Films and TV shows that feel like Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone

A single plaintive oboe carries longing, grace and spiritual yearning, tender and aching in the face of a doomed, beautiful world.

1. The Mission (1986): The film the piece comes from: Jesuits, the Guaraní and the jungle mission this oboe was written for.
2. Cinema Paradiso (1988): Morricone's other great aching, nostalgic score, with the same tender longing.
3. Silence (2016): Jesuit priests, faith tested and a cost paid in a distant land.
4. Black Robe (1991): A Jesuit missionary journeys into 17th-century wilderness and meets native peoples.
5. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972): Colonial conquest in the South American jungle, though with madness instead of grace.
6. Embrace of the Serpent (2015): Amazon river journey about colonial encounter and the loss of indigenous worlds.
7. The New World (2005): Lyrical, nature-drenched story of first contact with a hymn-like spiritual feel.