Keyword: missionary

Call Me Kuchu

7.6

2012

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In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Ugandas first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world.

Chariots of Fire

7.2

1981

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Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.

Trader Horn

5.2

1931

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Two white traders in the darkest Africa of the 1870s find a missionarys daughter, who was captured as a child by a savage tribe and now worshiped as a goddess.

The Sand Pebbles

7.9

1966

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In 1926, a U.S. Naval engineer gets assigned to a gunboat on a rescue mission in war-torn China.

The R.M.

6

2003

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Jared Phelps (Kirby Heyborne) has completed two years of full-time missionary service for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His mission president has promised him that he will be blessed for his service, and he thinks he has it all worked out. His girlfriend has waited for him. His boss promised that he could have his old job back, and he has already sent his application to BYU. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong. His girlfriend dumps him. His loses his job, and he isnt accepted to BYU. Then, it gets even worse, and he has to decide if choosing the right is worth all the trouble.

Return to Paradise

5.5

1953

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An American drifter comes to a remote Polynesian island controlled by a Puritanical missionary and turns the social life of the island upside-down.

Transamerica

7.5

2005

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A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she mothered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.

Rain

6.9

1932

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A prostitute newly arrived in the South Pacific finds herself at odds with a stern missionary determined to save her soul.

The Other Side of Heaven

6.5

2001

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John Groberg, a farm kid from Idaho Falls, crosses an ocean to become a missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan islands during the 1950s.

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

6.8

1991

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Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic rivals than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslies young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?

Sadie Thompson

5.5

1928

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A prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.

The Falls

6.4

2012

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The Falls is a feature film about two missionaries that fall in love while on their mission.