Fitzcarraldo (1982), Zulu (1964), The Best Two Years (2003), The Sand Pebbles (1966), Storm Over Asia (1928), Queen of Katwe (2016), Sadie Thompson (1928), Chariots of Fire (1981) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Missionary movies.
Storyline: Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?—Reid Gagle
Plot Keywords: missionary, wife, reverend, son, native american, tribesman, spectacular ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Americans abroad. Roy and Jessie finished a volunteer stint in China. He loves trains, so they go home via the Trans-Siberia Express. There are strains in the relationship, including her past. They meet Carlos, a Spaniard, traveling with Abby, a young American. Carlos keeps close to Jessie, and when Roy is left behind and waits a day for the next train so he can catch up, Jessie and Carlos take a trip into the dead of winter to photograph a ruined church. Carlos may be running drugs, so, later, when Roy catches up and introduces Jessie to his new pal, an English speaking Russian narcotics detective, he's the last person Jessie wants to see. Will the Siberian desolation be their undoing?
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, runaway, traveler, police detective, missionary, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Jasper (Jim Dale), founder of the western town of Bloodshy, dies, his twin sons face off to decide who will inherit his legacy. Billy (also Dale) is a wild gunslinger, while Eli (also Dale) is a mild-mannered, religious type. To decide the town's rightful successor, the brothers duel each other in a series of oddball competitions that culminate in a zany train race. But the real battle begins when Billy and Eli try to wrest control from Bloodshy's crooked mayor, Ragsdale (Darren McGavin).
Plot Keywords: father, son, gunslinger, missionary, mayor, campy, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ace Ventura, emerging from self-imposed exile in a remote Himalayan hideaway, travels to Africa with explorer Fulton Greenwall to find a sacred bat which is told will avert a war between with Wachootoo and Wachati tribes. Of course, when Ace gets involved, all hell breaks loose...
Plot Keywords: detective, princess, tribesman, poacher, missionary, prince, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young boy tells the story of growing up in a fatherless home with his unmarried mother and four spinster aunts in 1930s Ireland. Five women different in temperament and capability from one another form a firm emotional support system for one another (reluctantly at times), with the eldest assuming the role of "somewhat meddling" overseer. Into this comes their elderly brother, a priest too senile to perform his clerical functions who has "come home to die" after a lifetime in Africa. Then the boy's father rides up on a motorcycle--to announce that he's on his way to Spain to fight against Franco. Although undeniably affected by the presence of the two men, the sisters continue to cope as a close-knit unit until something happens that disrupts the fabric of that cohesiveness beyond repair.—BOB STEBBINS <stebinsbob@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: sister, spinster, son, brother, teacher, missionary, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: One long and painful decade after the brutal assassination of her husband, a reclusive queen comes face-to-face with the deceased's doppelgänger and fugitive anarchist poet, Sebastian, when he breaks into her ancestral castle in nineteenth-century Oberwald. In this dark and stormy night, bold Sebastian is bent on killing the grief-stricken aristocrat; however, the would-be assassin's striking resemblance to her late husband paves the way for an unexpected three-day pact, without turning him in to the police, and the ignoble Count of Foehn. Nevertheless, fate has other plans. What is the mystery of Oberwald?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: astronaut, explorer, alien, missionary, melodramatic, somber, earth ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As the social fabric of life in rural India disintegrates in the late 1990s, journalist Manav Banerjee (Sharman Joshi) moves with his pregnant wife to the State of Orissa in hope of a better life and the promise of a lucrative career. When speculation mounts that local Australian missionary Graham Staines (Stephen Baldwin) is illegally proselytizing leprosy patients, Manav agrees to investigate undercover for the newspaper. What he finds is a series of revelations that are difficult to fathom and even harder to explain, and Manav is forced to make a choice between his own ambition and the truth. In the end, his actions spark a tragic event that is felt around the world. Based on a true story and shot on location in India, "THE LEAST OF THESE" beautifully illustrates the power of love, hope and forgiveness to overcome hate.—Vash
