THEME EXPLORATION

religious drama

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Les Destinées sentimentales
Les Destinées sentimentales
2000 · Olivier Assayas
Giovanna d’Arco
Giovanna d’Arco
1989 · Werner Herzog
Joan the Woman
Joan the Woman
1916 · Cecil B. DeMille
Whom the Gods Would Destroy (, reissued the same year as Who the Gods Destroy )**
Whom the Gods Would Destroy (, reissued the same year as Who the Gods Destroy )**
1919 · Frank Borzage
The First Legion
The First Legion
1950 · Douglas Sirk
Religulous
Religulous
2008 · Larry Charles
Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi
1961 · Michael Curtiz
Dorothea Angermann
Dorothea Angermann
1959 · Robert Siodmak
Mission
Mission
1987 · Christian Petzold
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev
1966 · Andrei Tarkovsky
Breaking the Waves
Breaking the Waves
1996 · Lars von Trier
Fanny och Alexander
Fanny och Alexander
1982 · Ingmar Bergman
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy

His films like 'The Gospel According to St. Matthew' and 'Canterbury Tales' profoundly explore religious faith, spirituality, and moral conflict through a Marxist and humanist lens.

 Carl Theodor Dreyer Denmark

His masterpieces 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' and 'Vampyr' examine faith, suffering, and the sacred with austere visual poetry and deep psychological intensity.

 Martin Scorsese United States

Films like 'Silence,' 'The Last Temptation of Christ,' and 'Taxi Driver' wrestle with questions of faith, doubt, sin, and redemption in visceral and controversial ways.