 | The Ingmar Bergman Trilogy: The Criterion Collection (Through a Glass Darkly / Winter Light / The Silence)
Buy new: $71.99 / Used from: $44.99 Dark nights of the soul.
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 | A Life Apart - Hasidism in America
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $18.17 Good documentary.
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 | Agnes of God
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.48 Can one see God and live?
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 | Antonia's Line
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $6.65 God as matriarch.
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 | The Apostle
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $5.79 Story of a fall and redemption.
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 | Black Robe
Buy used from: $7.94 The hubris of missionaries.
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 | Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.86 In a godless world, technocrats become gods. Rutiger Hauer as a Jesus-figure.
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 | Bonhoeffer
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $12.86 Excellent docu-biography.
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 | The Book of Daniel - The Complete Series
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $3.42 A sensitive and funny look at religion--until closed down by fundamentalist yahoos.
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 | Briars in the Cotton Patch: The Story of Koinonia Farm
Buy used from: $10.00 Clarence Jordan and his friends dared to take Jesus at his word.
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 | Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.87 Donovan's musical score is awful, and the film at times is a bit syrupy. But it captures Francis' joyfulness.
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 | Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $2.86 Juliet Binoche as Christ-figure who brings Eucharist and joy to a dour village
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 | The Chosen
Buy used from: $97.95 Chaim Potok's story of hasidism in America.
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 | Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $18.99 Intense. Hell is not to love.
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 | Dogma (Special Edition)
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $2.49 A funny reminder that God loves a joke as much as the next guy.
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 | Equus
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.98 No escape from God's scrutiny if one's God is a predator.
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 | Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $9.50 Story of a God-touched man
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 | God Is Brazilian
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $12.00 What if God was one of us?
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 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Buy used from: $6.99 Pasolini's vision of Jesus as revolutionary. (But why Matthew instead of Luke?)
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 | Into Great Silence (Two-Disc Set)
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $18.95 Meditative journey into the Carthusian world.
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 | Jesus Christ Superstar (Special Edition)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.50 'To be a Christian is to be joyful.' Romano Guardini
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 | Jesus of Montreal
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $14.73 The best of the lot.
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 | Kundun
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.82 The story of the current Dalai Lama.
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 | The Last Temptation of Christ - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $14.24 Jesus, tempted in every way.
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 | The Message (30th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $7.37 Hollywoodish in places, but accurate portrayal of the rise of Islam.
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 | The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $12.30 Brilliant depiction of Church vs. Christ. Daniel Berrigan was a technical director.
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 | The Monastery: Mr Vig & The Nun
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $16.30 |
 | Ostrov (The Island), NTSC version with English subtitles (2006)
Buy used from: $21.40 The Jesus Prayer.
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 | Pay It Forward
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $1.90 A kid as Christ-figure.
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 | Peace Is Every Step-Meditation In Action: The Life and Work of Thich Nhat Hanh
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $18.99 Buddhist therapy for ill-being.
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 | Priest
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.49 What's really important in a clergyperson.
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 | Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi
Buy used from: $4.85 The best documentary made on Francis.
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 | Romero (IMPORT)
Buy used from: $7.20 Well-written story of Oscar Romero. Produced by Paulist Press, which also put out the stinker 'Entertaining Angels.'
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 | The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
Buy used from: $14.99 Is death the end?
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 | Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.48 Visually sumptuous, a meditation on innocence, guilt, atonement.
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 | Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $11.86 The tradition and ordeal of Tibetan Buddhism.
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 | Ushpizin
Buy new: $23.49 / Used from: $10.84 Sacrifice.
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 | Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $13.07 A Zen parable.
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 | Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Full Screen Special Edition)
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $6.67 Willy Wonka as Christ-figure.
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 | Zorba the Greek
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $4.91 Zorba as Christ-figure.
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