Try here - movie clips for religious themes. The Apostle is a great movie.
StG
I like their suggestion of Field of Dreams. Ray hears a voice no one else hears and follows its call on faith.
StG
The movie you want is Millions. It’s a lesser known Danny Boyle film. Good for children.
I’ve always thought Close Encounters of the Third Kind as a movie about faith. It’s aliens and not angels but…
It’s a Wonderful Life?
Spirited Away is a wonderful film. The religion is more “Eastern” but I think it will do.
And of course E.T.
A little violent and some brief nudity but Witness is a good movie about faith and goodness (and Harrison Ford) overcoming evil. (look for an early appearance of Viggo Mortensen)
Oh and another Peter Weir film Fearless would be a good one. Is that the Holy Spirit? I don’t know.
And the classic John Denver movie “Oh God” with George Burns. But he is God, not the Holy Spirit. Well, you know.
That’s also the first one I thought of.
Like Zebra said, Millions is also a good movie.
I thought Millions was more about the intercession of the saints.
StG
The end of Places in the Heart, perhaps, when the entire congregation, including Edna’s dead husband and the lynched dead boy who shot him, join in communion at a church service. I would say the holy spirit is upon them. It’s a beautiful scene, and the whole movie might be appropriate.
I would say Kevin Smith’s Dogma. It’s funny. There’s cursing. For 15-16 yearolds, been there, done that, bought the tshirt.
It’s a movie about faith and morality. With poop jokes.
Third (or fourth?) that movie. It’s really good. No idea if it qualifies for your need for a film about the Holy Spirit, but it’s really good.
I should also point out that Millions is about Catholic saints. And the movie likes them. It has a positive spin on faith.
Try The Boy With Green Hair, which I saw on NetFlix, after first catching it on Philadelphia’s The Early Show ca. 1964. It’s a fun and thoughtful film for all ages.
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe – specifically Aslan’s breath
How about the British movie Nuns on the Run about two wanted gangsters who go into hiding dressed as nuns in a convent (where the whole movie takes place). I recall a few funny scenes where the “nuns” are pressed into service to give religious instruction to a group of students and have to improvise a lecture on the Trinity.
ETA: on the other hand, maybe it would be too disrespectful?
What movie did you pick? How did they like it?
Well, the weekend is the first in March, so there’s still some time to go. But I’ve been frantically taking notes and checking things out as far as I can online. I’m very grateful for all the suggestions! I’m afraid some are more about other religious aspects and less about the HS, but I’m keeping them in my back pocket nevertheless.
A friend suggested ‘Avatar,’ on the basis that all the life on the planet was connected, and I had the movie ‘Calendar Girls’ pop into my mind a couple of days ago. An idea inspired by love and kindness that spreads to other people and grows and spreads its influence … yeah, I think there’s a brief glimpse of nudity, but mostly it’s artfully presented and the focus of the story is the relationships between the characters and how the idea of the calendar and what they hope to accomplish with it takes hold of their imaginations.
I’ll be passing on the movies I think fit best on to the lady in charge, and I’ll be sure to update when she makes a decision!
So, an update as promised: the movie they decided on in the end was ‘As It Is In Heaven,’ a Swedish film from some years ago. I enjoyed it myself for the most part, but in the feedback round we had today before the weekend wrapped up, it was made clear that the kids hated it. They didn’t see what it had to do with the topic and even asked if we couldn’t have shown another film that was more interesting and more clearly on topic. Our group leader said a bit testily that if they had any suggestions, she was open to hearing them, while I was outwardly pleasantly neutral and inwardly :dubious:.
Many thanks again for all of the ideas!
So was the movie obviously relevant to The Holy Spirit?
A way-too-late suggestion- the last episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, in which Willow casts a spell which projects Buffy’s Slayer-ness to all the Potential Slayers- not just the ones who are assembled with her, but all the girls in the world who could be Slayers suddenly are enabled with super-powers. One girl catches her father’s fist and twists his arm as he’s beating her. Another girl at a softball game knocks the ball out of the park.
As Christ could no longer stay on Earth & sent the Spirit, so Buffy could no longer defeat the Evil by herself & multiplied the Slayer-Spirit.
I’m a major Buffy fan from years back, but I can imagine I’d have had a hell of a tap dance to convince our leader that aside from the demons and vampires and violence and death (rest in bunny-less peace, Anya), the ending of BtVS would be just a terrific idea for our group! 
I do see and accept your point about it, though.
Was ‘As It Is In Heaven’ obviously relevant to the HS? Well, kind of. It’s the story of a famous and successful conductor who has a heart attack and retreats to a town in the Swedish countryside where he had lived for a time as a boy and gone through violent bullying. He ends up taking over the local choir and through him, the choir members start to open up to one another and drop or push through the barriers holding them back in their lives. There’s a theme of finding your tone and them putting those tones together to create music greater than was possible before.
As a grown-up woman of a certain age, I found it interesting and it gave me a lot to think about afterwards. For the teenagers, I think it was unfortunately less engaging.
Even though I liked it overall, there were parts I didn’t care for; the lead character ends up with a bloody face at least 4 times in the film, which I didn’t quite get the reason for, and I thought the ending was a bit of a slap in the face for everyone but him.
Just my thought process! “. . . er, maybe a crazy chick attributing her pregnancy to the Holy Spirit and strangling it then leaving it in a trash can isn’t what they were thinking of.”
The OP and my wife’s understanding of Pentecost give me some ideas, but I’ve never written a movie before. Maybe I’ll sleep on it and flesh it out, or forget about it. Either way’s cool.
I think for any movie relating to the Holy Spirit, it’d be “well, kind of”. It’s hard to necessarily isolate the work of the Spirit - but your discussion about the members of the choir opening up through the conductor’s work seems to be the Holy Spirit moving through a person.