Five Catholic Movie Recommendations

Franciscan Friar, Father Casey, put together a list of 5 high quality cinema films with Catholic themes.

Doubt (2008)80% Rotten Tomatoes – Set in 1964, the principal (Meryl Streep) of a Bronx Catholic High School accuses a popular priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of pedophilia, a young nun caught in between the feuding pair becomes hopelessly swept up in the ensuing controversy.

The Way (2011) 83% Rotten Tomatoes – Martin Sheen plays Tom, an irascible American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James.

Of Gods and Men (2010)92% Rotten Tomatoes – Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region.

Calvary (2014)89% Rotten Tomatoes – Father James (Brendan Gleeson) is a good priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances brought about by a mysterious member of his parish.. He wonders if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.

The Mission (1986)64% Rotten Tomatoes – An 18th-century Jesuit priest is sent to the jungles of Brazil to build a Guarani Indian mission. Upon his arrival, Gabriel meets the slave trader Mendoza (Robert De Niro), a cruel, bloodless man who kills as many of the Guaranis as he enslaves.


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