The Right to Love (1930)

遠藤周作の小説「沈黙」を、巨匠マーティン・スコセッシが映画化したヒューマンドラマ。キリシタンの弾圧が行われていた江戸初期の日本に渡ってきたポルトガル人宣教師の目を通し、人間にとって大切なものか、人間の弱さとは何かを描き出した。17世紀、キリスト教が禁じられた日本で棄教したとされる師の真相を確かめるため、日本を目指す若き宣教師のロドリゴとガルペ。2人は旅の途上のマカオで出会ったキチジローという日本人を案内役に、やがて長崎へとたどり着き、厳しい弾圧を受けながら自らの信仰心と向き合っていく。

軍事政権下のミャンマーで、ある闇の存在が明らかになる。アメリカ政府は、各国の精鋭傭兵部隊を組織し、事態の鎮圧に乗り出した。最新装備を誇る隊員たちの中、1人手製のナイフと弓矢を武器に、孤独な戦いを繰り広げるジョン・ランボー。残忍な殺りくを繰り返す敵を前に、ランボーの最後の戦いが始まった。

オーストラリアにやって来た英国貴族、レディ・サラ。亡夫の遺した土地を守るため、粗暴なカウボーイとともに1500頭の牛を売るべく長旅に出ることになり……。ニコール・キッドマン主演による壮大なラヴ・ストーリー。

Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.

Christian, a hunky, 20-something, West Hollywood party boy gets more than he bargains for when he tries to seduce 19-year-old Elder Aaron Davis, a sexually confused Mormon missionary who moves into his apartment complex.

Two missionaries (Bud Spencer and Terence Hill) come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process. (from Wikipedia)

第一次大戦下の東アフリカ。船長チャーリーと宣教師の妹ローズを乗せた蒸気船“アフリカの女王”号は河を下っていくが、彼らの行く手には激流や大瀑布、そしてドイツの戦艦が待ち受けていた！ C・S・フォレスターの冒険小説を、H・ボガートとK・ヘプバーンという見事なキャスティングでJ・ヒューストンが映画化した傑作ロマン活劇。

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.

パリ・オリンピック陸上短距離で祖国イギリスに金メダルをもたらした2人の若者がいた。ユダヤの血をひいている為、言われなき差別と偏見を受けてきたハロルド。彼にとって走ることは偏見に勝利することであった。一方、宣教師の家に生まれたエリックは神のため、信仰のため走った。

ベルギーに住む有名な医者パン・デル・マル博士の娘であるガブリエルは尼僧になる決意をし、家を出た。恋人への思いも断ち切り、修道院入りする。 修道院で志願者となったガブリエルは修道女の戒律を学び、五日後には修道志願女となり数ヶ月に及ぶ厳しい戒律生活に身を投じる。戒律と懺悔の日々。あまりの厳しさに脱落していく志願女がいる中、ガブリエルは見習い尼になる。その前夜、髪を短く刈られ、またそれまで自分と俗世との唯一のつながりであった、恋人から贈られた金飾りのついたペンを投げ捨てた。俗世との完全な別離の瞬間であった。ガブリエルはシスター・ルークという名を与えられ、正式の尼僧になるべく修行を続ける。

複雑な親子の幸せ探しを描き、多くの映画祭で高く評価されたハートフル・ストーリー。女性になる手術を控えた性同一性障害のブリーフと、彼を父とは知らず一緒に旅することになった息子・ブリーフのふれあいを描く。

John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles, John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with "the girl back home", and her letters buoy up his spirits in difficult times. John must struggle to overcome language barriers, physical hardship and deep-rooted suspicion to earn the trust and love of the Tongan people he has come to serve. Throughout his adventure-filled three years on the islands, he discovers friends and wisdom in the most unlikely places. John H. Groberg's Tongan odyssey will change his life forever.

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin, and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story.

The Falls is a feature film about two missionaries that fall in love while on their mission. RJ travels to a small town in Oregon with Elder Merrill to serve their mission and teach the words of Joseph Smith. Living together and sharing the challenge of leaving home, the two men help each other discover their strengths. They share a passion for their faith and learn to express their feelings, risking the only community they have for a forbidden intimacy.

An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.

Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the pompous Leslie Huben, who runs the missionary effort in the area but who seems more concerned about competing with his Catholic 'rivals' than in the Indians themselves. Hazel is terrified of the Indians while Martin is fascinated. Soon American pilot Lewis Moon joins the Indian tribe but is attracted by Leslie's young wife, Andy. Can the interaction of these characters and cultures, and the advancing bulldozers of civilization, avoid disaster?

In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato - Uganda's first openly gay man - and his fellow activists work against the clock to defeat the legislation while combating vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one, not even the filmmakers, is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes the movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world. (from imdb)

An inspirational true story. On what seemed like any other day, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to teach a friend. But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable - they are kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom. While their families, friends, and the world pray for their safe release, Tuttle and Propst are tested physically, emotionally, and most of all spiritually.