SPIRITUAL CINEMA RECOMMENDATIONS

Revised August 24, 2012 By Evan Hodkins, M. A., M.Div. Director of The SchoolAlchemy www.schoolofalchemy.com

Afterlife. Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda.

Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Starring .

Always. Film directed by Steven Spielberg; starring & Holly Hunter.

Amadeus. Directed by Milos Forman. Starring F. Murray Abraham & Tom Hulce.

Amish Grace, Directed by Greg Champion. Starring Kimberly Williams-Palsley.

Arabian Nights. Directed by Steve Barron. Starring Mili Avital & Jason Scott Lee.

August Rush. Directed by Kirsten Sheridan. Starring .

Awakenings. Directed by Penny Marshall. Starring .

Babe. Directed by Chris Noonan. Starring Christine Cavanaugh& James Cromwell

Babette’s Feast. Directed by Gabriel Axel. Starring Stephane Audran.

Back to the Future. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Michael J. Fox.

Because of Winn-Dixie. Directed by Wayne Wang. Starring & Anna Sophia Robb

Bee Season. Directed by Scott McGehee & David Seigel. Starring Richard Gere & Flora Cross.

Bedazzled. Directed by Harold Ramis. Starring Brendan Fraser & Elizabeth Hurley.

Being Human. Directed by Bill Forsyth. Starring Robin Williams.

Bicentennial Man. Directed by Chris Columbus. Starring Robin Williams.

Big Fish. Directed by ; starring Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney.

Big Night. Directed by Campbell Scott & Stanley Tucci. Starring Stanley Tucci.

The Bishop’s Wife. Directed by Henry Koster. Starring Cary Grant, David Niven & .

The Blue Butterfly. Directed by Lea Pool. Starring William Hurt.

Brother Future. Directed by Roy Campanella II. Starring Phil Lewis. Brother Sun, Sister Moon. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Starring Graham Faulkner & Judi Bowker.

Bruce Almighty. Directed by Tom Shadyac. Starring Jim Carrey & Denzel Washington.

Burning Times. Directed by Donna Read.

By . Directed by Jack O’Brien. Starring Blair Brown, Harold Gould, Rue McClanahan & Sada Thompson.

C.S. Lewis Through The Shadowlands. Directed by Norman Stone. Starring Joss Ackland & Claire Bloom.

Charlotte’s Web. Directed by Gary Winick. Starring Julia Roberts & .

Chocolat. Directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Starring Juliette Binoche.

Celestine Prophecy. Directed by Armand Mastroianni.

A Christmas Carol. Directed by David Jones. Starring Patrick Steward.

The Christmas Truce. The History Channel.

Cinema Paradiso. Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Starring Salvatore Cascio & Marco Leonardi.

City of Angels. Directed by Brad Silberling. Starring Meg Ryan & Nicholas Cage.

Click. Directed by Frank Coraci. Starring Adam Sandler.

Close Encounters of a Third Kind. Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss & Francois Truffaut.

Cocoon. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, & Hume Cronyn.

Copying Beethoven. Directed by Agnieszka Holland. Starring Diane Kruger & Ed Harris.

Contact. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Jodi Foster & Matthew McConaughey.

Crime and Punishment. Directed by Joseph Sargent. Starring Patrick Dempsey & Ben Kingsley.

The Da Vinci Code. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks.

The Day the Earth Stood Still. Directed by Robert Wise. Starring Michael Rennie & Patricia Neal.

The Gods Must Be Crazy. Directed by Jamie Uys. Starring Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo & Nixau.

Dead Poet’s Society. Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Robin Williams.

Death Takes A Holiday. Directed by Mitchell Leisen. Starring Fredric March. Deconstructing Harry. Directed by . Starring Woody Allen.

Defending Your Life. Directed by Albert Brooks. Starring Albert Brooks & Meryle Streep.

My Dinner With Andre. Directed by Louis Malle. Starring Andre Gregory & Wallace Shawn.

Don Juan DeMarco. Directed by Jeremy Leven. Starring Johnny Depp & Marlon Brando.

Door to Door. Directed by Steven Schacter. Starring William H. Macy.

Dragonfly. Directed by Tom Shadyac. Starring Kevin Costner.

The Dust Factory. Directed by Eric Small. Starring Martin Mueller-Stahl.

Earthsea. Directed by Robert Lieberman. Starring Shawn Ashmore, Kristin Kreuk & Danny Glover.

E.T. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Henry Thomas & Dee Wallace.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Screenplay by , starring Kate Winslet & Jim Carrey.

Excalibur. Directed by John Boorman. Starring Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson & .

Fairy Tale. Directed by Charles Sturridge. Starring Harvey Keitel & Peter O’Toole.

The Family Man. Directed by Brett Ratner. Starring Nicolas Cage & Tea Leoni.

Faraway, So Close. Directed by Wem Winders. Starring Bruno Ganz & .

Field of Dreams. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson. Starring Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan & James Earl Jones.

Finding Neverland. Directed by Marc Foster. Starring Johnny Depp & Kate Winslet.

The Fisher King. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Starring Jeff Bridges & Robin Williams.

The Five People You Meet In Heaven. Directed by Lloyd Kramer. Starring Jon Voight.

Forbidden Planet. Directed by Fred M. Wilcox. Starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis & Leslie Nielson.

Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Tom Hanks.

The Fountain. Directed by Darren Aronofsky. Starring Hugh Jackman & Rachel Weisz.

Gandhi. Directed by Richard Attenborough. Starring Ben Kingsley.

Ghost. Directed by Jerry Zucker. Starring Patrick Swayze & Demi Moore.

Girl With The Pearl Earring. Directed by Peter Webber.

Goya’s Ghost. Directed by Milos Foreman.

The Grace Card. Directed by David Evans. Starring Michael Joiner.

Great Expectations. Directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Starring Ethan Hawke & .

Groundhog Day. Film directed by Harold Ramis. Starring .

A Guy Named Joe. Screenplay by Dalton Trumbo; starring Spencer Tracy & Irene Dunne.

Harold and Maude. Directed by Hal Ashby. Starring Ruth Gordon & Bud Cort.

Harvey. Directed by Henry Koster. Starring Jimmy Stewart.

Heart and Souls. Directed by Ron Underwood. Starring Robert Downey, Jr.

The Horse Whisperer. Directed by Robert Redford. Starring Robert Redford & Kristin Scott Thomas.

I Heard The Owl Call My Name. Directed by Daryl Duke. Starring Tom Courtenay & Dean Jagger.

Immortal Beloved. Directed by Bernard Rose. Starring Gary Oldman.

Inkheart. Directed by Ian Softley. Starring Brenden Fraser.

The Interpreter. Directed by . Starring Nicole Kidman & Sean Penn.

It’s A Wonderful Life. Directed by Frank Capra. Starring Jimmy Steward & Donna Reed.

Jesus of Montreal. Directed by . Starring Lothaire Bluteau.

Johnny Got His Gun. Directed by Dalton Trumbo. Starring Timothy Bottoms.

Joyeux Noel. Directed by Christian Carion. Starring Diane Kruger.

Just Like Heaven. Directed by Mark Waters. Starring Reese Witherspoon & Mark Ruffalo.

Kate & Leopold. Directed by James Mangold. Starring Meg Ryan & Hugh Jackman.

Knowing. Directed by Alex Proyas. Starring Nicholas Cage.

K-Pax. Directed by Iain Softley. Starring and Jeff Bridges.

Lady Chatterly’s Lover. Directed by Just Jaeckin. Starring Sylvia Kristel & Nicholas Clay.

Ladyhawke. Directed by Richard Donner. Starring Matthew Broderick & Michelle Pfeiffer.

Lake House. Directed by Alejandro Agresti. Starring Keanu Reeves & Sandra Bullock.

