Highest-Rated Movies about 'Church', Sort by Popularity

Ashes and Diamonds (1958), Lake of Fire (2006), Diane (2018), The Exterminating Angel (1962), Beyond the Hills (2012), God's Country (1985), Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988), Troubled Water (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Church movies.

#17. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

Storyline: Orphaned as a child, Francis Chisholm (Gregory Peck) grows up to join the priesthood. He decides to become a missionary in China, and arrives to find the previous church burned down. Undaunted, he presses on, but doesn't initially fare well with the local populace. It's not until the child of a Mandarin falls ill that Chisholm proves his worth. Over time, he collaborates with a trio of nuns, endures several wars and, at the end of his life, returns to Scotland.

Plot Keywords: priest, aunt, mentor, bishop, child, somber, profound ...

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#18. Vertigo (1958)

Storyline: John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia, and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, as he believes she has been possessed by a dead ancestor who committed suicide. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees to the assignment after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.

Plot Keywords: detective, wife, friend, dead person, police officer, suspenseful, gripping ...

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#19. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

Storyline: The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania with her 4 sons, one of whom is Rocco. The fifth son, Vincenzo, already lives in Milano. In the beginning, the family has a lot of problems, but everyone manages to find something to do. Simone is boxing, Rocco works in a dry cleaners, and Ciro studies. Simone meets Nadia, a prostitute, and they have a stormy affair. Then Rocco, after finishing his military service, begins a relationship with her. A bitter feud ensues between the two brothers, which will lead as far as murder...

Plot Keywords: widow, son, boxer, wife, prostitute, student, melodramatic ...

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#20. The Vernon Johns Story (1994)

Storyline: This biopic follows the life of Vernon Johns (James Earl Jones) -- now known as the father of the civil rights movement -- during the years he preceded Martin Luther King Jr. as minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Johns champions the cause of desegregation, clashing with local white authorities; the more cautious members of his own church; his wife (Mary Alice), who fears he'll lose his pulpit; and his children, who fear he will lose his life.

Plot Keywords: preacher, wife, daughter, judge, police officer, uplifting, suspenseful ...

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#22. The Seventh Seal (1957)

Storyline: A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.

Plot Keywords: knight, actor, wife, disturbing, solemn, striking, bleak ...

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#23. Gran Torino (2008)

Storyline: Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao Lor (Bee Vang), a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.

Plot Keywords: veteran, neighbor, gang member, son, grandchild, immigrant, dark ...

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#24. Cool Hand Luke (1967)

Storyline: Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.

Plot Keywords: prisoner, warden, guard, police officer, mother, brash, cool ...

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#25. Spotlight (2015)

Storyline: When the Boston Globe's tenacious "Spotlight" team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world.

Plot Keywords: editor, journalist, priest, reporter, family member, victim, brooding ...

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#26. Nostalgia (1983)

Storyline: The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in his house for seven years to save them from the evils of the world. Seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes drawn to him. In a series of dreams, the poet's nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and Italy, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined.—Anonymous and Brian McInnis

Plot Keywords: poet, interpreter, russian, mystic, mentally ill person, pretty woman, bleak ...

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#27. The Battery (2012)

Storyline: Part shaman, part robot maker, part satirist, part artist, part musician and all round self proclaimed 'silly bugger', and having worked with Lenny Bruce, the Beatles and Spike Milligan amongst many, many others, Bruce Lacey is something of a 'missing link' in the story of British alternative culture, and at 85 is very much still creating art and performances in a quiet english village near Norwich. Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Deller and frequent collaborator Nick Abrahams attempt to provide a brief introduction to this visionary artist.—anonymous

Plot Keywords: baseball player, zombie, adam, spirited, new england, wasteland, undead ...

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#29. The Exterminating Angel (1962)

Storyline: After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room... and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they've built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals...

Plot Keywords: nobleman, wife, servant, doctor, dying person, brother, offbeat ...

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#30. The Conformist (1970)

Storyline: This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello's mind.

Plot Keywords: assassin, wife, professor, driver, blind person, priest, dark ...

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