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.
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
The film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.
Warm and honest
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.
Warm and honest
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.
Warm and honest
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
The film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.
Warm and honest
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
The film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.
Kind without being soft
Kind without being soft
The silence is part of it. Let it be quiet.
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
The film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.
Warm and honest
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
The film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.
Kind without being soft
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.
Warm and honest
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
The film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.
Kind without being soft
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.
Kind without being soft
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.