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1. Places in the Heart (1984)

PG | 111 min | Drama

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.

Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan

Votes: 13,524 | Gross: $34.90M

2. The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

R | 114 min | Comedy, Drama

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Pat Shortt

Votes: 252,623

3. Waterworld (1995)

PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.

Director: Kevin Reynolds | Stars: Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Tina Majorino

Votes: 209,802 | Gross: $88.25M

4. The Wailing (2016)

TV-MA | 156 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

Director: Na Hong-jin | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Hwang Jung-min, Kwak Do-won, Chun Woo-hee

Votes: 81,836

5. Greenleaf (2016–2020)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama

The unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family and their sprawling Memphis megachurch, dark secrets, and lies.

Stars: Merle Dandridge, Kim Hawthorne, Desiree Ross, Lamman Rucker

Votes: 5,985

6. How Green Was My Valley (1941)

Passed | 118 min | Drama, Family

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp

Votes: 26,470

7. First Sunday (2008)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Two bungling, petty criminal BFFs try to rob a church, but someone from staff beat them to it. They spend the night with the church staff to get the money.

Director: David E. Talbert | Stars: Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan, Loretta Devine

Votes: 11,651 | Gross: $37.93M

8. Amen (1986–1991)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Rev. Rueben Gregory, finds dealing with the headstrong, opinionated, and unethical Deacon Ernest Frye--who works as a lawyer when not tending to church business--won't make his job easy.

Stars: Sherman Hemsley, Clifton Davis, Anna Maria Horsford, Roz Ryan

Votes: 2,330

9. The Baby of Mâcon (1993)

Not Rated | 122 min | Drama, History

Plagued with infertility, the inhabitants of Mâcon are naturally involved in the spectacle that is a masque about the miracle child born to a virgin mother.

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: Julia Ormond, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Stone, Jonathan Lacey

Votes: 4,986

10. Saints and Soldiers (2003)

PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Drama, War

Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.

Director: Ryan Little | Stars: Corbin Allred, Alexander Polinsky, Kirby Heyborne, Larry Bagby

Votes: 21,419 | Gross: $1.31M

11. The Black Book (2023)

TV-MA | 124 min | Thriller

After his son is framed for a kidnapping, a bereaved deacon takes justice into his own hands and fights a corrupt police gang to absolve him.

Director: Editi Effiong | Stars: Richard Mofe-Damijo, Ade Laoye, Sam Dede, Alex Usifo Omiagbo

Votes: 1,295

12. Amish Grace (2010 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 89 min | Biography, Drama

When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the ... See full summary »

Director: Gregg Champion | Stars: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Tammy Blanchard, Fay Masterson, Madison Mason

Votes: 2,086

13. The Hottest Summer (2023)

96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

During a record-breaking hot summer, Lucia volunteers at a church camp in Sicily, but the arrival of a handsome, soon-to-be-priest deacon disrupts her plans forever.

Director: Matteo Pilati | Stars: Gianmarco Saurino, Nicole Damiani, Alice Angelica, Stefania Sandrelli

Votes: 442

14. Lost Souls (2000)

R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A Catholic teacher meets an atheist journalist, whom a group of Catholics and Priests believes has been chosen by the devil to be the Antichrist.

Director: Janusz Kaminski | Stars: Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter, Philip Baker Hall

Votes: 11,365 | Gross: $16.78M

15. The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Thriller

Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.

Director: Joe May | Stars: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Dick Foran

Votes: 1,515

16. Child's Pose (2013)

Not Rated | 112 min | Drama

After the terrible news of a fatal car accident involving her son, a desperate mother will do anything in her power to set her child free.

Director: Cãlin Peter Netzer | Stars: Luminita Gheorghiu, Bogdan Dumitrache, Natasa Raab, Ilinca Goia

Votes: 8,853 | Gross: $0.09M

17. Hansel and Gretel (2007)

TV-14 | 117 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After meeting a mysterious girl on an dark stretch of road, a young salesman is invited to a beautiful house with bizarre secrets and no way to escape.

Director: Pil-sung Yim | Stars: Cheon Jeong-myeong, Eun Won-jae, Shim Eun-kyung, Jin Ji-hee

Votes: 4,944

18. Hirokin: The Last Samurai (2012)

R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A reluctant samurai with a dark past sets off on a mission to fulfill his destiny.

