Posts Tagged ‘christianity’

King Arthur (2004)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Owen, Clive | Gruffudd, Ioan | Mikkelsen, Mads | Edgerton, Joel | Dancy, Hugh | Winstone, Ray | Stevenson, Ray | Knightley, Keira | Dillane, Stephen | Skarsgård, Stellan | Schweiger, Til | Gilder, Sean | Kinevane, Pat | Marescotti, Ivano | Stott, Ken
Directors: Fuqua, Antoine
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The Roman Empire is stretched across many nations, including Britain. In their conquest for more land, the Romans went into Sarmatia where they fought the very brave Sarmatian cavalery. The Romans, impressed by the Sarmatian’s weaponery and fighting skills, included them into their army as knights. After 15 years of serving and fighting for the Roman Empire the Sarmatian Knights, lead by Arthur/Artorious Castus, are about to receive their freedom as the Romans are leaving Britain. But the Knights must carry out one final order before they are free. A Roman priest and his family, especially his son Alecto, must be rescued from the invading Saxons. But there is another danger lurking on the road to freedom - the Woads, British rebels who hate the Romans.

Body, The (2001)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Israel | USA
Actors: Banderas, Antonio | Williams, Olivia | Shrapnel, John | Jacobi, Derek | Flemyng, Jason | Wood, John | Hurst, Lillian | Khoury, Makram | Dobtcheff, Vernon | McNeice, Ian | Muhamed Bakri | Dekelbaum, Yoav | Samir, Sami | Licht, Jordan | Goldstein, Limor
Directors: Jonas McCord
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An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man’s tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities test while risking their lives to unearth the truth

Dogma (1999)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rock, Chris | Hayek, Salma | Rickman, Alan | Morissette, Alanis | Cort, Bud | Hackney, Barret | Pfennigwerth, Jared | Sakurai, Kitao | Carlin, George | Aberlin, Betty | Damon, Matt | Affleck, Ben | Etheridge, Dan | Fiorentino, Linda | Milosavljevic, Derek | Braden, Lesley | O'Halloran, Brian | O'Brien, Marie Elena | Garofalo, Janeane
Directors: Smith, Kevin
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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.

Crucible, The (1996)

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Day-Lewis, Daniel | Ryder, Winona | Scofield, Paul | Allen, Joan | Davison, Bruce | Campbell, Rob | Jones, Jeffrey | Vaughan, Peter | Graves, Karron | Woodard, Charlayne | Conroy, Frances | Lawrence, Elizabeth | Gaynes, George | Gleason, Mary Pat | Breuler, Robert
Directors: Hytner, Nicholas
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A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others’ land and one young woman (Ryder) infatuated with a married man (Day-Lewis) and determined to get rid of his innocent wife (Allen). Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded thier innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950’s America.

Baraka (1992)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
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Directors: Fricke, Ron
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Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on “where,” but on “what’s there.” It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred monks do a monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky.

Barabba (1961)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: Italy
Actors: Quinn, Anthony | Mangano, Silvana | Kennedy, Arthur | Jurado, Katy | Andrews, Harry | Gassman, Vittorio | Palance, Jack | Borgnine, Ernest | Wooland, Norman | Cortese, Valentina | Gwynn, Michael | Foà, Arnoldo | Payne, Laurence | Tomadoni, Tullio | Triesault, Ivan
Directors: Fleischer, Richard
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Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was spared crucifixion when Pilate manipulated the crowd into to pardoning him, rather than Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.

Robe, The (1953)

Friday, May 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Burton, Richard | Simmons, Jean | Victor Mature | Rennie, Michael | Robinson, Jay | Dean Jagger | Thatcher, Torin | Boone, Richard | St. John, Betta | Morrow, Jeff | Thesiger, Ernest | Addams, Dawn | Askin, Leon | Ansara, Michael | Arvan, Jan
Directors: Henry Koster
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Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus’ homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try and learn what he can of the man he killed.

Religulous (2008)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Burg, Steve | De Jesus Miranda, Jose Luis | Maher, Bill | Newberg, Andrew
Directors: Charles, Larry
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Bill Maher’s take on the current state of world religion.
He interviews some of religion’s oddest adherents. Muslims, Jews and Christians of many kinds pass before his jaundiced eye. Maher goes to a Creationist Museum in Kentucky, which shows that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time 5000 years ago. He talks to truckers at a Truckers’ Chapel. (Sign outside: “Jesus love you.”) He goes to a theme park called Holy Land in Florida. He speaks to a rabbi in league with Holocaust deniers. He talks to a Muslim musician who preaches hatred of Jews. Maher finds the unlikeliest of believers and, in a certain Vatican priest, he even finds an unlikely skeptic. Written by J. Spurlin

Keeping Mum (2005)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: UK
Actors: Atkinson, Rowan | Scott Thomas, Kristin | Smith, Maggie | Swayze, Patrick | Egerton, Tamsin | Parkes, Toby | Smith, Liz | Fox, Emilia | Booth, James | Monckton, Patrick | Irlam, Rowley | Moore, Vivienne | McArthur, Murray | Gower, Morgan | Simonian, Rupert
Directors: Johnson, Niall
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Gloria Goodfellow has a normal life in the countryside along with her family. She’s the mother of two children, one precocious teenager girl and a timid boy, who’s been bullied by a bunch of kids from his school. Occassionally, their peace is disrupted by a neighbor’s annoying dog or a meddler neighbor. Gloria’s husband, Reverend Walter Goodfellow, is a clumsy but well respected priest, who’s preparing to give a speech in a religious convention at Cornwall. One morning a charming, efficient and quite kind lady, Grace Hawkins, arrives to work as a housekeeper at the Goodfellows’ house. The family’s life will change forever, because Grace will care for its integrity in her own special way. First, Grace will help Walter to relax and find his funny side during masses. Then, Grace finds out that Gloria is having an affair with her golf instructor, a sort of pervert American man, interested in Gloria’s daughter as well. Last but not least, Grace will manage herself to get rid of the bullies who are giving a hard time to Petey. Despite this ideal reality, Gloria will discover a secret that Grace has been hiding… for more than 40 years.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Novarro, Ramon | Bushman, Francis X. | McAvoy, May | Bronson, Betty | McDowell, Claire | Key, Kathleen | Myers, Carmel | De Brulier, Nigel | Lewis, Mitchell | White, Leo | Currier, Frank | Belcher, Charles | Fuller, Dale | Hall, Winter | Barker, Reginald
Directors: Brabin, Charles
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Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.