The Brothers McMullen (1995), Doubt (2008), The Omen (1976), Lady Jane (1986), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968), Household Saints (1993), Going My Way (1944), El crimen del Padre Amaro (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Roman Catholicism movies.
Storyline: Three Irish-American brothers (Jack Mulcahy, Mike McGlone, Edward Burns) ponder women and one another while living together on Long Island.
Plot Keywords: man, brother, girlfriend, love interest, amusing, playful, endearing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school's strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear-based discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James, a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequences.
Plot Keywords: priest, nun, mother, student, somber, intricate, bronx, n.y. ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want nothing more than to have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees. After relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.
Plot Keywords: ambassador, wife, priest, nanny, adopted son, photographer, shocking ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son King Edward VI is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guilford, to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guilford and Jane fall in love. But they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.—Samantha Santa Maria <TE7441667@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg>
Plot Keywords: father, minister, princess, lady, son, brutal, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ukrainian Archbishop Kiril Lakota is set free after twenty years as a political prisoner in Siberia. He is brought to Rome by Father David Telemond, a troubled young priest who befriends him. Once at the Vatican, he is immediately given an audience with the Pope, who elevates him to Cardinal Priest. The world is on the brink of war due to a Chinese-Soviet feud made worse by a famine caused by trade restrictions brought against China by the U.S. When the Pontiff suddenly dies, Lakota's genuine character and unique life experience move the College of Cardinals to elect him as the new Pope. But Pope Kiril I must now deal with his own self-doubt, the struggle of his friend Father Telemond, who is under scrutiny for his beliefs, and find a solution to the crisis in China.
Plot Keywords: priest, pope, prisoner, cardinal, archbishop, profound, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Unsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: butcher, wife, mother-in-law, daughter, father, law student, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy, but his level gaze and twinkling eyes make it clear that he knows he made the right choice. After joining a parish, O'Malley's worldly knowledge helps him connect with a gang of kids looking for direction and handle the business details of the church-building fund, winning over his aging, conventional superior, Father Fitzgibbon.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: priest, singer, altar boy, mother, airy, heartwarming, tender ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Recently ordained a priest, 24-year-old Father Amaro is sent to a small parish church in Los Reyes, Mexico to assist the aging Father Benito in his daily work. Benito--for years a fixture in the church as well as the community--welcomes Father Amaro into a new life of unseen challenges. Upon arriving in Los Reyes, the ambitious Father Amaro meets Amelia, a beautiful 16-year-old girl whose religious devotion soon becomes helplessly entangles in a growing attraction to the new priest. Amelia is quickly following into the footsteps of her mother, Sanjuanera, who has been engaged in a long-time affair with Father Benito. Amaro soon discovers that corruption and the Church are old acquaintances in Los Reyes. Father Benito has been receiving financial help from the region's drug lord for the construction of a new health clinic. As well, another priest in the diocese, Father Natalio, is suspected of assisting guerilla troops in the highlands. Maenwhile, Amelia and Father Amaro have fallen in...
Plot Keywords: priest, mentor, teen girl, drug lord, bishop, uneasy, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A skeptical Bishop sends a broken priest as Postulator to investigate the possible beatification of a simple, devout woman whose death caused a statue of the Virgin Mary to bleed upon and cure a girl with terminal lupus. The politically weary priest unknowingly embarks on a spiritual journey that rebuilds his shattered faith and life.—Jim Norman <jnorman1@qwest.net>
Plot Keywords: priest, bishop, daughter, atheist, intense, moving, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Joey works with Rosalie in their pizza parlor. She is convinced that he works all of the time for them and her world dissolves when she finds that he has been fooling around for years. Being Catholic, divorce is out of the question, so she and her mother and her best friend decide to kill him. Hopelessly incompetent as killers, they hire incompetent professionals as they beat, poison, and shoot Joey who remains oblivious to their attempts.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, teen boy, restaurant employee, mother, thug, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A priest from the Vatican is sent to Sao Paulo, Brazil to investigate the appearance of the face of the Virgin Mary on the side of a building. While there he hears of a statue of the Virgin Mary bleeding tears in a small town outside of the city. Meanwhile, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show signs of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican links up with her and cares for her as she is increasingly afflicted by the stigmata. Her ranting and raving finally begins to make sense to the priest who starts to question what his religion has stood for for the last 1900 years.
Plot Keywords: young woman, reverend, cardinal, doctor, creepy, brooding, powerful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Life in the Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer in Detroit is upset by a series of killings whose victims are all priests and nuns. All victims are found with a black rosary in their hands. Father Koesler begins collaborating with the police but soon finds himself in a spot when the killer decides to choose him as confessor.—Salvatore Santangelo <pappagone2@libero.it>
Plot Keywords: priest, police detective, reporter, police officer, serial killer, chilling, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: David Morse plays Father John McNamee, a catholic priest who accepts a position at an inner-city church. The film begins with Father McNamee as he starts his new job and follows the priest through his struggles in adapting to his new surroundings. Based on a true story.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: priest, parishioner, nun, emotional, spirited, bleak, philadelphia ...
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