Pollyana
Joyeux Noël is a French film about a real event in World War I where some of the soldiers on all sides stopped fighting for a day to celebrate Christmas together.
What about The Wicker Man?
Honestly, to me Saved seemed more like a movie made by liberal non-Christians about how they think Christians should act than a film made by Christians about how they should exercise their faith.
For my part, I would include The Third Miracle, a 1999 film starring Ed Harris as a priest assigned to investigate the veracity of miracles a woman has performed in preparation for her beatification (I probably said that all wrong). It dealt both with the force of temptation within a religious person’s life and the toll that religious faith can sometimes take on families.
The film Blade Runner has a number of both overt and subtle Judeo-Christian themes and references. The source material for the film (albeit loosely), Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, also had some specific Christian themes, although they were curiously not the same as those in the film.
Stranger
What about Whistle Down the Wind?
Wings of Desire(Der Himmel über Berlin) and its sequel Faraway, So Close! are the perfect movies for this (the latter more than the former). Jesus isn’t mentioned explictly, but the underlying philosophy is clearly Christian. (I suppose that means City of Angels qualifies in some small way, but it’s inferior in this as well as several other aspects).
For upper-scale urban, I’d say Keeping The Faith comes close. It’s not very heavy on the Christianity, but it seems about right for a comedy. It’s not just a string of ‘a priest and a rabbi’ jokes that it could have been.
Gran Torino is relatively neutral on the ‘improvement’ side, but you can at least commend it for including the relative importance of religion in people’s lives.
I felt the same way right up until the moment when Macauley Culkin’s character forgave his sister. That was the dividing line between Saved! and Heaven Help Us.
My all time favorite line from Saved! is “HillaryFay, you have everything; why are you so afraid?” said by her brother. It is also one of my favorite movies.
I’m going to put Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier in here, for the final confrontation scene alone.
The Narnia films (or at least the first one).
If I remember correctly, the director/writer of “Saved!” based much of the movie on his own experiences growing up in a Christian subculture. I’ve watched it many times with church groups and most people with a Christian (particularly evangelical) background relate well to it.
One movie that I don’t think was mentioned- “The Color Purple”, which does take place in the South but I feel contains Christian elements to it.
I haven’t perused the entire thread, so apologies if this has already been mentioned, but I’d like to contribute pretty much any of the half dozen Superman movies. Clark has long been accepted as an ersatz Christ figure. A Son, sent from the heavens, to protect and save mankind and to show us a better way, even at the expense of his own life.
There have always been very strong messianic overtones in the character, which are particularly pronounced in the film adaptations. Superman Returns (a much better movie than generally accepted IMHO), is exceptionally true in this manner, complete with a death and resurrection and a burial cave analogue.
It could just as easily have been made by liberal Christians.
FriarTed, one movie on your list, a particular favorite of mine, has a slightly different title. It is Places in the Heart.
I heard a sermon once based on Field of Dreams. I don’t know that the themes are particularly Christian. but they certainly are spiritual and mystical. That movie had a lot of meaning for me. It was one of those things in life that was perfectly timed on a personal level.
Gee. That’s been twenty years.
This entry is either truly hilarious, or honestly heartwarming and hope-inspiring.
Now, I’m talking about the movie, not the book. In the movie, the abused wife does go to church & gets some support there- so much so that the pastor testifies on her & Ettie’s (sp?) behalf during the trial about her husband’s disappearance, even though he swears in on his copy of MOBY DICK.
I’m not sure how much religion is actually in the movie. But I know it shows up more than the invisible elephant that didn’t show up in the movie.
Zoe- thanks for the correction, I knew I should have looked it up.
Talon- I think I mentioned The Wicker Man as the discussion continued, but AFAIC one can’t bring up TWM enough.
Stranger- EXCELLENT! I totally love when the dying Roy Batty shows up with a nail in one hand and a dove in the other.
eleanorrigby- ST5 is quite overlooked. A lot of people assume the film is New Agey or atheistic, but it merely denies a false god, while being hazy about the nature of a True One. Still, it’s a far cry from the irreligion promoted in ST:TNG.
The novelization of ST5 even has McCoy noting that religions warn of an imprisoned being that pretends to be God.
Upon further reading reading of the thread I realize that the Superman films don’t meet FriarTed’s prerequisite of a deliberate mention of God or religion but I still feel the Christian symbolism is palpable.
Besides, anyone who’s heard John Williams theme and not felt the inspiration, or watched the scene in Superman Returns where Lois’s family is drowning and not felt the desperation and hope at the last second; they have no soul. 
Witness is a very respectful treatment of Christianity as practiced by the Amish.
Junebug might deserve a mention as well.
Ah, I missed that.
Do you think the ending kind of negates the Christian aspect?
It almost seems like a victory of the pagan gods over the Christian God. For all of Howie’s faith, he dies just the same.
The Rapture
Indeed, and that’s why I say I heartily endorse any “Christian” movie or moral outlook that supports spoiler homicide, cannibalistic corpse-disposal, and very possibly invisible white elephants in comfortable shoes.[/spoiler] :eek: 
No more than the ending scenes with Richard Burton in THE ROBE or St. Peter is QUO VADIS negated their Christian aspects.
As Lord Summerisle noted, he was conferring a rare honor.