• Broken Flowers: A middle-aged burnt-out man is led unwillingly to a place where he can get in touch with his long suppressed feelings.
  • The Beautiful Country: A tender and poignant cross-cultural tale of a young man's search for his father with a finale filled with grace and love and humility.
  • Cold Fever: A valentine to the charms of Iceland and a flinty meditation on a young man's quest to bestow a blessing on his parents.
  • Cold Mountain: A universal quest story about the yearning for hope and home that enables two lovers to deal with the harrowing menace and senseless violence of war.
  • Divan: A lively documentary about one woman's quest to explore her Hasidic roots; it mixes fact, emotion, and religious tradition with the spiritual practice of questing. and the enjoyment of simple pleasures.
  • Harry & Tonto: A 70-year-old man from New York City travels across the country and discovers the joy, the confusion, and the stoutness of the human adventure.
  • Hideous Kinky: A cross-cultural gem that is spiked with superb performances, colorful characters, and one of the great closing sequences in recent memory.
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The space adventures of a dapper young Englishman who learns to treasure his towel, to leap at love when the opportunity arises, and to never rest on his laurels as a member of the human race.
  • In This World: An incredibly moving film directed by Michael Winterbottom about two young Afghan refugees struggling to survive a harrowing overland journey to London in search of a better life.
  • Madison: An old-fashioned tale about the real life quest of a small Indiana community to come alive again.
  • Marooned in Iraq: The adventures of an elderly Kurdish musician and his two grown sons on a mission of mercy in Iraq's danger zones and refugee camps.
  • Meetings with Remarkable Men: Filmed in the mountain ranges and deserts of Afghanistan, this fascinating drama transports us to a strange and exotic world of spiritual adventurism.
  • The Middle of the World: An unusual quest movie that celebrates the virtues of family solidarity on the road and the enjoyment of simple pleasures.
  • Mountains of the Moon: The story of two expeditions during the nineteenth century to discover the source of the Nile.
  • No. 17: A heart-affecting documentary about identifying the last victim of a suicide bomber attack outside Tel Aviv, a quest that demonstrates the filmmaker's reverence for all human beings.
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?: A zany and hilarious bluegrass version of Homer's Odyssey set in the South during the Depression where three escaped convicts go in search of one treasure and find another they didn't expect.
  • October Sky: It will lift your spirit and make you feel good about all those who pursue their dreams in the face of large obstacles.
  • A Passage to India: A literary riddle that each person is challenged to decipher in light of his or her own perception of human passion and prejudice.
  • Rabbit-Proof Fence: An Australian spiritual adventure story about three courageous Aboriginal girls and their yearning to return home.
  • Seabiscuit: A robust story of an underdog horse and three nobodies who join him in a quest that turns into an adventure for the whole country.
  • Sherman's March: An extraordinary documentary by Ross McElwee that mixes American history, a romantic quest, and the search for meaning in the early 1980s.
  • Shrek: A witty and heart-warming animated questing comedy about some lovable losers who prove that inner beauty is the true asset in a world where quick judgments all too often cause untold pain.
  • Star Wars Episode I: Lucas has fashioned a fascinating pluriverse of outer space works filled with strange and amazing creatures and special effects.
  • Stone Reader:An extraordinary questing documentary that is both a lively and an illuminating tribute to the wonderful world of books.
  • The Truman Show: Tailor-made for our era of celebrity spectacles, theme parks, and the incursion of pop culture into all aspects of our lives.
  • Waking Life: A visionary questing film of deep play that is stylistically innovative in its animation and spiritually rich in content.
  • Wide Awake: Proves that we are most alive when asking questions which usually turn out to be allies on our spiritual journeys.

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