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Films For When Everyone Seems To Have It Figured Out Late At Night

Films for when everyone seems to have it figured out late at night. Includes The Prestige, Witness for the Prosecution, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and more...

From the outside, everyone looks like they know what they are doing. These films remind you that most people are improvising. The ones who look certain are often the most lost.

The Prestige movie poster
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2006 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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.

This film is specifically about the gap between how people look and what is actually going on.

Surfaces the uncertainty underneath

Witness for the Prosecution movie poster
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1957 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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.

This film is specifically about the gap between how people look and what is actually going on.

Reassuring in the right way

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish movie poster
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2022 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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.

This film is specifically about the gap between how people look and what is actually going on.

Reassuring in the right way

The Help movie poster
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2011 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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 confident exteriors do not survive contact with the story. Reassuring in the right way.

Surfaces the uncertainty underneath

Shutter Island movie poster
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2010 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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.

The confident exteriors do not survive contact with the story. Reassuring in the right way.

Reassuring in the right way

Reassuring in the right way

Hacksaw Ridge movie poster
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2016 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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.

The confident exteriors do not survive contact with the story. Reassuring in the right way.

Surfaces the uncertainty underneath

Django Unchained movie poster
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2012 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

The confident exteriors do not survive contact with the story. Reassuring in the right way.

Surfaces the uncertainty underneath

The Apartment movie poster
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1960 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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.

This film is specifically about the gap between how people look and what is actually going on.

Surfaces the uncertainty underneath

The Usual Suspects movie poster
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1995 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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 confident exteriors do not survive contact with the story. Reassuring in the right way.

Reassuring in the right way

The Art of Racing in the Rain movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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.

This film is specifically about the gap between how people look and what is actually going on.

Surfaces the uncertainty underneath

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