Movies and TvShows featuring "good-friday" theme.

Robert Ford idolizes Jesse James but becomes resentful of him when he fails to join his gang. In an attempt to capture Jesse, Robert forms a plan with the police and ultimately shoots him in the back of the head. The aftermath leads to guilt, suicide, and revenge.

Taking Chance is based on the true story of Lieutenant Colonel Michael Strobl, who volunteers to oversee the military escort of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps' body back to his hometown. The film explores the emotional journey of Lieutenant Colonel Strobl as he witnesses the impact of war and pays tribute to a fallen hero.

Fact and fiction collide in this exploitation flick that employs documentary footage depicting the bizarre self-flagellation rituals of the fanatical Catholic sect known as the Penitentes. Mixed with those truly disturbing sequences is a story concerning a killing in New Mexico, itself inspired by the murder of real-life reporter Carl Taylor as he worked on an article on the Penitentes.

In 'Roadkill,' a young filmmaker embarks on a road trip across Canada with a rock band. Along the way, they face obstacles and violence, while also exploring themes of learning to drive and the power of music.

A widowed mother finds solace in smoking marijuana and listening to the radio. When her son drowns and her dog dies, she spirals into alcoholism and is forced into a marriage she doesn't want. However, she discovers a tattoo that leads her to a library where she learns about interdimensional travel and time travel. She travels to Greece and experiences religious processions and mythology. Through her journey, she finds love again and escapes from jail. She also encounters sabotage and an underwater explosion. In the end, she realizes the importance of self-destruction and departure.

It's Easter in the beach house of a Chilean well-to-do and nowadays family. A self-centered and successful father, a disoriented mother and a son overshadowed by his successful father. The three of them, wait for the arrival of the son's first official girlfriend; a disturbing and rebellious young lady who will invade the house with her powerful sexual load and other "gifts", breaking loose an emotional cataclysm with no stepping back.

After a horrific collision between a passenger bus and an 18-wheeler truck in Nueva Ecija claimed two dozen casualties, two families await the arrival of their dead.

During the Nazi era, a Jewish woman on the run takes a trolley which passes near the Warsaw ghetto, where the uprising battle is taking place, and some passengers are struck by stray bullets. They take temporary refuge in an empty building, and there she has a chance meeting with her ex-fiancé. He offers to put her up--that is, hide her--for a few days. He's now married, a professional who lives in an idyllic suburb reached by a trolley that runs through the woods. His wife seems more committed to putting up the fugitive than he is. The story involves the neighbors, the building owner who avoids involvement and seeks solace in classic poetry, and the super and his suspicious wife.

Johnny Cash appears in and narrates this retelling of the story of Jesus' Life, Death and Resurrection.

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The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.

In Colombia, a musician named Ignacio travels through the countryside to return his accordion to its original owner. Along the way, he encounters various challenges and adventures, meeting interesting characters and experiencing the power of music.

The trial of Yeshua Ha-Notsri is led by prosecutor Pontius Pilate who believes in the innocence of the accused but is forced to sentence him to death. This biblical story is set in present-day Germany.

In The Rites of May, a photographer in the 1970s becomes possessed by a spirit during Holy Week and experiences supernatural events. The story explores themes of truth, lent, and demonic possession.

Against the advice of a concerned mythology professor, a group of school friends decide to take an out of town trip during the holy week. When they first leave on their vacation, Shiela, Rina, Christian, Kerwin and their friends believe they have made a good decision. Everyone is happy and excited about their upcoming adventure. But soon, the mood starts to change. Shiela begins having dreams and premonitions about an evil presence somehow related to young children. She sees images of an old woman that terrifies her. Troubling, frightening events seems to multiply around them. The friends soon begin to believe that one of them may be the source of the evil that is plaguing them. Will one of friends have to sacrifice themselves in order to protect the others?

In the small town of Pruchnik in the southeastern part of Poland villagers gather every year on Good Friday to "punish" Judas for his betrayal of Jesus. A larger-than-life straw puppet with a hooked nose is dragged through town, beaten, decapitated, burnt and thrown in the river. The film explores the thin line between pagan and Christian rites while exposing the sometimes brutal and blatantly anti-semitic undercurrents of Christian practice.

A humble farmer turned town chief takes on the whole province either the authorities or bandits.