The Force is with you – Stephen Simon
The Force Is with You: Mystical Movie Messages That Inspire Our Lives
In this great book, Stephen Simon, Producer of more than 30 films including Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come , Highlights various Movies he feels have a spiritual message, a emerging category of Spiritual Cinema.
Here is a list of the 70 Movies in Stephen Simon’s book.
- Movies about Reality and Time
- The Matrix
- The 13th Floor
- A Beautiful Mind
- Vanilla Sky
- Mulholland Drive
- Waking Life
- Sliding Doors
- Somewhere in Time
- Back to the Future
- The Kid
- Frequency
- Visionary Adventure movies
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Star Wars
- The Never Ending Story
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Lost Horizon
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Floods, Fires, Earthquakes and Riots
- The China Syndrome
- Silkwood
- Fail Safe
- Terminator 1 and 2
- Planet of the Apes
- Armageddon
- Deep Impact
- 1984
- THX 1138
- Soylent Grteen
- A Clockwork Orange
- Waterworld
- The Postman
- Life after Life movies
- The Sixth Sense
- Ghost
- What Dreams May Come
- Heaven Can Wait
- After Life
- Field of Dreams
- Jacob’s Ladder
- Flatliners
- Comedies
- Dr Strangelove (or How I learned to stip worring and love the bomb)
- Dogma
- Oh, God!
- Defending Your Life
- Groundhog Day
- Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
- Alien Movies
- Independence Day
- E. T.
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Starman
- Contact
- Cocoon
- Forbidden Planet
- Final Fantasy – The Spirits Within
- Movies with Enhanced Powers and Sensibilities
- Phenomenon
- Powder
- The Shadow
- Altered States
- Brainstorm
- Tube Fear
- Network
- Being There
- The Truman Show
- Angels
- It’s a Wonderful Life
- The Ghost and Mrs Muir
- Portrait of Jennie
- Wings of Desire
- City of Angels
- Michael
- All that Jazz
- The Power of Love
- Cast Away
- Sleepless in Seattle
- Forrest Gump
- Family Man
After Publishing this great book, Stephen Simon went on to create a place where spiritual inspiring movies could have an outlet. It’s called the Spiritual Cinema Circle where you can join and get a DVD each month with inspiring movies.