Plot Keywords: journalist, pregnant woman, missionary, wife, child, tense, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1905, after ten years of missionary work in Africa, the Reverend Charles Fortescue (Sir Michael Palin) is recalled to England, where his Bishop gives him his new assignment, to minister to London's prostitutes. Charles hopes Deborah Fitzbanks (Phoebe Nicholls), his fiancée, will object and give him an excuse to say no to the Bishop. But she is so imperturbably innocent that she totally fails to understand what he is being asked to do, and urges him to do his best. Wealthy Lady Isabel Ames (Dame Maggie Smith) is expected to fund the work, but once she makes it clear to Charles that there will be no contribution unless he shares her bed.—James Barrett <jbarrett@sbastk.ess.sunysb.edu>
Plot Keywords: reverend, missionary, wife, wealthy woman, prostitute, campy, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Hamilton leaves a comfortable New York job to take up as an artist in a quiet Connecticut town. His dipso wife hates the life and falsely makes him out to be selfish, unsuccessful, and, worst, someone who hits her. When she suddenly disappears suspicion falls on him and the townsfolk take the law into their own hands. Hamilton finds his only allies are the local children he has befriended.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: artist, townsperson, child, friend, sheriff, uneasy, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ewart Gray (Donald Sinden) is the new Resident-in-Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother and sister missionary team of Martha Jones (Glynis Johns) and Reverend Owen Jones (Paul Rogers), and Edward "Honorable Ted" Wilson (Robert Newton) - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: outcast, sister, missionary, host, womanizer, nurse, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joe Young was a simple young man trying to spread the word of the Book of Mormon when he picked the wrong house to preach at! The owner, a porn director named Maxxx Orbison, tells his henchmen to kill the guy at the door who interrupted their scene, but Joe fights off the guards with great skill, which impresses Maxxx so much that he offers Joe the lead role in the movie he's making at the moment: Orgazmo, which is about a sex superhero who fights crime with his Orgazmorator, and ChodaBoy, his sidekick. Joe, against his beliefs, takes the job so that he can pay for the wedding he plans for himself and his fiancée, whom he doesn't tell about his risqué new acting job. However, when the movie becomes an amazing hit just about everywhere and he finds out that Ben (ChodaBoy) has created a real Orgazmorator, Joe is in some serious hot water!
Plot Keywords: missionary, fiancée, pornographer, actor, restaurant owner, crew member, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A dramatic thriller that centers on a fish-market employee who doubles as a contract killer.
Plot Keywords: assassin, target, missionary, suspenseful, tokyo, market, love ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The young son of a missionary and a native Amazonian woman, Lazaro (Alessandro Rabelo) grows up deep within the jungle, raised by his mother after his father dies. When ruthless white men who are searching for gold kill Lazaro's mother, the boy is forced to survive on his own, finding friendship and protection with the dolphins that live in the nearby river. Father O'Reilly (Charles Durning) eventually encounters Lazaro and brings him back to civilization, but his transition is far from easy.
Plot Keywords: young boy, mother, missionary, priest, prospector, striking, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Preacher Willard Bean becomes the world middleweight boxing champion in 1905, but when Joseph F. Smith asks him to step away from the limelight and serve a five-year mission in upstate New York, the Beans immediately pack their bags and travel to the East Coast. Once there, they find the hatred that existed 90 years earlier is still alive and very present.
Plot Keywords: preacher, boxer, champion, missionary, mormon, inspiring, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Noah Dugan agrees to fly missionary Bernadette Lafleur and her cargo of animals to a remote island, its only because he is on the run from a couple of bookies. What neither of them know is that two of Miss Lafleur's young students have stowed away with the animals & Miss Lafleur's transistor radio has interfered with the plane's instruments and they're all now miles off course. After a forced landing on a remote island, Dugan, Bernadette, Bobby and Julie discover that they are not alone. Together with two Japanese soldiers who have been stranded on the island since WWII, they must turn the plane into a seaworthy boat if they are ever to make it home. When Bobby and Julie insist that they cannot leave the animals behind, the converted plane truly becomes a second Noah's Ark—April M. Cheek <Aravis2713@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: pilot, american, animal, missionary, japanese soldier, child, engaging ...
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