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Black Nativity (2013) - With Easter yesterday and Passover this week, we're counting down our top 10 gospel-themed films.  From Tyler Perry to Queen Latifah — let the church say amen! Last year's Black Nativity starred Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett. The musical, based on a play by Langston Hughes, was directed by Kasi Lemmons and put us all in the praising mood.   (Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)

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Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004) - Bishop Jakes and Tyler Perry partnered for this spiritual film — an adaptation of Jakes' self-help novel — about a woman (Kimberly Elise) who must come to terms with her past sexual abuse, drug use and brush with poverty. The film earned critical acclaim for Elise as well as two NAACP Image Awards and an Independent Spirit Award.(Photo: Code Black Entertainment)

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First Sunday (2008) - Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan play a trio of criminals who set out to rob a neighborhood church and instead spend a night in the presence of the Lord, forced to face their consciences. Katt Wiliams plays a parishioner. The film is directed by Baggage Claim's David E. Talbert.(Photo: Screen Gems)

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Not Easily Broken (2009) - Produced by T.D. Jakes, a strained marriage is at the heart of this drama. Morris Chestnut and Taraji P. Henson play an estranged couple whose relationship is put to the ultimate test when Henson is in a near-fatal car accident. Chestnut must fight his feelings for another woman while Henson pulls further away. Kevin Hart also stars in the film, which takes a spiritual look at marriage and divorce. (Photo: Screen Gems)

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The Gospel (2005) - While the cast of this film — Boris Kodjoe and Idris Elba — makes us think of sin, the message is one of hope. Kodjoe plays a successful R&B singer forced to return home when his father, the bishop, falls gravely ill. (Photo: Fox Searchlight)

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Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) - The film that introduced the world to Madea was also Tyler Perry's first box-office hit. Based on his play of the same name, Diary follows a woman, Helen, who has it all and loses it in an instant. Distraught after her philandering husband reveals plans to file for divorce, Helen moves back in with her mother and grandmother to get back on her feet and finds love and her faith.(Photo: Lionsgate Pictures)

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The Great Debaters (2007) - Oprah Winfrey produced and Denzel Washington starred in this film — Washington's second as director — about the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor in a segregated Texas town who inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Don't watch this one without a box of tissues.(Photo: The Weinstein Company)

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Kingdom Come (2001) - This comedy boasts a huge ensemble cast — including LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vivica A. Fox and Toni Braxon, to name a few — as a large, dysfunctional family who are forced to sort out their drama when the family patriarch passes away. (Photo: Fox Searchlight)

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Joyful Noise (2012) - Like Glee, only set in the world of church choirs, this film features Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton as choir singers who disagree over their group's direction as they head into a national competition.(Photo: Alcon Entertainment)

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Bruce Almighty (2003) - Morgan Freeman plays — you guessed it — God in this hilarious comedy about a man (Jim Carrey) who curses his name one too many times and must be taught how difficult it is to run the world. (Photo: Universal Pictures)