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Looking for some specific movies
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A spiritual community center where I sit, wants to start having a movie night.
I was asked for movie suggestions but since they blanched at my idea of "The adventures of Buckaroo Banzai", I said I'd ask you folks for what your spiritual favorites were.
Many thanks in advance.
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I'd suggest Powder but make sure they know it's not about drugs, lol.
Baraka
Samsara
the dhamma brothers
ink
pi
the neverending story
babettes feast
groundhog day
its a wonderful life
life of brian
bronson
Here is a list of the best spirutal movies, many good suggestions there
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls055295356/
The Life of Zen Master Dogen
"The Cup" and less enthusiastically, "Zen Noir"
I personally feel that is a far better suggestion than 'Zen Noir' and the usual suspects. However ...
'Kung Fu Hustle' is based on a story of chakra realignment.
So that could be on the list.
I would also suggest, 'The Invasion' as I feel it has top tips on how the emotionally stilted ultra-spirituals behavour has already snatched some of us ...
Blade Runner
Dead man walking
The Master
@Namada posted a list, which includes Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring as the top choice. I would recommend it also. Beautiful cinematography.
I also want to recommend Tokyo Story, a black and white 1953 Japanese film.
"An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality."
Short film:
Our totem is raven (1972)
Along with Baraka, it's successor Samsara (though it has some scenes people may find disturbing with regards to treatment of animals in factory farms).
When the Iron Bird Flies
Cloud Atlas
The Life of Pi
Unmistaken Child
What Dreams May Come
Kundun
7 Years in Tibet
Little Buddha
Into Great Silence (this is excellent even though it's focus is Catholic monks)
Green Mile
Shawshank Redemption
@silver : another great redemption story: CRASH (2004)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/
The same filmmaker who made "The Cup" (Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche, from Bhutan) also made "Travelers and Magicians". Another good one.
And yes, the Green Mile, absolutely!!
@Namada in Post #5 above posted: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls055295356/
I think though that a third of the movies listed there oughta be ousted from IMDB's list.
Number 5, Life Is Beautiful, is a great movie, as are many others there listed...
WHY 1986's THE MISSION, with Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons didn't make the list is beyond me. With its wonderful home-grown South American Baroque music and its John Bunyanesque penitence, it portrays a rather otherworldly landscape. I'd say it belongs in the top ten of all time.
I'm sure there are many animated films that would fit the bill...last night, the movie, All Dogs Go to Heaven popped into my mind...I always loved that one.
One of my favorite movies, and one not on the Namada's excellent list, is Circle of Iron (also released under the name The Silent Flute.
A quirky show with a great cast that's quite insightful is 'i<3huckabees'.
It's a kind of spiritual comedy.
The Men Who Stare At Goats with George Clooney
Based on a controversial military strategy ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats
How about a topical comedy about suicide bombers
Four Lions
Ip man
The prestige
Kundun - a drama-bio of the Dalai Lama up to the time of his flight from Tibet
A Man For All Seasons - how Thomas More refused to compromise his religious principles for King Henry VIII, and lost his life over it
The Crucible - another move (this one in Salem during the witchhunts) about staying loyal to truth and principles
for it is our life-choices that determine spirituality ... not our beliefs
I really liked the film called One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Princess Mononoke is my favorite.
American Beauty...
"Amongst white clouds" a wonderful documentary about the hidden lives of China's forgotten Zen Buddhist hermit tradition.
The Love Guru is a solid Buddhist flick.
While most of us are easily taken in by sham behavour ...
'The Lobster' contains many tips for ultra spirituals of a certain Zen persuasion
... or it may be the other way around
Excellent film. I did a reading from it on my acting course years ago, the Indian character I think.
Beautiful photography. I watched it again recently.
Documentary about global warming. Will change the way you think ... maybe ...
Cowspiracy. Basically us carnivores are the cause of untold suffering ...