating: 6.60
8606 votes

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Academy Award nominee 'Diane Lane (I)' (qv) stars as 'Frances Mayes' (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer's block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on 'Frances Mayes' (qv)' memoir of the same name.
Actors
FrancesDiane Lane
PattiSandra Oh
KatherineLindsay Duncan
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (1)

Fearless

IMDB Rating: 7.00
6879 votes

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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
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Max KleinJeff Bridges
Laura KleinIsabella Rossellini
Carla RodrigoRosie Perez
Also posted in 1993, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Orgazmo

IMDB Rating: 5.80
8661 votes

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Joe Young is a young Mormon actor who preaches the word of God in LA and can't get anything from it. One day he stumbles on the set of new porno movie shot by well known porn director Maxxx Orbison. Maxxx chooses Joe for the title part in his new movie Captain Orgazmo. Joe soon befriends short and skinny Ben Chapleski (his sidekick in the film), who invented a ray-gun which emits a light beam that causes the most intense orgasm in whoever it hits (called Orgasmorator). Unexpectedly movie Captain Orgazmo becomes a cult hit, and Joe's girlfriend Lisa accidentally sees the movie in the video store - and the problems begin.
Actors
Joe Young/OrgazmoTrey Parker
Ben Chapleski/Choda BoyDian Bachar
LisaRobyn Lynne Raab
Also posted in 1997, Comedy, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

A Walk to Remember

IMDB Rating: 6.90
18906 votes

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Each spring in the little port town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Landon Carter remembers his senior year at Beaufort High and Jamie Sullivan, the girl who changed his life. Serious and conservative, Jamie was as far from cool as she could possibly be, and didn't care. Landon hung with the in-crowd an aimless, moody, reckless guy who breezed through school on looks and bravado and had no plans, no future and no faith in himself. When a prank goes terribly wrong landing a kid in the hospital, Landon is assigned to tutor a young student on the weekends and participate in the Drama Club's spring play. Clearly in over his head with both assignments, Landon is forced to ask Jamie for help. Soon, against his own expectations and the scorn of his friends, Landon finds himself falling in love with this outwardly plain girl who possesses a passion for life he never imagined possible.
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Daryl Hannah
Shane West
Mandy Moore
Also posted in 2002, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

IMDB Rating: 6.80
16002 votes

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The nineteen years old Catholic college girl Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter) dies a couple of days after being submitted to an exorcism carried out by her parish priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson). Emily believed she was possessed by six demons, and although authorized by Emily and he parents, Father Moore is accused of negligent homicide, since he had suggested Emily to interrupt the use of medications for epilepsy. In order to avoid a scandal, the Archdiocese hires the successful, ambitious and agnostic lawyer Erin Bruner (Laura Linney), and the prosecution assigns the religious prosecutor Ethan Thomas (Campbell Scott). Along the days, there is a battle between science and religion in the court.
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Erin BrunerLaura Linney
Father MooreTom Wilkinson
Ethan ThomasCampbell Scott
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Reaping

IMDB Rating: 5.30
2817 votes

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The death of a child in mysterious circumstances; sparks of a series of events that seem to represent biblical plagues, start occurring in of all places a town called *Haven* located deep in the bowels of bible belt country in the buoys of Louisiana. A former Christian missionary turned religious phenomena debunker and her top open minded student turned personnel assistant is sent to investigate.
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Katherine WinterHilary Swank
DougDavid Morrissey
BenIdris Elba
Also posted in 2007, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Children of Men

IMDB Rating: 8.10
51494 votes

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With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England's Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo's bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret?
Actors
Baby DiegoJuan Gabriel Yacuzzi
NewsreaderMichelle Hussain
NewsreaderRob Curling
Also posted in 2006, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)