In this faith-based film a father and daughter clash over their singing, the daughter wanting to launch into the secular musical world.
The Visual Bible: MATTHEW (1993)
A filmed version of the NIV text of Matthew’s Gospel in which Richard Kiley’s Matthew dictates the text, the camera switching to actors who speak dialogue.
Philomena (2013)
On the 50th birthday of the son given up for adoption without her consent, a retired English nurse engages the help of a journalist to try to find out his fate. They discover just how cruel and heartless the convent that had taken her in when she became pregnant out of wedlock.
I’m In Love With a Church Girl
Miles has made a lot of money dealing drugs and producing musical acts, but when he falls in love with church-going Vanessa, he is torn between the two worlds–that of faith and that of crime..
Francis of Assisi
This is Hollywood’s glamorized view of Saint Francis of Assisi, the best part of which is the scene in which Francis visits the Sultan of Egypt to to the war between Christians and Muslims. The story begins with the playboy’s conversion to his receiving the stigmata just before his death.
Francesco (1989)
This bio of St. Francis of Assisi covers his life from his playboy days through his conversion, break with his family, founding of a new order ministering to the poor and his stigmata just before his death.
The Flowers of St. Francis
Adapted from two medieval sources, this is a whimsical collection of folk tales centering on St. Francis and some of his followers, including Sr. Clare, all of whom embraced poverty and the helping of the poor.
Brother Sun Sister Moon
This lush story of Francis of Assisi covers the first half of his life, from that of a wealthy playboy to that of the friend of the poor who embraced poverty and sought the approval for his order from the pope.
To the Wonder (2012)
Terrence Malick’s 2013 film explores 2 types of love & spiritual yearning through the lives of a couple falling in & out love & a Catholic priest afraid of losing his faith.