catholic movies

Exorcist, The (1973)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Burstyn, Ellen | von Sydow, Max | Miller, Jason | Cobb, Lee J. | Winn, Kitty | MacGowran, Jack | Blair, Linda | O'Malley, Reverend William | Heyman, Barton | Masterson, Peter | Schündler, Rudolf | Petrushka, Gina | Symonds, Robert | Storch, Arthur | Bermingham, Reverend Thomas
Directors: Friedkin, William
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Blatty’s novelization of a real case of possession that happened in a Washington Suburb (Mt. Ranier, MD) puts Regan, an adolescent girl, Living with her mother in Georgetown in Washington, into a more and more difficult situation. She exhibits strange symptoms, including levitation and great strength. When all medical possibilities are exhausted, her mother is sent to a priest who is also a psychiatrist. He becomes convinced that Regan is possessed and he and a second priest experienced in exorcism try to drive the spirit from Regan before she dies. Very graphic for its time.

End of Days (1999)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Schwarzenegger, Arnold | Byrne, Gabriel | Tunney, Robin | Pollak, Kevin | Pounder, CCH | O'Connor, Derrick | Weisenberg, David | Judd, Rainer | Margolyes, Miriam | Kier, Udo | Varnado, Victor | O'Hagan, Michael | Margolis, Mark | Shearer, Jack | Steiger, Rod
Directors: Hyams, Peter
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On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil (Byrne) decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man’s body, and searching for his chosen bride, a 20-year-old woman named Christine York (Tunney). If he bears her child between 11:00 PM and midnight on New Year’s Eve, the world will end, and the only hope lies within an atheist ex-cop named Jericho Cane (Schwarzenegger), who no longer believes in God because of the murder of his wife and daughter.

Amen. (2002)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: France | Germany | Romania | USA
Actors: Tuker, Ulrich | Kassovitz, Mathieu | Mühe, Ulrich | Duchaussoy, Michel | Caramitru, Ion | Iures, Marcel | von Thun, Friedrich | Schmidt, Antje | Zischler, Hanns | Koch, Sebastian | Hallhuber, Erich | Heyl, Burkhard | MacInnes, Angus | Fischerauer, Bernd | Franckh, Pierre
Directors: Costa-Gavras
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Kurt Gerstein, a brilliant German scientist, is recruited into the SS during the opening years of the Second World War. Assigned as a sanitation engineer, Gerstein is sent to the Eastern Front to supervise water purification for the German Army. Soon after, however, he is asked to help with a “special project” involving fumigation of “vermin infested” areas behind the front lines. Gerstein develops Zyklon-B, a deadly chemical gas which Gerstein believes will be put to use killing rats, lice, and other disease carrying creatures. However, when Gerstein realizes that his invention will be used to kill not animals but people, he begins an emotional search of his Christian values and ultimately decides to betray the SS by attempting to expose the Holocaust by way of informing the Catholic Church.

Queen Margot (1994)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: France | Germany | Italy
Actors: Perez, Vincent | Auteuil, Daniel | Anglade, Jean-Hugues | Adjani, Isabelle | Lisi, Virna | Dominique Blanc
Directors: Patrice Chéreau
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The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults, poisonings, and instigations to incest.

Edges of the Lord (2001)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | War
Countries: Poland | USA
Actors: Osment, Haley Joel | Dafoe, Willem | Hess, Liam | Banel, Richard | Lubaszenko, Olaf | Foremniak, Malgorzata | Grabowski, Andrzej | Vahonin, Chiril | Frycz, Ola | Piasecka, Dorota | Smolarz, Wojciech | Weglarski, Marek | Jurecka, Edyta | Ronczewski, Ryszard | Feldman, Krystyna
Directors: Bogayevicz, Yurek
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A young Jewish boy in Nazi occupied Poland hides with a family of Catholic peasants and a compassionate priest to escape Nazi forces.

