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.
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.
Warm and honest
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
The film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.
Warm and honest
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.
Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.
Kind without being soft
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
The film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.
Warm and honest
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.
Kind without being soft
Warm and honest
For when you need the world to go away for a while. This does that.
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.
Warm and honest
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.
Kind without being soft
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Warm but never dishonest. Safe in the way that good company is safe.
Warm and honest
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
The film is kind without being soft. That is a hard balance and this one holds it.
Kind without being soft
A family dog – with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind – evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.
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.