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Films for When You Have Outgrown Someone You Love

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

Films for when you have grown past someone you still love. Nothing broke. The space just shaped differently, and you are the one sitting with it.

You love them. You have also passed them, and somewhere in the complicated feelings about that is something that functions like a dare. Keep going. Build the thing. Become more of who you are becoming, because the alternative is staying small enough to fit where you used to fit, and you have already decided you won't do that. The spite isn't ugly. It is love with its jaw set. These films understand the people who chose themselves and had to pay for it and kept going anyway.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion movie poster
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1997 · 87min · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.

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

Whiplash movie poster
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2014 · 107min · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.

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

Knows this engine

Dirty Work movie poster
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1998 · 82min · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.

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

Clean conversion

Memento movie poster
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2000 · 113min · ★★★☆☆ 7.3/10

Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his acc

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.

A Whisker Away movie poster
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2020 · 104min · ★★★☆☆ 6.7/10

A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

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

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

Clean conversion

There's Still Tomorrow movie poster
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2023 · 118min · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life.

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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