Movies: Catholicism

A lonely priest must find a way to connect with an irreverent teenager after the boy confesses his plans to commit suicide....

The public and private life of Eugenio Pacelli, elected Pope Pius XII....

Audiovisual exploration of female corporality and what happens to it during a mystical experience. This is the combination of the carnal and the spiritual, with the contact of catholic symbology. Religiosity and the erotic, and also temptation and vi...

An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation....

In this funny and moving documentary, acclaimed film-maker Daisy Asquith tells the very personal story of her mother's conception after a dance in the 1940s on the remote west coast of Ireland. By exploring the repercussions of this act, Daisy and h...

The movie captures the responses of 31 authors, musicians, filmmakers and dancers to Olivier Messiaen's monumental organ work "Apparition of the Eternal Church." Listening to the 10-minute piece through headphones, the documentary subjects-most of wh...

From the beginning, Hergé's work, Tintin's creator, was conditioned by the ideology of his publisher, the weekly child supplement of a Belgian Catholic newspaper. An exciting analysis of the political meaning of the adventures of Tintin....

When an Irish priest begins to lose faith, Jesus intervenes....

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A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processions... are the expression of a need for the sacred that seems very distant from our way of being, but...

Why would intelligent, successful people give up their careers, alienate their friends, and cause havoc in their families...to become Catholic? Donald Johnson travels around the country to get the story for himself....

Ana lives her youth in Valle de Abdalajís (Málaga). But her life took a complete turn and, together with a group of courageous and determined women, she began a charitable work in favor of the needy, especially the abandoned elderly, orphaned childre...

While he wanders around his house preparing to sentence the fate of an 18-year-old young man, an old judge must deal with the relentless questioning of his distant wife....

This documentary retraces the life of Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), French Christian philosopher. In evoking his life, it paints a portrait of the 20th century: the scientism of the Sorbonne, the rise of Nazism, the Resistance, Free France, Christ...

In 2012, Stephen Vaughan and Kay Ferreter are invited to address the congregation at St. Joseph's Redemptorists Church in Dundalk, Ireland for the Solemn Novena Festival. In a powerful speech, the pair describe their experiences being gay and lesbian...

Jonathan and Evelyn were lovers 30 years ago but have been estranged ever since because Evelyn left the church to marry one of Jonathan's divorced friends and Jonathan has been trying to get her to return to her Catholic faith ever since. Now widowed...

Catholic film that tells the story of how the Virgin of Guadalupe miraculously appeared to Juan Diego....

The documentary tells the story of how in Licata, a town in Sicily, Augustino changed his life, leaving the seminary and the opportunity to devote his life to the church and reinventing himself as Lorella Sukkiarini, a biting and provocative drag que...

Documentary presenting the theory and application of the Theology of Liberation via interviews to priests from humble parishes in the slums of Lima. A fruitful labor of a Catholic Church sector committed to address social issues....

A boy fears that his upcoming first holy communion is actually a flesh-eating zombie initiation rite....