El Retorno

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

หนังเนื้อหาแรงที่เยือนทุกเวทีเทศกาลหนังระดับโลก ทั้งซันแดนซ์และเบอร์ลินมาแล้ว เรื่องราวเกี่ยวกับ หลวงพ่อเจมส์ นักบวชในเมืองเล็กๆ ของไอร์แลนด์ ที่ถูกขู่ฆ่าจากผู้มาสารภาพบาปคนหนึ่ง บาทหลวงผู้มีจิตใจเมตตาผู้นี้จึงต้องเผชิญหน้า และหาทางแก้ไขในสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้น

After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past. He transforms her into an elegant society wife, but becomes enraged whenever she asks about Michael, his mysterious long-lost brother.

Two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks are reunited as adults. Desperate circumstances force them into a deal with an organized crime syndicate in Boston, and a young woman gets caught in the middle.

The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his film through the largely uncomprehending, wondering eyes of 13-year-old Julián, who travels from the arms of his loving pastoral family into the austere, hallowed halls of the seminary. Singling out the boy as his intimate disciple, installing him in his palatial private quarters and redubbing him “Sacramento Santos,” Father Ángel begins Julian’s instruction into the mysteries of “perfect obedience,” whose cardinal rule is: Never question a superior’s actions.

หลังจากล้มเหลวในสังเวียนอาชีพและเกือบเอาชีวิตไม่รอดจากอุบัติเหตุบนท้องถนน แรงศรัทธาก็ผลักดันชายหนุ่มให้เป็นนักบวชคาทอลิก แม้ในยามที่ต้องเผชิญกับโรคภัยไม่คาดฝัน

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.

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.

Estranged twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront the reasons their lives went so wrong. As the twins' reunion reinvigorates them, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.

In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.