We just saw Henry Poole Was Here. It has some miracles in it, kinda quirky.
Also there is one worth watching though not obviously spiritual called Tuya’s Marriage (subtitles) on Netflix instant watch. For those who don’t know you can watch movies instantly on Netflix if you belong. Lots of choices. Helps to have a good computer though.
Thanks ,this looks good.
I watched Into Great Silence a few days back and it blissed me out for several hours. As if the witness came up strongly just by watching. Beautiful visuals and one gets a very strong sense of true monastic life. It’s available streaming on NetFlix here in USA. I recommend it. 
“Star wars”, specially Star Wars 3, 4 and 5 (5 being my favorite, when Yoda explains the Force). The jedais are the yoguis of the galaxy
“9 revelations” about how to discover the spiritual reality.
“Nosso Lar” (Our Home) Very good film about a doctor who dies and how he gets cured in the astral world and learns how to heal people.
eXistenZ forces the gamer to confront the nature of personality, identity and reality.
Glad seeing Fight Club and Waking Life already mentioned.
Jesus of Nazareth by Franco Zeffirelli…like to watch it every easter since i was a kid…Robert Powell is ethereal…and those blue eyes beautiful and expressive
For Ayurveda newbies who are looking for good documentary on Ayurveda I have posted 4 videos, check it out and let me know.
http://www.shareayurveda.com/entries/15-The-Secret-World-of-Wellness-Ayurveda-Ancient-India
“Naruto” is a manga/anime about a young and lonely ninja that trains hard and never gives up. He has to mix the correct amount of his energies /they call them chakra) to perform ninjutsu. In part 2 (“Naruto shippuuden” in the anime, and after chapter 245 in the manga), there is more focus on how he wants to end the chain of hatred of the ninja world.
Examples:
http://www.mangareader.net/93-414-10/naruto/chapter-409.html
http://www.mangareader.net/93-414-11/naruto/chapter-409.html
Sorry to bump this thread, but I’ve gotten a lot out of this thread and thought I thought put some back.
- Forrest Gump - highly reccomended. Mindfulness is a theme throughout the film. Makes you realize what the important things are as opposed to worldly illusions. Tom Hanks is excellent.
- Castaway - Spirituality isn’t a main theme I’d have to say. But if you’re into the living alone nature with bare essentials, this is the movie for you. Again, Tom Hanks is excellent.
- The Fountain - People have said its confusing, but I personally found it quite straightforward. Makes you think and feel differently about death, as if it is the only path to true immortality. Extremely powerful movie, great colours and images used, great acting.
Hi.
This is my list:
Zen
Samsara (2001)
The Shift
Ostrov
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
Chico Xavier
The Mothers of Chico Xavier
You can watch on http://www.insightstate.com/category/movies/
If you guys haven’t watched Interstellar, please do it NOW. It is one of the best sci-fi movies ever and really fuelled my bhakti. Makes you think about the concept of time and space.
since few years and maybe due to yoga? i lost interest in going to movies.But yesterday i was eating and turned on the TV and Black Swan cought my attention.
Black Swan was done in 2010 staring Natalie Portman and Vincent Cassel.The story is about a ballet dancer , she is amazing in doing the white swan part but sucks in doing the black swan part
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i will leave it to you to check the movie events .What i would like to share that this movie reminded me of:
- jnana yoga: only when we are ready to see our true nature as it is (the black swan) , without any repressing, totally seeing our dark side, our dark thoughts, our sexuality,our lies, our hallucinations,seeing ourselves as we really are, being genuine with ourselves…only then the process of yoga is completed.
Seeing only the white swan, the model crafted by society, education, religion, family, should and should not, clinging to a “spiritual identity” …all of it is not enough…it is just another lie…
We need to acknowledge the totality of our being, only then our true nature will shine.In the movie the true nature of the ballet dancer became a combination from the white and black swan, only then she was alive and could feel life and flow with it
. - bhakti yoga: Vincet Cassel tells Natalie Portaman: it is not enough to have the good technique.You should surrender to the feeling, to the dance.You should let yourself go and merge in the present moment cause the dance only happens in the present moment.
3.kundalini biology: we have both energies (male and female in us-black swan and white swan).We dont need anyhting extrenal. Only when we accept and balance both energies in us , only then enlightenment will happen.We need Shiva and Shakti, the marriage of silence and ecstasy.
furhtermore, i usually go walk by the sea only when it is sunny.Last night, before watching the movie, i felt the urge to go walk by the sea.Yesterday was rainny. So i parked next to the sea, and i was thinking: am i mad? it is raining and dark, what am i doing here?
Then i saw a guy doing sports and running like an arrow with quick movements with his hands
, it was a sign , go out of your car and walk by the dark sea.
