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The Body (2001)

Actors: Moshe Diamant (producer), Alain Jakubowicz (editor), Mark Damon (producer), John Shrapnel (actor), John Glover (actor), John Wood (actor), Olivia Williams (actress), Antonio Banderas (actor), Vernon Dobtcheff (actor), Derek Jacobi (actor), Mohammad Bakri (actor), Ian McNeice (actor), Jason Flemyng (actor), Albert T. Dickerson III (miscellaneous crew), Chris Allies (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: An ancient skeleton has been discovered in Jerusalem in a rich man's tomb. Colouration of the wrist and leg bones indicates the cause of death was crucifiction. other signs, include a gold coin bearing the marks of Pontius Pilate and faint markings around the skull, lead authorities to suspect that these could be the bones of Christ. Politicians, clerics, religious extremists and those using terror as a means to an end, find their beliefs and identities test while risking their lives to unearth the truth

Keywords: accidental-killing, anger, arab-jewish-friendship, archeology, based-on-novel, blackmail, car-bomb, cardinal-the-priest, cave, christianity
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller,
Taglines: Chaos, unearthed. If this is His tomb... If this is the truth... It would change history and destroy the belief of millions

Quotes:

Abu Yusef: As you said before, God has no place in politics.

[Reading from Father Gutierrez's file]::Cardinal Pesci: I believe that Jesus Christ is God because I spoke to Him this morning in my prayers. And I've known that He was God since I was a boy. He has always been my best friend even though I haven't always been His. In Him, I have peace.

Sharon Golban: Christ said the truth will set you free.

Dr. Sproul: This is unusual. Minor indentations from the coronal suture along the frontal. The skin was pierced with something right to the skull, pointed objects of some kind, but not metal. You see? There's no oxidation. All the way along the supra orbital notch. Ah. Our fellow was obviously... male, yes... and certainly crucified. I'm not sure about this date, 500 BC. It appears roman.::Sharon Golban: Why?::Dr. Sproul: Well, if you see this mark here on the ribs, looks like they finished up with a round spear. Build up of right forearm. A mason. A carpenter... just like Christ.

Moshe Cohen: To have Israel in something so potentially dangerous to Christianity could have serious repercussions for us.

Moshe Cohen: When the Vatican recognizes an undivided Jerusalem as the capital, the bones will be released.

Father Gutierrez: I thought I had lost my faith in Christ, in God, my savior, my friend. But I had didn't. I've lost my faith in serving men like you or Moshe Cohen, who use God to justify their material agendas. That's why I now choose to serve God in my own personal way.

Father Winstead: It's the Bible. It's a big book, but it's a crackin' read.

Sharon Golban: All Israelis drive like this.::Father Gutierrez: Well then, all Palestinians have to do is give you faster cars, and wait for the inevitable.

Moshe Cohen: Religion is not based on rational system of proofs. It survives because of human need.

Songs in Ordinary Time (2000)

Actors: Beau Bridges (actor), Jeremy Akerman (actor), Keir Dullea (actor), Michael Brown (editor), Richard Blackburn (actor), Anthony Marinelli (composer), Sissy Spacek (actress), Ardon Bess (actor), Elizabeth Tremblay (miscellaneous crew), Rod Holcomb (director), Gary Levert (actor), Matthew Bennett (actor), Richard Yearwood (actor), Dan Lett (actor), Craig Anderson (producer),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: A struggling mother takes in a mysterious stranger. Is she opening her heart to love...or harboring a criminal.

Keeping the Faith (2000)

Actors: Brian Anthony Wilson (actor), Jenna Elfman (actress), Edward Norton (actor), David Wain (actor), Anne Bancroft (actress), Ben Stiller (actor), Martin Pfefferkorn (actor), Tony Devon (actor), Ron Rifkin (actor), Brian George (actor), Matt Winston (actor), Eli Wallach (actor), Milos Forman (actor), Holland Taylor (actress), Laura Summer (actress),

Plot: Jake and Brian are friends. They are Jewish and Catholic respectively. They would grow up and become a rabbi and priest respectively. Anna whom they knew when they were younger comes back to town a stunning woman. Jake is up to be the head of his synagogue but he is not married which doesn't make his appointment any easier. Jake finds himself attracted to Anna but because she is not Jewish, he can't marry cause it would be another thing that will make his appointment less likely. Brian also finds himself attracted to Anna but being a priest doesn't allow that. When they learn of each other's feelings for her, strains their friendship.

Keywords: bar, bar-mitzvah, bartender, blind-date, blind-date-from-hell, brooklyn-bridge, businesswoman, buxom, catholicism, celibacy
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: If you have to believe in something, you might as well believe in love.

Quotes:

Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram: Let me just say... Oy.::Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: Amen to your oy.

