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.
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
The emotional current runs underneath the surface. You do not have to go looking for it.
Opens without forcing
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Quietly insistent. It keeps offering something without raising its voice.
Opens without forcing
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
Quietly insistent. It keeps offering something without raising its voice.
Opens without forcing
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Quietly insistent. It keeps offering something without raising its voice.
Slowly insistent
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Quietly insistent. It keeps offering something without raising its voice.
Opens without forcing
Slowly insistent
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Quietly insistent. It keeps offering something without raising its voice.
Opens without forcing
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid betrayal and tragedy, Simba must confront his past and find his rightful place in the Circle of Life.
The emotional current runs underneath the surface. You do not have to go looking for it.
Slowly insistent
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
The emotional current runs underneath the surface. You do not have to go looking for it.
Slowly insistent
Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.
The emotional current runs underneath the surface. You do not have to go looking for it.
Opens without forcing
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Quietly insistent. It keeps offering something without raising its voice.
Slowly insistent
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.