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.
They changed. Good for them. That sentence is doing a lot of work and you know it, carrying things you haven't decided to feel yet: the specific loneliness of being left at the version of yourself they used to fit, the part where you don't know whether to be proud of them or furious or both. The anger is easier to maintain than the alternative. It at least has a direction. These films know that wallowing isn't the same as being stuck, and they don't rush you through it.
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 "
It runs on the same fuel you are running on. The anger has somewhere to go inside this story, and it moves.
Runs on the same fuel
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.
The film does not ask you to be reasonable about it. It lets the feeling run at the temperature it is actually at.
Lets the anger move
Created for Disney's 100th anniversary, the short features Mickey Mouse corralling a gallery of legendary Disney characters for a group photo.
Nobody is going to tell you to calm down in this one. The anger is treated as information, which is all you need right now.
No rush to the other side
After being gone for a decade, a country star returns home to the love he left behind.
It validates the feeling without resolving it too quickly. You will come out the other side with slightly less pressure, on your own schedule.
Justified
The best thing about these films is that nobody is going to tell you to calm down.
The film tells the story of Ariel, a 21-year-old who decides to form a rock band to compete for a prize of ten thousand dollars in a musical band contest, this as a last option when trying to get money to save their relationship and reunite with his ex-girlfriend, which breaks du
It runs on the same fuel you are running on. The anger has somewhere to go inside this story, and it moves.
Runs on the same fuel
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
The film does not ask you to be reasonable about it. It lets the feeling run at the temperature it is actually at.
Lets the anger move
Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.
Nobody is going to tell you to calm down in this one. The anger is treated as information, which is all you need right now.
No rush to the other side
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other aga
It validates the feeling without resolving it too quickly. You will come out the other side with slightly less pressure, on your own schedule.
Justified
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 runs on the same fuel you are running on. The anger has somewhere to go inside this story, and it moves.
Runs on the same fuel
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.
The film does not ask you to be reasonable about it. It lets the feeling run at the temperature it is actually at.
Lets the anger move
A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.
Nobody is going to tell you to calm down in this one. The anger is treated as information, which is all you need right now.
No rush to the other side
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has
It validates the feeling without resolving it too quickly. You will come out the other side with slightly less pressure, on your own schedule.
Justified
The anger will move when it's ready. These let it.
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