Not preachy. Not instructive. Just films that quietly raise the bar.
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.
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
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.
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
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 someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
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.
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
Moral cinema works when it trusts the audience to draw their own conclusions.
Under pressure, characters reveal their values. Instructive.
Works particularly well alone, with nowhere else to be.
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 someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
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 someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
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 someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
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.
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
Some films earn their effect. These do.