Movies about Jesus Christ
life
El mártir del
Calvario [The martyr of Calvary]
1952, Mexico, director: Miguel Morayta
El proceso de
Cristo [The trial of Christ] 1966,
Mexico, director: Julio Brancho
Gospel road: A
story of Jesus 1973 USA, director: Robert Elfstrom
Il messia [The Messiah] 1975, Italy & France,
director: Roberto Rossellini
Il vangelo
secondo Matteo [The gospel according to
St. Matthew] 1964, Italy & France, director & screenplay: Pier Paolo
Pasolini
Impact: The
passion of the Christ 2004, USA, director & screenplay: Timothy A. Chey
In search of
historic Jesus 1979 (documentary), USA, director: Henning Schellerup
Jesus [Iisus] 1999, Czech Republic, Italy,
Germany & USA, director: Roger Young
Jesus 1979 (TV
movie) [aka The Jesus movie], USA,
director: John Krish & Peter Skykes
Jesus Christ
superstar 1972, Philippines, director: Jose 'Pepe' Wenceslao
Jesus Christ
superstar 1973, USA, director: Norman Jewison
Jesus of
Nazareth 1977 (mini-series), Italy & UK, director: Franco Zeffirelli
King of Kings
1961, USA, director: Nicholas Ray
La vie et la
passion de Jésus Christ [The
life and passion of Christ] 1903 (short), France, director: Lucien Nonguet, Ferdinand Zecca
Life of Jesus
Christ
L'inqhiesta [The final inquiry] 2006, Italy, Spain,
USA & Bulgaria, director: Giulio Base
Son of man
2006, South Africa, director: Mark Dornford-May
The Bible: In
the beginning … 1966, USA & Italy, director: John Huston
The day Christ
died 1980 (TV movie), USA, director: James Cellan Jones
The greatest
story ever told 1965, USA, director: George Stevens
The king of
Kings 1927, USA, director: Cecil B. De Mille
The lamb of
God 1992 (short), USA, director: Russell Holt
The last
temptation of Christ 1998, USA & Canada, director: Martin Scorsese
The miracle
maker 2000, Russia & USA, director: Derek W. Hayes & Stanislav Sokolov
The nativity
1978 (TV movie), USA, director: Bernard L. Kowalski
The nativity
story 2006, USA, director: Catherine Hardwicke
The passions of
the Christ 2004, USA, director: Mel Gibson
The visual
Bible: The Gospel of John 2003, Canada
& UK, director: Philip Saville
Un bambino di
nome Gesù [A child called Jesus]
1987 (TV movie), Italy & West Germany, director: Franco Rossi
Where Jesus
walked 1978 (documentary), USA, director: Scott Whitaker
Movies about Christianity
&
Inspirational movies about
religious people
A lamp in the
dark: The untold history of Bible 2009, USA, director & screenplay:
Christian J. Pinto
A story of
David [A story of David: The hunted]
1961, UK & Israel, director: Bob McNaught
A.D. 1985 (TV series),
Italy, France & USA, director: Stuart Cooper
Abraham 19935
(TV movie), Germany, Italy, USA, Czech Republic & France, director: Joseph
Sargent
Agora 2009, Spain,
director: Alejandro Amenábar
Al-mohager [The emigrant] 1994, Egypt & France, director:
Youssef Chahine
Amazing Grace 2006, UK & USA,
director: Michael Apted
Barabbas 1953,
Sweden, director: Alf Sjöberg
Barabbas 1961,
Italy & USA, director: Richard Fleischer
Behind the sun 1995, USA,
director: Robin B. Armstrong
Ben-Hur 1959,
USA, director: William Wyler
Ben-Hur: A
tale of Christ 1925, USA, director: Fred Niblo
Beyond the next mountain 1987, USA,
director: James F. Collier
Blessed art thou
[A question of
faith] 2000, USA,
director & screenplay: Tim Disney
Brother Sun, Sister Moon 1972 [a dramatization of events in the life of St.
