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Plot Summary:
What would you do if you told the world you heard God's voice and no one believed you? Steps of Faith, is a light-heart dramedy about Faith Houston an accountant, who is directed by God to move to a small town to work on a Hippotherapy farm helping children. Faith is mocked by her family since she doesn't have a rapport with children or animals and is not a devout Christian.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Welcome Home (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a hugely successful debut novel, Stewart Paylor is supposed to be delivering chapters of his new book. Unbeknownst to everyone around him, including Cynthia, his literary agent/girlfriend, Stewart has writer’s block and has not written a word. His life goes even further astray when he returns home from a vacation to find a homeless mother, Cassandra, and her two children, 12-year old Jake and 9-year old Vera have been squatting in his house, with nowhere to go.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: emotional
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The Good Catholic (2017)
Plot Summary:
An idealistic young priest is dedicated to his calling until he meets a woman at confession. After the meeting, he seeks guidance from his fellow priests.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Valentine Ever After (2016)
Plot Summary:
Big city girls Julia and her best friend Sydney take a trip to a dude ranch in Wyoming for a fun weekend getaway, but after a brawl at the local bar, the girls are sentenced to stay in town and perform community service. Along the way, Julia finds love and her true calling in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, atmospheric, scenic, emotional
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Frank vs. God (2014)
Plot Summary:
Frank is a man who thinks he has lost everything, until his house is destroyed by a tornado. Then when he goes to the insurance company, he’s told they won't pay because the damage falls under the "Act of God" exclusion in his policy. With nothing left, and nothing left to lose, he decides to sue God himself for damages, naming representatives of the world's religions as defendants in the suit. What starts as a ridiculous stunt, becomes a beautiful, funny, soulful odyssey in which he rediscovers that love itself... requires a leap of faith.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: indie film, spiritual
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Secrets (1995)
Plot Summary:
Etta Berter is a doctor's wife in 1905 who has been unable to have children. The couple has one adopted daughter but she has always wanted more children. Julie Harris's character is the family's cook and close companion to their daughter. Her granddaughter is the family's maid. When a visiting friend of Etta's arrives for a visit both she and the maid are attracted to him. When he seems to prefer the younger woman (the maid) the other woman is very jealous and when the maid becomes pregnant by him the older woman vows to make that child her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Tucker Therapy (2019)
Plot Summary:
In order to win a promotion at work, a frustrated father tricks his dysfunctional family into a week of family therapy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, christian film
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Midway to Heaven (2011)
Plot Summary:
Years after his wife Kate died, Ned Stevens still cringes at the thought of dating other women. After all, why would he start dating again when he still has to look out for his daughter Liz? But when Liz comes home for a visit from college, she brings a surprise guest who will throw Ned for a loop. Can Ned ever accept that his little girl has fallen in love with David, a practically perfect know-it-all who drives Ned crazy?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: christian film, humorous, sentimental, light
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Hope Ranch (2020)
Plot Summary:
With the impending foreclose of the family Ranch, Rebecca struggles with her rebellious daughter Grace who is still not over the death of her father Mike.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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The Prodigal Song (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mario has to decide how to use his special talent, either use it for God or use his gift for the world.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Heart of a Champion (2023)
Plot Summary:
A 14-year-old coping with the divorce of her parents, a new school and typical teenage growing pains finds purpose and pride in a lost horse she cares for and trains for a state competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Mountain Top (2017)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer-turned-preacher living in a small Appalachian town is pursued by an eccentric man to represent him in court. Now involved in a case that ties into his own small-town life, the former attorney agrees to help a man.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 593
Genere: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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A Vow to Cherish (1999)
Plot Summary:
John (Ken Howard) and Ellen (Barbara Babcock) have a picture-perfect life: While John runs a successful business, Ellen works as a schoolteacher, and they've raised two beautiful children. But that picture is shattered when Ellen is diagnosed with a devastating disease. The couple's relationship faces its hardest test yet, and before long, John's business starts to suffer and his eye begins to wander after he finds a lovely new jogging partner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sad, christian film
