MOVIEPIQ · FOR WHEN YOU NEED HOPE BUT NOT THE FORCED KIND

Films For When You Need Hope But Not The Forced Kind Alone

Films for when you need hope but not the forced kind alone. Includes Joker, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Full Metal ...

You need something that points toward the light but does not insult your intelligence to get there. No easy fixes, no tidy resolutions. Just something that makes the future feel possible without lying about it.

Joker movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

The hope in this film is earned rather than given. That is the only kind that works tonight.

Earned hope

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb movie poster
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1964 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.

The hope in this film is earned rather than given. That is the only kind that works tonight.

Points toward the light honestly

Full Metal Jacket movie poster
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1987 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

It points toward the light without pretending the darkness is not there. The right calibration.

Points toward the light honestly

Palmer movie poster
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2021 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.

The hope in this film is earned rather than given. That is the only kind that works tonight.

Earned hope

Wonder movie poster
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2017 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

The hope in this film is earned rather than given. That is the only kind that works tonight.

Earned hope

Earned hope

Best watched alone. This is between you and the film.

Prisoners movie poster
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2013 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.

It points toward the light without pretending the darkness is not there. The right calibration.

Earned hope

Paris, Texas movie poster
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1984 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

It points toward the light without pretending the darkness is not there. The right calibration.

Points toward the light honestly

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels movie poster
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1998 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.

The hope in this film is earned rather than given. That is the only kind that works tonight.

Earned hope

The Father movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

The hope in this film is earned rather than given. That is the only kind that works tonight.

Earned hope

Soul movie poster
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2020 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

The hope in this film is earned rather than given. That is the only kind that works tonight.

Earned hope

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