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Grown-up movies?
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Decided to start this post after reading and responding to the Cadfael post. 🙂
DH and I love watching movies together, but end up avoiding most because DH (after a major lifestyle change a few years ago) needs not to watch anything with sex OR sensuality…and that is hard to find. We also don’t really like most Chistian films…no offense to anyone, but they tend to be a bit too twaddle-ey for our taste. 🙂 So we end up watching lots of good documentaries…which we thoroughly enjoy.
But I would love to find more actual fiction movies that we could watch together without him having to be anxious about issues. Would any of you have good suggestions for newer (within the last twenty years or so), CLEAN (even more so than what most people would consider clean!), excellently-made movies?
Or does such a thing even exist? Maybe not….
TIA!
I wouldn’t consider the movies put out by the church in Albany twaddl-y, but not all of the acting is as professional as many secular movies. “Fireproof”, “Courageous”, “Facing the Giants”, etc. We avoid movies with sex as well. Tonight we saw “Unconditional” at the theater, and it was excellent! Not blaring Christian, but it was a faith-focused movie.
We enjoy movies about sports like “Rookie”, “The Blind Side”, “Radio”, “Remember the Titans”, and “Rudy”. Also “Seven Days in Utopia”, “The Greatest Game Ever Played”, “Seabiscuit”, “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken”, and “Secretariat”.
Some of these are fictional while others are based on a true story. “Gifted Hands” is based on a true story and is a good movie as well. “The Help” is good, but it has quite a bit of bad language. I watched it with a filter, so it skipped the foul words.
I would second all the movies artc mentioned as we have seen all most all of those also. Most my kids have even seen. It’s hard to find good movies for adults.
There are a lot of BBC movies that are really clean and enjoyable. I love the Pride and Prejudice mini series and others like it. You just have to read the reviews first, because they are not all created equal.
If you enjoy Jane Austin or romantic comedies, Sense and Sensibility (1995 version) is very clean – no kissing or sensuality. Emma (Gwyneth Paltro) is also good (as far as I remember only 1 kiss at the end). Another is, Jane Eyre (1996 version). Also BBC’s North and South is excellent (again only kiss at the end). I’m sure you’ll get other great suggestions. Enjoy those movie nights with hubby
.“The Ultimate Gift” is excellent (just a couple brief kisses). We also enjoyed “Black Beauty,” and many of the above mentioned:)
We also enjoy the BBC adaptions of Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell’s novels such as those mentioned by csmamma.
Jen
I also really appreciate this post and am writing down suggestions as I am always looking for movies that we could watch in our family room and if the kids walk in you don’t have to hurry to shut ot off, really it’s just to boring or above there heads to comprehend. Thanks everyone this is refreshing for me also
Well, here are some totally different ideas – don’t hate me because I watch action movies!!!! Avengers, Thor (one kiss), the new Narnias, Napoleon Dynamite, the Elizabeth Gaskell movies (North and South is one, but there is also Cranford and Wives & Daughters). Lord of the Rings. Glory Road. Both Nights at the Museum and both National Treasures (I think there’s a kiss or two in both…haven’t seen them in a while). Horation Hornblower series. Not sure how you feel about action movies, but US Marshals and Clear & Present Danger (and the other ‘Jack Ryan’ movies are clean, but bloodyish). Miracle is older, but very well done. Forever Strong. We like documentaries as well, but also some reality type TV (mostly cooking and design) – Clean House, Cake Boss, Ace of Cakes, Trading Spaces, etc.….they usually give a synopsis of each episode and we skip it if it sounds like something we wouldn’t like.
We love action movies, too, and the ones mentioned are ones that we would watch, or already have.
One of my favorites is Conspiracy Theory..don’t think there is anything sexual in that one. Braveheart doesn’t have any does it?? We just watched that again, well, I did from the sidelines. Maybe The Patriot?? We Were Soldiers…very sad but minimal bedroom scenes, if any, but I’ll admit I watched that from afar, too.
THANK YOU to everyone!! This means the world! There are not too many places I felt comfortable coming with this question. I have notated all suggestions and will be researching/trying to find all of them on Netflix or at the library!
Thanks again for the detailed and thoughtful replies! It really was more than I expected.
How about “Forever Strong”? It’s a rugby themed movie with a good message, but I don’t really remember if there were any sensual scenes…maybe someone else can remember??
We have similar convictions and find that most PG-13 movies contain lots of foul language and/or sex scenes. Occasionally we find one that is okay, but we have to stick mainly to PG movies just to be on the safe side, which pretty much limits us to family movies, comedies, and PBS or BBC (period) movies. But we enjoy those, so it works out! We just saw Nim’s Island and A Dolphin Tale…family movies but very entertaining for adults.
As far as I remember, Forever Strong is okay. But I haven’t seen it in a while. It seemed to deal more with peer pressure, drinking and drugs. And then all the other good themes. We loved it.
There are sites that help rate for these things….
and others.
I searched in google with: family movie ratings
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