Talking about faith in the cinema always generates many interpretations. Over time, in stories based on real events or even within a particular situation or even a break in the life of a character, many works seek to transmit their reflection leaving it to the public to decide. draw their own conclusions. With that in mind, we decided to create a list of 10 movies that deal with matters of faith:
Pope Francis – Conquering hearts
Let your pride and goal be to put something like a miracle into your work. Directed by the experienced Spanish filmmaker Beda Docampo Feijóo, Papa Francisco – Conquistando Corações recounts in several excerpts part of the trajectory and way of thinking of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (brilliantly embodied by the always great Argentinian actor Darío Grandinetti), the 266th pope of the Catholic Church and current head of state of the Vatican, perhaps the most beloved pope in history. The film has a competent direction and a courageous screenplay that goes from faith to politics using the big screen as its central scene, it manages with praise to show that cinema is a universal language, which unites different ways of thinking, whatever be your religion.
Have fun watching:
wonderment
In the plot, set around 1860, in the Midland region of Ireland, we meet Nurse Lib (Florence Pugh, in another outstanding performance), a woman with a way of thinking ahead of her time that is chosen by a council to go to a small village and investigate something unusual happening: an eleven-year-old girl named Anna (Kíla Lord Cassidy) hasn’t eaten for months and is still alive, becomes famous in the region and receives tourists, pilgrims, who want to witness this possible miracle. Those who govern and govern in this village are also watching this situation, even those who defend the religious side. Little by little, the nurse learns to know this story better, especially from the young woman’s family, and so many surprises will arise during her stay in the region, leading her to dilemmas.
divine love
In the plot, we follow the embittered Joana (Dira Paes) who works in the digitized years of a notary before ours. In her daily life, she seeks to solve problems between couples, tending to the final result. Joana and her husband, try to seek salvation in faith to solve the problem of not having children, so they are devotees of Divine Love, a kind of religion full of symbolism. The intense sex scenes involve the plot which seeks in the portrayal of the body and faith the arguments of its key questions.
Interview with God
In the plot, shot entirely in New York, we meet the troubled journalist Paul (Brenton Thwaites, the Titans of the series Robin/Dick Grayson) who, after his return from Afghanistan, where he was a war correspondent (journalist), is going through a huge crisis in his marriage and he lives trying to overcome his obstacles always with great difficulty in understanding himself. One day, he is given an agenda, where the unusual happens: his interlocutor claims to be God (David Strathairn). Trying to figure out everything that’s going on after his initial conversations with this mysterious man, Paul ends up embarking on a journey to heal the wounds in his own life.
Tammy Faye’s eyes
In the plot, we know some phases of the life of Tammy Faye (Jessica Chastain), first a child raised in religion very close to her family, then her arrival at the college of Bible studies, where she meets her future husband Jim Bakker (Andrew Garfield). Upon her marriage, she decided with her husband to send messages of faith and hope across the United States until they began to see an opportunity to reach more and more people by going to television and creating a Christian program. But time passes, success comes, but the sins committed in these times of greed and inflated egos are knocking on the door, leaving little choice for those involved.
Compadecida’s car
From culture to good history. Watching this beautiful film, we laugh, we are moved, we learn to better know a whole culture of a creative northeast, the origins of the cord, the baroque traits, the religious importance and the devotions. One of the merits of the screenplay, which was supervised by Suassuna, is that it finds a joyful and relaxed way of portraying a difficult life for many in a magic and creativity suggestive of Brazilian culture.
Last days in the desert
In the plot, based on the Old Testament, we follow Jesus (Ewan McGregor) traveling alone through the desert for a few days. Fasting, walking several times without knowing the right direction to Jerusalem, Jesus finds a family, a boy with dreams to fulfill and a father with an incredulous view of the world in which he lives. At the same time, the personification of the Devil completely defeats his love for his father and his incredible faith.
The Adventures of Pi
Faith can move more than mountains. Ang Lee’s work is visually stunning, technically close to perfection and its plot is engaging, reaching for the emotional at key moments, we are talking about the drama, Life of Pi. footage will please everyone.
sentenced
A Brazilian feature film released in 2022, Predestinado shows the story of a miner named Zé Arigó who has helped thousands of people perform spiritual surgeries across Brazil, challenging the thoughts of the Catholic Church and medicine. .
Maria Madalena
In the plot, written by Helen Edmundson and Philippa Goslett, we meet Maria Magdalena (Rooney Mara), a young woman in her twenties who lives in a fishing village called Magdala. Maria doesn’t live happily and fights against her family because she doesn’t want to get married. On the verge of depression and losing her will to live, she learns preaching from a man named Jesus of Nazareth (Joaquin Phoenix) and gradually grows closer to him until she becomes one of his most close followers.
