The Arts & Faith - Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films (2004)

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Arts & Faith is pleased to announce the Top100 Spiritually Significant Films list for 2004. The Top100 list draws upon decades of cinema and includes U.S. and foreign movies. Popular, "blockbuster" films are balanced with art films. The list offers readers the best, most spiritually significant films ever made.<br /><br />
The Top100 list was developed over several months using a combination of anonymous voting, open debate, and expert jury selection. Participants in the selection process were all users of the free Arts & Faith website. The list will be revised annually in the Spring, to reflect new films and refine the list to ensure it best represents the spiritual dimension of classic and modern film. Although developed from a Christian perspective, the focus of the list is the spiritual depth or focus of the films involved rather than moral or commercial value. Some films will appeal to everyone, but there are also films that will challenge many viewers.

[101 titles listed with ‘Jean de Florette’ and ‘Manon des sources’ counted separately]

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  1. 1.
    Addiction / Movie
    by Abel Ferrara

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  2. 2.
    Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Milos Forman

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  3. 3.
    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  4. 4.
    American Beauty

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  5. 5.
    The Apostle

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    Au Hasard Balthazar

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  7. 7.
    Babette's Feast
    by Gabriel Axel

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  8. 8.
    Bad Lieutenant
    by Abel Ferrara

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  9. 9.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  10. 10.
    Big Kahuna
    by John Swanbeck

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  11. 11.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

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  12. 12.
    Breaking the Waves
    by Lars von Trier

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  13. 13.
    Changing Lanes

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  14. 14.
    Chariots of Fire (Full Screen Edition)
    by Hugh Hudson

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  15. 15.
    Close-Up

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  16. 16.
    Code Unknown
    by Michael Haneke

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  17. 17.
    Crimes and Misdemeanors

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  18. 18.
    Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  19. 19.
    Days of Heaven
    by Terrence Malick

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  20. 20.
    Dead Man Walking
    by Tim Robbins

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  21. 21.
    The Decalogue (Complete Set)

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  22. 22.
    Dersu Uzala
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  23. 23.
    Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Bresson

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  24. 24.
    Dogma (Special Edition)

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  25. 25.
    Dogville
    by Lars von Trier

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  26. 26.
    La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Federico Fellini

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  27. 27.
    The Elephant Man

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    Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition)
    by Michel Gondry

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  29. 29.
    Fearless
    by Peter Weir

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  30. 30.
    Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Fincher

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  31. 31.
    The Gospel According to St. Matthew
    by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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  32. 32.
    Grand Canyon
    by Lawrence Kasdan

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  33. 33.
    Groundhog Day (Special Edition)

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  34. 34.
    Hell House
    by George Ratliff

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  35. 35.
    Henry V

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  36. 36.
    Ikiru - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  37. 37.
    It's a Wonderful Life
    by Frank Capra

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  38. 38.
    Jean De Florette
    by Claude Berri

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  39. 39.
    Jesus de Montreal ( Original French Version )
    by Denys Arcand

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    Jesus of Nazareth
    by Franco Zeffirelli

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  41. 41.
    The Last Days of Disco
    by Whit Stillman

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  42. 42.
    The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection
    by Martin Scorsese

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  43. 43.
    Life Is Beautiful

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    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson

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  46. 47.
    A Man for All Seasons
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  47. 48.
    The Man Without a Past
    by Aki Kaurismäki

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  48. 49.
    Manon of the Spring (Original French)
    by Claude Berri

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  49. 50.
    The Matrix
    by Larry Wachowski

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Comments

Where, oh where.... — 2 weeks ago

is “The Lilies of the Field”?


Untitled — 40 weeks ago

Do see Sansho the Bailiff, everyone!


Stigmata — 1 year ago

I am very very disappointed that STIGMATA - Rupert Wainwright, is not on this lists, in my opinion it’s one of the most spiritually significant movies ever…


crimeandpunishment
Steinbach

Update — 1 year ago

Has anyone considered updating this to the 2006 version?