El Cristo del océano

To save their cash-strapped orphanage, a guardian and his kids partner with a washed-up boat captain for a chance to win a lucrative fishing competition.

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.

Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a cross. A friend that would repay Marcelino's kindness by granting him one heart-felt wish.

จอห์น วัย 35 ปี ช่างทำความสะอาดกระจก อุทิศชีวิตเพื่อเลี้ยงดูไมเคิล ลูกชายวัย 4 ขวบของเขา หลังจากที่แม่ของเด็กทิ้งพวกเขาไปหลังจากคลอดลูกไม่นาน เมื่อจอห์นเหลือเวลาอีกเพียงไม่กี่เดือนที่จะมีชีวิตอยู่ เขาจึงพยายามหาครอบครัวใหม่ที่สมบูรณ์แบบให้กับไมเคิล โดยตั้งใจที่จะปกป้องเขาจากความเป็นจริงอันเลวร้ายของสถานการณ์ดังกล่าว

Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in a quest for wisdom.

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.

Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides the reindeer in her barn and feeds it cookies, until she can return it to Santa. Her father finds the reindeer and decides to sell it to the butcher, not for venison chops, but as an advertising display.

A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.

ในขณะที่ทำงานเป็นพ่อค้าถ่านหินเพื่อเลี้ยงดูครอบครัว บิล เฟอร์ลองได้ค้นพบความลับอันน่ากังวลที่ถูกเก็บรักษาไว้โดยคอนแวนต์ท้องถิ่น และเปิดเผยความจริงของตัวเอง ซึ่งบังคับให้เขาต้องเผชิญกับอดีตและความเงียบอันสมรู้ร่วมคิดของเมืองเล็กๆ ในไอร์แลนด์ที่ควบคุมโดยคริสตจักรนิกายโรมันคาธอลิก