Watch The Mission if you haven't, the soundtrack is very good

And the story is both touching and devastating, whether or not you're watching from a religious point of view.

The same is true for the earlier Robert Bolt film, too: A Man for All Seasons.

Agree on both scores!

The thing that stood out for me in The Mission was its dramatic depiction of the power of repentance (i.e. a genuine change of heart) which we saw when Mendoza (de Niro) finally put down his burden at the intervention of the very people he'd persecuted.

In A Man for all Seasons it would have to be the Thomas More's famous replies following Roper's “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7515521-william-roper-so-no...

Funny, though, we still think goodness can be manufactured by the passing of laws instead of by changes of hearts.

I'd say 'very good' is almost an understatement for this Morricone soundtrack. I never get tired of it.

Babette's Feast is amazing (and you need to take the "religion" categorization with a large pinch of salt).

Andrei Rublev is one of the supreme achievements of cinema. Just so moving and beautiful, and hopeful, too.