The Lamp. Directed by Tracy J. Trost. Starring Louis Gossett, Jr.

The Last Brickmaker in American. Directed by Gregg Champion. Starring Sidney Poitier. The Last Mimzy. Directed by Bob Shaye. Starring Chris O’Neil & Rhiannon Leigh Wryn.

The Last Sin Eater. Directed by Michael Landon, Jr. Starring Louise Fletcher.

The Last Temptation of Christ. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring William Dafoe & Barbara Hershey.

The Last Wave. Film directed by Peter Weir, starring .

Lathe of Heaven. Directed by Philip Haas. Starring James Caan and Lukas Hass.

The Legend of Bagger Vance. Directed by Robert Redford. Starring Will Smith & .

The Librarian. Directed by Peter Winther. Starring .

Like Water For Chocolate. Directed by Alfonso Arau. Starring Marco Leonardi & Lumi Cavazos.

Lost Horizon. Directed by Frank Capra. Starring Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, and Sam Jaffe.

Love Actually. Directed by Richard Curtis. Starring Hugh Grant & Maritine McCutheon.

The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns. Directed by John Henderson. Starring Randy Quad & Whoopi Goldberg.

The Majestic. Directed by . Starring Jim Carrey.

Matter of Heart. Directed by Mark Whitney.

A Matter of Life and Death. Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. Starring David Niven.

Meet Joe Black. Starring Anthony Hopkins & .

Michael. Directed by Nora Ephron. Starring John Travolta, William Hurt & Andie MacDowell.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Directed by Michael Hoffman. Starring Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer & Stanley Tucci.

The Milagro Beanfield War. Directed by Robert Redford. Starring Ruben Blade & Sonia Braga.

Mindwalk. Screenplay by Fritjof Capra. Starring , & Liv Ullman.

Mr.Holland’s Opus. Directed by Stephen Herek. Starring Richard Dreyfuss.

National Treasure. Directed by Jon Turteltaub. Starring Nicolas Cage.

Nell. Directed by Michael Apted. Starring Jodie Foster.

The Never Ending Story. Directed by Wolfgang Peterson. Starring & Barret Oliver.

Neverwas. Directed by Joshua Michael Stern. Starring Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen & .

Noelle. Directed by David Wall. Starring David Wall.

An Occurrence At The Owl Creek Bridge. Directed by Robert Enrico. Starring Roger Jaquet.

Oh God. Directed by Carl Reiner. Starring John Denver & George Burns.

Old Gringo. Directed by . Starring , , & Jimmy Smits.

One More Day. Directed by Lloyd Kramer. Starring & .

Our Town. Directed by George Schaefer. Starring Hal Holbrook, Glynnis O’Connore & Robby Benson.

Passion of Mind. Directed by Alain Berliner. Starring Demi Moore.

Peaceful Warrior. Directed by Victor Slava. Starring Scott Mechlowicz & Nick Nolte.

Paying It Forward. Directed by . Starring Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt & Joel Osment.

Phenomenon. Directed by Jon Turteltaub. Starring John Travolta.

The Picture of Dorian Gray. Directed by Alber tLewin. Starring Hurd Hatfield & George Sanders.

Pleasantville. Directed by Gary Ross. Starring , Reese Witherspoon, & William Macy.

Possession. Directed by Neil LaBute. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow.

The Postman. Directed by Michael Radford. Starring Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi & Maria Cucinotta.

Prancer. Directed by John Hancock. Starring Rebecca Harrell & Sam Elliott.

The Preacher’s Wife. Directed by Penny Marshall. Starring Denzel Washington & Whitney .

The Princess Bride. Directed by Rob Reiner. Starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn & Peter Falk.

The Purple Rose of Cairo. Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Mia Farrow & Jeff Daniels.

Raisin in the Sun. Directed by Kenny Leon. Starring Phylica Rashad.

The Razor’s Edge. Directed by John Byrum. Starring Bill Murray.