Director: Alejo Mo-Sun | Stars: Wes Bentley, Jessica Szohr, Angus Macfadyen, Laura Ramsey

Votes: 1,982

19. Terror in a Texas Town (1958)

Not Rated | 80 min | Western

A Swedish whaler is out for revenge when he finds out that a greedy oil man murdered his father for their land.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Sebastian Cabot, Carol Kelly, Eugene Mazzola

Votes: 2,412

20. Night Sins (1997 TV Movie)

240 min | Drama, Thriller

A female FBI investigator takes over jurisdiction in Dear Lake, a small northern town just as a young boy is abducted. Her investigation leads to a bigger series of abductions and murders ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Allan Ackerman | Stars: Valerie Bertinelli, Harry Hamlin, Karen Sillas, Martin Donovan

Votes: 336

21. Seklusyon (2016)

TV-14 | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In 1947, those aspiring to be priests are sent to a remote monastery to live in seclusion (Seklusyon) on the last day of their training. The purpose is to shield them from evil of the world... See full summary »

Director: Erik Matti | Stars: Rhed Bustamante, Neil Ryan Sese, Ronnie Alonte, Lou Veloso

Votes: 568

22. Small Town Murder Songs (2010)

R | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.

Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly | Stars: Jill Hennessy, Amy Rutherford, Peter Stormare, Vladimir Bondarenko

Votes: 3,039 | Gross: $0.03M

23. Mercy Streets (2000)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, Crime

Estranged twin brothers - one a con man, the other an Episcopal deacon - accidentally switch places... and find God in the process.

Director: Jon Gunn | Stars: Eric Roberts, David A.R. White, Cynthia Watros, Shiek Mahmud-Bey

Votes: 589 | Gross: $0.17M

24. David Harum (1934)

Passed | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a ... See full summary »

Director: James Cruze | Stars: Will Rogers, Louise Dresser, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor

Votes: 109

25. Song of Surrender (1949)

Approved | 93 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer. In addition to the differences in ... See full summary »

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Wanda Hendrix, Claude Rains, Macdonald Carey, Andrea King

Votes: 116

26. Swing Social (1940)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A preacher advises a brother from the congregation that he will not be catching any black bass on the Sabbath, as the fish are having their own "swing social."

Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Rudolf Ising | Stars: Sara Berner, Ben Carter, Billy Mitchell, Amanda Randolph

Votes: 80

27. Pursuit (1935)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Bush, the secretary of the head of a ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Chester Morris, Sally Eilers, Scotty Beckett, Henry Travers

Votes: 174

28. Jasper and the Haunted House (1942)

Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short

George Pal eventually became famous as the mastermind behind big-budget, wildly imaginative live-action features like TOM THUMB, THE TIME MACHINE and THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO. But he drew... See full summary »

Director: George Pal | Stars: Alvin Childress, Carlyle Scott Chorus, Glenn Leedy, Carlyle Leon Scott

Votes: 137

29. Me and My Little Sister (2016)

69 min | Documentary

Me and my Little Sister is a personal film about sisterhood, homosexuality and the search for acceptance.

Director: Suvi West | Stars: Kaisa West, Suvi West, Linnea, Anssi Kömi

Votes: 44

30. Holy Terror (I)

Horror | Announced

The family of Will Goode, a respected pastor, notice horrifying changes in the world around them.

Directors: Roderick Loggins, Preston Michael Simpson | Stars: Preston Michael Simpson, Braden Williams, Maya Gray, Joshua Suggs

31. Hi De Ho (1937)

Approved | 11 min | Musical, Short

Young Cab Calloway's mother is concerned because Cab spends his days listening to the radio, pretending to lead an orchestra. A deacon, passing by the apartment, hears him singing and ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, Cab Calloway, Jeni Le Gon

Votes: 179

32. The Sins of Deacon Whyles (2013)

90 min | Drama

At Heartland Baptist Church, the sparks begin to fly when a young handsome deacon becomes the focus of admiration between two dueling sisters who attend the church.

Director: Brendan Connor | Stars: Brendan Connor, Jackée Harry, Austen Jaye, Jean-Claude La Marre

33. Billy Graham: God's Ambassador (2006 Video)

Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance

The life and times of the evangelist Billy Graham are the subject of this documentary.

Director: Michael Merriman | Stars: John Akers, Cliff Barrows, Ralph Bell, Richard Bewes

Votes: 75

34. The Life of Lewis Carroll (2009)

76 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Lewis Carroll (1832-98) was an English writer, logician, mathematician, Anglican deacon and photographer. He excelled in two of these fields, photography and writing. As a photographer, he ... See full summary »

Star: Lewis Carroll

35. The Boarding School Bomber (2011 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 60 min | Documentary, Drama

Compelling drama-documentary which tells the story of how, three years after the 7/7 attacks on London, a busy shopping centre in Bristol was the intended target of a devastating terrorist attack.

