- Priest: A hard-hitting and evergreen film about the challenges facing clergy which makes it very clear that there is no future for any religious institution that disregards forgiveness.
- In My Country: A bold drama set in South Africa salutes forgiveness and restorative justice as alternatives to revenge and a continuing cycle of violence.
- Cry, the Beloved Country: An eloquent and moving screen interpretation of Alan Paton's classic 1948 novel set in South Africa reveals the transforming power of forgiveness.
- Regret to Inform: A poignant documentary shows how American and Vietnamese wives and widows achieved forgiveness and reconciliation years after the war.
- Dead Man Walking: The story of a Catholic sister who became the spiritual counselor to a convicted murderer on death row exposes the cruelty of capital punishment, advocates the alternate path of compassion and forgiveness, and shows that hate is the worst prison of all.
- Levity: A poignant drama about a repentant murderer's quest to make amends with the sister of the person he killed years ago comes across as a meditative movie about forgiveness.
- An Unfinished Life: A family drama offers a sensitive treatment of the slow and often difficult process of forgiveness after years of hurt, anger, and disappointment.
- A Thousand Acres: A powerful screen adaptation of Jane Smiley's 1991 Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller provides an intimate and riveting portrait of sibling hatred, forgiveness, and love.
- The Straight Story: An elder undertakes a very unusual pilgrimage in order to reconcile with his brother, revealing how the desire to forgive and be forgiven acts as a source of energy.
- The Best Intentions: A couple whose marriage is in trouble learn that forgiveness is love's daring response to the hurts and disappointments of life.
- Afterglow: A contractor and his depressed wife discover that the way back to love often involves forgiveness.
- A Map of the World: A bitter woman learns that forgiveness is a process whereby the heart is slowly healed.
- The Mission: A riveting film about Jesuit missions in eighteenth-century South America contains one of the most primal scenes of forgiveness ever put on the screen.
- The Son: A rigorously developed Belgian film depicts a carpentry teacher's close encounter with revenge when he meets the adolescent who murdered his young son.
- The Heart of Me: A well-realized English film explores two powerful forces: the shattering consequences of adultery and the healing nature of forgiveness.
- Les Miserables: A classic drama explores the very real power of forgiveness to change lives.
- Jerusalem: Members of a Swedish religious community struggle with the challenges of forgiveness.
- The Story of Jacob and Joseph: Anger and forgiveness alternate in the lives of two Biblical patriarchs.
- He Got Game: You can be sitting on top of the world but if your heart is weighed down with hate, you're going to be one sorry, sad soul for a very long time.
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