Anna Riley: You don't understand. I have a relationship with my phone, we have a chemistry together, I can't explain it.

Jacob: God was showing off when he made you.

Indian Bartender: May those who love us, love us. And those who don't love us - may God turn their hearts. And if He cannot turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles, so that we may know them by their limping.

Indian Bartender: Let me guess. Your old lady got fed up because you're out here chasing the skirt so she took these little ones and left you.::Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: It's a little more complicated than that.::Indian Bartender: Sure it is. Everyone thinks his story is the one with a twist. Well let me tell you, I've heard just about everything there is to...::[Brian unzips his jacket, revealing his priest's collar]::Indian Bartender: Holy shit.::Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: Exactly.

Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

Anna Riley: So this is a rectory. That sounds like a dirty word. Rectory!

[Brian, a celibate priest, confesses his love for Anna, to Jake's astonishment]::Jacob: I mean, she's like your sister!::Father Brian Kilkenney Finn: Thank you for adding new depth to my confusion.

Anna Riley: I work harder than God. If He had hired me, He would have made the world by Thursday.

Rachel Rose: Oh my God! The Iraqi defense minister just committed suicide!::Rabbi Jacob "Jake" Schram: Ooh!... Is that bad or good?

Polio Water (1995)

Actors: Mischa Barton (actress), Cherry Jones (actress), Randall Kaplan (actor), Caroline Kava (writer), Caroline Kava (editor), Caroline Kava (director), Caroline Kava (producer), Rick Baitz (composer), Patrick Husted (actor), Mick Weber (actor), Chelsea Holland (actress), Louisa Braden Johnson (actress), Raymond Ted Shelton (actor), Ryan Osmond (actor), Alvin Perry (costume designer),

Genres: Short,

Santa sangre (1989)

Actors: Mauro Bonanni (editor), Humberto Gurza (miscellaneous crew), Simon Boswell (composer), Alejandro Jodorowsky (writer), Alejandro Jodorowsky (director), Roberto Leoni (writer), Alejandro Jodorowsky (writer), Blanca Guerra (actress), Joaquín García Vargas (actor), René Cardona Jr. (producer), Sergio Bustamante (actor), Roberto Leoni (writer), Héctor Ortega (actor), Miguel Gurza (miscellaneous crew), Lars Bloch (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother. Against his will, he "becomes her arms" and the two undertake a grisly campaign of murder and revenge.

Keywords: absurdism, acid, adultery, amputation, amputee, apothecary, arm-cut-off, avant-garde, blood, blood-splatter
Genres: Drama, Horror,
Taglines: Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen

Quotes:

The Tattooed Woman: She's a deaf mute and you can do whatever you want with her.

Rubi: [to Fenix] With your hands and my body, we'll have an act that will be sensational.

[first lines]::[Fenix crouches naked atop a tree trunk in his barren asylum room]::Doctor: [enters along with orderlies pushing a food cart] Fenix. Please... [offers him a normal meal] Eat like a human being. [pause] [puts the tray back down and offers him a raw fish]::Fenix: [howls] [jumps down and grabs the fish] Grr! [sits and begins eating it]::Doctor: You can't just stay here all the time, not seeing anyone. [pause] Now come on, stand up.

[Young Fenix sobs]::Orgo: Stop crying... like a little girl. [pause] I'll give you a charm. That'll make you a man.

Pimp: [leads Fenix and the handicapped boys away from ticket counter] Vengan, vengan. Come, I have a present for you. [points to movie posters] Listen, this kind of stuff will make you sick. If you promise not to tell, I'll take you somewhere else... that's much more fun that the movies. A little sniff of this... [opens packet of cocaine] and we'll see.

Concha: You know what you have to do.::Fenix: No, I don't want to!::Concha: This girl has defiled you with her lust.::Fenix: No, mum, it's not true! It's only a game! [begins to lose control of his hands] No! I can't! Don't ask me to!::Concha: I'm not asking you, I'm ordering... my hands... and my arms... to kill her. Kill her!

Concha: [to Fenix] You can't atone for your sins with nightmares.

[Fenix glances at The Invisible Man poster]::Concha: Without me you are nothing. No one sees you and no one notices you. Just like your stupid hero.

Concha: It's always roosters or swans! You never see anything else in your ridiculous hallucinations.

Fenix: [Concha begins to control his hands] Watch out, Saint! For now you have to fight me off.::The Saint: What's happening to you? Are you going crazy?::Concha: Kill her! Kill her!::Fenix: Did you hear her? She wants me to kill you with my hands.

