Hutterite, Amish, Mennonite, Anabaptist films
Movies that contain significant characters identified as Hutterite, Amish, Mennonite, or Anabaptist
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- DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsBobby BreenCharles RugglesDolores CostelloTommy Martin lives with mother Martha in a conservative religious community but dreams of a singing career. He leaves to join a traveling show where he befriends skating sensation Irene and performs lively tunes to make a living.
- DirectorCharles DavisStarsGeraldine PagePat HingleGraham BeckelA Mennonite boy is beaten to death at an unnamed NY university protesting the Vietnam War. His best friend and another college student, Eric Mills, attends his funeral in the Mennonite country in Pennsylvania.
- DirectorDelbert MannStarsEddie AlbertRip TornAnn WedgeworthAn eleven-year-old girl goes through extreme culture shock when she leaves the city and moves in with her Amish cousins.
- DirectorStephen GyllenhaalStarsNeve CampbellNoam JenkinsJilon VanOverA murder investigation in her hometown triggers deep-seated emotions in an Ohio police chief who came from the Amish community.
- DirectorGregg ChampionStarsKimberly Williams-PaisleyTammy BlanchardFay MastersonWhen a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community. Through the eyes of a grieving mother, Ida Graber, and other devastated families, this movie explores the Amish's astonishing reaction to the horrific shootings - of forgiveness and compassion.
- DirectorBryan SpicerStarsTim AllenKirstie AlleyJay O. SandersAn unhappily married Manhattan socialite couple flee from the I.R.S. and end up in Amish country where they pretend to be visiting relatives.
- DirectorPeter HagenStarsFriedrich KayßlerHelene FehdmerValéry InkijinoffThe peaceful life of a village of Frisions by the river Volga is troubled by the arrival of a troop of Red Guards led by the inhuman commissary Tschernoff.Not only content to mistreat the brave villagers led by no-nonsense young man Jürgen Wagner, he makes Mette, a girl born from a Frision man and a Russian woman, his mistress. Outraged, the villagers expel the girl who takes refuge in the marshes. The Bolsheviks are prompt to react, one of them raping a young Frision girl. The Frisions, in desperation, set fire to their village after slaughtering the "Reds" and head for a new motherland, Nazi Germany maybe...
- DirectorSean GarrityStarsHera NalamKristian JordanAndrea MacasaetIn Winnipeg, a Filipina woman and a Mennonite man meet and fall for one another.
- DirectorArthur Allan SeidelmanStarsLolita DavidovichJ.A. PrestonJean Louisa KellyA female FBI agent comes to a distrustful Amish community to investigate a multiple building arson incident.
- DirectorRanda HainesStarsTim DalyNaomi WattsKeith CarradineA western love story revolving around the forbidden love between a young widow from a Mennonite-like religious group and a cold-blooded gunslinger whom she takes into her home after he is wounded.
- DirectorDavid HeavenerStarsStuart WhitmanDavid HeavenerDarwyn SwalveIn a post-apocalypse world inhabited by the Amish, a roving gang led by the corpulent Hog is making life miserable for the peaceful townspeople. Only one lone gunfighter dares to stand in their way. He never draws first - he's the reactor!
- DirectorMichael PowellStarsLeslie HowardLaurence OlivierRichard GeorgeA World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
- DirectorMichael Landon Jr.StarsKatie LeclercSherry StringfieldAdrian PaulBased on the novel by New York Times best-selling author Beverly Lewis, "The Confession" is the continuing story of Katie Lapp, a young Amish woman who goes on a journey in search of her identity - only to find herself embroiled in a mystery that must be solved before she can be reunited with the "Englisher" mother who gave her up to adoption 20 years earlier.
- DirectorMichael Landon Jr.StarsSherry StringfieldSarah MaineWillie StratfordBeautiful Katie Lapp has always felt something missing in her simple Amish existence -- until a mysterious "Englisher" comes to Lancaster County looking for the baby girl she gave up for adoption 19 years ago.
