Not preachy. Not instructive. Just films that quietly raise the bar.
After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E - a robot designed to clean up the earth - discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen.
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
The films that inspire you to be better never set out to do that. They just get close enough to something true that the comparison lands.
Ethics under pressure. Sci-fi treats this seriously.
Something to watch when sleep won't cooperate.
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
A lonely dog's friendship with his robot companion takes a sad turn when an unexpected malfunction forces him to abandon Robot at the beach. Will Dog ever meet Robot again?
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
Some films earn their effect. These do.