Something tipped. The feeling that used to just sit there turned into something with direction, something that has decided it is going somewhere rather than staying where it is, and you are now the kind of person who gets up early and moves fast and builds things with a very specific subtext nobody else can read. The spite is not ugly. It is a feeling that found a use for itself. These films run on the same conversion and they know how to make it look like something more than what it is, which is what you need right now.
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to b
Built from the same fuel you are running on right now. The conversion from feeling dismissed to doing something about it is very clean in this story.
Built for forward motion
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Characters who were underestimated and did not disappear. The spite is in the architecture of the whole thing.
Knows this engine
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
It knows this energy and treats it as legitimate. You will feel understood before you feel better, which is the right order.
Clean conversion
In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the o
It runs on the same engine and it knows how to use it. You will recognize the feeling in here without having to name it.
Doesn't look away
Built from the same conversion you are running right now. Feeling into motion.
Haruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.
Built from the same fuel you are running on right now. The conversion from feeling dismissed to doing something about it is very clean in this story.
Built for forward motion
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
Characters who were underestimated and did not disappear. The spite is in the architecture of the whole thing.
Knows this engine
Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.
It knows this energy and treats it as legitimate. You will feel understood before you feel better, which is the right order.
Clean conversion
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
It runs on the same engine and it knows how to use it. You will recognize the feeling in here without having to name it.
Doesn't look away
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
Built from the same fuel you are running on right now. The conversion from feeling dismissed to doing something about it is very clean in this story.
Built for forward motion
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried
Characters who were underestimated and did not disappear. The spite is in the architecture of the whole thing.
Knows this engine
An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love, and redemption, Gabriel's Inferno is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible--forgiveness and love.
It knows this energy and treats it as legitimate. You will feel understood before you feel better, which is the right order.
Clean conversion
Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander's child.
It runs on the same engine and it knows how to use it. You will recognize the feeling in here without having to name it.
Doesn't look away
The fuel is real. These know how to use it.