Prime Target (1989)

Actors: Susan Bierbaum (miscellaneous crew), David Soul (actor), Mike Starr (actor), Christopher Michael (actor), Andy Romano (actor), Angie Dickinson (actress), Joanne Baron (actress), Joseph Bologna (actor), Charles Durning (actor), Michael Gregory (actor), Yaphet Kotto (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Mark Conte (editor), Joe Regalbuto (actor), Sonny Ritscher (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama,

Agnes of God (1985)

Actors: Antony Gibbs (editor), Jane Fonda (actress), Norman Jewison (producer), Winston Rekert (actor), Bruce McDonald (miscellaneous crew), Anne Bancroft (actress), Norman Jewison (director), Georges Delerue (composer), Susanna David (miscellaneous crew), Deborah Grover (actress), Renée April (costume designer), Gabriel Arcand (actor), Jacques Tourangeau (actor), John Pielmeier (writer), John Pielmeier (writer),

Plot: At a convent, fragile, unearthly Sister Agnes gives birth (she says it's a virgin birth), but the child dies. The police soon are involved because of the death of the baby. However, the main conflict is between Mother Superior Miriam Ruth, who wants Agnes left alone, and Dr. Martha Livingston, a psychiatrist determined to help Agnes gain a stronger grasp on reality and uncover any wrongdoers.

Keywords: alcoholic, amateur-detective, ambulance, amnesia, answering-machine, based-on-play, bed-sheet, bell-tower, blood, bloodstains
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: What unspeakable crime took place behind the third floor window? Only Agnes knows. And Dr. Martha Livingston is the one person who can unravel the mystery.

Quotes:

Doctor Martha Livingston: Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco'd been popular back then?::Mother Miriam Ruth: Undoubtably. Not the ascetics, of course, but, well, St. Thomas More.::Doctor Martha Livingston: Long, thin, and filtered!::Mother Miriam Ruth: St. Ignatius would smoke cigars and then stub them out on the soles of his bare feet. And of course all of the apostles?::Doctor Martha Livingston: Hand rolled.::Mother Miriam Ruth: Even Christ would partake socially.::Doctor Martha Livingston: St. Peter?::Mother Miriam Ruth: Pipe!::Doctor Martha Livingston: Right!::Mother Miriam Ruth: Mary Magdalene?::Doctor Martha Livingston: Ohhh! You've come a long way baby!::Mother Miriam Ruth: And St. Joan would chew tobacco!::Doctor Martha Livingston: All right! What do you suppose today's saints are smoking?

Sister Agnes: As much as Mother Miriam loves me?

Doctor Martha Livingston: As much as God loves you

Mother Miriam Ruth: My dear, I don't think a Communion wafer has the recommended daily allowance of anything.::Sister Agnes: [whispers] Of God...

Doctor Martha Livingston: Agnes, how do you feel about babies?::Sister Agnes: Oh, they frighten me; I'm afraid I'll drop them. They have a soft spot on their heads, and if you drop them so they land on their heads, they become stupid. I was dropped on MY head; that's why I don't understand things.::Doctor Martha Livingston: Like what?::Sister Agnes: Numbers! You can spend your whole life counting 'em and never reach the end.::Doctor Martha Livingston: I don't understand them, either... Do you 'spose I was dropped on my head?::Sister Agnes: [concerned] I hope not... it's a terrible thing to be dropped on your head.

Doctor Martha Livingston: Sister Mary Cletus, she used to call me Polka-Dot Livingston!::Mother Miriam Ruth: So, you left the church because you had freckles?::Doctor Martha Livingston: No... I... uh... YES! I left the church because I had freckles!

Eve LeClaire: Nobody is interested in sending a nun to prison.::Justice Joseph Leveau: We're not telling you what to decide Martha. We're not even telling you to take this.::Eugene Lyon: Is there any reason why you feel you shouldn't take it?::Doctor Martha Livingston: Today's my birthday. I always make bad decisions on my birthday.

[last lines]::Doctor Martha Livingston: [Last Lines] I don't know the meaning behind the song she sang. Perhaps it was a song of seduction, and the father was a field hand. Perhaps the song was simply a lullaby she remembered from many years ago, and the father was hope, and love, and desire and a belief in miracles. I want to believe that she was blessed. And I do miss her. And I hope she's left something; some little part of herself with me. That would be miracle enough, wouldn't it?

Mother Miriam Ruth: [about Sister Agnes] I am saying that you have a beautifully simple woman here.::Doctor Martha Livingston: An unhappy woman.::Mother Miriam Ruth: She's happy with us, and she could go on being happy if she were left alone.::Doctor Martha Livingston: Then why did you call the police in the first place, Mother, huh? Why didn't you just throw the baby into the incinerator and be done with it?::Mother Miriam Ruth: Because I am a moral person.::Doctor Martha Livingston: Bullshit.::Mother Miriam Ruth: Bullshit yourself.::Doctor Martha Livingston: The Catholic Church doesn't have a corner on morality.::Mother Miriam Ruth: Who said anything about the Catholic Church?::Doctor Martha Livingston: You just did.::Mother Miriam Ruth: What the hell does the Catholic Church got to do with you?::Doctor Martha Livingston: Nothing.::Mother Miriam Ruth: What have we done to hurt you? And don't deny it, I can smell an ex-Catholic a mile away. What did we do? Burn a few heretics, sell some indulgences? That was in the days when the Church was a ruling body, we let Governments do those things today. So what did we do to you, hey?...

