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Posted: Feb 15 2010 at 4:48pm | IP Logged Quote teachingmyown
I would like to update our Netflix queue for Lent and am looking for good whole family movies to watch during that time. We have already seen Therese, St. John Bosco and John Paul II. What else is appropriate, and hopefully entertaining, for the 2-14 crowd? Or at least the 6-14 crowd?

How about movies that aren't necessarily "religious" but would fit in well during a penitential season?

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Posted: Feb 15 2010 at 5:03pm | IP Logged Quote SusanJ
Can you do foreign? Have you seen Babette's
Feast?

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Posted: Feb 15 2010 at 5:24pm | IP Logged Quote Christine
A few that come to mind from our personal collection are:
Miracle of Marcelino
Greyfriars Bobby
Darby O'Gill and the Little People for St. Patrick's Day
Jesus of Nazareth (I am not sure about age appropriateness, as we have not watched it for a long time)
Pollyanna

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Posted: Feb 15 2010 at 5:48pm | IP Logged Quote stefoodie
sometime this week Monsieur Vincent is coming. I hear it's a good one.

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Posted: Feb 15 2010 at 6:17pm | IP Logged Quote Mary G
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sometime this week Monsieur Vincent is coming. I hear it's a good one.
We have this one on video and it is beautiful.

I would think any of the saints movies would be great as would Tree of Wooden Clogs, Babette's Feast, Scarlet and the Black, Shoes of the Fisherman , ... or any of the myriad movies about sacrifice and pain all for the good of God's kingdom.   

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Posted: Feb 15 2010 at 7:38pm | IP Logged Quote Nina Murphy
I love Jesus of Nazareth. So do all of my fam members. Any of the Italian subtitled new Ignatius press movies....pretty well done (if you watch the original acting in Italian!).

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Posted: Feb 15 2010 at 8:24pm | IP Logged Quote teachingmyown
Thanks, Ladies! The kids did pretty well with the subtitles for St. John Bosco, so I think we could do some of the foreign ones.

We have Jesus of Nazareth on VHS and watch it in bits and pieces over Lent every year. Some others I thought of are Ben Hur, The Robe, and Quo Vadis.

And I LOVE Greyfriars' Bobby! I want to cry just thinking about it!

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Posted: Feb 15 2010 at 8:30pm | IP Logged Quote seven2hold
Hi Molly!
We love the Ignatius films with Stephen Ray:
Peter, Keeper of the Keys
Mary, Mother of God
etc.
I think Netflix has ten films from this collection. When you select one the others should pop up in recommendations.
We watched a really good film on Felicity and Perpetua. I think it was called St.Perpetua, Martyr for the faith?

Oops, I just read that you were looking for "good for Lent, but not necessarily religious."   This is a harder question. I'll give it some thought.

I just watched Babett's Feast for the second time. I saw so much more the second time around! Great film!


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Posted: Feb 15 2010 at 10:54pm | IP Logged Quote SuzanneG
    * Babette's Feast
    * Shawshank Redemption
    * Joan of Arc
    * Molokia: the story of Fr. Damien
    * The Passion of Joan of Arc
    * Under the Sun of Satan
    * The Tree of Wooden Clogs
    * Au Revoir Les Enfants
    * The Ninth Day
    * Monsieur Vincent
    * Teresa de Jesus


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Posted: Feb 16 2010 at 9:50am | IP Logged Quote florasita
oh this is a great thread ! thanks so much . I've no movie suggestions but very happy I now know of some thanks a bunch , now off to the library

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Posted: Feb 19 2010 at 3:11pm | IP Logged Quote florasita
our library has hardly any of these selections
and a few they do have are only in french . I've ordered two at least . Thanks again ladies

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Posted: Feb 20 2010 at 1:25pm | IP Logged Quote Christine
florasita wrote:
our library has hardly any of these selections
and a few they do have are only in french . I've ordered two at least . Thanks again ladies

Does your library offer interlibrary loans or can you request that they purchase some of the titles?

The Vatican's best films list from 1995 can be found here.

Also, I shared this list of movies on my blog in January. All of the movies are not necessarily for Lenten viewing, but they are ones that my husband and I have enjoyed (the children have seen and enjoyed those that are age appropriate).

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Posted: Feb 20 2010 at 1:38pm | IP Logged Quote JodieLyn
oh those are some great movies Christine. Some we've seen but I don't think are on my wish list.. I may have to go play at Amazon after while.

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