A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their lives.
Trong Rambo IV, John Rambo quy ẩn về miền Bắc Thái Lan, sống một cuộc sống bình dị giữa núi rừng; cho đến khi một nhóm người thuộc tỗ chức đấu tranh vì quyền của con người tìm đến anh và nhờ Rambo dẫn đường đến Burma để cung cấp thuốc men. Nhưng khi những người làm việc từ thiện này bị bắt bởi quân đội của Burma thì Rambo quyết định một mình tấn công vào sào huyệt của chúng để cứu họ ...
Bộ phim xoay quanh Charlie, người mắc hội chứng rối loạn ăn uống sau tai nạn của người bạn đời, khiến cơ thể anh trở nên béo phì cùng cân nặng lên đến 600 pound (272 kg). Khi sức khỏe ngày càng xấu đi, anh cố gắng kết nối lại với cô con gái đã từng bị bỏ rơi của mình tên Ellie cũng như đấu tranh để tìm lại ý nghĩa cho cuộc sống.
In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
“Chuyện tình nước Úc” chọn thời điểm nước Úc sau thế chiến thứ nhất và những năm đầu khi thế chiến thứ hai bùng nổ để thể hiện câu chuyện của mình. Một nữ quý tộc dòng dõi Anh được thừa kế một trang trại gia súc khổng lồ ở miền Bắc tên là Sarah Ashley, bị lạc mất gia đình khi những tiếng bom đầu tiên rền vang trên nước Úc. Được người chăn bò trong lâu đài của gia đình giúp đỡ vượt qua cơn hoạn nạn, cô đã cùng anh trốn chạy dưới làn mưa bom của phát xít Nhật. Từ chỗ không ưa nổi anh chàng thô lỗ này, Sarah dần dần đã rơi vào lưới tình…
In the early Middle Ages, two Christian knights set off to christen a small pagan village hidden deep in the mountains. Despite the differences in their views and perspectives on religion, the two men become travel companions and create a father-son relationship. As they settle into the local community, their faith, belief system and the bond between them are all put to the test. Soon, love is confronted with hate, dialogue with violence, madness with rules and many will have to die.
Làng Kungdu vùng Đông Phi – một nơi hẻo lánh, biệt lập với thế giới bên ngoài - nơi mà hai anh em vị linh mục Samuel (Robert Morley) và Rose Sayer (Katherine Hepburn) nhận sứ mệnh của Chúa giao phó, khai sáng văn minh cho người dân bản địa. Tháng 8 năm 1914, chiến tranh đã nổ ra ở Châu Âu và sau đó lan sang những vùng thuộc địa mà Kungdu không nằm ngoại lệ. Quân đội Đức đã đến chiếm đóng vùng Đông Bắc Phi, họ bắt bớ bắn giết và gom dân vào các trại tập trung.
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
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.
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.
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.
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 man called Obam struggles with the increasingly hostile forces facing each other in a colonial African country. The African natives want their land and lives back from the British colonists. Obam's motives are questioned by his own people, in particular his brother Kanda. With the help of his wife Renee and missionary Bruce Craig, will he be able to get things under control before the country self-destructs? Written by Greg Bruno
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for honest work and falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who is unfazed by her unsavory past. However, Mr. Davidson, a missionary who arrived on the island at the same time, aims to "save" Sadie from her sinful life and petitions to have her separated from her beau and deported back to San Francisco.
Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.
Two missionaries 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.
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?