drama
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DramaCitizen Kane
Drama 1941 / 119 minutes Rating: 7/10 It’s a mystery with a moral. Often called the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane is a story told…
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DramaMr. Deeds Goes to Town
Drama/Romance 115 min / 1936 Rating: 8/10 Frank Capra is best known for his 1946 hit It’s a Wonderful Life. But a decade earlier he…
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DramaThe Count of Monte Cristo
Drama 1934 / 107 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is based on the story by Alexander Dumas (who also authored The Three Musketeers), and while it…
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FamilySnuf de Hond in Oorlogstijd (Sniff the Dog in Wartime)
Drama / Family 2008 / 95 minutes RATING: 8/10 If you came to this review as a huge fan of the Piet Prins’ Scout series,…
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DramaBad Day at Black Rock
Drama 1955 / 81 minutes Rating: 8/10 John J. Macreedy wasn’t looking to start anything. But when he steps off the train into a one-road…
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DramaBeyond the blackboard
Drama / true story 2011 / 95 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is different sort of Hallmark – no royalty, no baking of any kind, and…
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Movie lists300 movies Christians can love
Great minds think alike, and the same month I was first compiling this article two of those great minds belonged to a missionary in Brazil…
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DramaThe Miracle Worker
Drama / Biography 1962 / 106 min Rating: 9/10 The one-sentence synopsis is: seven-year-old Helen Keller, blind and deaf, learns to communicate through the discipline…
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DramaLittle Women (1994)
Drama 1994 / 118 min Rating: 9/10 Taking only minor liberties with Louisa May Alcott’s book, Little Women tells the tale of Marmee March’s four…
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Drama12 Angry Men
Drama 1957 / 96 min. Rating: 9/10 A movie that takes place in a single room? All dialogue, and no car chases or explosions? 12…
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DramaHigh Noon
Western / Drama 1952 / 85 min. Rating: 9/10 In a contender for best Western of all time, Gary Cooper plays the newly married Marshal…
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DramaUnsung Hero
Drama / Christian 2024 / 112 minutes Rating: 8/10 This is a bio-pic on the Smallbone family, and if you haven’t heard of them, you’ve…
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DramaGrace Unplugged
Drama 2013 / 102 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is a story about two prodigals. The first, Johnny Trey, was a one-hit wonder pop star who…
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DramaSarah, Plain and Tall
Drama / Romance 1990 / 98 minutes Rating: 8/10 In 1910, Jacob Witting, a Kansas farmer and widower, places a newspaper ad asking for a…
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DramaLove’s Long Journey
Drama / Family 2005 / 88 minutes Rating: 7/10 Missie LaHaye isn’t quite the perfect wife – she’s an impossibly bad cook – but she…
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FamilyGood Sam
Drama / Family / Romance 2019 / 89 minutes RATING: 8/10 Kate Bradley is a TV news reporter following the “bummer beat” in New York…
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DramaThe Great Dictator
Drama / War / Black and White 1940 / 125 minutes Rating: 8/10 Long before Hitler adopted it, Charlie Chaplin made the “toothbrush mustache” famous….
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DramaCasablanca
Drama 103 min / 1943 Rating: 10/10 When Ilsa Lund hears that the Nazis have killed her husband she is inconsolable…until she meets Rick Blaine….
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DramaLike Dandelion Dust
Drama 104 minutes / 2009 Rating: 8/10 Like Dandelion Dust pits two families against each other for the custody of Joey, a six-year-old boy they…
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FamilyThe Three Investigators in The Secret of Skeleton Island
Family / Drama 91 minutes / 2007 Rating: 7/10 The Three Investigators started as a book series that ran from 1964-1987 and included more than…
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DramaNot One Less
Chinese / Drama 106 min / 2000 Rating: 7/10 13-year-old Wei Minzhi is left in charge of a one-classroom elementary school in rural China and…
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DramaFinal Solution
Drama 2001 / 102 minutes Rating: 8/10 This is the true story of Gerrit Wolfaardt, a church-going, Mein Kampf-reading young man who was taught from the…
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Drama2081: Everyone will finally be equal
Drama 2009 / 25 minutes RATING: 8/10 “The year is 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law…
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FamilyThe Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
Family / Romance 113 minutes / 1968 Rating: 7/10 Horses, humor, and a little romance will make this one a favorite among the preteen girls…
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DramaA Royal Christmas
Drama / Romance 87 minutes / 2014 RATING: 7/10 How would you react if you found out that the wonderful, thoughtful, fun, quiet someone you…
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DramaBasil Rathbone’s classic 14-film (1939-1946) go as Sherlock Holmes
If there’s any one film that deserves credit as the inspiration for the innumerable cinematic Holmesian interpretations that followed, it’d be Basil Rathbone’s 1939 performance…
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DramaTo save a life