Directors: Sam Hearn, Richard Penfold, Susannah Price | Stars: Adam Deacon, Stefano Braschi, Kate Hardie, Larissa Wilson

Votes: 22

36. Called to Love and Serve (2007)

27 min | Documentary, Short

Episcopal deacons, priests, bishops and lay folk from around the country discuss The Sacred Order of Deacons. Entirely without narration, and refreshingly candid, the diaconate is defined ... See full summary »

Director: Jacqueline Cherry | Stars: Kathleen Ballard, Barry Leigh Beisner, Barbara Bishop, Theorphlis Borden

37. Broken Homes (1926)

Drama

Young Julia Merritt runs away with an actor, who dies shortly afterwards, leaving her with a young daughter. She leaves the girl with Arlene, the Merritt family housekeeper, swearing her to... See full summary »

Director: Hugh Dierker | Stars: Gaston Glass, Alice Lake, J. Barney Sherry, Jane Jennings

38. Broncho Billy Begins Life Anew (1915)

Short, Western

Broncho Billy, through a notice posted on a tree, learns he can go free if he will give himself up. He keeps the notice, and, as he rides away, comes upon a little girl, who wandered from ... See full summary »

Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Lee Willard, Marguerite Clayton, Ella McKenzie

39. Camp Meetin' (1936)

Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in order to raise the funds needed to send the... See full summary »

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Hall Johnson Choir, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Clinton Rosemond, Libby Taylor

40. The Lion's Den (1919)

Passed | 50 min | Drama

Reverend Sam Webster admonishes his parishioners for their failure to finance a boys' club to keep the boys from frequenting the town's pool halls. The richest man in town, Grocer Stedman, ... See full summary »

Director: George D. Baker | Stars: Bert Lytell, Alice Lake, Joseph Kilgour, Edward Connelly

41. Diablo Blvd: Son of Cain (2014)

4 min | Short, Music, Thriller

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Director: Jelle Boucher | Stars: Alex Agnew, Andries Beckers, Tim Bekaert, Hans Bergs

42. CMT Music Awards Promo: The Understudy (2017 TV Short)

1 min | Short, Comedy

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Director: Brit McAdams | Stars: Charles Esten, Ryan King, Lindsey Shope, Dean Shortland

43. The Widow's Second Marriage (1912)

Comedy, Short

The wily deacon in this bucolic story is very much attracted to a charming widow. One morning as he is about to pay her a call, the village lawyer is there before him with a bad bit of news... See full summary »

Stars: Bliss Milford, William Bechtel, Edward Boulden, Constance Johnson

44. City Story (1954)

Approved | 44 min | Short, Drama

In order to get an idea of how he and his church can better serve their community, a pastor visits a young girl who is incarcerated in the local jail.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Warner Anderson, Ann Doran, June Kenney, Herbert Lytton

45. In His Brother's Place (1919)

50 min | Comedy, Drama

Twins Nelson and J. Barrington Drake return home for the celebration of their parents' 50th wedding anniversary. Barrington is a wealthy oilman, but Nelson is a pastor in a small rural ... See full summary »

Director: Harry L. Franklin | Stars: Hale Hamilton, Emmett King, Ruby Lafayette, Mary McIvor

46. Zhizn Matveya Kozhemyakina (1967 TV Movie)

213 min | Drama

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Director: Irina Sorokina | Stars: Pavel Luspekayev, Viktor Fyodorov-Vishnyakov, Pavel Pankov, Tamara Abrosimova

47. 7th Heaven (1996–2007)
Episode: Faith, Hope and the Bottom Line (1997)

TV-G | 44 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Simon is eager to resume the baseball season, but not to get the mandatory tetanus-shot, but also a master at scaring needle-phobic Matt who has to accompany him and could fake it. Jimmy ... See full summary »

Director: Burt Brinckerhoff | Stars: Stephen Collins, Catherine Hicks, Barry Watson, David Gallagher

Votes: 111

48. Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode: Fat Chance (1991)

TV-14 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a young woman aspiring to the priesthood dies while taking her exams, possibly from poison, Morse connects the death to a weight loss company.

Director: Roy Battersby | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Maurice Denham, David Gant

Votes: 780

49. Six Feet Under (2001–2005)
Episode: An Open Book (2001)

TV-MA | 55 min | Comedy, Drama

An adult film star electrocutes to death in her bathtub, which leads to a memorial service that is anything but ordinary.

Director: Kathy Bates | Stars: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose

Votes: 2,414

50. Six Feet Under (2001–2005)
Episode: Brotherhood (2001)

TV-MA | 51 min | Comedy, Drama

The family must persuade the angry brother of a war veteran who died of lung disease that his brother should receive a military-honoring burial.

Director: Jim McBride | Stars: Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose

Votes: 2,184