The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), Saint of 9/11 (2006), Tangerines (2013), Umberto D. (1952), The Elephant Man (1980), Hotel Rwanda (2004), A Christmas Carol (1951) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Compassion movies.
Storyline: It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over. For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time goes by he begins to recover and watches, in dismay as soldiers pack up and head for home. The doctors have told him he needs to remain "for observation." The Colonel takes Sister Parker, the unit head nurse, into his confidence and tells her that the real reason Cpl. MacLachlan can't go home is because the wound he sustained destroyed one of his kidneys and the other one is defective and will shut down in three to four weeks. He asks her to put Lachlan up with some other soldiers she has waiting to go home so that he can spend his last days with friends. But Cpl. MacLachlan wants nothing to do with friends and prefers his own privacy to "idle chat." He's a hard nut to crack and their work is cut out for them to make him as comfortable as possible.—McGinty <McGinty@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: war, friendship, hospital, scotland, soldiers, emotion, world war ii ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to take action. An advocate of child rights and an opponent of the severe approach to juvenile delinquency at the time, Flanagan genuinely believes that there is no such thing as a bad boy. Starting with just a few boys in a rented house, Father Flanagan eventually establishes Boys Town on 200 acres of land 10 miles outside of Omaha, Nebraska. Much of the film focuses on Flanagan's attempts to influence one boy, Whitey Marsh, who will become a hoodlum if he doesn't change his ways. When Whitey is implicated in a bank robbery, it puts all of Boys Town at risk. Throughout it all Flanagan has to fight prejudice in those who believe delinquents should just be locked up and the never-ending shortage of money to accomplish his goals.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: drama, family, biography, social issues, orphans, education, youth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Psychologist Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of the Crawthorne State Training Institute, one of the first boarding schools for developmentally challenged children. Dr. Clark is sympathetic but demanding of his teachers and students. His approach of tough love is controversial. He takes a chance at hiring former aspiring concert pianist Jean Hansen as the school's music teacher, Miss Hansen who has no background in nursing, teaching or dealing with the developmentally challenged. She herself is trying to find her own place in life. She immediately bonds with autistic student Reuben Widdicombe, who she sees as needing special attention in light of his parents having not visited him since they enrolled him in the school two years earlier. The Widdicombes divorced shortly thereafter because of the pressures their relationship faced in dealing with Reuben. Dr. Clark sees Reuben as the type of child the most difficult with which to deal: Reuben understands just enough to realize that he is different and is often being rejected. Miss Hansen and Dr. Clark disagree on how best to get through to Reuben. Although Dr. Clark admits that his methods have not worked with Reuben, he also does not believe that Miss Hansen's approach of undivided attention is the answer. Through getting to know the Widdicombe's reasons for not visiting and she herself seeing the life of the adult disabled, Miss Hansen comes to an understanding of how she feels she can best help her students, Reuben included.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, family, adoption, children, disability, mental health, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Students at a middle school in rural Tennessee collect paper clips to represent victims of the Holocaust.
Plot Keywords: documentary, holocaust, education, history, world war ii, jewish, memory ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, nazis, italy, jews, rescue, resistance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: War brews over Warsaw in 1939, and while life is still running its course, the Germans are slowly beginning to make their presence felt, with Hitler secretly preparing for the German invasion of Poland. Under those circumstances, the young couple of Jan and Antonina Zabinski continue their daily routine as owners and keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, but soon, as German Luftwaffe's Stukas hammer the Polish capital, their life's work together with the city, will turn to ashes. However, with the zoo liquidated for the war effort and many of its animals tragically perished, what was once an animals' zoo, will now serve as a sanctuary where Antonina, the humanist veterinarian, and Jan can hide the persecuted Polish Jews in plain sight until safe houses are found. That was Jan and Antonina's formidable, yet perilous plan, who regardless of the consequences, refused to wither before the Nazi menace, took matters into their own hands and sheltered 300 Jews under the Germans' noses.
Plot Keywords: world war ii, nazi, jewish, resistance, historical drama, true story, humanitarianism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young soldier escapes her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that she isn't going for a tour of duty in Iraq as she hoped. Instead, she's sent to Guantanamo. Met with hatred and abuse from the men in her charge, she forges an odd friendship with a young man who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years.
Plot Keywords: war, military, prison, prisoner, human rights, moral dilemma, psychological warfare ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Patch Adams is determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. Unfortunately, the medical and scientific community does not appreciate his methods of healing the sick, while the actual patients, medical professors, and hospital nurses all appreciate the work *he* can do, because they are unable to do it.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, comedy, medical, inspirational, true story, doctor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Experience the journey of Rose, an orphan who teaches the meaning of hope to all those around her. Share a slice of Christmas sweetened with friendship in this poignant story based on a classic holiday tale.
Plot Keywords: christmas, family, drama, heartwarming, tradition, generosity, kindness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally ill, homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent, even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about Ayers and attempts to do more to help both him and the rest of the underclass of LA have a better life. However, Lopez's good intentions run headlong in the hard realities of the strength of Ayers' personal demons and the larger social injustices facing the homeless. Regardless, Lopez and Ayers must find a way to conquer their deepest anxieties and frustrations to hope for a brighter future for both of them.
Plot Keywords: music, mental illness, homelessness, friendship, redemption, los angeles, journalist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sequel to the feature film 'A STREET CAT NAMED BOB'.
Plot Keywords: christmas, heartwarming, family, friendship, homelessness, redemption, kindness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 'Walk With Me' follows a community of Zen Buddhist monks and nuns who have dedicated their lives to mastering the art of mindfulness with their world-famous teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. Filmed over three years in France and the USA, this intimate and meditative film travels deep inside a world that seems far from our everyday, and reveals how the monastics transform suffering in themselves and in others through their deep enquiry into the nature of existence, suffering, and their true selves.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, meditation, france, vietnam, daily life, silence, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man seeking peace and quiet finds himself father to three bears.
Plot Keywords: adventure, family, drama, wilderness, nature, friendship, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for delivering his services in a lumber town until he delivers the Dionne quintuplets.
Plot Keywords: drama, countryside, doctor, 1930s, french film, black and white, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Doris Dörrie's camera greets Edward Espe Brown when he arrives in Australia to give a class on cooking, Zen, and meditation. We see him back home in Northern California as well. Brown, for forty years a Zen cook, demonstrates cooking as well as commenting on topics including anger, quiet, gleaning and waste, battered pots, and how he found his vocation. A focus of his is to demonstrate how to bring one's self to cooking and to others simultaneously. He quotes often from two masters, with several examples of Zen wit. The camera takes the occasional trip to fast food restaurants to provide contrast to Brown's approach and results.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: food, cooking, documentary, meditation, philosophy, health, life lessons ...
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