Drama 120 minutes; 2010 Rating: 7/10 To Save a Life is about teen suicide… and also premarital sex, abortion, underage drinking, cutting, bullying, divorce, divorce’s impact…
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DramaThe Hobbit: the film trilogy
AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY 2012 / 169 min (also a 182-min version) Rating: 8/10 THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 2013 / 161 min (also a 186-min version) Rating: 8/10…
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AnimatedThe Toy Story franchise is for adults
Animated / Drama 1995, 1999, 2010, and 2019 / 81, 92, 103, and 100 minutes Rating: 8/10 Animation is usually for kids. And a story…
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DramaHidden Places
Romance / Drama 2005 / 86 minutes Rating: 6/10 In the Depression of the 1930s, the young widow Eliza Wyatt is trying to help her…
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DramaEnd of the Spear
Drama 2005 / 108 minutes Rating: 7/10 This review first appeared in the January 2006 issue How does a Christian group succeed in presenting a…
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DramaAnd then there were none
Drama 1945 / 97 minutes Rating: 7/10 The film is based on the Agatha Christie mystery of the same name, one of just three English…
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DramaThe Adventures of Robin Hood
Drama/Action 101 min / 1938 Rating: 8/10 Aside from a little medieval Roman Catholicism in the character of Friar Tuck (for instance, asking a woman…
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DramaThe Song
Drama / Musical 2014 / 116 minutes RATING: 9/10 The Song destroys all the expectations we have for Christian films. It has great acting, a…
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DramaWoodlawn
Drama 123 minutes / 2015 Rating: 10/10 Sports movies have their own formula. The orchestral music swells, mud spatters, bodies get thrown to the turf,…
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DramaThe Man in the Iron Mask
Drama 1939 / 112 minutes Rating: 6/10 Based loosely on the Alexander Dumas story of the same name, it takes place 20 years after Dumas’…
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DramaDesperate Journey
Black and White / War / Drama 107 minutes / 1942 RATING: 8/10 Ronald Reagan and Errol Flynn are two members of an Allied bombing…
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FamilyBeyond the Mask
Christian / Action / Drama / Family 103 minutes / 2015 RATING: 8/10 William Reynolds is an 18th-century assassin and the righthand man to the…
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DramaFREE FILM: The Amazing Adventure
Drama / Black & White / Family 62 minutes / 1936 RATING: 7/10 Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) is a young man who has inherited a…
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DramaThe Silver Fleet
Drama / Black and White / War 1943 / 88 minutes RATING: 7/10 This is a well-done, almost unknown World War II film told from…
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DramaTortured for Christ
Historical drama 77 minutes / 2018 RATING: 8/10 Tortured for Christ is a must-see film about Richard Wurmbrand’s courageous and faithful stand against the Soviets…
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DramaBataan
Drama / Black and White / War 1943 / 114 minutes RATING: 8/10 This is a movie unlike any other you will ever see. In…
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DramaI can only imagine
Drama 2018 / 110 minutes Rating: 8/10 This is the life story of MercyMe singer Bart Millard, or, more specifically, it’s the story of what…
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DramaUnbroken: Path to Redemption
Drama / Christian 98 minutes / 2018 RATING: 8/10 Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 best-selling biography of Louis Zamperini was so good two movies have been based…
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DramaGosnell: the trial of America’s biggest serial killer
Drama 2018 / 93 minutes RATING: 8/10 “Are you going to be the first prosecutor in American history to charge an abortion doctor with murder?”…
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FamilyThe Giver
Drama / Family 97 minutes / 2014 RATING: 8/10 My brother Jeff wrote a review of the book this film is based on that hits…
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FamilySwallows and Amazons
Drama / Family 2016 / 96 minutes RATING: 7/10 I remember my older brother reading Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons to me when I was very young,…
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DramaThe man who shot Liberty Valance
Western 1962 / 123 minutes RATING: 8/10 What does it mean to be a man? In this classic Western, Hollywood offers up two answers. Tom…
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DramaThe Seahawk
Drama / Action 109 minutes / 1940 RATING: 8/10 While The Seahawk is set in 1585, and pitches Spain against England, this film was all…
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DramaThe Spirit of St. Louis
Family / Biography 1957 / 135 minutes RATING: 7/10 Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 flight wasn’t the first to cross the North Atlantic. That was accomplished 8…
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FamilyMisty
Family / Drama 1961 / 91 minutes RATING: 7/10 If you have girls in your home there’s a good chance you’ve already heard of Marguerite…
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Movie listsMartin at the movies
All four of these films can be viewed, for free at RedeemTV.com (you will have to sign up for a free account and provide your…
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DramaThe Case for Christ
Drama 112 minutes / 2017 RATING: 7/10 On a Saturday morning in May, I found myself in an unusual place: seated in the Hoyts cinema,…