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
Last updated on May 10, 2014; source