Films critical of religion

2005 film directed by James McTeigue

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film co-produced, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier. The film follows silver miner-turned-oilman Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

2014 film by Rajkumar Hirani

1916 epic silent film directed by D. W. Griffith

1930 film by Alexander Dovzhenko, Yuliya Solntseva

2012 film by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula

2007 film by Frank Darabont

2016 animated film directed by Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan

2011 film by Joe Carnahan

2020 film directed by António Campos

2011 film by Greg Mottola

1974 film by Werner Herzog

Heretic is a 2024 American psychological horror film written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. It follows two young Mormon missionaries who visit the home of an eccentric man after he expresses interest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, only for his true intentions to quickly become clear.

Religulous () is a 2008 American documentary film written by and starring comedian Bill Maher and directed by Larry Charles. The title of the film is a portmanteau derived from the words religious and ridiculous. The documentary examines and challenges religion and religious belief.

2015 film by Jaco Van Dormael

2001 film by Bill Paxton

Saved! is a 2004 American satirical black comedy film directed by Brian Dannelly and starring Jena Malone, Mandy Moore, Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Fugit, Heather Matarazzo, Eva Amurri, Martin Donovan, and Mary-Louise Parker. Its plot follows a teenage girl (Malone) at a Christian high school who has sex with her boyfriend in an attempt to "cure" him of his homosexuality. She becomes pregnant as a result and is ostracized by her schoolmates. It was filmed in British Columbia.

2006 US documentary film directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

2011 film by Matthew Chapman

documentary film directed by Penny Lane

2013 film by Gus Holwerda

2006 documentary film directed by Richard Dawkins

2016 film directed by Kirill Serebrennikov

1984 Argentine drama film directed by María Luisa Bemberg

Marjoe is a 1972 American documentary film directed and produced by Howard Smith and Sarah Kernochan about Pentecostal preacher Marjoe Gortner, who was ordained as a preacher at only age four and became an evangelist sensation in the 1940s.

2006 Film directed by Özer Kiziltan

2012 film directed by Umesh Shukla

1961 film directed by Mikhail Yershov

2005 film by Brian Flemming

2023 film directed by Amit Rai

C.O.G. is a 2013 American comedy drama film directed and written by Kyle Patrick Alvarez and starring Jonathan Groff. The film, whose title stands for Child of God, is based on a David Sedaris short story from his book of collected essays, Naked. It marks the first time one of Sedaris's stories was adapted for film. It co-stars Denis O'Hare, Casey Wilson, Dean Stockwell, Troian Bellisario, and Corey Stoll. C.O.G. was filmed on location in Forest Grove, Oregon in October 2012.

2019 film directed by Piergiuseppe Zaia

2013 South Korean animated drama film by Yeon Sang-ho

Kūmāré is a 2011 documentary film directed by and starring American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi, who posed for a time as an Indian guru in Phoenix, Arizona, to satirize the American New Age movement.

2011 film by Tania Hermida