Francis of Assisi], Italy & UK, director:
Franco Zeffirelli
Celui qui doit mourir [He who must die] 1957, Italy &
France, director: Jules Dassin
Das ewige Lied
[Silent night] 1997 (TV movie), Germany&
Austria, director & screenplay: Franz Xaver Bogner
David 1997
(TV movie), USA, Italy& Germany , director: Robert Markowitz
David and Bathsheba 1951, USA,
director: Henry King
David and Goliath 1986 (animation by
Hanna-Barbera Production) USA, director: Ray Patterson
Dekalog [The Decalogue] 1989-1990 (TV
mini-series), Poland, director: Krzysztof Piesiewicz
Det sjunde
inseglet [The seventh seal] 1957,
Sweden, director & screenplay: Ingmar Bergman
Die
Päpstin [Pope Joan] 2009, Germany,
UK, Italy & Spain, director: Sönke
Wortmann
El cant dels ocells [Birdsong] 2008, Spain, director
& screenplay: Albert Serra
Esther 1999
(TV series), Germany, Italy & USA, director: Raffaele Martes
Francesco 1989 (docudrama), Italy
& West Germany, director & screenplay: Liliana Cavani
Francesco, giullare di Dio [The flowers of St. Francisc] 1950,
Italy, director: Roberto Rossellini
Genesis: The Creation and the Flood
1994, Italy & Germany, director &
screenplay: Ermanno Olmi
Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli [The story of Joseph and His Brethren]
1962, Yugoslavia & Italy, director: Irving Rapper &
Luciano Ricci
Gli amici di
Gesù – Giuda [The friends of Jesus – Judas]
2001 (TV movie), Italy, director: Raffaele Martes & Elisabetta Marchetti
Gli amici di
Gesù – Giuseppe di Nazareth [Joseph of
Nazareth] 2000 (TV movie), Italy, director: Raffaele Martes &
Elisabetta Marchetti
Gli amici di
Gesù – Maria Magdalena [Mary Magdalene]
2000 (TV movie), Italy & Germany, director: Raffaele Martes &
Elisabetta Marchetti
Gli amici di
Gesù – Tommaso [The friends of Jesus –
Thomas] 2001 (TV movie), Italy, director: Raffaele Martes & Elisabetta
Marchetti
Greatest heroes of the Bible 1979, USA,
an anthology of famous events of the Old Testament, director:
James L. Conway
Have no fear: The life of Pope John Paul
II 2005 (TV movie), Lithuania & USA,
director: Jeff Bleckner
Il papa buono [The good pope: Pope John XXIII] 2003 (TV
movie), Italy, director: Ricky Tognazzi
In the
beginning 2000 (TV movie), USA, director: Kevin Connor
Jacob 1994 (TV
movie), Czech Republic, France, UK, Italy, Germany, USA & Netherlands,
director: Peter Hall
Jeremiah 1998 (TV
movie), Italy, Germany & USA, director & screenplay: Harry Winer
Jésus of Montreal [Jesus of Montreal] 1989, Canada & France, director
& screenplay: Denys Arcand
Jesús, nuestro Señor 1971, Mexico, director:
Miguel Zacarías
Joseph [Joseph in Egypt] 1995 (TV movie),
Italy, USA & Germany, director: Roger Young
Joseph: King
of dreams 2000 (animation by DreamWorks SKG) USA, director: Rob LaDuca &
Robert C. Ramirez
Judas 2004 (TV
movie), USA, director: Charles Robert Carner
Karol: A man who became pope 2005 (TV
movie), Poland & Italy, director: Giacomo Battiato
King David
1985,
UK & USA, director: Bruce Beresford
La cabane du Bon Dieu [The hut of the God Lord] 2011 (documentary), France, director:
François Lespes
La genèse [Genesis] 1999, France & Mali, director:
Cheick Oumar Sissoko
La regina di
Saba [The queen of Sheba] 1952,
Italy, director: Pietro Francisci
La sacra famiglia [The holy family] 2006 (TV movie),
Italy, director: Raffaele Martes
Le
martyre de Saint Sébastien [The
martyrdom of St. Sebastian] 1984 (TV movie),
West Germany, director: Petr Weigl
Left behind 2001, Canada,
director: Vic Sarin
Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob [The mad adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob]
1973, France & Italy, director: Gérard Oury
Letting go of God 2008 (documentary/
monologue), USA, director & screenplay: Julia
Sweeney
Madre Teresa [Mother Teresa of Calcutta] 2003 (TV movie), Spain,
UK & Italy, director: Fabrizio Costa
Man of God 2005, USA,
director & screenplay: Jefrey Levy
María
Magdalena 1954, Argentina,
director & screenplay: Carlos Hugo Christensen
Mary 2005, Italy, France & USA, director:
Abel Ferrara
Mary Mother of Christ 2014, USA,
director: Alister Grierson
Mary, Mother of Jesus 1999 (TV movie), USA,
director: Kevin Connor
