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Movies that make you think about religion

Both for my study and for personal reasons, I am very interested in the concept of religion as portrayed in the movies. When you're known with, for instance, some of the recurring metaphors and canonical figures, it's not that hard to detect religion almost everywhere.

There are, ofcourse, these big Biblical blockbusters (The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur), but sometimes the subtext is much more subtle. By offering this comprehensive list, I want to show that religious ideas and concepts formed and/or influenced quite a number of movies you saw, still want to see, (or don't want to see at all).

Note #1: this is no toplist, as some movies included here made me wanna hit something.

Note #2: I obviously haven't…

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  • The Milky Way
  • The Virgin Spring
  • Ordet
  • Au Hasard Balthazar
  • Winter Light
  • Fata Morgana
  • A Serious Man
  • Prophet's Prey
  • Trembling Before G-d
  • Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
  • The Third Miracle
  • Diary of a Country Priest
  • Stigmata
  • Battlefield Earth
  • Water
  • Salvation Boulevard
  • The Ledge
  • Creation
  • Agora
  • The Invention of Lying
  • Religulous
  • Planet of the Apes
  • Jesus Camp
  • Crimes and Misdemeanors
  • Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God
  • Inherit the Wind
  • The Sunset Limited
  • Whatever Works
  • Marjoe
  • Contact
  • The Man from Earth
  • The Book of Life
  • The Quarrel
  • Shadowlands
  • A Question of Faith
  • Agnes of God
  • Leap of Faith
  • The Miracle Woman
  • The Next Voice You Hear...
  • Phenomenon
  • Powder
  • Resurrection
  • The Reckoning
  • Spotlight
  • Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
  • Holy Smoke
  • Devi
  • The Mahabharata
  • The Cup
  • Little Buddha
  • Siddhartha
  • Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
  • The Great Sadness of Zohara
  • The Chosen
  • Kadosh
  • Masada
  • Live and Become
  • Mountain
  • Time of Favor
  • Khartoum
  • Cardinal Richelieu
  • Constantine and the Cross
  • Francesco
  • God's Army
  • Luther
  • A Man for All Seasons
  • Quo Vadis
  • Anchoress
  • The Cardinal
  • The Catholics
  • Beyond the Walls
  • Hell House
  • Mass Appeal
  • 666: The Beast
  • The Nun's Story
  • The Evil Dead
  • Black Robe
  • Keeping the Faith
  • The Other Side of Heaven
  • Stolen Summer
  • Four Days in July
  • Léon Morin, Priest
  • The Body
  • The Fourth Wise Man
  • The Inquiry
  • Jesus of Montreal
  • Jesus Christ Superstar
  • The Robe
  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones
  • Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
  • The Railway Man
  • The Great Beauty