You had an idea of what this was going to look like. It does not look like that. These films are not about people for whom everything worked out. They are about people learning to see what is actually there.
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.
Recognises the gap between expectation and reality without punishing anyone for it.
Treats small scale as enough
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
The scale is small. The film treats that as enough. That is the whole argument.
Treats small scale as enough
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.
Recognises the gap between expectation and reality without punishing anyone for it.
Treats small scale as enough
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 scale is small. The film treats that as enough. That is the whole argument.
Treats small scale as enough
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.
Recognises the gap between expectation and reality without punishing anyone for it.
Treats small scale as enough
Treats small scale as enough
For when you need the world to go away for a while. This does that.
Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
The scale is small. The film treats that as enough. That is the whole argument.
Treats small scale as enough
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
The scale is small. The film treats that as enough. That is the whole argument.
No false scale
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
The scale is small. The film treats that as enough. That is the whole argument.
No false scale
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
Recognises the gap between expectation and reality without punishing anyone for it.
Treats small scale as enough
In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.
The scale is small. The film treats that as enough. That is the whole argument.
No false scale
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.