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MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN is based on the incredible true story of the Beam family. When Christy (Jennifer Garner) discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna (Kylie Rogers) has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter's healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna h β¦as a freak accident, an extraordinary miracle unfolds in the wake of her dramatic rescue that leaves medical specialists mystified, her family restored and their community inspired. (Read More)
Subgenre: | medical |
Themes: | near death experiencefaithillness |
Locations: | art museummotorcyclehelicopterchurchhospital |
Characters: | christianitywaitresslittle girlchristiansister sister relationshippriestfemale protagonistdoctorafrican americanfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | child with leukemiasitting in a treefalling from a treeclimbing a treeterminal illnesschristian propagandachristian crosschristian filmmiraculous curefalling into a holechild cancerout of body experiencemedia frenzyconcussionsick child β¦hospital roomleukemiafemale friendshipvomitswingheavenaquariumboston massachusettschild protagonistmiracleinterracial friendshipdiseasedeath of childtreelatex glovesaccidentambulanceprayerfalling from heightbased on true storythree word titlef rated (See All) |
In Los Angeles, the eleven year old Anna Fitzgerald seeks the successful lawyer Campbell Alexander trying to hire him to earn medical emancipation from her mother Sara that wants Anna to donate her kidney to her sister. She tells the lawyer the story of her family after the discovery that her older β¦sister Kate has had leukemia; how she was conceived by in vitro fertilization to become a donor; and the medical procedures she has been submitted since she was five years old to donate to her sister. Campbell accepts to work pro bono and the obsessed Sara decides to go to court to force Anna to help her sister. (Read More)
Subgenre: | medical |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | sister sister relationshipfemale protagonistdoctorfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnesssick childleukemiadeath of childf rated |
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage - but when an unexpected tragedy hit β¦s their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (Read More)
Themes: | illness |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | little girlchristiandoctorfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnesschild cancerhospital roomdeath of childambulance |
The movie is based on the young adult book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Anne Brashares. As four best friends spend their first summer apart from one another, they share a magical pair of jeans. Despite being of various shapes and sizes, each one of them fits perfectly into the pants. T β¦o keep in touch they pass these pants to each other as well as the adventures they are going through while apart. (Read More)
Locations: | churchhospital |
Characters: | little girlpriestfemale protagonistfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnesssick childleukemiafemale friendshipambulancef rated |
In North Carolina especially in Beaufort a prank on a guy goes wrong and puts the student in the clinic. Carter, a famous student with no plans for the future, is held responsible and forced to join in after-school community service activities as consequence, which include starring as the lead in th β¦e play. And participating in these activities is Jamie Sullivan, the reverend's daughter who has great ambitions and nothing in common with Landon. When Landon decides he wants to take his activities seriously, he asks Jamie for help and begins to spend most of his time with her. But he starts to like her, that he did not expect to do. They relationship, much to the chagrin of Landon's old popular friends and Jamie's strict reverend father. But when a heart-breaking secret becomes known that puts their relationship to the test, it is then that Landon and Jamie realize the true meaning of love and fate. (Read More)
Themes: | near death experiencefaith |
Locations: | churchhospital |
Characters: | christianitychristianpriestdoctorfather daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnessleukemiaswingmiracleinterracial friendshipambulance |
A psychic doctor, John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins), works with an F.B.I. Special Agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in search of serial killer Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell). After having lived in isolation for two years, since the death of his daughter, Clancy is asked by his friend Joe, an F.B.I. Speci β¦al Agent to help him solve several murders committed by a serial killer. The problem is that Ambrose is also psychic, and far ahead of Clancy. (Read More)
Locations: | churchhospital |
Characters: | christiandoctorfather daughter relationship |
Story: | child with leukemiaterminal illnesschild cancerleukemiadeath of childlatex gloves |
Ivan is a priest in a rural church known for the apples that grow on a large tree in front. He's odd: seeing the world through rose-colored glasses, in denial about personal facts, and convinced he's at war with Satan. The rectory is a half-way house for recently paroled convicts. Adam arrives for 1 β¦2 weeks, a large, tough neo-Nazi, first baffled by Ivan's thick-headed optimism, then angry. He vows to break Ivan's faith. Meanwhile, in exasperation at Ivan's insistence, Adam sets a personal goal: to bake an apple pie. All goes awry for the tree: crows, worms, lightening. The Book of Job gives Adam perverse insight, and his hooligan mates provide the resolution's spring. (Read More)
