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Films For When You Miss Someone You Can’t Call With Someone Close

Films for when you miss someone you cant call with someone close. Includes Dead Poets Society, It's a Wonderful Life, Modern Times and more, curated by Movie...

There is a person you want to talk to and talking to them is not an option. Maybe they are gone, maybe the relationship ended, maybe it is complicated. These films will not fix that but they understand exactly what it feels like.

Dead Poets Society movie poster
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1989 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.

Correct distance

It's a Wonderful Life movie poster
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1946 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.

Correct distance

Modern Times movie poster
3
1936 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.

Grief-adjacent, not grief

Sunset Boulevard movie poster
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1950 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

The absence at the centre of this film is handled with care. It does not go near yours directly.

Correct distance

Apocalypse Now movie poster
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1979 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.

Grief-adjacent, not grief

Grief-adjacent, not grief

Works with someone who does not need to talk through it with you.

Paths of Glory movie poster
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1957 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.

Correct distance

The Lion King movie poster
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1994 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid betrayal and tragedy, Simba must confront his past and find his rightful place in the Circle of Life.

Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.

Correct distance

City Lights movie poster
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1931 · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.

Grief-adjacent, not grief

Clouds movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.

Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.

Grief-adjacent, not grief

Life in a Year movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

Grief-adjacent without being grief. The right distance for tonight.

Correct distance

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