An apocalyptic tale an engineer who creates a robot with human feelings to care for his beloved dog before he dies of radiation poisoning.
Lean on Pete (2018)
A boy bonds with a winless race horse & when his father dies sets off across country with the horse to find his aunt & prevent the horse from being put down.
Song of the Sea (2014)
Based on Irish folklore, this is the story of a brother & his half-selkie sister who save the faerie world on a journey from Dublin back to their father at their lighthouse home.
The Patience Stone
This film set in a Middle Eastern nation during a civil war is a feminist story of liberation from patriarchal oppression.
Gravity (2013)
When their space shuttle is destroyed two US astronauts must figure out how they can get back to eareth before their oxygen supply runs out.
Francis of Assisi
This is Hollywood’s glamorized view of Saint Francis of Assisi, the best part of which is the scene in which Francis visits the Sultan of Egypt to to the war between Christians and Muslims. The story begins with the playboy’s conversion to his receiving the stigmata just before his death.
The Attack (2012)
A powerfulm by a French-Lebanese filmmaker about an Arab-Israeli doctor shocked to discover that his wife is the suicide bomber who killed 17 people, many of them children, in a Tel Aviv café. Most of the film consists of his physical and spiritual journey to try to find out why such a loving person as his wife committed such a terrible deed.
The Straight Story (1999)
e true story of what happens to Alvin Straight when he travels 260 miles on a John Deere riding mower to see his estranged brother.