Themes: | faithillness |
Locations: | churchhospital |
Characters: | christianpriestdoctor |
Story: | terminal illnessmiracletree |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Themes: | near death experiencefaith |
Locations: | churchhospital |
Characters: | little girlpriestdoctorfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationship |
Story: | heavendeath of childlatex glovesambulance |
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully both worked at the FBI as partners, a bond between them that led to their becoming lovers. But now they're out of the FBI and have begun new careers. Scully works as a staff physician at a Catholic hospital. Her focus these days is on a young boy with an incurable brain di β¦sease. Administration wants to give up on him. Scully, who feels a special bond with the boy, does not. Meanwhile, Mulder's focus is on clipping newspaper articles, throwing pencils into his ceiling and writing about the paranormal. Scully and Mulder are brought together as partners again when a special case requires Mulder's expertise and Scully is prevailed upon to convince him to help. The case involves a pedophile priest who claims he is having psychic visions regarding the whereabouts of a missing FBI agent. (Read More)
Themes: | faith |
Locations: | helicopterhospital |
Characters: | priestdoctor |
Story: | terminal illnesssick childdiseaselatex glovesprayerfalling from height |
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to int β¦ensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure. (Read More)
Subgenre: | medical |
Themes: | near death experience |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | waitresslittle girldoctorafrican americanfather daughter relationship |
Story: | falling from a treeout of body experienceswingdeath of childtreefalling from height |
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trail begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants t β¦o believe what Father Moore says is true. (Read More)
Themes: | faithillness |
Locations: | churchhospital |
Characters: | christianitychristianpriestfemale protagonistdoctorfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | prayerbased on true story |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con β¦vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
Themes: | faithillness |
Locations: | churchhospital |
Characters: | little girlsister sister relationshipdoctorfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | latex glovesaccidentambulanceprayer |
After Iggy's long-time girlfriend is murdered and the whole town agrees he is the killer, he awakens one morning with horns and the townspeople soon confess their sins. Once knowing the sins of the people, he is facing the true killer of his beloved girlfriend.
Themes: | near death experienceillness |
Locations: | churchhospital |
Characters: | christianitywaitresslittle girlchristianpriestdoctorfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnesshospital roomprayer |
Sang-hyun, a priest working for a hospital, selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project intended to eradicate a deadly virus. However, the virus eventually takes over the priest. He nearly dies, but makes a miraculous recovery by an accidental transfusion of vampire blood. He real β¦izes his sole reason for living: the pleasures of the flesh. (Read More)
Themes: | faith |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | christianitypriestdoctor |
Story: | diseaseambulanceprayerfalling from height |
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father ('Brad Pitt' (qv)). Jack (played as an adult by β¦ 'Sean Penn (I)' (qv)) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. (Read More)
Themes: | faith |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | christianitywaitresschristianpriestafrican americanfamily relationships |
Story: | climbing a treeswingchild protagonisttreeprayer |
John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. β¦ takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant. (Read More)
Locations: | helicopterchurchhospital |
Characters: | christiandoctorfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnesssick childambulanceprayer |
"Some people lose their faith because Heaven shows them too little," says Thomas Daggett. "But how many people lose their faith because Heaven showed them too much?" Daggett nearly became a priest; now he's a cop. He may want to put religion behind him, but one morning a weird, eyeless, hermaphrodit β¦ic corpse turns up. Suddenly he is on a path that will put him right in the middle of a war in Heaven. And once again, Heaven will show him too much: gore, blood, charred flesh, living corpses and much worse. Even more central to the heavenly war effort is a young girl. This American Indian child has something Gabriel wants. And Gabriel is willing to kill her and anyone in his path - or even reanimate a corpse or two - to get it. (Read More)
Themes: | near death experiencefaith |
Locations: | churchhospital |
Characters: | christianitywaitresslittle girlchristianpriest |
Story: | heavenambulanceprayerfalling from height |
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in the Bathtub, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink's tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe; for a time when he's no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness β¦, nature flies out of whack, temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink's health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother. (Read More)
