Top 12 Transcendental Movies
We love using pop culture rankings and hierarchies to start conversations about everything from The Sopranos to the best resorts for blissing out and escaping the trappings of one’s own mind. Here’s our cinematic equivalent of transporting yourself out of mental noise — and into an expansive state.
Introducing the highly-experiential, officially-unscientific Soul's Code litany of the most transcendental movies in recent cinema history, starting with the Tom Hanks vehicle, Cast Away.
Almost all of the titles in this pantheon share a theme of personal transformation and identity-morphing redemption.
Click the comment button below to vote our selections for the top spiritual movies up or down — or add your own favorites.
(If you need suggestions, Spiritual Cinema Circle probably has the biggest database of titles; Ya, it’s subscription but this Netflix for movies with psychological and mystical themes does offer a “free” trial.)
First: FUR, starring Nicole Kidman
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on 28 Apr 2008 at 6:20 am 1.Maureen said …
I can’t believe that you guys ranked Last Year at Marienbad so high, or have even heard of it. The first time I saw it I was in university, and it changed my life.
You have all these characters trying to make a connection, and not connecting. All the same, I wanted to be there with them in that timeless dream-state where everyone was so relaxed about it. You rock!
on 07 May 2008 at 2:28 am 2.SoulsCode: Everyone's a guru said …
[...] expanded our slide show, Transendental Movies, from 9 favorites to 12. Our new additions: Fur, Being John Malkovich (a natural) and Last Year at [...]
on 22 May 2008 at 8:53 pm 3.kate said …
Hey,
Check out “The White Masi” WOW what a movie!!!!!
on 07 Jul 2008 at 7:21 pm 4.SoulsCode: Everyone's a guru said …
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on 04 Aug 2008 at 3:22 pm 5.Soul’s Code: Everyone’s a Guru » Nicole Kidman is transcendental in “Fur”: Our 9 most mystical movies expand to 12 said …
[...] expanded our slide show, Transcendental Movies, from 9 favorites to 12. Our new additions: Fur, Being John Malkovich (a natural) and Last Year at Marienbad (a 1961 classic by the French [...]
on 12 Aug 2008 at 10:46 am 6.sachin said …
Where is “The Man From Earth”, a story about a professor who reveals to his colleagues that he is actually 14,000 years old. My favorite line: “Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it’s the mistakes people bring to lessons.”
on 16 Dec 2009 at 8:00 pm 7.Raja said …
1. Razor’s Edge (Tyrone Powers version)
2. The Fountain
3. Somewhere in Time
4. The Matrix
5. What dreams may Come
6. Siddharta
7. Meetings with Remarkable Men
8. Phenomenon
9. Contact
10. Cocoon
11. Under the Tuscan Sun
12. The Passion of the Christ
Others
Celestine Prophecy
The Preacher
The Preacher’s Wife
and many more….
on 01 Feb 2010 at 1:01 pm 8.Kamal said …
“You admire the man who pushes his way to the top in any walk of life, while we admire the man who abandons his ego”
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