🏷 Discover The Best Prayer Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Unlock the Power of Prayer through Cinema: Exploring the Best Movies and TV Shows

Discover the transformative world of faith-based movies and TV shows that delve into the profound significance of prayer. From heart-wrenching dramas to uplifting documentaries, we've curated a list of the most inspiring and thought-provoking films and series that will deepen your understanding and connection with the divine.

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Patrick Disanto

Baraka (1992)

8.2 691 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.

Plot: prayer, indigenous, community, time, spirituality, pagan, discovery world, culture, ...

Society of the Snow (2023)

8.0 3.5K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Spain, United States of America

Duration: 143 min.

Audience: R

Story: On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

Style: inspiring, dark

Plot: rescue, friendship, based on novel or book, prayer, brotherhood, based on true story, rugby, uruguay, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Abigail Cowen

Tom Lewis

Eric Dane

Famke Janssen

Redeeming Love (2022)

7.9 760 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Western

Country: South Africa, United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A young couple's relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. Angel, experiencing love for the first time and facing demons unsurmountable, runs from the new life she doesn't believe she deserves. When Michael sets out to find her, Angel discovers that she indeed has the power to choose the life she wants.

Style: absurd

Plot: pedophilia, child abuse, rape, based on novel or book, prayer, san francisco, california, love at first sight, ...

Time: 19th century, 1850s

Place: california

Cast

Karen Abercrombie

Priscilla C. Shirer

T.C. Stallings

Tenae Downing

War Room (2015)

7.8 587 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The family-friendly movie explores the transformational role prayer plays in the lives of the Jordan family. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, a middle-class couple who seemingly have it all – great jobs, a beautiful daughter, their dream home. But appearances can be deceiving. In reality, the Jordan’s marriage has become a war zone and their daughter is collateral damage. With the help of Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman, Elizabeth discovers she can start fighting for her family instead of against them. Through a newly energized faith, Elizabeth and Tony’s real enemy doesn’t have a prayer.

Plot: husband wife relationship, prayer, family relationships, closet, troubled marriage, marriage counselling, father daughter relationship, christian film, ...

Cast

Ken Bevel

Alex Kendrick

Kevin Downes

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Renee Jewell

Courageous (2011)

7.6 417 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Law enforcement officers Adam Mitchell, Nathan Hayes, and their partners stand up to the worst the streets have to offer with confidence and focus. Yet at the end of the day, they face a challenge that none of them are truly prepared to tackle: fatherhood. They know that God desires to turn the hearts of fathers to their children, but their children are beginning to drift further and further away from them. When tragedy hits home, these men are left wrestling with their hopes, their fears, their faith, and their fathering. Can a newfound urgency help these dads draw closer to God... and to their children?

Plot: husband wife relationship, police, funeral, faith, prayer, forgiveness, christianity, pastor, ...

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Emily Watson

Stellan Skarsgu00e5rd

Katrin Cartlidge

Jean-Marc Barr

Breaking the Waves (1996)

7.5 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Denmark, France

Duration: 159 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

Plot: underdog, dying and death, prostitute, paraplegic, parent child relationship, faith, society, tradition, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: scotland

Cast

Sissy Spacek

Piper Laurie

Amy Irving

William Katt

Carrie (1976)

7.3 4.3K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: high school, child abuse, based on novel or book, isolation, cemetery, stage, bible, telekinesis, ...

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Mia Wasikowska

Michael Fassbender

Jamie Bell

Sally Hawkins

Jane Eyre (2011)

7.2 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

Plot: friendship, prayer, smoking, painting, man woman relationship, love, rural area, snow, ...

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Anya Taylor-Joy

Ralph Ineson

Kate Dickie

Harvey Scrimshaw

The Witch (2016)

7.0 7.7K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Brazil, Canada

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

Plot: witch, isolation, magic, possession, black magic, older woman seduces younger guy, new hampshire, woods, ...

Time: 17th century

Place: new england

Notorious (2009)

7.0 805 votes

Genre: Drama, History, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: "Notorious" is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time: The Notorious B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of "The American Dream."

Plot: rap music, ghetto, murder, death, boom box, rapping, crack addict, gold tooth, ...

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Thomas Jane

Laurie Holden

Toby Jones

Marcia Gay Harden

The Mist (2007)

6.9 5.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

Style: shocking

Plot: monster, based on novel or book, supermarket, fight, faith, prayer, spider, fog, ...

Cast

Jim Carrey

Morgan Freeman

Jennifer Aniston

Philip Baker Hall

Bruce Almighty (2003)

6.7 11.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.

Plot: new love, lovesickness, moon, street gang, moses, faith, prayer, christianity, ...

Cast

Taissa Farmiga

Anna Popplewell

Jonas Bloquet

Storm Reid

The Nun II (2023)

6.6 2.5K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1956 France, a priest is violently murdered, and Sister Irene begins to investigate. She once again comes face-to-face with a powerful evil.

Plot: nun, halloween, bullying, sequel, priest, religion, church, demon, ...

Time: 1950s

Place: france

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

6.4 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby, is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everything a dimwitted daredevil could want, a luxurious mansion, a smokin' hot wife, and all the fast food he can eat. But Ricky's turbo-charged lifestyle hits an unexpected speed bump when he's bested by flamboyant Euro-idiot Jean Girard and reduced to a fear-ridden wreck.

Plot: car race, prayer, north carolina, family dinner, betrayal, best friend, race car driver, advertising, ...

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Dan Stevens

Michael Sheen

Lucy Boynton

Mark Lewis Jones

Apostle (2018)

6.1 1.6K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.

Plot: ransom, gore, cult, murder, religion, prophet, church, praying, ...

Time: 1900s

Place: wales

Cast

Justin Bieber

Nathan Morris

Wanyu00e1 Morris

Shawn Stockman

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never (2011)

5.2 431 votes

Genre: Documentary, Family, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: G

Story: Tells the story of Justin Bieber, the kid from Canada with the hair, the smile and the voice: It chronicles his unprecedented rise to fame, all the way from busking in the streets of Stratford, Canada to putting videos on YouTube to selling out Madison Square Garden in New York as the headline act during the My World Tour from 2010. It features Usher, Scooter Braun, Ludacris, Sean Kingston, Antonio "L.A." Reid, Boyz II Men, Miley Cyrus, Jaden Smith, Justin's family members and parts of his crew and huge fanbase in a mix of interviews and guest performances.

Plot: manager, prayer, pop singer, music competition, tour bus, teenage boy, pop music, concert film, ...

Place: canada