The feeling is there. You have been keeping it at arm's length by turning it into something you can think about rather than something you have to feel, which is not avoidance exactly, more like a delay you have negotiated with yourself. You name the patterns, you read the relevant material, you build the case for how this happened and why. These films will not interrupt that. They carry their emotional weight through precision and craft, and the feeling arrives anyway, from the side, the way it always does when you are looking somewhere else.
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 gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
Kyuta, a boy living in Shibuya, and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast from Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his spirit guide. That encounter leads them to many adventures.
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
Through their shared grief and connection to music, an orphaned girl bonds with her emotionally aloof, successful violinist uncle.
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
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.
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
These films work not because they explain the feeling but because they earn your trust before they go near it.
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
It gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of s
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a huge burden in her heart, his life will change forever.
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything : his future, his family, and his own life : to expose the truth.
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
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 gives your mind something real to work with. The feeling is present but arrives through craft and precision, which is the angle you need right now.
Something to think with
The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime and mysteriously found dead during his detention. In one week's time, a family is changed forever.
Complex enough to keep your analytical side engaged. The emotion lands anyway, just from a direction you weren't watching.
Earns its feeling
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.
It earns its weight through structure. Your brain gets the workout it came for, and something true gets through underneath.
Mind first, then heart
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.
Smart enough to meet you where you are. The grief is inside the architecture of it, not on the surface where you would have to deal with it directly.
Precision over sentiment
The right film gives your mind somewhere to go. These do.