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Spiritual but not religious films - Magical Realist - Jun 2, 2025
I am something of a connoisseur of non-religious movies with spiritual implications. The problem is that spiritual is so widely embracing that practically any movie can be about it. The quest for meaning in one's life. The nature of death and the afterlife. Encounters with non-human intelligences. The borders between illusion and reality. The mystery of consciousness. Time and Destiny. And explorations of other worlds and dimensions. Some can be literal while others can be metaphorical. Here's some suggested by the imdb website below along with ALOT of my favorites.
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000383186/
1) Cloud Atlas
2) Grand Canyon
3) The Fountain
4) The Adjustment Bureau
5) Mr. Nobody
6) Field of Dreams
7) Ghost
8) What Dreams May Come
9) The Tree of Life
10) Birth
11) 11:14
12) The Matrix
13) The Hours
14) The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
15) The Truman Show
16) Signs
17) Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
18) Time Bandits
19) Brazil
20) Mindwalk
21) Why Has The Bodhi-Darma Left For The East
22) Eat, Pray, Love
23) The Game
24) The Green Knight
25) A.I.
26) Vanilla Sky
27) The Giver
28) Enter The Void
29) A Ghost Story
30) After Life (Japanese classic)
31) Interstellar
32) Groundhog Day
33) Inception
34) Phenomenon
35) Waking Life
36) Magnolia
37) Stay
38) All The Lovely Bones
39) Dragonfly
40) Bridge To Terabithia
41) Always
42) The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
43) Little Buddha
44) Cocoon
45) Avatar
46) The Abyss
47) Astral City
48) The Holy Mountain
49) El Topo
50) Baraka
51) Office Space
52) Midnight Special
53) Hereafter
54) The Golden Compass
55) Solaris
56) The Sacrifice
RE: Spiritual but not religious films - Secular Sanity - Jun 2, 2025
RE: Spiritual but not religious films - Magical Realist - Jun 2, 2025
That looks so good! And I love Bill Nighy.. Tks SS.