Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
John Rambo har trukket seg tilbake og lever under enkle kår i Bankok. Problemene oppsøker igjen Rambo da en kristen misjonærgruppe ledet av Michael Burnett og Sarah Miller oppsøker han med ønske om å leie båten hans for en tur opp elven til Burma. Misjonærene blir overfalt og fanget av en sadistisk general og hans men. Rambo blir da ansatt av lederen for misjonærorganisasjonen for å finne og befri dem. Han tar med seg fem leiesoldater opp den burmesiske elven og jakten kan begynne.
En engelsk aristokrat reiser til det fjerne kontinentet. Der treffer hun en barsk kvegdriver og en innfødt gutt som fascinerer henne. Den uvanlige trioen legger sammen ut på en reise som skal forandre livet deres, for å drive en kvegflokk mange hundre kilometer i verdens vakreste, men mest nådeløse terreng. Idyllen blir knust av mektige fiender, og de må prøve å finne hverandre igjen i Darwin, en by lagt i grus av bombene til de samme japanske styrkene som angrep Pearl Harbor.
Bree er en pen og respektabel kvinne, som lever et ytterst normalt liv his man ser stort pa at hun i virkeligheten er en transseksuell mann! Hver dag sliter hun seg giennom to forskjellige jobber, og hvert ere blir spart til den endelige kjennsskifteoperasjonen hun trenger. Men bare en uke fer den store dagen mottar hun en telefon som snur opp-ned pa livet hennes. Det ser ut til at en flyktig affare tra den gang hun levde som Stanley har resultert i en senn. Han hefer Toby, er i ungdomsfengsel, og har stort behov for sin "fars" hjelp!
Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.
A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their lives.
Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the stranded passengers are Sadie Thompson, a prostitute, and Alfred Davidson, a fanatic missionary who will try to redeem her.
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Christian, a hunky, 20-something, West Hollywood party boy gets more than he bargains for when he tries to seduce 19-year-old Elder Aaron Davis, a sexually confused Mormon missionary who moves into his apartment complex.
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
The plot concerns a small group of people who are forced to flee from their base (which happens to be a Mission) in an old school bus when the VC launch a vicious assault upon it. Along the way they are joined by a group of three battle hardened American Special Forces soldiers and together they desperately fight to make it to safety.
In the early Middle Ages, two Christian knights set off to christen a small pagan village hidden deep in the mountains. Despite the differences in their views and perspectives on religion, the two men become travel companions and create a father-son relationship. As they settle into the local community, their faith, belief system and the bond between them are all put to the test. Soon, love is confronted with hate, dialogue with violence, madness with rules and many will have to die.
Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the South Pacific, while being in opposition to France.
To misjonærer kommer i konflikt med myndighetene når de gjør sin misjonær til en papegøyegård. Biskopen av Maracaibo kaller dem sine 'svarte sauer' og Monsignore har blitt innkalt for å sjekke deres oppførsel. Som vanlig hjelper våre helter de fattige med å forsvare seg og starter noen morsomme knyttnevekamper i prosessen.
John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life, Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles, John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with "the girl back home", and her letters buoy up his spirits in difficult times. John must struggle to overcome language barriers, physical hardship and deep-rooted suspicion to earn the trust and love of the Tongan people he has come to serve. Throughout his adventure-filled three years on the islands, he discovers friends and wisdom in the most unlikely places. John H. Groberg's Tongan odyssey will change his life forever.