In no particular order, here are the top 40 most enlightening spiritual movies and documentaries I’ve come across.
These cover the topics of awakening, enlightenment, spirituality or might just explore philosophically empowering messages that reveal the beauty and mystery of the universe. Are there any significant spiritual movies we’re missing? Comment with them below.
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6.7Rating: 6.7 / 10 from 155,429 users
A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.
A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.
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7.9Rating: 7.9 / 10 from 32,543 users
In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a Christ-like character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.
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8.3Rating: 8.3 / 10 from 559,687 users
After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.
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6.4Rating: 6.4 / 10 from 85,391 users
Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences.
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7.4Rating: 7.4 / 10 from 107,576 users
A molecular biologist and his laboratory partner uncover evidence that may fundamentally change society as we know it.
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7.0Rating: 7.0 / 10 from 97,159 users
Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, and enters Heaven. But when he discovers that his beloved wife Annie has killed herself out of grief over the loss, he embarks on an afterlife adventure to reunite with her.
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7.8Rating: 7.8 / 10 from 202,017 users
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible.
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7.3Rating: 7.3 / 10 from 100,387 users
A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.
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6.8Rating: 6.8 / 10 from 139,806 users
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
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8.0Rating: 8.0 / 10 from 118,747 users
A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
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6.6Rating: 6.6 / 10 from 27,345 users
An off the charts genius who is home schooled and shunned after his last relative dies shows the unconscious residents of his town about connection awareness and the generosity of the spirit.
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7.7Rating: 7.7 / 10 from 25,683 users
A 12-year-old girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with long, flowing blonde hair. As the friendship ...
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8.3Rating: 8.3 / 10 from 3,669 users
Exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals.
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7.9Rating: 7.9 / 10 from 80,249 users
Having gone missing seven years ago, the previously blind Prairie returns home, now in her twenties with her sight restored. While many believe she is a miracle, others worry that she could be dangerous.
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7.3Rating: 7.3 / 10 from 7,177 users
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
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6.6Rating: 6.6 / 10 from 5,007 users
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
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6.1Rating: 6.1 / 10 from 52,976 users
Forced for some time to be a fighting slave, a pagan warrior escapes his captors with a boy and joins a group of Crusaders on their quest to the Holy Land.
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7.4Rating: 7.4 / 10 from 278,346 users
A New York City doctor embarks on a harrowing, night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife reveals a painful secret to him.
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6.9Rating: 6.9 / 10 from 20,440 users
A mysterious creature, known as Ink, steals a child's soul in hopes of using it as a bargaining chip to join the Incubi - the group of supernatural beings responsible for creating nightmares.
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6.9Rating: 6.9 / 10 from 29,958 users
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress genetically.
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7.0Rating: 7.0 / 10 from 286,211 users
Supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine helps a policewoman prove her sister's death was not a suicide, but something more.
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6.5Rating: 6.5 / 10 from 113,855 users
A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.
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7.2Rating: 7.2 / 10 from 3,610 users
The "Green Planet" belongs to another solar system. Through the simplicity of their lifestyle those who live there are a real step ahead of us: they spend their time concentrating their ...
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6.3Rating: 6.3 / 10 from 9,749 users
Amid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the men are forced to help him search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field.
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9.2Rating: 9.2 / 10 from 9 users
Samadhi Part 1 (Maya the Illusion of the Self) is the first installment in a series of films exploring Samadhi. Samadhi is an ancient Sanskrit word which points toward the mystical or ...
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7.9Rating: 7.9 / 10 from 18,150 users
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
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7.2Rating: 7.2 / 10 from 93,895 users
Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.
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7.8Rating: 7.8 / 10 from 21,483 users
On a faraway planet where blue giants rule, oppressed humanoids rebel against their machine-like leaders.
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7.4Rating: 7.4 / 10 from 54,463 users
Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.
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