A Visit With Jesus: Movies

My Neighbor Totoro

Rating: G

Release Date: Apr 16, 1988

Overview: Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

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Beetlejuice

Rating: PG

Release Date: Mar 30, 1988

Overview: A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Rating: G

Release Date: Dec 17, 1985

Overview: The Great Ak calls a council of the Immortals to ask that Santa Claus be given immortality. And to justify it, he tells the history of Santa Claus. The Ak found an abandoned baby and gave it to a lioness and a fairy to raise, who named him Claus. When Claus grew up, the Great Ak showed him the evil and hardship in the world and Claus decides to live there and relieve some of the suffering. He decides to make toys for orphans, but King Awgwa, the ruler of the valley where Claus lives doesn't want the children to be happy, and there is a great battle among Immortals.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Rating: PG

Release Date: Jun 12, 1981

Overview: When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.

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How to Beat the High Cost of Living

Rating: PG

Release Date: Jul 11, 1980

Overview: In order to beat inflation and subsidize their alimony checks, three suburban housewives plot to steal $1 million from a large plastic ball which is displayed in a local shopping center.

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Jesus

Rating: G

Release Date: Oct 19, 1979

Overview: Three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, as told in the Gospel of Luke.

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2001: A Space Odyssey

Rating: G

Release Date: Apr 2, 1968

Overview: Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Rating: G

Release Date: Dec 18, 1966

Overview: Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.

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The Greatest Story Ever Told

Rating: G

Release Date: Apr 9, 1965

Overview: From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.

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How the West Was Won

Rating: G

Release Date: Nov 2, 1962

Overview: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.

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Ben-Hur

Rating: G

Release Date: Nov 18, 1959

Overview: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.

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The Ten Commandments

Rating: G

Release Date: Oct 5, 1956

Overview: Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.

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