You'll finish these with a list of things you want to start.
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator BenjamÃn begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed's rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.
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.
This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.
The films that inspire action are usually not the ones trying to. They just show someone doing something hard really well.
The relentlessness of these films mirrors focused ambition. Useful effect.
Suitable across ages. Nobody left out.
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.
Some films earn their effect. These do.