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 on 2 October 2006, the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community. Through the eyes of grieving mother Ida Graber, and other devastated families, this movie explores the Amish's astonishing reaction to the horrific shootings: forgiveness and compassion.
- DirectorBryan SpicerStarsTim AllenKirstie AlleyJay O. SandersAn unhappily-married Manhattan socialite couple flee from the IRS 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 military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane during World War II so that he can be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
- 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.