Films with Religious or Spiritual Themes or Refs

This is a great film that has not been mentioned. And the ending has a superb twist with a popular musician.

Just about all of his films have a religious theme or undertone. my particular favourite being "The Fountain".

Will: With multiple options included in each vote, perhaps you might have done two or three polls.

Others I'd add to the list (though you've done an amazing job, Will, and mine might be stretching the "religious" or "spiritual" theme):

Ennio Morricone - The Mission

Hi,

I wanted to mention this one, but I left it behind, as I could not exactly make out my thoughts about the film. I think there is a side of it that is a blatant attack on the Roman edition of everything, and how the folks on the street really see it and actually interpret it, rather than believe what they are told, which is worse than a childish story and was written way later by folks that were obviously trying to create some kind of ideal that was related to how Summerian religions looked at deity ... NOT HUMAN ... which was a theme that had been visible as well through the Greek stories, that were all b*****dized into concepts that are still a problem today, ridiculous to say the least ... and our schools keep on "teaching" the stuff instead of putting on the proper human thought at work. The Greek "chorus" was the perfect example of a system trying to change the mores of the time and place into some kind of social control and direction. It bothers me, that in theater, this is revered, instead of ridiculed.

A great example is how Medea's story is rewritten to make her look like a witch and a malevolent person ... nothing like hating women and consider them evil! It just gets old!

Sadly, PPP is not exactly clear and is certainly confused on how to portray women in both the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales, many times not making them honest. So, in my book, his idealism was as confusing as his ideas in "Empirismo Eretico" ... which, while an interesting study in the history of the Italian language, in the end, makes it a mess of confusion and ideologies, though it is possibly the best book on that particular history! But the linguistic studies can not make any dent on the religious material any more than it can on the political and social norms! Thus, for me, his "religious" themes are just an idea, and more than likely an intentional attack against the social orders in relation to religion. 

This, lowers the film for my tastes. Sadly enough. A great idea ... kinda lost in its own illusion. Monty Python might have done this a lot better!