The feeling of being seen in a film is one of the stranger pleasures of cinema.
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest missions if it will help shield the younger from battle.
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who guides them to a fortress hidden in the mountains.
It articulates something you've felt but never quite had words for. That's the whole effect.
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
Being understood is a complicated feeling. These films produce it reliably.
Less direct, but films about outsiders and lone wolves can connect deeply.
Something to watch when sleep won't cooperate.
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with Catholic guilt.
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
It articulates something you've felt but never quite had words for. That's the whole effect.
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
There's something in here that will feel very specifically aimed at you. That's not an accident.
Some films earn their effect. These do.