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Films for When Someone You Love Has Outgrown You

The Moviepiq team selected these films specifically for when being outgrown by someone you love. Chosen because they understand the specific weight of this moment.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Characters who were underestimated and did not disappear. The spite is in the architecture of the whole thing.

Knows this engine

David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet movie poster
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2020 · 83min · ★★★★☆ 7.7/10

The story of life on our planet by the man who has seen more of the natural world than any other. In more than 90 years, Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder.

It knows this energy and treats it as legitimate. You will feel understood before you feel better, which is the right order.

Clean conversion

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

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.

On My Skin movie poster
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2018 · 100min · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

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.

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

Bingo: The King of the Mornings movie poster
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2017 · 113min · ★★★★☆ 7.9/10

1980s. Brazilian television exploding in color and auditorium programs not so politically correct. In the middle of this fervor, Augusto Mendes, a young rising actor, seeks his place in the sun. From porn studios to soap operas, he finally finds success and fame when he becomes "

Characters who were underestimated and did not disappear. The spite is in the architecture of the whole thing.

Knows this engine

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 knows this energy and treats it as legitimate. You will feel understood before you feel better, which is the right order.

Clean conversion

The Martian movie poster
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2015 · 141min · ★★★★☆ 7.5/10

During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit

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

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.

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

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.

Characters who were underestimated and did not disappear. The spite is in the architecture of the whole thing.

Knows this engine

My Father's Violin movie poster
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2022 · 112min · ★★★★☆ 7.8/10

Through their shared grief and connection to music, an orphaned girl bonds with her emotionally aloof, successful violinist uncle.

It knows this energy and treats it as legitimate. You will feel understood before you feel better, which is the right order.

Clean conversion

Gabriel's Inferno: Part II movie poster
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2020 · 106min · ★★★☆☆ 7.3/10

Professor Gabriel Emerson finally learns the truth about Julia Mitchell's identity, but his realization comes a moment too late. Julia is done waiting for the well-respected Dante specialist to remember her and wants nothing more to do with him. Can Gabriel win back her heart bef

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.

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