- DirectorMike NicholsStarsAlan ArkinMartin BalsamRichard BenjaminA man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
- DirectorDavid A.R. WhiteStarsDavid A.R. WhiteFred WillardAndrea LoganAn Amish man comes to Hollywood to be a missionary, and gets cast as Satan on a nighttime soap opera.
- DirectorLeonard NimoyStarsPatricia ArquetteJoseph Gordon-LevittArmin Mueller-StahlA young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.
- DirectorAlison MacleanStarsBilly CrudupRobert Michael KellyTorben BrooksA young man, often high on drugs and alcohol, careens through life and makes his way toward recovery and redemption.
- DirectorBobby FarrellyPeter FarrellyStarsWoody HarrelsonRandy QuaidBill MurrayA star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.
- DirectorTerry CunninghamStarsTom Everett ScottSarah LancasterKelly McGillisBaseball player Micah Matthias and his young son Bobby are big Leeds United fans, lost in America. They end up in the quaint Amish community of Sugarcreek, Ohio under a set of aliases and with a broken-down old truck. Three Amish sisters running an old farmhouse inn take them under their wings and employ Micah as a handyman. This sparks the suspicions of a Sugarcreek policewoman named Rachel Troyler, niece of the three who raised her after she was orphaned as a child. Will the truth interfere with love?
- DirectorTerry CunninghamStarsTrevor DonovanDanielle C. RyanDrew FullerA young Amish woman, who isn't satisfied with her path at home, visits a cousin for the summer. Over the summer, she is exposed to another world, finds friendship and more. Soon she must choose and come to terms with the life she wants.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsJason RobardsBritt EklandNorman WisdomA naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.
- DirectorSidney KingStarsEmily StoltzfusJeremy GlicksteinJoey HonsaOne night changed them forever. Twenty years later, a night will change them again. Pearl Diver is the story of two sisters, haunted by the twenty-year old murder of their mother and what happens when a farming accident rips away the layers of secrecy and buried trauma surrounding that night. They learn that sometimes the secrets from the past can bring hope for the future.
- DirectorPaul ShapiroStarsMariska HargitayAlison PillJan NiklasAn unmarried 18 year-old Amish girl is charged with the murder of her infant child.
- DirectorRaul V. CarreraStarsNorbert WeisserMark LenardLeigh LombardiThe dramatic story of the Anabaptist movement and two of its first leaders, Michael and Margaretha Sattler.
- DirectorMark JeanStarsKatie LeclercRohan CampbellChad ConnellThe conclusion of the Beverly Lewis Heritage of Lancaster County trilogy.
- DirectorMichael Landon Jr.StarsAbigail MasonLisa PepperElliott GouldA thirty-something columnist becomes legal guardian of her Amish sister's five children and ends up 'using' the kids' lives as stories for her column, causing them to feel betrayed, since they had believed she was truly concerned for them.
- DirectorSean AndersStarsJosh ZuckermanClark DukeAmanda CrewA high-school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.
- DirectorCarlos ReygadasStarsCornelio WallMiriam ToewsMaria PankratzIn a Mennonite community in Mexico, a father's faith is tested when he falls in love with a new woman.
- DirectorSheldon WilsonStarsSean Patrick FlaneryStephen McHattieKristin BoothA small town is attack by ravens and doesn't know why the ravens are working together.
- DirectorEd Gass-DonnellyStarsJill HennessyAmy RutherfordPeter StormareA modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life.
- DirectorLarry ElikannStarsKen OlinJill EikenberryMaureen MuellerReligious beliefs clash with the law when an Amish infant is killed in a rural community.
- DirectorEnzo BarboniStarsTerence HillRobert VaughnRoss HillRenegade Luke has been living an easy life so far, travelling through the southwest with his horse Joe, making money by running small-time scams. All this comes to an end when he encounters Moose, an imprisoned convict with a young son. Moose makes Luke an offer: move into his property and become the legal guardian of his son, and in return he won't get his friends to make legal trouble for Luke. Things don't go smoothly for the drifter and the boy at first, but gradually they come to settle into their new situation.
