101 Spiritually
“Literate” Films of the 2000s
Dan Saperstein, WNLT 2013
Compiled with assistance from:
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/films/
2000
Cast Away
Chocolat
Dancer in the Dark
O Brother Where Art Thou
Pay It Forward
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Traffic
2001
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
*Amélie
HP and the Sorcerer’s Stone
K-Pax
LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring
Shrek
Waking Life
2002
About Schmidt
Catch Me If You Can
Changing Lanes
LOTR: The Two Towers
Signs
Spirited Away
Thirteen Conversations about One Thing
2003
21 Grams
Big Fish
Bonhoeffer
Finding Nemo
LOTR: Return of the King
Mystic River
Pieces of April
Whale Rider
2004
Finding Neverland
Hotel Rwanda
Million Dollar Baby
*Motorcycle Diaries
*Osama
*The Passion of the Christ
2005
Capote
CON: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Crash
Match Point
Millions
Munich
*Tsotsi
2006
Blood Diamond
Children of Men
*Joyeux Noël
The Last King of Scotland
*The Lives of Others
*Pan’s Labyrinth
The Pursuit of Happyness
Stranger than Fiction
2007
Amazing Grace
Atonement
*The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
HP & the Order of the Phoenix
In the Valley of Elah
The Kite Runner
Lars and the Real Girl
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
2008
The Dark Knight
Doubt
Gran Torino
Henry Poole Is Here
Milk
Rachel Getting Married
The Visitor
Wall-E
The Wrestler
2009
The Blind Side
District 9
Invictus
The Messenger
Up
Up in the Air
*The White Ribbon
2010
127 Hours
CON: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
*In a Better World
Toy Story 3
Vision: From the Life of Hildegard of Bingen
2011
The Descendants
HP & the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2
*Of Gods and Men
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Tree of Life
2012
*Amour
Les Misérables
Life of Pi
Lincoln
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
The Sessions
2013
42
Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Mud
*The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Stories We Tell
To the Wonder
Trance
*foreign language with subtitles