The Red Violin. Directed by Francois Girard.

Resurrection. Directed by Daniel Petrie. Starring Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepherd & Richard Farnsworth.

Rust. Directed by Corbin Bernsen. Starring Corbin Bernsen.

Saved By The Light. Directed by Lewis Teague. Starring Eric Roberts.

Saving Grace. Directed by Robert M. Young. Starring Tom Conti.

Second Hand Lions. Directed by Tim McCanlies. Starring Michael Caine & Robert Duvall.

The Secret Life of Bees. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. Starring Dakota Fanning & Queen Latifah.

Serendipity. Directed by Peter Chelsom. Starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale.

Shadowlands. Directed by Richard Attenborough. Starring Anthony Hopkins & Debra Winger.

Shakespeare In Love. Directed by John Madden. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow & JosephFiennes.

The Shunning. Directed by Michael Landon, Jr. Starring Danielle Panabaker.

Siddhartha. Directed by Conrad Rooks. Starrring Shashi Kapoor.

Silent Night. Directed by Rodney Gibbons. Starring Linda Hamilton.

Six Characters In Search of an Author. Directed by Stacy Keach. Starring Andy Griffith.

Six Degrees of Separation. Directed by Fred Schepisi. Starring Will Smith.

Slaughterhouse Five. Directed by George Roy Hill. Starring Michael Sacks & Valerie Perrine.

Sliding Doors. Directed by Peter Howitt. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow.

Smoke Signals. Directed by Chris Eyre. Starring Adam Beach & Evan Adams.

Somewhere in Time. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc. Starring Christopher Reeves & Jane Seymour.

Spellbound. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Starman. Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Jeff Bridges & Karen Allen.

Steppenwolf. Directed by Fred Haines. Starring Max Von Sydow.

The Straight Story. Directed by . Starring Richard Farnsworth.

The Strange Case of Benjamin Button. Directedby . Starring Brad Pitt. Stranger Than Fiction. Screenplay by ; starring Warren Farrell, & Dustin Hoffman.

The Story of the Weeping Camel. Directed by Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni. Starring Janchiv Ayurazana.

Sunday in the Park With George. Music by Stephen Sondheim.

A Tale of Two Cities. Directed by Philippe Monnier. Starring Jean-Pierre Aumont.

Time After Time. Directed by Nicholas Meyer. Starring Malcolm McDowell.

To Kill A Mockingbird. Directed by . Starring Gregory Peck & Brock Peters.

Truly, Madly, Deeply. Directed by . Starring Juliet Stevenson & Alan Rickman

The Truman Show. Directed by Peter Weir. Starring Jim Carrey.

2001: A Space Odyssey. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Keir Dullea.

Ulee’s Gold. Directed by Victor Numez. Starring Peter Fonda.

Uncle Vanya on 42nd Street. Directed by Louis Malle & Andre Gregory. Starring Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore.

The Virgin and the Gypsy. Directed by Christopher Miles. Starring Joanna Shimkus & Franco Nero.

Waking Life. Directed by Richard Linklater.

Whale Rider. Directed by Niki Caro. Starring Keisha Castle-Hughes.

Walk About. Directed by Nicolas Roeg. Starring Jenny Aqutter & Luc Roeg.

What Dreams May Come. Directed by Vincent Ward. Starring Robin Williams.

What if… Directed by Dallas Jenkins. Starring Kevin Sorbo & Kristy Swanson.

What the Bleep? Directed by William Arntz & Betsy Chase.

Wild Strawberries. Directed by Ingmar Bergman. Starring Victor Sjostrom.

Wings of Desire. Directed by Wem Winders. Starring Bruno Ganz & Peter Falk.

The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Starring Judy Garland.

A Wrinkle In Time. Directed by John Kent Harrison. Starring Katie Stuart, Gregory Smith & David Dorfman.

Zorba the Greek. Directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis. Starring Anthony Quinn & Alan Bates.