Criterion Collection Themes - Faith on Film

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Joyful professions of belief, self-flagellating admissions of guilt, and heretical abnegations of religion seem to sit alongside one another a bit more easily on the shelves of cinephiles than they do in the world at large. This list includes some films that engage matters of faith as their raison d’etre and others that deal with them more glancingly or derisively, but taken as a whole, it underlines both the compulsion of humankind to ask itself the eternal questions and the paradoxical power of a visual medium to capture the intangible.

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    Andrey Rublyov

    1966 — a.k.a. Andrei Rublev, in 29 top lists Check
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    Androcles and the Lion

    1952, in 1 top list Check
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    Au hasard Balthazar

    1966 — a.k.a. Au Hasard Balthazar, in 18 top lists Check
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    Babettes gæstebud

    1987 — a.k.a. Babette's Feast, in 11 top lists Check
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    Pred dozhdot

    1994 — a.k.a. Before the Rain, in 5 top lists Check
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    Black Narcissus

    1947, in 15 top lists Check
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    Blaise Pascal

    1972, in 1 top list Check
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    Breaking the Waves

    1996, in 14 top lists Check
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    Vredens dag

    1943 — a.k.a. Day of Wrath, in 14 top lists Check
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    Journal d'un curé de campagne

    1951 — a.k.a. Diary of a Country Priest, in 14 top lists Check
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    Fanny och Alexander

    1982 — a.k.a. Fanny and Alexander, in 25 top lists Check
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    Francesco, giullare di Dio

    1950 — a.k.a. The Flowers of St. Francis, in 10 top lists Check
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    Häxan

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
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    The King of Kings

    1927, in 3 top lists Check
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    The Last Temptation of Christ

    1988, in 7 top lists Check
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    Major Barbara

    1941, in 3 top lists Check
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    La voie lactée

    1969 — a.k.a. The Milky Way, in 4 top lists Check
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    Ordet

    1955, in 21 top lists Check
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    La passion de Jeanne d'Arc

    1928 — a.k.a. The Passion of Joan of Arc, in 27 top lists Check
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    The River

    1951, in 9 top lists Check
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    The Ruling Class

    1972, in 5 top lists Check
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    Milyang

    2007 — a.k.a. Secret Sunshine, in 9 top lists Check
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    Simón del desierto

    1965 — a.k.a. Simon of the Desert, in 5 top lists Check
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    Såsom i en spegel

    1961 — a.k.a. Through a Glass Darkly, in 9 top lists Check
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    Jungfrukällan

    1960 — a.k.a. The Virgin Spring, in 10 top lists Check
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    Viridiana

    1961, in 24 top lists Check
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    Der Himmel über Berlin

    1987 — a.k.a. Wings of Desire, in 21 top lists Check
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    Nattvardsgästerna

    1963 — a.k.a. Winter Light, in 10 top lists Check
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    Wise Blood

    1979, in 7 top lists Check
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