Inspirational Movies

Unmistaken Child

When: Saturday, January 14, 8:00pm
Director: Nati Baratz
Starring: Dalai Lama, Lama Konchog
Duration: 102 minutes
Year: 2008

Description: 

In Nepal, a venerable monk, Geshe Lama Konchog, dies and one of his disciples, a youthful monk named Tenzin Zopa, searches for his master's reincarnation. The film follows his search to the Tsum Valley where he finds a young boy of the right age who uncannily responds to Konchog's possessions. Is this the reincarnation of the master? After the boy passes several tests, Tenzin takes him to meet the Dalai Lama. Will the parents agree to let the boy go to the monastery, and, if so, how will the child respond? Central to the film is the relationship the child develops with Tenzin.

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Little Buddha

When: Saturday, January 21, 8:00pm
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Bridget Fonda, Chris Isaak
Duration: 123 minutes
Year: 1993

Description: 

Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in search of the reincarnation of his dead teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse Conrad, Raju, a waif from Kathmandu, and an upper class Indian girl. Together, they journey to Bhutan where the three children must undergo a test to prove which is the true reincarnation. Interspersed with this, is the story of Siddharta, later known as the Buddha. It traces his spiritual journey from ignorance to true enlightenment.

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The Help

When: Saturday, January 28, 8:00pm
Director: Tate Taylor
Starring: Emma Stone, Bryce Dallas Howard
Duration: 146 minutes
Year: 2011

Description: 

Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Davis), Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up -- to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories -- and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly -- and unwillingly -- caught up in the changing times.

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Corrina, Corrina

When: Saturday, February 11, 8:00pm
Director: Jessie Nelson
Starring: Noreen Hennessey, Lucy Webb
Duration: 115 minutes
Year: 1994

Description: 

When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.

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Monsters, Inc.

When: Saturday, February 18, 8:00pm
Director: David Silverman
Starring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman
Duration: 93 minutes
Year: 2001

Description: 

In a city of monsters with no humans called Monstropolis centers around Monsters, Inc., the city's power company. Monsters, Inc. The lovable confidant, tough large, furry blue behemoth-like giant monster named James P. Sullivan (A.K.A. better known as Sulley) and his Cyclops wisecracking best friend short, green monster with one large eye, Mike Wazowski discover what happens when the real world interacts with theirs in the form of a 2-year-old baby girl dubbed "Boo," who accidentally sneaks into the monster world with Sulley one night. And now it's up to Sulley and Mike to send Boo back in her door before anybody and especially two evil villains such as Sulley's main rival as a scarer chameleon-like Randall(a monster that Boo is very afraid of), who possesses the ability to change the color of his skin and Mike and Sulley's boss Mr. Waternoose the chairman and chief executive officer of Monsters, Inc.

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Borat

When: Saturday, Februray 25, 8:00pm
Director: Larry Charles
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian
Duration: 84 minutes
Year: 2006

Description: 

Borat Sagdiyev is a TV reporter of a popular show in Kazakhstan as Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist. He is sent from his home to America by his government to make a documentary about American society and culture. Borat takes a course in New York City to understand American humor. While watching Baywatch on TV, Borat discovers how beautiful their women are in the form of C. J. Parker, who was played by actress Pamela Anderson who hails from Malibu, California. He decides to go on a cross-country road trip to California in a quest to make her his wife and take her back to his country. On his journey Borat and his producer encounter a country full of strange and wonderful Americans, real people in real chaotic situations with hysterical consequences.

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Frankie Starlight

When: Saturday, March 10, 8:00pm
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Starring: Matt Dillon, Anne Parillaud
Duration: 101 minutes
Year: 1995

Description: 

This is a story of a man (Walker), suffering from dwarfism, who writes an autobiographical account of his life. In flashbacks, we see how he was conceived to a woman (Parillaud) at the end of WWII as she attempts to smuggle herself to America on a troop ship. Caught, she is put ashore back in her homeland of Ireland where she struggles to bring up her dwarfed child. Then comes an ongoing affair with a man (Byrne) who becomes a surrogate father to the boy, teaching him about the stars and planets... and calling him "Frankie Starlight." After that affair she meets with a man (Dillon) who takes her and the boy to America, but they are misfits in the prairie lands of the West and soon return home to Ireland where the boy grows to manhood as a writer.