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God's Country (2012)
Plot Summary:
Meghan Doherty is a young, talented executive who neglects her mother and close friends to focus on one goal MAKING MONEY. After closing a multi-million dollar deal Meghan is asked by Mr. Randolph Whitaker (her boss/CEO) to close a deal of a lifetime. She's taking her talent to the Mojave Desert in hopes of getting a Christian land owner to turn over his land before auction. With a $100 million dollar potential deal looming, there is nothing that will stand in the way of her getting what she needs to further her career. Not even GOD? The foreclosed land in question, called God's Country, is owned by Eden Graham, a minister who runs a youth camp there, along with his wife and son, Jake. Upon arrival at the camp in her Ferrari and designer clothes, Meghan is clearly not a good fit, but Eden persuades her to stay; he promises to sign over the property to her if, during her weeklong sojourn there at the camp, she is not convinced of the value of what they are doing.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, light, captivating, christian film, realistic, semi serious
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My Daddy is in Heaven (2017)
Plot Summary:
Becca, Adam and their 5-year-old daughter Acie are a perfect family until a tragic accident during a 4th of July celebration kills their father. Struggling with grief, Becky decides she needs to leave the family farm and all its memories. She leaves Acie with her grandfather Ben and visits with her friend from school, June. With all the best intent, June offers Becky plenty of distraction from her family life. Fueled by her anger at G*d and loss of faith, Becky starts drinking and making other self-destructive choices. Then, after Becky is arrested, Ben threatens to keep Acie until Becky is back on track. A chance encounter in a bus station with a traveler gives Becky what she needs to restore her faith and reunite with her family.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining, christian film
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Your Love Never Fails (2011)
Plot Summary:
Your Love Never Fails is the story of Laura (Elisa Donovan), a working mother who just wants to spend more time with her daughter Kelsey, 9. Unfortunately, her demanding boss Paul (Fred Willard) has other ideas. When Kelsey’s father, Dylan (Brad Rowe) files for joint custody, Laura is forced to take Kelsey to Texas, where she confronts the lifestyle, church and father (Tom Skerritt) that she left behind. With the help of the local church Pastor, Frank (John Schneider), Laura and Dylan will find their way back to the commitment they made to each other and to Kelsey.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Lightning, the White Stallion (1986)
Plot Summary:
When a stolen white stallion escapes his captors, young Stephanie Ward gives him a new home and a new name: Lightning. As she grooms the horse for show-jumping competition, the pair forms an unbreakable bond. But when Stephanie finds herself in need of an expensive operation, and Lightning's original owner tracks him down, Stephanie sets all her hopes on first prize at the Nationals - and on the horse who's become her best friend!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Christmas Snow (2009)
Plot Summary:
For Kathleen, Christmas has always been an unwelcome reminder of her father’s abandonment almost 30 years ago. Although she has tried to forget her past, it has not forgotten her. In the days leading up to Christmas un unforgiving blizzard traps her in her own home with two unlikely roommates. Same, a gentle older man Kathleen took in for the night and Lucy, the daughter of her soon to be fiancé bring her face to face with the hurts of her past. Will she be able to let go and grab hold of a life-changing forgiveness or will she continue to be haunted by the pain of the past?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic, inspirational, uplifting, touching, feel good
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The Resurrection of Gavin Stone (2017)
Plot Summary:
Gavin Stone, a washed-up former child star, is forced to do community service at a local megachurch and pretends to be Christian so he can land the part of Jesus in their annual Passion Play, only to discover that the most important role of his life is far from Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: christian film, psychological, sincere, captivating, experimental
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The First Stone (1993)
Plot Summary:
A story of the redemptive powers of Christ's love - a janitor becomes the leader of a high school youth group with an unconventional approach. He gradually gets through to the kids relying on his faith.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: christian film
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Uncommon (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jesus combined diverse people and assorted stories to change the world! Now, He wants to use you! When the students of Rosewood High School lose their theater, music and dance departments due to budgets cuts, they create their own. Struggling to find the right script, music & choreography the students get advice from an uncommon source; the Bible! Each student becomes uniquely influenced as they discover that God takes them personally. Equipped with unique talents, they bond together to prepare the perfect production by exploring the diversity of parables taught in the Bible. Fighting overwhelming challenges, the teens fight against political correctness to defend their privilege to worship, meet and perform. Will months of constant bullying by the establishment defeat the production and dismantle their faith? Armed with expert legal counsel and unexpected help from Christian music's finest, these teens realize what it means to be...UNCOMMON!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, christian film