Themes: | illness |
Locations: | helicopterhospital |
Characters: | little girlfemale protagonistdoctorafrican americanfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnesschild protagonistf rated |
Preacher Graham Hess, played by Mel Gibson, has lost his faith in God after his wife dies in a brutal car accident. He along with his son and daughter and his brother Merrill lives in a farmhouse. Crop circles begin to appear in their corn fields which Graham dismisses as mischief by miscreants. Aft β¦er hearing strange noises and watching news coverage on crop circles appearing all over the world, the family grows suspicious of alien activities. Now they must stick together and believe, as a family to survive the ordeal and find a way to escape. (Read More)
Themes: | faith |
Characters: | christianitylittle girlpriestfather daughter relationship |
Story: | miracleaccidentambulance |
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. I β¦n the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life. (Read More)
Themes: | faithillness |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | doctorfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnesshospital roominterracial friendshipprayerthree word title |
Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a β¦ space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed. (Read More)
Subgenre: | medical |
Themes: | illness |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | christianitypriestdoctor |
Story: | terminal illnessheaventreeambulance |
'Erin Brockovich-Ellis' (qv) is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation β¦ for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation. (Read More)
Themes: | illness |
Locations: | motorcycle |
Characters: | waitressfemale protagonistdoctorfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnessdiseaseaccidentbased on true storyf rated |
Based on the true story of 'Leigh Anne Tuohy' (qv) and 'Sean Tuohy' (qv) who take in a homeless teenage African-American, 'Michael Oher' (qv). Michael has no idea who his father is and his mother is a drug addict. Michael has had little formal education and few skills to help him learn. Leigh Anne s β¦oon takes charge however, as is her nature, ensuring that the young man has every opportunity to succeed. When he expresses an interest in football, she goes all out to help him, including giving the coach a few ideas on how best to use Michael's skills. They not only provide him with a loving home, but hire a tutor to help him improve his grades to the point where he would qualify for an NCAA Division I athletic scholarship. 'Michael Oher' (qv) was the first-round pick of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2009 NFL draft. (Read More)
Themes: | near death experience |
Characters: | christianitychristianfemale protagonistafrican americanfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | interracial friendshipprayerbased on true storythree word titlef rated |
After the abduction and presumed death of Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, Mack receives a letter and suspects it is from God, asking him to return to The Shack where Missy may have been murdered. After contemplating it, he leaves his home to go to The Shack for the first time sin β¦ce Missy's abduction and an encounter that will change his life forever. (Read More)
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | christianitylittle girlchristiansister sister relationshipafrican americanfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | christian filmdeath of child |
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Themes: | illness |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | african americanfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnessleukemiainterracial friendshipambulanceprayer |
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who asks their estran β¦ged son Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on. (Read More)
Themes: | illness |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | christianitypriestdoctorfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnessmiracleambulance |
Freshman university student Josh Wheaton attends a philosophy class, where the uncompromising Professor Radisson requires all students to submit a signed statement that the "God is dead" and never existed. When Josh refuses due to his own Christian beliefs, the Professor challenges him to defend his β¦ position that his god, Yahweh, is real, leading to a series of confrontational presentations between himself and the professor, with the class as jury. Josh's plans to go to law school depend on not failing this class. Josh's girlfriend urges him not to throw away his future with this pointless act of defiance. At the same time, Pastor Dave and African missionary Jude attempt to leave town on a trip, but are hindered by comical accidents. Student Ayisha is at odds with her father's conservative religious principles. Businessman Mark acts cynically towards his mentally ill mother, while his journalist girlfriend receives bad news from a doctor. (Read More)
Themes: | faith |
Locations: | churchhospital |
Characters: | christianitychristiandoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | interracial friendshipaccidentprayer |
When two people "connect" the bond between them can be so pure and simple as to stir hearts in heaven. When they connect in all the right places at all the wrong times, heaven weeps for broken hearts. To heal these broken hearts, heaven breaks time.