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Bab'aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul

When: Saturday, March 17, 8:00pm
Director: Nacer Khemir
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Hossein Panahi
Duration: 96 minutes
Year: 2008

Description: 

The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul is the story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape. To keep Ishtar entertained, Bab'Aziz relays the ancient tale of a prince who relinquished his realm in order to remain next to a small pool in the desert, staring into its depths while contemplating his soul. As the tale of the prince unfolds, the two encounter other travelers with stories of their own--including Osman, who longs for the beautiful woman he met at the bottom of a well, and Zaid, who searches for the ravishing young woman who fled from him after being seduced by his songs.

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Wanderers of the Desert

When: Saturday, March 24, 8:00pm
Director: Nacer Khemir
Starring: Nacer Khemir, Soufiane Makni
Duration: 95 minutes
Year: 1986

Description: 

This simply told story tells of a teacher who is sent to a desert village (or what is left of it)to teach the young people there. He arrives to find the citizens walking around in a dreamlike state. When the teacher asks the local Sheik, he is informed that the village has a curse upon it, where the locals walk off, with the promise of a buried treasure, only to find themselves the unfortunates that are referred to as the wanderers of the desert, who will wander until the end of time in the desert.

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Barney's Version

When: Saturday, March 31, 8:00pm
Director: Richard J. Lewis
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike
Duration: 132 minutes
Year: 2010

Description: 

Take a ride through the life and memories of Barney Panofsky, a hard-drinking, cigar-smoking, foulmouthed 65-year old hockey fanatic and television producer, as he reflects on his life's successes and (numerous) gaffes and failures as the final chapters of his own existence come sharply into focus.

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Bab'aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul

When: Saturday, April 14, 8:00pm
Director: Nacer Khemir
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Hossein Panahi
Duration: 96 minutes
Year: 2008

Description: 

The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul is the story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that takes place just once every thirty years. With faith as their only guide, the two journey for days through the expansive, barren landscape. To keep Ishtar entertained, Bab'Aziz relays the ancient tale of a prince who relinquished his realm in order to remain next to a small pool in the desert, staring into its depths while contemplating his soul. As the tale of the prince unfolds, the two encounter other travelers with stories of their own--including Osman, who longs for the beautiful woman he met at the bottom of a well, and Zaid, who searches for the ravishing young woman who fled from him after being seduced by his songs.

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Footloose

When: Saturday, April 21, 8:00pm
Director: Craig Brewer
Starring: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough
Duration: 114 minutes
Year: 2011

Description: 

City kid Ren McCormack moves to a small town where rock 'n' roll and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

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Queen of the Sun

When: Saturday, April 28, 8:00pm
Director: Taggart Siegel
Starring: Gunther Hauk, Michael Pollan
Duration: 82 minutes
Year: 2012

Description: 

This beautiful, spellbinding film takes the viewer on a journey through the catastrophic disappearance of honeybees and the mysterious world of the beehive by following the heartfelt struggles of beekeepers, scientists and philosophers from around the world.

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The Joy Luck Club

When: Saturday, May 12, 8:00pm
Director: Ming-Na Wen
Starring: Lisa Lu, Wayne Wang
Duration: 139 minutes
Year: 1993

Description: 

The 1993 film adaptation of Amy Tan's bestselling novel is both a delight and a moving experience, an anthology of stories wrapped in one Chinese-American woman's journey to understand her roots. Wayne Wang (Eat a Bowl of Tea) directs a large, outstanding cast spread over eight different tales of the lives of Chinese women, most of them set in the past. The script by Tan and Ronald Bass (Rain Man) is a delicate balance of emotions that swell but don't gush, and Wang brings impressive texture and a personal feel to Tan's descriptions of daily life in the Chinese-American community. This sprawling, good-looking movie makes for a cathartic tearjerker one can feel good about.

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Days of Heaven

When: Saturday, May 19, 8:00pm
Director: Terrence Malick
Starring: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams
Duration: 94 minutes
Year: 1978

Description: 

One of the most critically-acclaimed films of all time, Days of Heaven is a moving story about two men who love the same woman. Richard Gere, a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan (Sam Shepard) for the love of Abby.

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Fear Eats the Soul

When: Saturday, May 26, 8:00pm
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Anita Bucher, El Hedi ben Salem
Duration: 94 minutes
Year: 1974

Description: 

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of 29, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk's All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi Kurowsky (Brigitte Mira) meets Arab worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. To their own surprise (and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies) they fall in love. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen seele auf), Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of the melodrama to underscore the racial tensions threatening German culture.

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