Movies and TvShows featuring "missionary-priest" theme.

A priest is assigned to choose a location for a new church on a mining company's land, unaware that it is an old Sami burial ground. After removing the remains, the settlers are haunted by vengeful spirits.

Set in rural Ireland in the 1930s, Dancing at Lughnasa tells the story of five sisters living in a small village. The sisters face challenges and joys as they navigate their relationships with each other, their absent father, and the changing world around them.

Father Edward J. Flanagan is a familiar name to many Americans, often for the Oscar-winning 1938 film starring Spencer Tracy about Flanagan’s groundbreaking child welfare organization. But the story extends far beyond that, to a man whose name and legacy are still well-known as far as Germany and Japan. Flanagan gained influence and admiration over the course of his life from Presidents, CEOs, celebrities and more, but none mattered more to him than that of the children for whom he tirelessly worked. A sobering reminder of this was during WWII, as Flanagan saw droves of former Boys Town citizens go off to war. In fact, so many former Boys Town boys named Flanagan as their next of kin that the American War Dads Association named him as America’s No. 1 War Dad.

Wyoming, 1882: A weary traveler uncovers the truth behind his stranding when a preacher tells of a man's perilous hunt for a legendary monster.

A communist POW sides with his North Korean guards against his fellow prisoners.

Cabeza de Vaca (1991) follows the journey of a Spanish conquistador who becomes a survivor and missionary after a shipwreck in the New World. He encounters indigenous tribes, experiences psychic visions, and learns the ways of the natives. The movie explores themes of survival, spirituality, and cultural clash.

Intensifying skirmishes between a brutally oppressive conquistador imperialist and the last holdouts of Aztec resistance... and meanwhile, miraculous visitations of The Virgin Mary to two of the downtrodden and conquered indigenous peons.

Kingdom of Hawaii, 1866. Fearful that leprosy would spread throughout the archipelago, the king banishes the sick to the island of Molokai. In 1873, the Belgian Catholic missionary Damien de Veuster arrives on the island to help improve the lives of its unfortunate inhabitants.

In November 2018, the news of the death of a 27-year-old American on the shore of a small island in the Indian Ocean went around the planet. Clash of the culture.

This short film tells the true story of the heroic sacrifice of Father Damien, the Belgian priest who suffered a living death in order to bring hope and God's comfort to the lepers confined on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

13 former missionary priests from rural Ireland reveal all in this telling documentary about why they joined and subsequently left the active ministry and their life in the Church. Raised as devout Catholics from infancy, these honest men now in their later stages of life open up about intimacy, faith, religion and life before, during and after the priesthood.

In the crime-ridden slums of Buenos Aires, a social worker and a priest become entangled in the violence as they navigate the challenges of working with the impoverished community. They must confront their own faith and moral ambiguity as they try to bring hope and support to the residents, even as they face danger and corruption.

The film focuses on the exciting life journey of Swiss writer Katharina Zimmermann. She follows her husband on a mission to the jungle in Indonesia where she raises their four children and five foster children and lives through the military coup. Back in Switzerland Katharina discovers her voice and finds her path. Now, at eighty, she is writing her life story. Yet suddenly she faces another battle because her publisher is threatening to let her go.