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Films for Someone You Cannot Forgive and Cannot Stop Loving

These films were chosen by the Moviepiq editorial team for when someone you cant forgive but still love. No forced resolution. These films sit with the feeling rather than rush past it.

Films for the space between loving someone and not being able to forgive them. Living there long enough it starts to feel permanent.

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.

Jaws movie poster
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1975 · 124min · ★★★☆☆ 6.4/10

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes 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

Once Upon a Time in America movie poster
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1984 · 229min · ★★★★☆ 7.8/10

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

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

Knows this engine

Gladiator movie poster
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2000 · 155min · ★★★★☆ 8.3/10

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audienc

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

Clean conversion

American Gangster movie poster
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2007 · 157min · ★★★★☆ 7.9/10

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.

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.

Given movie poster
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2020 · 60min · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

Haruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.

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

Gabriel's Inferno movie poster
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2020 · 122min · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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.

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

Knows this engine

La La Land movie poster
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2016 · 129min · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and th

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

Clean conversion

Close to the Horizon movie poster
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2019 · 117min · ★★★☆☆ 6.4/10

Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.

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

Sing Street movie poster
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2016 · 105min · ★★★☆☆ 7.1/10

A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

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

Parasite movie poster
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2019 · 133min · ★★★★☆ 7.7/10

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

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

Knows this engine

20th Century Girl movie poster
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2022 · 119min · ★★★★☆ 7.6/10

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend - then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

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

Clean conversion

In This Corner of the World movie poster
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2016 · 130min · ★★★★☆ 7.6/10

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the sim

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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