For the Year of the Priest, here are the “Top 10 Priest Movies” from our Top 100 Catholic Movies List (the full list, the result of an online poll of 1,000 people, is always under “Resources” above):
1. The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
2. The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
3. The Mission (1986), mature audiences
4. Going My Way (1944)
5. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
6. On the Waterfront (1954)
7. I Confess (1953)
8. Boys Town (1938)
9. Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999), mature audiences
10. The Exorcist (1973) mature audiences
*11. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
(This list represents U.S. movies in which a main character is a priest. It omits movies focused on a bishop or a pope. The French films “Monsieur Vincent” [1948] and “Diary of a Country Priest” [1951] would come before “Angels With Dirty Faces” if foreign films counted.)
* UPDATED: Other sites have argued that “On the Waterfront” doesn’t count as a priest movie. I think it does. At any rate, I added an 11th movie so that there are 10 no-doubt-about-it priest movies in the list. Our Top 100 Catholic Movies List also includes two Jesuit priest movies whose votes didn’t rate the top 10:
97. The Hoodlum Saint (1946) which I personally would have put higher on the list
100. Padre On Horseback (1977) which I personally would not have included on the list
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what is the guys name with the glasses and the black hat. I forgot his name.
what is the guys name with the glasses and the black hat. I forgot his name. Wasent there a movie called possessed with a boy and he sings the song ave maria at the end and his parents are waiting to see him at the end he is cured from his deamon, the boy sleeps in the church for a while?
what is the guys name with the glasses and the black hat. I forgot his name. Wasent there a movie called possessed with a boy and he sings the song ave maria at the end and his parents are waiting to see him at the end he is cured from his deamon, the boy sleeps in the church for a while? i liked the movie
The Bells of St. Mary is my favorite. I hope they show it for the holidays!
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The Shoes of the Fisherman, a fictional movie about the pope, starring Anthony Quinn. Most excellent! And The Third Miracle, with Ed Harris.
“Deliver Us From Evil” is a good one.
The Cardinal was a great movie
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