Favorite hollywood catholic movie?

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Many thanks for these reccommendations. I live here in Japan and am an English speaker. Since I dont have access to any of these films - except The Passion, does anybody know where you can download the older ones like The Lillies in the Fields, from archieves that are open to the public? No, I am not looking for pirates…truly publicly available archieves.

Thank you once again.
 
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Many thanks for these reccommendations. I live here in Japan and am an English speaker. Since I dont have access to any of these films - except The Passion, does anybody know where you can download the older ones like The Lillies in the Fields, from archieves that are open to the public? No, I am not looking for pirates…truly publicly available archieves.

Thank you once again.
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You can order them from Amazon, just make sure your japanese dvd player can play the dvds you order. The dvd players in Europe and in the United States have different systems.
 
I have a great movie set during WW2. It is called ‘Heaven Knows Mr. Allister’ starring Robert Mitchem. He plays a soldier who gets stranded on an island in the pacific where there is just one nun. Eventually the japanese soldiers come to the island to rest. It is a great story and the ending as a good, ‘funny’ catholic twist to it.
 
  • A Man for All Seasons* is really good. I also really liked Romero starring Raul Julia.
 
We just bought “Song of Bernadette”. What a beautiful movie!!

“Going My Way”,
“Bells of St. Marys” and
“The Trouble With Angels” (Haley Mills)
Quo Vadis
 
My favourite catholic movies? They are two: The Passion of the Christ and Ben Hur (1959).
 
This is a silent movie, but if you can see it, it’s unforgettable. The Passion of Joan of Arc directed by Theodore Dreyer.

I love Man For All Seasons! And one that gets overlooked a lot is The Miracle Maker. It’s the story of Jesus told through the eyes of Jarius’s daughter. It’s claymation and Ralph Fiennes does the voice of Jesus.
 
Quo Vadis (Robert Taylor)
A Man for all Seasons
Anne of the Thousand Days*
The Song of Bernadette
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima
The Passion of the Christ
The Sound of Music
Ben Hur*
The Ten Commandments*
Jesus of Nazareth*
I Am David*
Joan of Arc (Ingrid Bergman)
The Bells of St. Mary’s
The Prince of Egypt*

*I know some of these aren’t completely about the Church, but they have great Catholic undertones, in my opinion.
 
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This is a silent movie, but if you can see it, it’s unforgettable. The Passion of Joan of Arc directed by Theodore Dreyer.
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I rented that movie from netflix - it was quite good. Reading the netflix reviews prior to viewing it was helpful, given what a different type of movie it is.
 
My favourite is “The Ten Commandments”. True, it is not strictly Catholic, but it is an awesome Biblical epic.
 
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Is it Conspiracy of Hearts?
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Quite a few favorable comments posted here. Maybe we should continue petitions for this movie to get on DVD! I have not seen it and would like to.

Perhaps these (and other WWII holocaust movies) should be shown to captured Islamist terrorists nonstop as part of their re-indoctrination to real history.

Holocaust denial seems to be alive and well in Gr Britain, much to my horror. Unbelievable that our closest allies would kow-tow to pressure for Islam revisionist history.

Mimi
 
“It’s a Wonderful Life”

People sometimes forget Frank Capra’s Masterpiece of Family cinema is also one of the greatest Catholic films ever made.

crisismagazine.com/february2002/feature4.htm

“A film to tell the wary, the disheartened, and the disillusioned; the wino, the junkie, the prostitute; those behind prison walls and those behind Iron Curtains, that no man is a failure! To show those born slow of foot or slow of mind, those oldest sisters condemned to spinsterhood, and those oldest sons condemned to unschooled toil, that each man’s life touches so many other lives. And that if he isn’t around it would leave an awful hole.” - Capra
 
Also “The Passion”,

While “Wonderful life”(and capra’s many other Catholic films inc
“Meet John Doe” which I loved) gets Catholic values across in a way that is not immediately obvious to the naked eye, Passion does it openly and getting the message across both ways in film is important.
 
Not sure if this qualifies as a Catholic movie(or a Hollywood movie for that matter), but Becket is a great film.
 
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