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Films for When Someone Who Matters Has Gone Silent

These films were chosen by the Moviepiq editorial team for when left on read by someone who matters. No forced resolution. These films sit with the feeling rather than rush past it.

Films for when someone who matters has gone quiet. Not just anyone : someone whose silence means something.

You have already told someone about this in the funniest possible way. They laughed, you laughed, you are clearly very chill about it. The irony is doing heavy lifting here because the alternative, admitting how much you care about one person's silence, feels embarrassing in a way the irony covers completely. Until it doesn't. Until you are alone with it and the humor stops working and the thing under the joke is still there, unchanged, waiting. These films know the thing under the joke. They will not make you feel small for having it.

Miracle in Cell No. 7 movie poster
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2019 · 132min · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

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.

Smart enough to hold at arm's length while still doing something real. You can stay behind the glass and it will still find you.

Keeps the distance

Better Days movie poster
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2019 · 135min · ★★★★☆ 8.5/10

A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.

It knows what you are doing and does not make you feel bad about it. The irony is part of the furniture here.

Smart enough to hold

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time movie poster
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2021 · 155min · ★★★★☆ 7.8/10

In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka and Rei find refuge in one of the rare pockets of humanity that still exist on the ruined planet Earth. There, each lives a life far different from their days as an Evangelion pilot. However,

The film has enough wit to keep your defenses comfortable and enough truth to slip through anyway.

Finds the gap anyway

The Forge movie poster
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2024 · 123min · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

19 year old Isaiah Wright lives for basketball and video games. A year out of high school, he has no job, no plans, and no idea how to be a man. At odds with his single mother Cynthia, Isaiah is given an ultimatum - to step up or move out. Feeling the pull from his friends and th

It will not break through the detachment. It will just remind you, quietly, that the detachment is sitting on something.

Works with the coat on

Smart enough to hold the distance. True enough to find the gap in it anyway.

Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl movie poster
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2019 · 90min · ★★★☆☆ 6.7/10

In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.

Smart enough to hold at arm's length while still doing something real. You can stay behind the glass and it will still find you.

Keeps the distance

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 what you are doing and does not make you feel bad about it. The irony is part of the furniture here.

Smart enough to hold

Look Back movie poster
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2024 · 58min · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

Popular, outgoing Fujino is celebrated by her classmates for her funny comics in the class newspaper. One day, her teacher asks her to share the space with Kyomoto, a truant recluse whose beautiful artwork sparks a competitive fervor in Fujino. What starts as jealousy transforms

The film has enough wit to keep your defenses comfortable and enough truth to slip through anyway.

Finds the gap anyway

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse movie poster
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2022 · 35min · ★★★☆☆ 7.3/10

The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.

It will not break through the detachment. It will just remind you, quietly, that the detachment is sitting on something.

Works with the coat on

The Hate U Give movie poster
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2018 · 133min · ★★★☆☆ 7.3/10

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

Smart enough to hold at arm's length while still doing something real. You can stay behind the glass and it will still find you.

Keeps the distance

Hacksaw Ridge movie poster
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2016 · 139min · ★★★☆☆ 7.1/10

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

It knows what you are doing and does not make you feel bad about it. The irony is part of the furniture here.

Smart enough to hold

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 has enough wit to keep your defenses comfortable and enough truth to slip through anyway.

Finds the gap anyway

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 break through the detachment. It will just remind you, quietly, that the detachment is sitting on something.

Works with the coat on

You can stay behind the glass. They'll find you anyway.

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