Truly powerful emotional films are very rare. Much more common are mediocre projects, where either banal plot devices are caused by emotions due to a broken cliche, or a deep story is due to unconvincing acting or weak direction.
However, sometimes there are real masterpieces that can not only touch you to the depths of your soul, but also make you think.
Today we have collected paintings that can not only touch you, but also inspire you to think about life and its difficulties.
Short description
Perfect Days (2023)
Boyhood (2014)
The Challengers (2024)
I am the beginning (2014)
Onegin (2024)
Father (2020)
1. Ideal days
Genre: drama, adventure
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country: Japan, Germany
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Arisa Nakano, Tokyo Emoto, Tomokazu Miura
About what: An elderly man, Hirayama works as a cleaner in public toilets in Tokyo. Every day is similar to the previous one.
He gets up early in the morning, takes care of small plants, on the way to work and after work listens to Western rock classics on audio cassettes, for example, Patti Smith and Lou Reed, reads paper books, takes photographs of trees in the park on film Olympus, goes to the same the same bar and in the same cafe. Soon, several unexpected meetings will thoroughly shake up Hirayama’s usual life.
Where to see: Kinopoisk
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2. Adolescence
Genre: drama, melodrama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.4 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Richard Linklater
Cast: Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Lorelei Linklater
About what: The story describes twelve years of Mason’s life (from the first grade at school to the first day of college) and consists of small episodes that evoke the growing up and relationship with the parents of a child, teenager, or young man.
Where to see: Evie
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3. Challengers
Genre: drama, melodrama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.2 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Starring: Mike Feist, Josh O’Connor, Zendaya, Darnell Appling
About what: To boost his morale and strengthen his self-confidence, his wife and part-time coach Tashi invites him to take part in ATP Challenger series tournaments.
In the past, she was a promising athlete herself, but failed to recover from a knee injury, and now everything is in the liners in her husband. In the finale, Art goes to Tasha’s ex-boyfriend and Patrick Zweig’s once best friend, whose victory also becomes a fundamental principle.
Where to see: Internet
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4. I am the beginning
Genre: drama, melodrama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.6 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Mike Cahill
Starring: Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Steven Yeun
About what: A molecular biologist and his assistant made an amazing discovery that could radically change modern society.
Where to see: Internet
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5. Onegin
Genre: drama, melodrama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.4 (KinoPoisk)
Country Russia
Director: Sarik Andreasyan
Cast: Viktor Dobronravov, Denis Prytkov, Lisa Moryak, Tanya Sabinova
About what: A film adaptation of the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin “Eugene Onegin”.
Evgeny Onegin lives on stage: balls, receptions, theater premieres and other entertainment that the capital can offer a young man. But social life had long since tired him, because with the news of his uncle living in the village, he realized that there was an opportunity to escape from the hateful world.
However, having reached the estate, Onegin notices the death of a relative, which, by the way, does not upset Evgenia much. His financial affairs are very sad; he has a rich uncle and no other heirs. Onegin locks himself in the estate, avoiding his neighbors, who will very soon begin to call him an eccentric among themselves.
Evgeniy lives in helpless solitude until the owner, who has returned from abroad, appears at the neighboring estate – a young, enthusiastic, not yet jaded Lensky, who introduces Evgeniy to his sisters Tatyana and Olga Lari.
Where to see: Kinopoisk
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6. Father
Genre: drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country: UK, France, USA
Director: Florian Zeller
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams
About what: Anthony is no longer young and lives alone in a London apartment. He believes that he copes well with everyone on his own and does not need help, but his daughter Anne has the opposite opinion. She is planning to move to Paris and wants to find a nurse for her father.
Anthony resists in every possible way, but strange things begin to happen in his apartment – another woman appears in the living room, my daughter suddenly appears, and his favorite watch keeps falling somewhere.
Where to see: Kinopoisk
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