This post is not charged for an anticleric anger, we simply collected the most, in our opinion, important and necessary films on the topic of religion, cult and religious fanaticism. Without any intentions, insult the feelings of believers. See and see.
"Heaven Real" (director Randall Wallace, 2014)
A little boy is experiencing the hardest state on the verge of life and death and miraculously survives. "Return" to his family is accompanied by wonderful stories about meetings in heaven and about things that the child alone cannot know in itself. Parents and towns of the town are perplexed and start believing in the divine journey.
"Passion of Christ" (director Mel Gibson, 2004)
Lutae directing statement of Mel Gibson, trying to recreate the last 12 hours of life of Jesus Christ. The script was written on the basis of four canonical gospels: from Matthew, from Mark, from Luke and from John. One hundred million from the box office Gibson gave the Catholic Church, is it not love for God?
"Camp Jesus" (directed by Hyidi Ying, Rachel Grady, 2006)
Documentary tape telling about the life of children in the Pentecostal camp. The camp founded Becky Fisher, the lady, which this documentary brought great fame. The viewer has a unique possible to observe what is happening in the atmosphere of religious fanaticism with the behavior of adolescents 8-12 years. This is scary.
"Doubt" (director John Patrick Shengley, 2008)
Psychological drama about the ethical confrontation between the sister Elozius and Flynn's father. The cause of the conflict becomes a muddy incident with one of the students. In an atmosphere of shortness and widespread secrecy, not just the questions of faith and disbelief, but also the fate of people. Vividly.
"Believers" (director Larry Charles, 2008)
TV presenter and comedian Bill Mahar charts in the light and asks any goggle and naive questions to everyone in a row, from the village of Jesus Christ to Senator. The hysteria of religious fanaticism did not know even more elegant and witty exposure.
Magdalene Sisters (Director Peter Mullan, 2008)
The film tells about four girls from the Magdalene shelter. Such institutions were at one time extremely popular in Ireland. Thousands of girls in inhuman conditions were held there "rehabilitation" from sins of severe work therapy. The last such shelter closed in 1996.
"Life Brian on Monti Paiton" (director Terry Jones, 1979)
Parody of all and everyone who blindly follows any teaching, belief or movement. The story is spinning around the hero, which was accidentally chosen to the Savior, confusing him by Christ. The film was forbidden to show in Ireland for 8 years, in Italy 11, in Norway for a year. In Sweden, the film was accompanied by a slogan "such a funny movie that it was banned in Norway!".
"Sound of My Voice" (director Hall Batmanglidge, 2011)
A young couple decides to hold a journalistic investigation and withdraw a documentary about a new super secretary sect. To do this, under the guise of neophytes, they are introduced into the group and pass all the necessary tests, including the extremely unpleasant scene of the pivot vomiting in the circle of other sectarians. But over time, the actions of the main priestess do not seem to be so charlatanis.
"Dogma" (director Kevin Smith, 1999)
Classical comedy Kevin Smith, which is not ashamed to know by heart and periodically quoted. According to the plot, two fallen angels really want to return home and find out that they have a chance. Demon Azrail is connected to the plan, the metatron (Alan Rickman) is descended from heaven and a cheerful clip of the MTV 90s begins. If you accidentally have not yet seen a "dogma", then we even envy you.
"The Newest Covenant" (director Jaco Van Dormel, 2015)
God exists, but he is Hamlo and a homely tyrant in a holey coat, and everything he does with the world is in a semi-man crap from the bald by the keys on an old computer. He has an intelligent daughter who is going to end with all this. Or start. In general, she goes to collect new apostles to write a new New Testament with them.
"Letters of God" (director David Nixon, Patrick Dauti, 2010)
The touching story about a deadly sick boy who regularly writes and sends a letter to God through the postman. Before God, as is known, none of these letters will formally reach, but the postman will revise his lifestyle and starts everything from a pure face. Here is such a faith without religion.
