Andrei Rublev (1969), Of Gods and Men (2010), Into Great Silence (2005), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003), Samsara (2001), The Secret of Kells (2009), Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2003), In Search of Kundun With Martin Scorsese (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Monastery movies.
Storyline: A 15th-century Russian (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) who paints icons renounces his art after taking part in a peasant uprising.
Plot Keywords: painter, monk, mentor, profound, inspiring, russia, monastery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An order of Trappist monks whose members include Christian (Lambert Wilson) and Luc (Michael Lonsdale) live among the Muslim population in a quiet corner of Algeria. As the country is plunged into civil war in the mid-1990s, the men of God must decide whether to stay among the impoverished residents who have been their neighbors, or flee the encroaching fundamentalist terrorists. The situation that unfolds, based on actual events, has tragic consequences.
Plot Keywords: monk, doctor, terrorist, muslim, catholic, powerful, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Filmmaker Philip Gröning travels to the French Alps to document the daily lives and rituals of the Carthusian Order of monks.
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, monk, roman catholic, engaging, profound, incredible, french alps ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the midst of the Korean wilderness, a Buddhist master patiently raises a young boy to grow up in wisdom and compassion, through experience and endless exercises. Once the pupil discovers his sexual lust, he seems lost to contemplative life and follows his first love, but soon fails to adapt to the modern world, gets in jail for a crime of passion and returns to the master in search of spiritual redemption and reconciliation with karma, at a high price of physical catharsis...
Plot Keywords: monk, woman, mentor, boy, emotional, engaging, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world. But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending...—Monsoon Films
Plot Keywords: monk, mentor, wife, servant, melodramatic, intricate, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young Brendan lives in a remote medieval outpost under siege from barbarian raids. But a new life of adventure beckons when a celebrated master illuminator arrives from the isle of Iona carrying an ancient but unfinished book, brimming with secret wisdom and powers. To help complete the magical book, Brendan has to overcome his deepest fears on a dangerous quest that takes him into the enchanted forest where mythical creatures hide. It is here that he meets the fairy Aisling, a mysterious young wolf-girl, who helps him along the way. But with the barbarians closing in, will Brendan's determination and artistic vision illuminate the darkness and show that enlightenment is the best fortification against evil?
Plot Keywords: young boy, uncle, monk, fairy, cat, suspenseful, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Filmed during nine journeys throughout Tibet, India and Nepal, this film brings audiences to the long-forbidden "rooftop of the world"... from rarely-seen rituals in remote monasteries, to horse races with Khamba warriors; from brothels and slums in the holy city of Lhasa, to magnificent Himalayan peaks still traveled by nomadic yak caravans. The dark secrets of Tibet's recent past are chronicled through personal stories and interviews, and a collection of undercover and archival images. TIBET: CRY OF THE SNOW LION is an epic story of courage and compassion.—Sue Peosay
Plot Keywords: buddhist, monk, warrior, homeless person, profound, moving, monastery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: There was an additional dvd with the PAL version of KUNDUN and it contained the trailers and a mini documentary of the filming of the movie KUNDUN, along with interviews with Martin Scorcese and the cast. There was footage from an all together differnet perspective - shot while the film was being shot - of the scenes being shot which offers a unique and enlightening perspective, especially for those interested in the craft of film making. But, the "A la Rechercher de KUNDUN avec Martin Scorcese" was more background into the making of the film. Subtitles on the disc are in Danish and French, so I'm not too sure. This DVD contains several features besides the ones mentioned here.
Plot Keywords: dalai lama, director, screenwriter, producer, actor, monk, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: October 1944 in war torn Italy. Hana, a French-Canadian nurse working in a mobile army medical unit, feels like everything she loves in life dies on her. Because of the difficulty traveling and the dangers, especially as the landscape is still heavily booby-trapped with mines, Hana volunteers to stay behind at a church to care solely for a dying semi-amnesiac patient, who is badly burned and disfigured. She agrees to catch up to the rest of the unit after he dies. All the patient remembers is that he is English and that he is married. Their solitude is disrupted with the arrival at the church of fellow Canadian David Caravaggio, part of the Intelligence Service, who is certain that he knows the patient as a man who cooperated with the Germans. Caravaggio believes that the patient's memory is largely in tact and that he is running away from his past, in part or in its entirety. The patient does open up about his past, all surrounding his work as a cartographer in North Africa, which ...
Plot Keywords: englishwoman, count, husband, nurse, soldier, former lover, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A loving bond develops between a Polish war widow and a former American prisoner of war in post-World War II Poland.
Plot Keywords: war widow, baker, daughter, soldier, american, mother, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1996, in Algeria, eight French monks of The Monastery Notre-Dame de l'Atlas of Tibhirine have a simple life serving the poor community that was raised around the monastery. During the Algerian Civil War, they are threatened by terrorists but they decide to stay in the country and not return to France.
Plot Keywords: monk, doctor, terrorist, muslim, catholic, powerful, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1668 the Ottoman Empire decides to attack and invade the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth which is one of the few major European powers to still stand in the destructive path of the Ottomans.Having recently retired to a monastery,Polish Colonel Michael Wolodyjowski is no longer in active duty.However,the Polish king,Jan Sobieski knows that Colonel Wolodyjowski is an able commander and sends for him,recalling him to active duty.Joining his old comrades in arms,including the English noble Ketling Hassling of Elgin, Colonel Wolodyjowski takes command of the Polish defenses on the Eastern Frontier.He prepares for the arrival of the invading Ottoman armies and Tatar Hordes and waits.The fate of Christian Europe lies in his hands.—nufs68
Plot Keywords: colonel, soldier, invader, orphan, love interest, monk, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An adventurer (Jackie Chan) and his friend (Alan Tam) aid a woman (Rosamund Kwan) kidnapped by cultists seeking a set of armor with mystical powers.
Plot Keywords: ex-girlfriend, friend, wealthy man, comedian, daughter, collector, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Gallant Hours depicts the crucial five-week period in October-November 1942 after Admiral Halsey took command of the beleaguered American forces in the South Pacific Area. That period of combat became a turning point in the struggle against the Japanese Empire during the World War II. The story is told in flashback, framed by Halsey's ceremony of going on inactive duty in 1947.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: con artist, soldier, nurse, doctor, monk, fbi agent, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Gang boss Little John Sarto returns from Europe where he was looking for "class" to find the new gang leader Jack Burns unwilling to relinquish his control. When Sarto puts together a rival gang he gets wounded and seeks refuge in a monastery. He is gradually transformed by the simple, sincere brothers and, after one last gangland appearance, decides he has found class at last in the monastery.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: mobster, criminal, monk, girlfriend, police officer, endearing, positive ...
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