The roots of goodness

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows the roots of goodness

poster Spring: Episode 1 - The Awakening of the Source / The Awakening of Nests

Spring: Episode 1 - The Awakening of the Source / The Awakening of Nests

Nymphs and cupids dance in celebration of the arrival of Spring.

poster Cœur fidèle

Cœur fidèle

87mn - Drama, Romance

The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.

poster Finding Happiness

Finding Happiness

95mn - Documentary

A skeptical investigative journalist receives an unusual assignment to visit a spiritual community in northern California, but what begins as a professional exposé transforms into a personal journey of di…

poster The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess

The Good Shepherdess and the Evil Princess

A good shepherdess is persecuted by an evil, tantrum-throwing princess. A good fairy decides to intervene, and dishes out quite a bit of retribution.

poster A Good Little Devil

A Good Little Devil

poster The Brahmin and the Butterfly

The Brahmin and the Butterfly

2mn - Comedy, Fantasy

A man attempts to engender a transformation of a giant worm into a butterfly.

poster The Heart of Humanity

The Heart of Humanity

110mn - Drama, Romance, War

The story centers around Nanette, an American girl living in a small Canadian village, who is in love with John Patricia, the eldest of five brothers. The war interrupts their romantic idyll, as everyone …

poster The Frogs Who Wanted a King

The Frogs Who Wanted a King

9mn - Animation, Fantasy

The frogs have a democracy, but they beseech Jupiter to send them a king. Jupiter can hardly believe this amphibian foolishness, so he sends them a tree as king. The frogs make obeisance to their new mona…

poster Marching On

Marching On

118mn - War, Drama

After finding a golden coin, a young orphaned boy's wild spending leads him down a path of materialism and debt, until he escapes to his uncle's countryside retreat where he learns three essential life le…

poster Ashes

Ashes

39mn - Drama, Fantasy

Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to…

poster The Pillar of Fire

The Pillar of Fire

A devil wearing bat-like wings and brandishing a trident dances around a giant pot, conjuring forth flame from his trident to lit a fire beneath the pot. After the devil works the fire with bellows, an an…

poster Lamb

Lamb

Lamb, based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, traces the self-discovery of David Lamb in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his…

poster Green Pastures

Green Pastures

A horse always finds greener grass in his neighbors yard, but his neighbors are not too happy.

poster Leaves of the Tree

Leaves of the Tree

96mn - Drama, Family, Mystery

A terminally ill patent lawyer searches for a mystical tree whose leaves are rumored to possess miraculous healing powers, but his quest becomes entangled in an ancient struggle between faith and corporat…

poster Man's Genesis

Man's Genesis

17mn - Adventure, Drama, History

An old man tells his grandchildren about prehistoric man: Caveman Weakhands is unable to court a woman because of his physical weakness. Humiliated by Bruteforce, he bumps into Lillywhite, who has also be…

poster Shadows

Shadows

Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathe…

poster Beauty's Worth

Beauty's Worth

Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir fa…

poster Growth of the Soil

Growth of the Soil

In rural Norway in the early 20th century, the homesteader Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with his wife Inger and their two sons. Life is both harsh and fulfilling.

Loyalty

Kaatje, the daughter of the miller Schoonejans, and Jef, a little shepherd, who live near Delft, are happy together. In a floral parade, the carriage the two children have decorated with tulips wins the f…

poster Malice in the Palace

Malice in the Palace

Set in a desert land where the stooges run a restaurant, the boys set out to recover the stolen Rootin Tootin diamond after they learn from the thieves that the Emir of Shmo has absconded with the contrab…

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