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | little girldoctorafrican americanfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | hospital roomheaventreethree word title |
Wanting to learn from the best, aspiring boxer Maggie Fitzgerald wants Frankie Dunn to train her. At the outset he flatly refuses saying he has no interest in training a girl. Frankie leads a lonely existence, alienated from his only daughter and having few friends. Maggie's rough around the edges b β¦ut shows a lot of grit in the ring and he eventually relents. Maggie not only proves to be the boxer he always dreamed of having under his wing but a friend who fills the great void he's had in his life. Maggie's career skyrockets but an accident in the ring leads her to ask Frankie for one last favor. (Read More)
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | waitresssister sister relationshippriestmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | accidentambulanceprayerthree word titlef rated |
Soon after her return from a business trip to Hong Kong, Beth Emhoff dies from what is a flu or some other type of infection. Her young son dies later the same day. Her husband Mitch however seems immune. Thus begins the spread of a deadly infection. For doctors and administrators at the U.S. Center β¦s for Disease Control, several days pass before anyone realizes the extent or gravity of this new infection. They must first identify the type of virus in question and then find a means of combating it, a process that will likely take several months. As the contagion spreads to millions of people worldwide, societal order begins to break down as people panic. (Read More)
Locations: | helicopterhospital |
Characters: | doctorfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnessdiseasedeath of childlatex glovesambulance |
This film details the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, as played by Cate Blanchett. The main focus is the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Characters: | christianitychristiansister sister relationshippriestfemale protagonistfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | death of childprayer |
Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
Themes: | illness |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | priestfemale protagonistfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | sick childheavenambulancebased on true story |
The Stone family unites in common cause when their favorite son brings his uptight girlfriend home for the Christmas holiday, with plans of proposing. Overwhelmed by the hostile reception, she begs her sister to join her for emotional support, triggering further complications.
Characters: | sister sister relationshipfemale protagonistfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnessambulancethree word titlef rated |
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and she's a city girl, he's a country boy, the two become fast friends. Toget β¦her, they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants and rule as king and queen. This friendship helps Jess deal with the tragedy that makes him realize what Leslie taught him. (Read More)
Locations: | art museumchurch |
Characters: | little girlfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | falling from a treeswingthree word title |
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to int β¦ensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure. (Read More)
Subgenre: | medical |
Themes: | near death experience |
Locations: | motorcyclehospital |
Characters: | doctorafrican americanmother daughter relationship |
Story: | out of body experiencedeath of childfalling from height |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
Themes: | illness |
Characters: | waitresssister sister relationshipdoctorfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnessswingprayer |
When former journalist Martin Sixsmith is dismissed from the Labour Party in disgrace, he is at a loss as to what do. That changes when a young Irish woman approaches him about a story of her mother, Philomena, who had her son taken away when she was a teenage inmate of a Catholic convent. Martin ar β¦ranges a magazine assignment about her search for him that eventually leads to America. Along the way, Martin and Philomena discover as much about each other as about her son's fate. Furthermore, both find their basic beliefs challenged. (Read More)
Themes: | faith |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | waitresslittle girlchristianpriestdoctormother daughter relationship |
Story: | swingprayerbased on true story |
Themes: | faith |
Locations: | motorcyclechurchhospital |
Characters: | christianitychristianfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | ambulance |
Two young girls, Satsuki and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoro β¦s, and have several magical adventures. (Read More)
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | little girlsister sister relationshipfemale protagonistmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | child protagonisttreethree word titlef rated |
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his porn magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
Themes: | faithillness |
Locations: | helicopterchurchhospital |
Characters: | christiandoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | ambulancebased on true story |
A regular family - Maria ('Naomi Watts' (qv)), Henry ('Ewan McGregor' (qv)) and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vaca β¦tion until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them? (Read More)
Themes: | near death experience |
Locations: | helicopterhospital |
Characters: | female protagonistdoctorfamily relationships |