Mother Miriam Ruth: So, you have questions. Fire away!

Communion (1976)

Actors: Brooke Shields (actress), Patrick Gorman (actor), Tom Signorelli (actor), Lillian Roth (actress), M. Edward Salier (editor), Rudolph Willrich (actor), Stephen Lawrence (composer), Gary Allen (actor), Mary Boylan (actress), Dick Boccelli (actor), Daniel Bregman (miscellaneous crew), Linda Miller (actress), Mildred Clinton (actress), Alfred Sole (writer), Alfred Sole (producer),

Plot: Alice Spages is a withdrawn 12 year old girl who lives with her mother, Catherine, and her younger sister, Karen. Karen gets most of the attention from her mother, and Alice is often left out of the spotlight. But when Karen is found brutally murdered in a church before her first holy communion, all suspicions are turned towards Alice. But is a twelve year old girl really capable of such savagery? As more people begin to die at the hands of a merciless killer, Alice becomes more and more likely of a suspect.

Keywords: 1960s, abandoned-factory, absent-father, accusation, apartment-building, attempted-murder, aunt, autopsy, basement, bicycle
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: If You Survive This Night... Nothing Will Scare You Again.

Quotes:

Mr. Alphonso: Psst. Where are you going?::Alice Spages: None of your business, fatso.::Mr. Alphonso: Uh, I'm not feeling well and stores don't deliver on Sundays. [he makes fake coughing noises] How would you like to go to the store for me, please? [Alice walks off] That little bitch.

Alice Spages: There's so much junk around this filthy place, I bet you never clean it. It smells like cats' piss.

Mrs. Tredoni: [Alice scares Mrs. Tredoni with a grinning mask] Oh, you nasty child! Out of my kitchen!

Aunt Annie DeLorenze: She's dead! Karen's dead! She's dead! Karen's dead!

Aunt Annie DeLorenze: Angela, stop eating! Haven't you had enough? Jim, help me clean up this mess. You don't need that drink!

Mr. Alphonso: [about Karen's funeral] I heard everyone leave. It's all over, huh? Well, you die and they put you in the ground. Such a shame. Such a pretty girl too. Too bad she was the one to end up in the box.::Alice Spages: My mother thought you could use some cake, fatty.::[hands him cake]::Mr. Alphonso: Thank your mother for me. Such a lovely lady. God always takes the pretty ones.

Catherine Spages: [about her ex-husband] I don't know why I'm so worried. I just can't imagine where he could be.::Mrs. Tredoni: Maybe you are afraid that God will send St. Michael to take another of your loved ones. When St. Michael took my little girl, I only thought of how cruel God was.::Catherine Spages: Mrs. Tredoni, I'm sorry. I never knew you had a little girl.::Mrs. Tredoni: God took her from me on the day of her first communion, don't you see? He waited until then to teach me that children pay for the sins of their parents. And then I was sent here to look after Father, not you!::[points butcher knife at catherine]

Mr. Alphonso: [to Alice who has brought a rent check from her mother to him] Give me that check!::Mr. Alphonso: [Alice crunches the check in her hands as he grabs it] You little bitch! Look what you've done to this check!

Mrs. Tredoni: [accusingly to priest] But you give it to the whore!

Gli imbroglioni (1963)

Actors: Xan das Bolas (actor), Nerio Bernardi (actor), José Calvo (actor), Walter Chiari (actor), Alberto Bonucci (actor), Umberto D'Orsi (actor), Mario De Simone (actor), Pietro De Vico (actor), Fanfulla (actor), Franco Franchi (actor), Franco Giacobini (actor), Claudio Gora (actor), Ciccio Ingrassia (actor), Oreste Lionello (actor), José Luis López Vázquez (actor),

Plot: A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.

Genres: Drama,

When in Rome (1952)

Actors: Van Johnson (actor), Harry Hayden (actor), Giuseppe Pierozzi (actor), Joseph Calleia (actor), Emory Parnell (actor), Paul Douglas (actor), Piero Pastore (actor), Tudor Owen (actor), Charles Fawcett (actor), Al Ferguson (actor), Enzo Fiermonte (actor), Luciano Bonanni (actor), Richard Hale (actor), Aldo Silvani (actor), Mario Siletti (actor),

Genres: Comedy,