MOVIEPIQ · FOR WHEN YOU WANT COMFORT WITHOUT CHEESINESS

Films For When You Want Comfort Without Cheesiness Alone

Films for when you want comfort without cheesiness alone. Includes Joker, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Full Metal Ja...

You want warmth but not sentimentality. Something that makes the world feel safer without pretending it is simpler than it is. These films are comfortable in the way that good company is comfortable -- honest and kind at the same time.

Joker movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.

Warm and honest

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb movie poster
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1964 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.

Kind without being soft

Full Metal Jacket movie poster
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1987 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.

Kind without being soft

Palmer movie poster
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2021 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.

The film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.

Warm and honest

Wonder movie poster
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2017 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

The film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.

Warm and honest

Kind without being soft

Best watched alone. This is between you and the film.

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.

Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.

Warm and honest

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.

Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.

Kind without being soft

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels movie poster
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1998 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.

Warm and honest

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 film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.

Kind without being soft

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 film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.

Warm and honest

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