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Films for When Someone You Love Has Outgrown You

These films were chosen by the Moviepiq editorial team for when being outgrown by someone you love. No forced resolution. These films sit with the feeling rather than rush past it.

Films for when someone you love has moved past where you are. Good for them. That sentence is doing a lot of work.

You are not going to talk to anyone about this. Not today. You have your reasons and they are real and you are not going to be talked out of them right now. So you are here instead, which is its own kind of decision, a way of getting close to the thing without having to say it out loud to someone who is going to respond. These films will get closer than you expect. They are not a substitute for the conversation you're avoiding, and they know it, and they will get as close as they can and leave the rest to you.

A Dog's Journey movie poster
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2019 · 109min · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.

It will not give you the tools your therapist would. It will get closer to the real question than the loop in your head has managed so far.

Gets close enough

Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace movie poster
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2020 · 87min · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Second chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.

The film says something true at the right distance. Not advice, not instruction, just recognition of the specific thing you have been carrying.

Holds the question

Bohemian Rhapsody movie poster
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2018 · 135min · ★★★★☆ 7.5/10

Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out o

It holds the question without trying to answer it. That is enough for right now.

Better than nothing

Parasite movie poster
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2019 · 133min · ★★★★☆ 7.7/10

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

Closer than you expected. Not a replacement for the conversation, but the nearest available thing, and better than nothing.

Closer than expected

None of these are a substitute for the conversation you are avoiding. They are just the nearest available thing.

The Traitor movie poster
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2019 · 151min · ★★★★☆ 8.5/10

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision

It will not give you the tools your therapist would. It will get closer to the real question than the loop in your head has managed so far.

Gets close enough

The Punisher: One Last Kill movie poster
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2026 · 51min · ★★★☆☆ 6.4/10

As Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.

The film says something true at the right distance. Not advice, not instruction, just recognition of the specific thing you have been carrying.

Holds the question

Violet Evergarden: The Movie movie poster
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2020 · 140min · ★★★★☆ 7.7/10

As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.

It holds the question without trying to answer it. That is enough for right now.

Better than nothing

Soul movie poster
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2020 · 101min · ★★★★☆ 8.5/10

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 b

Closer than you expected. Not a replacement for the conversation, but the nearest available thing, and better than nothing.

Closer than expected

The Invisible Guest movie poster
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2017 · 107min · ★★★☆☆ 6.9/10

Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.

It will not give you the tools your therapist would. It will get closer to the real question than the loop in your head has managed so far.

Gets close enough

Don't Be Bad movie poster
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2015 · 102min · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.

The film says something true at the right distance. Not advice, not instruction, just recognition of the specific thing you have been carrying.

Holds the question

Violet Evergarden: Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll movie poster
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2019 · 90min · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Violet Evergarden, a former soldier returned from war, comes to teach at a women's academy and changes a young girl's life.

It holds the question without trying to answer it. That is enough for right now.

Better than nothing

Your Name. movie poster
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2016 · 106min · ★★★☆☆ 7.3/10

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.

Closer than you expected. Not a replacement for the conversation, but the nearest available thing, and better than nothing.

Closer than expected

Not the session you need. The nearest available thing.

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