Story: | sitting in a treeclimbing a treetreebased on true story |
Michael, the son of a funeral director grows indifferent to his father and joins a Seminary. On his way to the course completion, he is overwhelmed by a strong lack of faith. His religious beliefs are further jolted when he sees a young girl haplessly dying in a road accident for whom he reluctantly β¦ performs the ritual to absolve her sins. His mentor still believes in him and urges him to go to Italy to take an exorcism course hoping that he it would strengthen his faith in Christianity. In Italy he attends a session from Father Xavier who soon becomes aware of his skepticism. As a result he sends him to an eminent Jesuit exorcist, Father Lucas, whose ways though questionable are quite effective. He witnesses the exorcism of a sixteen year old girl but still seems unconvinced. Father Lucas explains to him that it takes multiple sessions over a long stretch of time to completely free a victim from the demon. Despite witnessing some supernatural occurrences during the aforesaid exorcism, Michael is as skeptical as ever. After the second exorcism, the girls condition becomes quite critical as she is moved to a hospital. She soon dies and the demon finds a new victim. As the moment of reckoning draws near, Micheal may be the only hope left but first he must overcome his own doubts and apprehensions in order to fight and destroy the ominous forces. (Read More)
Themes: | faith |
Locations: | churchhospital |
Characters: | waitresspriestdoctor |
Story: | accidentambulanceprayer |
Curtis, a father and husband, is starting to experience bad dreams and hallucinations. Assuming mental illness, he seeks medical help and counseling. However, fearing the worst, he starts building an elaborate and expensive storm shelter in their backyard. This storm shelter threatens to tear apart β¦his family, threatens his sanity and his standing in the community, but he builds it to save his family's life. (Read More)
Subgenre: | medical |
Themes: | illness |
Locations: | church |
Characters: | little girldoctorafrican americanfamily relationshipsfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationship |
Story: | ambulance |
While helicopters overhead spray against a Medfly infestation a group of Los Angeles lives intersect, some casually, some to more lasting effect. Whilst they go out to concerts and jazz clubs and even have their pools cleaned, they also lie, drink, and cheat. Death itself seems never to be far away, β¦ even on a fishing trip. (Read More)
Locations: | motorcyclehelicopterhospital |
Characters: | waitresssister sister relationshipdoctorfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | concussionaquarium |
13 year-old Bethany Hamilton is a champion surfer who was born to be in the water. But after a fun night out night surfing and what should be a fun day in the water, she is attacked by a shark and loses her arm. Rushed to the hospital, she remains calm, and maintains her faith in God. Now she has to β¦ re-learn how to do everything with only one arm - including how to surf. It will take her friends, family, and her Christian faith to get her back into the water, but if that is where she is meant to be, she will find a way to get there. (Read More)
Themes: | faith |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | christiandoctor |
Story: | christian filmbased on true story |
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | little girlpriestfamily relationshipsmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnessambulancethree word title |
An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, Edith Piaf (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she's a street singer discovered by a club owner who's s β¦oon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, "Non, je ne regrette rien." The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association. (Read More)
Characters: | little girlfemale protagonistmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | sick childaccidentambulanceprayerbased on true storyf rated |
This is the story of a young witch, named Kiki who is now thirteen years old. But she is still a little green and plenty headstrong, but also resourceful, imaginative, and determined. With her trusty wisp of a talking cat named Jiji by her side she's ready to take on the world, or at least the quain β¦tly European seaside village she's chosen as her new home. (Read More)
Characters: | female protagonistmother daughter relationship |
Story: | sick childfemale friendshipaccidentfalling from heightthree word title |
Linguistics professor Louise Banks leads an elite team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touchdown in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must race against time to find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors. Hoping β¦ to unravel the mystery, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and quite possibly all of mankind. (Read More)
Locations: | helicopterhospital |
Characters: | little girldoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationship |
Story: | terminal illnessvomitdiseasef rated |
Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to God that he returns for good. Jan does re β¦turn, his neck broken in an accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are now unable to enjoy a sexual relationship and Jan urges Bess to take another lover and tell him the details. As Bess becomes more and more deviant in her sexual behavior, the more she comes to believe that her actions are guided by God and are helping Jan recover. (Read More)
Themes: | faith |
Locations: | hospital |
Characters: | priestdoctormother daughter relationship |
Story: | miracleaccident |