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What's Is Everyone's Favorite Religious Movie?

Life of Pi
If I had to pick a Christian movie then Facing the Giants is a good ol’ inspiring football movie. I really liked the Bible series on History channel.

Not tryin’ to go all religious on you, but The Gospel of John really is my favorite. And then the Jesus Movie.

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Fireproof with Kirk Cameron

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Maybe this isn’t a “religious” movie by some standards, but mine is “Narnia” (the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe).

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Great movie. I remember the impression it made on me even as a child.

Narnia is really cool! It’s one of the few movies I’ve seen like 5 times. Right on, Paidion.

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My favorite scene in a religious movie was from this film: imdb.com/title/tt0070125/ produced by Johnny Cash, if I remember rightly.
The scene was the crucifixion; Jesus’ head fell toward his chest as He died; then the scene was transposed to a street corner in L.A. where a drug deal was going down, and another corner where some working girls were plying their trade - this is all if my memory serves - and some other transpositions as well. It was deeply affecting.

I enjoy The Matrix and Lord of the Rings also.

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Mine is The Gospel of John as well. I’ve been a Christian almost 40 years and it changed my life. I went to visit a friend with it and we watched it three times in two days.

They were going to go on and do the other Gospels but the money thing stopped them. Christopher Plummer narrated and did such an excellent job.

I saw Ben Hur when it first came out - I was an atheist then - but it affected me - but the same thought dominated me as it had all through my childhood - “I wish Jesus really had risen from the dead.” Little did I know.

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Yep. Not only is Ben-Hur my favorite religious movie, but it is also one of my top five movies of any sort.

The Natural was pretty awesome, as was Field of Dreams.

Though probably not thought of as a ‘religious’ movie, THE FAMILY MAN, made a big impact on me. If you haven’t seen it, I would recommend it. There are very subtle illusions to Christianity throughout the movie, but, whether or not one catches that, the message it gives is clear.

I also thought Narnia films, both the Witch, the Lion and the Wardrobe, as well as Prince Caspian were great, but, then, I am a big fan of C.S.Lewis.

Another one that stands out in my mind is It’s a Wonderful Life, that timeless Christmas classic.

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The Young Messiah was really, really good. Plus, Sean Bean!

If you liked Facing the Giants, check out 23 Blast. It’s a true story based on someone I went to seminary with, who is himself now a pastor as well.

That looks like a fun and inspiring movie, STP!

I’m not sure which is my favorite. Some already mentioned are up there. I would add:

The Robe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robe_(film)

The Passion of the Christ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ

My wife just watched ‘Come Sunday’ on NFlix. True story of Carlton Pierson, a black minister who trained under Oral Roberts, and then broke away because God spoke to him concerning the falsity of ETC; so with that and looking at the scripture, he adopted universalist theology. Of course, he then lost his church over it but recovered eventually and now pastors a large Universalist Unitarian church in, I think, Tulsa Oklahoma.
I will watch it tomorrow - my wife was very impressed with it. Martin Sheen plays Oral Roberts (!) and apparently does a good job.

Great movie!

I don’t have a favorite religious movie, but I love love LOVED the series “The Bible”. It was on netflix I believe for a while, it may be gone now, but it made me think, made me cry, gave me hope, I know it wasn’t perfectly biblical, nothing ever is, but I just adored that series.

I liked that movie a lot as well, very freaking good. And as cheesy as it is? RUTH on pureflix is pretty good, it’s… B Grade, but something about it is still very heartwarming.