What Your Favorite Religious Movie ?

[Rev. Rye]

Depending on how you define it. Something worth overt religious themes, I’d say Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice. Something based on the Bible: The Last Temptation of Christ Something built around Christianity* as a major explicit themes, either The Passion of Joan of Arc or Doubt. Maybe Dekalog if you count it as a film and not a 10-part miniseries. Frankly, there’s a lot of ways to define a Christian movie. I know this because my favorite film of all time has been argued to be a Christian movie:





*Note: I specify Christianity because, in practice, that’s pretty much what you get from world cinema. Islam’s too anti-image to have cultivated a huge backlog of Islamic cinema (and even the Iranian films I’ve seen are light on religiousness, although my not being a Muslim may mean I’m missing out on some obvious Quranic references); I don’t watch too many Indian movies, and what little I’ve seen doesn’t dwell on Hinduism; Even when Buddhism pops into the Asian movies I’ve seen, it’s more incidental than anything else (case in point: the last film I bought was originally titled Great Bodhisattva Pass in Japanese, but when American distributors retitled it Sword of Doom, nothing of value was lost, and the main character was about as far from a bodhisattva as you can get); and while people talk about how Jews supposedly run Hollywood (because they got in on the ground floor due to the gentiles finding the medium beneath them), Judaism as a religion barely makes much of an appearance in films.