Preach! Top 10 Gospel-Themed Movies

These films will uplift and inspire you.

Black Nativity - (Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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)
First Sunday, Saturday at 2P/1C - Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan are straight heathens. Encore on Sunday at 11A/10C. (Photo: Screen Gems)
Not Easily Broken, Friday at 8A/7C - Morris Chestnut and Taraji P. Henson's love is tested. Encore on the same day at 4:30P/3:30C. Get to know a few other love stories by checking out these films.    (Photo: Screen Gems)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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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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