Ash Wednesday (2002)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Handy, James | Dawson, Rosario | Burns, Brian | Rubino, Vincent | Cummings, Jimmy | Wood, Elijah | McNamara, Pat | DiResta, John | Burns, Edward | McCourt, Malachy | McGovern, Chris | Gerety, Peter | Burke, Jimmy | Murphy, Stephen | Delate, Brian | Yenque, Teresa | Hale, Julie
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Hell’s Kitchen on Ash Wednesday, 1983. Rumors are flying that Francis Sullivan’s younger brother Sean, dead for three years, has reappeared. If he wasn’t killed by rivals, then old scores still need settling, putting Fran and Sean in danger. An upstart is pressuring the local mob boss, who’s Fran’s protector; Sean’s wife, who thinks she’s a widow, has gotten on with her life, but Sean has come back for her. The parish priest, part of the initial deception, is frightened. Bad guys with guns are closing in. Can Fran get Sean and his wife out of the city, avoid a war between rival factions, and hold onto new-found morality? Will the cross of ashes on his forehead protect him?

Daredevil (2003)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Affleck, Ben | Garner, Jennifer | Farrell, Colin | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Favreau, Jon | Terra, Scott | Pompeo, Ellen | Pantoliano, Joe | Orser, Leland | Loftin, Lennie | Avari, Erick | O'Connor, Derrick | Ben-Victor, Paul | Keith, David | Allison, Frankie J.
Directors: Johnson, Mark Steven
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Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened “radar sense” that allows him to “see” far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorney. But after he’s done his “day job” Matt takes on a secret identity as “The Man Without Fear,” Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom.

From Hell (2001)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | UK | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Holm, Ian | Richardson, Ian | Flemyng, Jason | Coltrane, Robbie | Graham, Heather | Cartlidge, Katrin | Harvey, Terence | Lynch, Susan
Directors: Аllen Hughes | Albert Huges
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It is 1888 in London, and the unfortunate poor lead horrifying lives in the city’s deadliest slum, Whitechapel. Harassed by gangs and forced to walk the streets for a living, Mary Kelly and her small group of companions trudge on through this daily misery, their only consolation being that things can’t get any worse. Yet things somehow do when their friend Ann is kidnapped and they are drawn into a conspiracy with links higher up than they could possibly imagine. The kidnapping is soon followed by the gruesome murder of another woman, Polly, and it becomes apparent that they are being hunted down, one by one. Sinister even by Whitechapel standards, the murder grabs the attention of Inspector Fred Abberline, a brilliant yet troubled man whose police work is often aided by his psychic abilities. Abberline becomes deeply involved with the case, which takes on personal meaning to him when he and Mary begin to fall in love. But as he gets closer to the truth Whitechapel becomes more and more dangerous for Abberline, Mary, and the other girls. Whoever is responsible for the grisly acts is not going to give up his secret without a fight….will they be able to survive the avenging force that has been sent after them from hell?

Blues Brothers, The (1980)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Comedy | Music | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Belushi, John | Aykroyd, Dan | Brown, James | Calloway, Cab | Charles, Ray | Franklin, Aretha | Cropper, Steve | Dunn, Donald | Dunne, Murphy | Hall, Willie | Malone, Tom | Marini, Lou | Murphy, Matt | Rubin, Alan | Fisher, Carrie
Directors: Landis, John
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After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church stopped its support and will sell the place to the education authority, and the only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a big gig. As they set off on their “mission from god” they seem to make more enemies along the way. Will they manage to come up with the money in time?

Dogma (1999)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rock, Chris | Hayek, Salma | Rickman, Alan | Morissette, Alanis | Cort, Bud | Hackney, Barret | Pfennigwerth, Jared | Sakurai, Kitao | Carlin, George | Aberlin, Betty | Damon, Matt | Affleck, Ben | Etheridge, Dan | Fiorentino, Linda | Milosavljevic, Derek | Braden, Lesley | O'Halloran, Brian | O'Brien, Marie Elena | Garofalo, Janeane
Directors: Smith, Kevin
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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.