Feature films recommended by Natalia Rodina
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Here you will find feature films that will help you in personal development and awareness of life and yourself:
The Shack (2017)
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, The Shack takes us on a father’s uplifting spiritual journey. After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips [Sam Worthington] spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Despite his doubts, Mack journeys to the shack and encounters an enigmatic trio of strangers led by a woman named Papa [Octavia Spencer]. Through this meeting, Mack finds important truths that will transform his understanding of his tragedy and change his life forever.
Our Home: Astral City (Portuguese: Nosso Lar) (2010)
This is a Brazilian drama film about life after death. It is based on the book of the same name by the medium Francisco Cândido Xavier (Chico Xavier).
PLOT:
The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in a kind of limbo called "Umbral". After a painful and numb period in a gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"), a spiritual city. He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace, working for the good of humanity, for self-evolution, and waiting for reincarnation. Sooner André Luiz changes his behavior becoming a more self-aware and altruistic man. Finally, his greatest wish since arriving in the city comes true: he is granted permission to descend to Earth and see his wife and kids. He must accept his own death and step into another level of existence, learning to love and be loved, and that life never ceases.
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“This film is not fantasy fiction. This is a film message from our brothers in the world. A ray of their light and love” - Chico Xavier.
Official trailer:
“Chico Xavier” (2010)
The movie is a biography of the Brazilian medium Chico Xavier (Francisco Candido Xavier). Chico Xavier is a Brazilian writer, spiritualist, medium, philanthropist, and humanist.
Chico Xavier lived a long and difficult life, having managed to write 412 books, some of which were sold in more than 40 million copies, and translated into 33 languages (of which 30 books are in Braille). Chico never considered himself the author of the books written, claiming that their true authorship belongs to those disembodied souls, under whose dictation all his works were written. For this reason, Chico donated all the royalties he received, along with copyrights to various charitable organizations.
“What Dreams May Come” (1998)
This film is also about life after death. It will help you to understand the information about death and the afterlife experience.
PLOT:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than anything he could have ever dreamed of. But there is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie kills herself and goes to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.
Starring Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Max von Sydow, Josh Paddock, and Matt Salinger.
The full version you can find here (select the second player)
"Peaceful Warrior" (2006)
The film is based on the 1980 novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman.
Dan Millman (Scott Mechlowicz) is a gifted athlete whose desire for success drives everything he does. When a mysterious stranger (Nick Nolte) opens Dan's eyes to a new vision of strength and understanding, the Olympic hopeful finds that he still has much to learn and more sacrifices to make.
The full version you can watch here (select the second player)
"Conversations with God" (2006)
The film "Conversations with God" tells the true story of Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions worldwide.
The journey begins after he unexpectedly breaks his neck in a car accident and loses his job. Soon after, we witness his transformation from your everyday guy to a homeless bum struggling just to stay alive. Neale's eye-opening roller coaster ride takes us through his emotional battle to get enough food, make friends and regain his life. And just when things seem to be going his way, they get worse. Feeling like a complete failure in all aspects of his life, Neale, full of anger and bitterness asks God a pile of demanding questions. Much to his disbelief, Neale received his answers! The unworldly conversations that follow end up being read by over 7 million people in 36 languages around the world and counting.
Trailer:
Full movie:
St. Giuseppe Moscati: Doctor to the Poor (2007)
(Original title (Italian): Giuseppe Moscati: L'amore che guarisce - Love that heals)
It is a 2007 Italian television movie written and directed by Giacomo Campiotti. The film is based on the real-life events of the doctor and then Roman Catholic Saint Giuseppe Moscati.
PLOT:
Upon graduation from medical school, an idealistic young doctor starts working in a hospital, in impoverished 1906 Naples. He quickly comes to the conclusion that the practice of medicine, especially when involving poor patients, needs a lot more compassion. He finds himself devoting his life to helping those in need, especially the destitute, with his skills and empathy.
When a beautiful princess becomes infatuated with him, the challenge arises on how to make room for a relationship in a life that is first and foremost devoted to public service.
The doctor's life story followed through the rise of fascism a couple of decades later, is contrasted with the different life path followed by a friend of his with whom he had completed medical school.
Full movie with English subtitles:
Pollyanna (2003)
This film is called a cure for Depression!
Pollyanna is a young orphan with a positive, cheerful personality who comes to live with her wealthy, embittered, spinster aunt. She introduces everyone to her preacher father's favorite "Glad Game" and ends up transforming not only her aunt's life but the entire town. When the selfless, caring Pollyanna is severely injured in an accident, her spirits dip uncharacteristically, and the townsfolk rally around to help her regain her perspective, rejoice in God, and look for the good.
The Cloud Atlas (2012)
This film shows six stories - five reincarnations taking place at different times, that are closely intertwined. You will see how the souls "travel" in different bodies, and how the memory of past lives works in us. Based on the 2004 novel by David Mitchell.
The trailer:
The full version you can watch here (select the second player)
PK (2014)
Wise and pleasant Indian movie.
PK is an alien who came to Earth from a distant planet to study humans and their world. When he landed in one of the cities in the middle of the desert, he faced not a friendly reception from the inhabitants of the planet, but the worst of them: greed, anger, and total indifference. But that’s not the worst thing that happened to him on his first day on Earth. A street thief stole PK’s remote control, mistaking it for a jewel with which he kept in touch with his ship. Now the alien guest has to do everything he can to find the remote, or he won’t be able to come home. PK’s gonna have some incredible adventures ahead.
The full movie with English subtitles:
Lucy (2014)
Humans use only 10% of their brains. What will happen if a person once manages to unleash all the potential inherent in nature in his brain, 100%? This fantastic film is dedicated to the answer to this riddle.
Lucy - the main character of the film was an ordinary girl, but by coincidence, a huge dose of an artificially created substance entered her body, very quickly revealing the capabilities of her brain and consciousness. During the film, its capabilities are constantly expanding, up to 100%
A film by French director Luc Besson.
Flatliners (2017)
It is based on real events. A group of medical students decide to penetrate the very secret of non-existence, one by one introducing each other into a state of clinical death - however, after that, they begin to feel the influence of this other world.
What is the value of this film?
You will see and understand more about how people create their own realities for themselves on the subtle plane – and why each of us has our own reality and we go there after death. But not only – at the same time we live here, in the space of our world, and there, in the parallel astral world. Watch the film and you will understand more – about how to create good life and reality for yourself.
Temple Grandin (2010)
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.
It is based on Grandin's memoirs Emergence and Thinking in Pictures.
The official trailer:
John Carter (2012)
It is a 2012 American science fiction action-adventure film and based on A Princess of Mars, the first book in the Barsoom series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Plot: Transported to Mars (Barsoom), a Civil War vet discovers a barren planet seemingly inhabited by 12-foot-tall barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter a princess in desperate need of a savior. He tries to find a means to return to Earth but then begins to save the inhabitants of this planet from the invaders.
The Green Beautiful (1996)
(Original title (French): La Belle Verte)
On a distant planet, rural vegans master telepathy and mental power to travel interstellar, etc. Mila is sent to Earth to report back. She lands in Paris - quite a cultural shock. Earthlings are strange.
The full movie with English subtitles:
