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Top 10 Must-Watch Christian Movies with Positive Messages

Top 10 Must-Watch Christian Movies with Positive Messages

By Movieguide® Contributor

As we embark on a new year, it’s important to fill ourselves with encouraging content that builds our faith. We’ve got you covered with this list of must-watch Christian movies with positive messages. From the emphasis on biblical manhood in THE FORGE, to the message of faith in the midst of adversity and impossible circumstances in ON A WING AND A PRAYER, you will be inspired to be a better version of yourself and follow God in a deeper way this year.

THE FORGE

Quality:
***
Content:
+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.
THE FORGE follows a young man who’s addicted to video games, disrespectful to authority and lazy, but changes his perspective and his life when his new Christian boss mentors him. Despite a slow start with some static dialogue, THE FORGE becomes more exciting as the jeopardy kicks in and finishes with a powerful, entertaining ending that has a clear presentation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and promotes Christian, biblical values like sacrifice, prayer, forgiveness, and taking responsibility.

UNSUNG HERO

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
UNSUNG HERO is a true story about a Christian family from Australia’s struggles to survive and thrive in the rough and tumble music business when they move to Nashville, where they try to overcome various obstacles and serve God by making meaningful music. UNSUNG HERO is a powerful story of faith and family, told with lots of sincerity and heart while promoting family, sacrificial love, faith, prayer, honor, and courage.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER (2024)

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
Comical mayhem ensues in THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER when the neophyte director of the 75th Annual Christmas Pageant in a small town lets the meanest kids get the best roles in the pageant because no one else volunteered. Despite a slightly slow beginning, THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER turns into a powerful, emotional, fun movie with a strong Christian, uplifting worldview that will have viewers laughing, crying and feeling the warmth of the God’s love.

ORDINARY ANGELS

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
ORDINARY ANGELS is a very exciting, heartrending movie about a woman with severe self-esteem issues who decides to become a blessing to a little girl dying of kidney failure. ORDINARY ANGELS deals with strong subjects in a very clean and yet powerful manner that avoids wallowing in the type of violence shown in most movies these days.

ON A WING AND A PRAYER

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
ON A WING AND A PRAYER tells the inspiring true story of Doug White and his miraculous flying of a private plane carrying his wife and their two daughters when the pilot dies. ON A WING AND A PRAYER has a strong Christian moral worldview, with many powerful scenes of prayer and divine intervention, but the action is intense, with a few light obscenities and a scene where an air traffic controller gets drunk at a bar.

JESUS REVOLUTION

Quality:
****
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
JESUS REVOLUTION is a very entertaining and accurate, though compressed, portrait of the Vietnam protest era of hippies and young revolutionaries who find Jesus because God calls several people to welcome them into the Body of Christ. At its heart, the plot is propelled by a love story between an impoverished young man, Greg Laurie, with an alcoholic mother, and a beautiful young woman named Cathe, from a wealthy Laguna Hills family in Southern California. JESUS REVOLUTION is very bold about showing drug use, communal living, protest rallies, and Christian hypocrisy, but it also has many scenes of intense jeopardy and many scenes featuring inspiring, uplifting, well-written Christian presentations and expressions of the Gospel.

GOD’S NOT DEAD: IN GOD WE TRUST

Quality:
****
Content:
+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.
In GOD’S NOT DEAD: IN GOD WE TRUST, Pastor David Hill becomes concerned that God and Christianity are being removed from American culture and politics, so he decides to run for Congress. GOD’S NOT DEAD: IN GOD WE TRUST is a well-crafted movie that’s consistently enjoyable, well-acted and suspenseful with an inspiring worldview stressing the importance of God in our culture, politics and daily lives.

OVERCOMER

Quality:
****
Content:
+4 Biblical, usually Christian, worldview, with no questionable elements whatsoever.
OVERCOMER is the heartwarming, often funny, poignant story of a young, new track star named Hannah who runs to Christ with the help of a basketball coach. OVERCOMER features a very strong Christian worldview and is filled with many touching, poignant moments.

DISCIPLES IN THE MOONLIGHT

Quality:
****
Content:
+2 Moderately questionable elements.
DISCIPLES IN THE MOONLIGHT is an excellent thriller about seven people intent on smuggling Bibles into Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky when a tyrannical government creates a false flag operation so it can ban the Bible and persecute Christians. DISCIPLES IN THE MOONLIGHT is a superbly written, suspenseful thriller with strong performances and excellent direction, and an inspiring Christian, biblical worldview that sends a powerful message about spreading the Word of God and warning against government tyranny.

YOU GOTTA BELIEVE (2024)

Quality:
****
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
YOU GOTTA BELIEVE is a sports drama about the true story of a Little League baseball team in Dallas, Texas that banded together and dedicated their inspiring, underdog season in 2002 to their coach, Bobby, who has terminal cancer and is the father of the first baseman, Robert. YOU GOTTA BELIEVE is an incredibly well-told story, with loads of heart and inspiring moments, about an underdog team that defies all odds, and the movie promotes family, perseverance, looking out for other people, and prayer, but caution is advised for some foul language, name-calling, and themes of cancer and death.

Watch GREATER
Quality: - Content: +1
Watch BEETHOVEN’S 2ND
Quality: - Content: +2