Religion Movies

Italy, 1959. A ten-year-old boy called Guido enters a Catholic seminary, fascinated by the idea of becoming a priest. He quickly understands that in...

A drama set in a small rural town in Lebanon about Yvette who is past 30, unmarried, devoutly religious and still living with her parents. Today, she...

Filipino version of the stage play.

Grace is a homeless teenager. She befriends an unemployed carpenter and he invites her to share his flat. She moves in and to her surprise a delicate...

Professor Robert Beckford looks at how immigration, radical social action, conservative morality and charismatic worship are all transforming the...

This retelling of Black Elk’s life and legacy relies heavily on archival photographs and publications, expert interviews, and historical...

A documentary based on the book Umbanda no Brasil by the scholar Mata e Silva, who is interviewed by the director. The book studies the Brazilian...

Frustrated by watching Black patients suffer due to end-of-life healthcare inequities, two determined allies – a chaplain and a doctor –...

A 1966 interview with L. Ron Hubbard about his creation, Scientology. Filmed in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), An Introduction to Scientology is...

German silent film about the life of Martin Luther

A woman in a Catholic brotherhood in the south of Spain tries to be president in a world traditionally reserved to men.

A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.

Di Gianni records an archaic festivity that takes place on August 15th on the mountains near Potenza.

When one thinks of the American Deep South, the image of veiled Muslim students strolling the University of Alabama campus is the last thing that...

Directed by Bahij Hojeij, “Lebanon, Message from a Holy Land” visits Lebanon’s many ancient Christian holy sites. The documentary...

An openly gay filmmaker goes on a conservative religious pilgrimage to Haifa, Israel with his family.

In a remote area of Siberia, the world’s largest sect lives under the teachings of Vissarion, a man who claims to be the reincarnation of...

The misadventures of a remarkably peculiar man, who has some very unusual ideas about who he is.

Portrait of Seraphim Bit-Kharibi, an Assyrian Orthodox Christian monk residing in Georgia, who sings in Aramaic, the mother tongue of Jesus Christ