Macao, 1640. Sans nouvelles du père Ferreira, un jésuite portugais qui dirigeait une mission au Japon, les prêtres Rodrigues et Garupe convainquent leur supérieur de les laisser partir à sa recherche. Lorsque, dans l’espoir de perpétuer l’œuvre de Ferreira et peut-être même de le retrouver vivant, Rodrigues et Garupe se séparent pour prendre des chemins différents, ils ne se doutent pas des choix déchirants qui les attendent.
Charlie, professeur d'anglais reclus souffrant d'obésité, tente de renouer avec sa fille adolescente pour une ultime chance de rédemption.
Dans la jungle thaïlandaise, un groupe d'aide humanitaire qui doit livrer des fournitures médicales à Burma recrute les services de John Rambo comme guide sur la rivière. Lorsque les travailleurs humanitaires sont faits prisonniers, Rambo rassemble un groupe de mercenaires pour les secourir. La suite est une descente effrénée aux enfers.
Une aristocrate anglaise se retrouve à la tête d'une propriété gigantesque dans le nord de l'Australie. Pour échapper à des jaloux, elle demande à un type rugueux et peu loquace de conduire son troupeau de plusieurs milliers de têtes à des centaines de kilomètres. La Seconde Guerre mondiale n'est pas loin, et les Japonais ont commencé à bombarder la ville de Darwin.
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
Katherine Winter a quitté l'habit de missionnaire après le meurtre, au Soudan, de son mari et de sa petite fille. Professeur d'université, elle consacre désormais tous ses efforts à démystifier les phénomènes "surnaturels" et à en fournir une explication scientifique et rationnelle. Devenue l'expert n°1 en la matière, aucun "miracle" n'a résisté jusqu'ici à sa perspicacité. Katherine reçoit un jour la visite de Doug Blackwell, instituteur de la petite bourgade sudiste de Haven, en Louisiane. Des "fléaux bibliques" en série ont frappé cette localité dévote, qui menace d'en faire payer le prix à une jeune sauvageonne, Loren. Katherine accepte de se rendre sur place avec son fidèle associé, Ben, pour sauver la vie de la fillette. Les phénomènes troublants s'enchaînent et, pour la première fois, Katherine est mise en échec. Aucune de ses théories ne tenant la route, elle va devoir réviser tous ses principes pour juguler les forces obscures qui menacent Haven et sa propre sécurité...
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.
Dans les années vingt, deux athlètes britanniques prédisposés pour la course à pied se servent de leur don, l'un pour combattre les prejugés xénophobes, l'autre pour affirmer sa foi religieuse.
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.
En pleine ère médiévale, un évangéliste débarque sur une plage pour répandre la chrétienté auprès d’une tribu aux rites païens. Il va d’abord être secouru par un jeune homme sans nom, mais l’intégration va s’avérer plus compliquée que prévu.
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.
Two missionaries (Bud Spencer and Terence Hill) come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process. (from Wikipedia)
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.