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Films For When You Can’t Feel Anything And Want To When You Can’t Sleep

Films for when you cant feel anything and want to when you cant sleep. Includes Prisoners, Paris, Texas, The Father and more, curated by Moviepiq.

You know you should feel something but the channel is closed. Not depression necessarily -- just absence. These films move at the pace of that absence, and a few of them will find a crack in it.

Prisoners movie poster
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2013 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.

Quietly insistent. It keeps offering something without raising its voice.

Slowly insistent

Paris, Texas movie poster
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1984 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

The emotional current runs underneath the surface. You do not have to go looking for it.

Opens without forcing

The Father movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

The emotional current runs underneath the surface. You do not have to go looking for it.

Opens without forcing

Soul movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

The emotional current runs underneath the surface. You do not have to go looking for it.

Opens without forcing

Call Me by Your Name movie poster
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2017 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

The emotional current runs underneath the surface. You do not have to go looking for it.

Slowly insistent

Slowly insistent

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind movie poster
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2004 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

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.

The emotional current runs underneath the surface. You do not have to go looking for it.

Opens without forcing

The Hate U Give movie poster
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2018 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

Quietly insistent. It keeps offering something without raising its voice.

Slowly insistent

All About Eve movie poster
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1950 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

Quietly insistent. It keeps offering something without raising its voice.

Opens without forcing

Some Like It Hot movie poster
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1959 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

In Prohibition-era Chicago, musicians Joe and Jerry witness a mob hit, and flee the state in an all-female band disguised as Josephine and Daphne, but further complications set in.

Quietly insistent. It keeps offering something without raising its voice.

Opens without forcing

The Shop Around the Corner movie poster
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1940 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Quietly insistent. It keeps offering something without raising its voice.

Opens without forcing

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