The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), The Wages of Fear (1953), The Holy Mountain (1973), Black Narcissus (1947), Paddington 2 (2017), Doubt (2008), The Painted Veil (2006), The Tin Drum (1979) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Religious Statue movies.
Storyline: Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.
Plot Keywords: mexico, birdcage, blood, brandy, burial, cactus, campfire ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerin are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
Plot Keywords: risk, explosion, fear, truck driver, unemployment, tension, money ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful people, each representing a planet in the Solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide's assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.
Plot Keywords: male frontal nudity, breaking the fourth wall, absurd humor, male nudity, gold, female frontal nudity, symbolism ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 5 nuns openi a convent in the Himalayas, where they encounter conflict and tension - not just with the nearby inhabitants, but also amongst themselves, as they attempt to surmount the difficulties inherent in trying to adjust to their new environment.
Plot Keywords: sexual repression, mother superior, mountain, nun, female protagonist, loneliness, hysteria ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paddington (Ben Whishaw) is happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy's (Imelda Staunton's) 100th birthday, Paddington spots a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber's antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it's up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief.
Plot Keywords: london england, false accusation, prison, courtroom, escape from prison, hair salon, gong ...
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: ambiguity, cigarette smoking, eating, crying, black american, accusation, christian ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's infidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late?
Plot Keywords: cholera, loveless marriage, unfaithful wife, sexual attraction, scantily clad female, cleavage, scandal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on...
Plot Keywords: nazi, male nudity, drummer, money, mother son relationship, boy, nazi uniform ...
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, algeria, catholic church, heroism, based on true story, stubbornness, martyr ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Neil Jordan's depiction of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins, the "Lion of Ireland", who led the IRA against the UK and helped found the Irish Free State in 1922.
Plot Keywords: 1920s, drunkenness, dublin ireland, england, evidence, explosion, face slap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: H.G. Wells' classic novel is brought to life in this tale of alien invasion. The residents of a small town in California are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. Their joy is tempered somewhat when they discover that it has passengers who are not very friendly.
Plot Keywords: alien, alien invasion, panic, atomic bomb, invasion, martian, france ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Gomorra" is a contemporary Neapolitan mob drama that exposes Italy's criminal underbelly by telling five stories of individuals who think they can make their own compact with Camorra, the area's Mafia.
Plot Keywords: italy, shot to death, tanning bed, title appears in text, truck driver, wedding, immaturity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After completing a lengthy prison sentence, one-time drug kingpin Frank White returns to New York intent on reestablishing his empire and making things as they were before he left. Others of course have taken over the business during his absence but that clearly isn't going to stop White. While he is gunning down the opposition, he decides he's going to give away the money he'll make to modernize the hospital in his old neighborhood. Drug dealers aren't the only thing he has to worry about however: a group of rogue cops decide they are going to take him down.
Plot Keywords: mob boss, cult film, female rear nudity, neo noir, female nudity, hooker, lingerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A penniless middle-aged spinster scrapes by giving piano lessons in the Dublin of the 1950s. She makes a sad last bid for love with a fellow resident of her rundown boarding house, who imagines she has the money to bankroll the business he hopes to open.—Morganalee
Plot Keywords: 1950s, card playing, catholic, church, cigarette smoking, commitment, confessional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: William, a once obese and troubled teen, goes back to his family's home after being gone, without word, for ten years and finds it (and his family) haunted with his past. He had moved to the city and become a fit, well-adjusted gay man, but during his visit home, he becomes unhinged as the newly remembered reasons for his miserable adolescence come to life in each of their presents.—Tom Hunt Brooks <thuntb@relaypoint.net>
Plot Keywords: gay, bisexual, homosexual, obesity, gay kiss, caught having sex, gay slur ...
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