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Thin Ice (1988)
Plot Summary:
Vince, a college student, loves the mountains, skiing and fun, so an invitation to Lake Tahoe is a no-brain-er... HOWEVER, the trip includes people from a church group, and six strong sets of opinions about God soon collide. Vince's weekend of fun is threatened as tensions rise and sparks fly. This thought provoking drama combines plenty of action and humor both on and off the slopes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: christian film
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A Cowgirl's Story (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dusty Rhodes is new at Jefferson High, and she sticks out like a... well, a cowgirl. Dusty is a real cowgirl from Texas. Her parents are in the U.S. Army: her mother a helicopter pilot and her father a Special Forces Army Ranger. At first, Dusty is an outcast, but eventually she makes friends with a group that includes Savanah, a girl whose father was killed while fighting in Iraq three years earlier. Even though Savanah is kind of Goth and Dusty is all cowgirl they have a special connection and they bond. Dusty gets the school to agree to an Equestrian Drill Team and she enlists her new city slicker friends to join the team. As Dusty and the team practice, Dusty deals with the fears that come with her mother fighting in Afghanistan.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating
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Danny (1979)
Plot Summary:
A young girl's special love for a horse helps them both.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
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Christmas for a Dollar (2013)
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America is in the midst of the Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially after Mrs. Kamp's untimely death. Now little Ruthie, with her mother gone and her father overwhelmed by doctor bills resulting from her brother's polio, expects another Christmas without presents or festivities. But when her father brings home one dollar in change and lets the children use it to buy special gifts for each other, the Kamps come to find that money isn't what fills Christmas with joy, love, and miracles.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, feel good, disturbing, christian film
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Brother White (2012)
Plot Summary:
Synopsis James White (White) is one of dozens of associate pastors at a mega church in Southern California under the tutelage of television evangelist Johnny Kingman (Wise). He always longed to have his own church and jumps at the opportunity to become pastor of the impoverished Divine Faith Apostolic Church in Atlanta. His wife and two children aren’t very enthusiastic about his assignment. Neither is the congregation itself, but they will have to learn to trust each other and pull together to save the church from a corrupt banker anxious to foreclose. It will take a musical miracle, supplied by BeBe Winans himself, to save them all in this heartfelt, family-friendly comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, humorous, semi serious, captivating, christian film, realistic
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Lord Help Us (2007)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about faith and family directed by Shavar Ross. When a recently widowed Baptist preacher (Bill Toliver) loses the respect of his congregation over rumors of his impending marriage to a woman 45 years younger, best friends hatch a plan to help him regain his flock.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, black comedy, independent film, sexual
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The Nanny Express (2008)
Plot Summary:
With their mother dead, Emily and Ben torment their nannies to quit as fast as their father hires them. Till a nanny named Kate shows up and slowly wins Ben over. That's bad enough, but when her father and Kate start to fall in love, Emily sets out to break them up and match him with her ballet teacher.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, emotional, cute, sentimental, uplifting, realistic
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The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968)
Plot Summary:
Frederick Bolton has to solve two problems. First, his boss has instructed him to come up with a reasonable campaign to promote a new product, a stomach pill named "Aspercel" - by tomorrow. The second problem is Fred's daugther, Helen. She is absolutely fond of horses, takes riding classes and has already had decent success in some competitions. Her biggest wish is to own a horse herself, a dream her father cannot afford at all. Now Fred tries to solve both problems at once by simply combining them: A horse named "Aspercel", ridden by his daugther should bring the name of the pill into the papers and make Helen happy, too. But there's still one more obstacle: Helen and Aspercel of course have to win a few prices to make this idea work.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, parody
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Switched (2020)
Plot Summary:
Tired of being bullied, Cassandra Evans prays that her nemesis, Katie Sharp, the queen bee of social media, would know what it’s like to walk a day in her shoes. Her prayer is answered in an unexpected way when they get switched.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative, crying
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Uncle Nino (2003)
Plot Summary:
A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 834
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, indie film, independent film, touching, realistic, semi serious