Here i was walking with my umbrella, the dark sea water and the dark sky.So silent despite the waves,so majestic. A bit scary too, can you imagine yourself swimming in this vast darkness?
It felt like discovering something new that was always there, the dark side of the sea,which is like discovering the dark side of me and the whole spiritual journey
Yoga just keeps on giving 
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Dear maheshwari,
Thank you. It is said that Amma herself danced by the ocean in fits of her divine mood as a girl. May I add to your beautiful sharing?
I agree with you about jnana yoga, bhakti yoga, and “Black Swan.” You’ve done a great job bringing the essence of the film to life, mingling it with the finer enlightenment milestones of your own, and giving it back to us.
Some Westerners take the critical angle that “Black Swan” basically shows a descent of the swan into madness, defeat, and death. The sacred Eastern experience of tantra and Siva-_ 
_-Sakti union, in short, of yoga and satchidananda, allows us to see the story in another light. The narrative can thus be seen as incomplete, a fragment or granule portraying mere human life not as a tragically inadequate lurching of desires, but as our destined rebellion from the purity of full union and immortality. That latter view is rather Brahmanic, so forgive me my bias.
Why yes, I can.
My trip had been recklessly executed on a whim, winding my bashed up, spray painted hatchback car through a maze of unimportant dirt roads for most of the day. It was November on the Atlantic coast, and I had arrived at the campsite in the late afternoon. There was a charge in the colored air as the sun lowered itself into evening. I parked my car and was wandering toward the ocean, which I had not touched since I was a small child, when I had picked up shells with my parents and older brothers. I heard the distinct murmur of moving water as I approached a low fence that blocked my path. I hurled myself over it, ripping my new leather jacket, and waded erratically through a tangle of branches. There was the sandy beach, like a thread between Earth and heaven, stretched out before the pristine magnificence of the Atlantic ocean, dancing with a million diamonds on her blue, fluid skin.
I set up my camp. After failing to read the first chapter of Ender’s Game, I lay in my tent toward midnight, but there was an undeniable restlessness swelling up in my stomach. His game was all too familiar: anger, pain, and strategy mashed into a narrative of chauvinistic grandiosity. A whisper was caressing the evening air. I could feel her in my blood, in my breath, and in my very soul. I had to go back to her.
This time, I walked around the fence to the clearing in the brush, which gave way to the beach. There were no cities for miles, and the stars beamed like little moons in the pitch black sky, like pearls at the bottom of an unfathomable sea of darkness. Fear began to tingle in my chest as I hesitated to step onto the loose sands. The ocean had always scared me because of her lawless might and seduction. Cruel beasts, monsters, and titans stalked her depths while anemones burgeoned wild and bulbous; in her would any drown, for she was madness, but she had always seemed so distant.
But now I was before her, immediate, and she was an unceasing roar of power and mystery, endless, able to swallow me into oblivion. I couldn’t see where the ground ended and the waters began, but I stepped out and walked precariously across the shoreline. As I went on, the tingle of fright heated into a blazing, terrified awe. Oh, to feel her all around me, a wanderer with no sight! Even the stars paled against the enormity of her hidden energies as I floated by the frothy tide and gentle waves.
I sat down on the beach, still blind to anything but the stars beaming out from that plane of blackness. My hand moved from my coat pocket. The .357 was on my lap. It gleamed like a steel idol, polished and fuzzy in the eerie starlight. There was no plan. There were no questions. There were no thoughts. I was there, and so was the gun. It was neither liberation nor defeat: It simply was. Its image burned forever into my memory as I sat on the shore of God’s mercy.
You write really well man
Thanks ak33! Gonna try to check out “Interstellar.”
Hi Anima, I read Ender’s game some years ago and I loved it (it’s not spiritual if someone wonders)
Was in Interstellar today, very nice!
Silent moments especially, all in all a good time/space movie with hints to the black hole, also mentioned by yogis in the third eye as the gateway to cosmic consciousness (=
The best movie is relative, but it was for sure very good!
This is a Russian film with English subtitles.
It was filmed in the Slovki islands. It is about a
Russian Orthodox monk who could perform miracles. A very good film.
“The Island”
http://youtu.be/ms4TXwIDutM
There is an entertaining book by Dean Sluyter called Cinema Nirvana: Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies. Dean looks at things from a (mainly) Buddhist perspective. His book ranges from insights on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves to The Big Sleep, The Graduate, Easy Rider, The Godfather, Goldfinger and Casablanca.
For example, in Casablanca, Dean compares Rick’s paralyzing choice between personal happiness and the fight for the greater good to the impossible choice faced by Arjuna, the warrior hero of the Bhagavad Gita. Rick’s Krishna is Sam, the piano player(!). And the song that Sam plays, As Time Goes By, is more than just a romantic ballad, it’s an “enlightenment hymn.”