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, The [VHS]
    by Abel Ferrara

  2. 3.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  3. 4.
    American Beauty (Widescreen Edition)
    by Sam Mendes

  4. 5.
    The Apostle

  5. 6.
    ?
    Au Hasard Balthazar

  6. 7.
    Babette's Feast

  7. 8.
    Bad Lieutenant

  8. 9.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica

  9. 10.
    The Big Kahuna
    by John Swanbeck

  10. 11.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

  11. 12.
    Breaking the Waves

  12. 13.
    Changing Lanes
    by Roger Michell

  13. 14.

  14. 15.
    Close-Up
    by Abbas Kiarostami

  15. 16.
    Code Unknown

  16. 17.
    Crimes and Misdemeanors

  17. 18.
    Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  18. 19.
    Days of Heaven
    by Terrence Malick

  19. 20.
    Dead Man Walking
    by Tim Robbins

  20. 21.
    The Decalogue (Complete Set)

  21. 22.
    Dersu Uzala
    by Akira Kurosawa

  22. 23.
    Diary of a Country Priest (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

  23. 24.
    Dogma (Special Edition)

  24. 25.
    Dogville

  25. 27.
    The Elephant Man

  26. 28.
    Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (Widescreen Edition)
    by Michel Gondry

  27. 29.
    Fearless

  28. 30.
    Fight Club (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by David Fincher

  29. 31.

  30. 32.
    Grand Canyon

  31. 33.
    Groundhog Day (Special Edition)
    by Harold Ramis

  32. 34.
    Hell House
    by George Ratliff

  33. 35.
    Henry V

  34. 36.
    Ikiru (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  35. 37.
    It's a Wonderful Life

  36. 38.
    Jean De Florette

  37. 40.
    Jesus of Nazareth

  38. 41.
    The Last Days of Disco
    by Whit Stillman

  39. 43.
    Life is Beautiful
    by Roberto Benigni

  40. 45.

  41. 46.
    A Man Escaped [VHS]
    by Robert Bresson

  42. 47.
    A Man for All Seasons

  43. 48.
    The Man Without a Past
    by Aki Kaurismäki

  44. 49.
    Manon of the Spring (Original French)
    by Claude Berri

  45. 50.
    The Matrix

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Comments

Untitled — 2 years ago

INTOTHEWILD most certainly should be included in this list


Untitled — 2 years ago

well, credit for picking the world’s greatest film, Sansho the Bailiff


Where, oh where.... — 3 years ago

is “The Lilies of the Field”?


Stigmata — 4 years 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…


Update — 4 years ago

Has anyone considered updating this to the 2006 version?




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