Meteora: The
rocks of God 2001(documentary),
Greece, director & screenplay: Paul Pissanos
Miracle at Moreaux 1986 (TV movie), USA
& Canada, director: Paul Shapiro
Monsieur Vincent 1947, France,
director: Maurice Cloche
Moses 1995
(TV movie), USA, Czech Republic, UK, France, Italy, Germany & Spain,
director: Roger Young
Moses the lawgiver 1974 (mini-serie),
UK & Italy, director: Gianfranco De Bosio
Nazarín [Nazarin] 1959, Mexico, director: Luis Buñuel
Noah's ark
1999 (TV movie), Germany & USA, director: John Irvin
One night with
the King 2006, Michael O. Sajbel
Ostrov [The island] 2006, Russia, director:
Pavel Lungin
Papa Giovanni – Ioannes XXIII [Pope John
XXIII] 2002 (TV movie), Italy, director: Giorgio
Capitani
Peter and Paul 1981(TV
movie), USA, director: Robert Day
Pontius Pilate [Pontius Pilate] 1962 Italy &
France, director: Gian Paolo Callegari & Irving Rapper
Pope John II 2005 (TV
movie), Italy, USA & Poland, director: John Kent Harrison
Quo Vadis 1951, USA,
director: Mervyn LeROY
Religious 2008 (documentary), USA,
director: Larry Charles
Romero 1989,
USA, director: John Duigan
Salome 1923, USA,
director: Charles Bryant
Samson 1997
(TV movie) UK, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Germany & USA, director:
Roger Young
Samson and Delilah 1949, USA,
director: Cecil B. DeMille
Samson and Delilah 1996 (TV
movie), Germany, Italy & USA, director: Nicolas Roeg
San Giovanni –
L'apocalisse [The apocalypse] 2002 (TV
movie), Italy, France, Germany & UK, director: Raffaele Mertes
San Paolo [St. Paul] 2000 (TV movie), Italy, Czech Republic
& Germany, director: Roger Young
San Pietro [Imperium: Saint Peter] 2005 (TV movie),
Italy, director: Giulio Base
Secrets of Mary Magdalene 2006
(documentary), USA, director: Rob Fruchtman
Sodom and
Gomorrah 1962, USA, Italy & France, director: Robert Aldrich
Sodom und Gomorrah 1922 [Sodom and Gomorrah, or in full Queen of
Sin and the Spectacle of Sodom and Gomorrha] (black & white), Germany
& Austria, director: Michael Curtiz
Solomon and Sheba, USA,
director: King Vidor
St. Patrick: The Irish legend 2000 (TV
movie), director: Robert Hughes
Stephen's test
of faith 1988 (short), USA, director: Stephen Yake
The Amazing Grace 2006, Nigeria
& UK, directo & screenplayr: Jeta Amata
The Bible 2013
(mini-series), USA & UK, director: Crispin Reece & Christopher Spencer
The book of
Ruth: Journey of faith 2009 USA, director: Stephen Patrick Walker
The case for a
Creator 2006 (documentary), USA, director &
screenplay: Wayne P. Allen
The case for
Christ 2007 (documentary), USA, director: Michael
& Timothy Eaton
The case of faith 2008
(documentary), USA, director: Lad Allen
The emissary:
A biblical epic 1997, USA, director & screenplay: Robert Marcarelli
The grace card 2010, USA,
director: David G. Evans
The Hebrew
hammer 2003, USA, director & screenplay: Jonathan Kesselman USA, director
The miracle of
our Lady of Fatima 1952, USA, director: John Brahm
The perfect stranger 2005, USA,
director: Jefferson Moore
The Prince of
Egypt 1998 (animation by DreamWorks Animation) USA, director: Brenda Chapman,
Steve Hickner & Simon Wells
The robe 1953,
USA, director: Henry Koster
The rose of Sharon 2006, South Korea
& USA, director & screenplay: Elliot
Hong
The second
chance 2006,
USA, director: Steve Taylor
The seventh
sign 1988, USA, director: Carl Schultz
The song of Bernadette 1943, USA,
director: Henry King
The story of Jacob and Joseph 1974 (TV
movie), USA, director: Mihalis Kakogiannis
The story of Ruth 1960, USA,
director: Henry Koster
The Ten
Commandments 1956, USA, director: Cecil B. de Mille
The Ten
Commandments 2007, USA, director: Bill Boyce & John Stronach
The visual
Bible: Acts 2004, USA, director: Regardt van den Bergh
The visual
Bible: Matthew [The Gospel according to
Matthew] 1993, South Africa, director: Regardt van den Bergh
Thérèse: The story of Saint Thérèse of
Lisieux, 2004, USA, director: Leonardo Defilippis
Witness
to hope: The life of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II 2002 (documentary), USA,
director: Judith Dwan Hallet
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http://biblefilms.blogspot.ro