- DirectorDavid MackayStarsJes MacallanSean FarisKelly McGillisAfter a tour of duty, an army nurse returns to her grandmother's farm in Amish country, where she finds unexpected romance and is pulled into a murder mystery.
- DirectorSteve MinerStarsJulian SandsLori SingerRichard E. GrantA warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit.
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsHarrison FordKelly McGillisLukas HaasWhile protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.
- DirectorMichael McGowanStarsAlison PillSarah GadonMare WinninghamBased on the 2014 international best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows is the poignant story of two sisters, one a concert pianist obsessed with ending her life, and the other a writer who, in wrestling with this decision, makes profound discoveries about her herself.
- DirectorSarah PolleyStarsRooney MaraClaire FoyJessie BuckleyDo nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
- DirectorMichael NankinStarsDylan RatzlaffKellie MartinRukiya BernardAn Amish teenager tries to escape the harsh 18th-century-style lifestyle where she grew up to find her own voice and independence.
- DirectorAli LiebertStarsSara CanningSteve ByersLiam HughesAmish wife and mother Annie's life turns upside down after her husband leaves to live among "normal Americans," however, things turn more dire when he returns, seeking custody of their son by any means necessary.
- DirectorRichard L. RamseyStarsGaladriel StinemanKevin JoyMary McElreeApril Monroe is an up-and-coming superstar doctor at a big New York hospital, and things could not be more perfect. She's been falling head-over-heels for charming veterinarian Jesse, and their relationship seems to be heading in the right direction except for one thing: Jesse is completely tight-lipped about his family. For their anniversary, Jesse gives April a surprise trip to Paris, a much needed romantic break for the busy doctor. However, plans change when Jesse receives an invitation to his brother's wedding and asks April to come along. What April doesn't know is that Jesse has been hiding an Amish past and his mother is not so fond of Englischer strangers. Chaos and heartache ensue when April and Jesse must travel to Amish Country and face the people Jesse left behind.
- DirectorSandra L. MartinStarsGaladriel StinemanKevin JoyJonathan Patrick MooreKathy Yoder has left her Amish ways and is a successful travel-guide writer. When she goes home to settle her dad's affairs, she's reminded of her life before she left the Amish community--including her old love, Isaac. Will Kathy decide to stay or return to her traveling lifestyle?
- DirectorMira ThielStarsTimur BartelsMatthias BundschuhJoão Kreth d'OreyA young Amish man travels to Berlin on a rite of passage to connect with his roots, explore other ways of life, fall in love — and face a big decision.
- DirectorStefan HauptStarsMaximilian SimonischekSarah Sophia MeyerAnatole TaubmanZurich in 1519: The young widow Anna Reinhart lives a barren life between fear of the church and worries about the future of her three children, when the arrival of a man in the city causes turmoil: The young priest Ulrich Zwingli takes up his new position at the Grossmünster in Zurich and sparks fierce discussions with his sermons against the grievances of the Catholic Church. Zwingli's revolutionary thoughts frighten Anna. But when she sees how Zwingli lives charity and not just preaches, she increasingly becomes fascinated by him. But Zwingli's success quickly becomes dangerous. His ideas almost trigger a civil war, and at the same time a struggle for power and interpretive sovereignty breaks out in the inner circle of the movement. When the Catholic forces begin to form internationally, the relationship between Zwingli and Anna is put to a hard test.
- DirectorRichard GabaiStarsAJ MichalkaJesse McCartneyAlyson StonerExpecting Amish on Lifetime tells the story of 18-year-old Hannah Yoder, who is ready to join the Amish Church and marry her boyfriend Samuel. But things change when she goes to Hollywood and gets a glimpse of the world beyond.