Serious, deep films that give rich food for thought and at the same time emotionally capture are a rarity. Therefore, we have collected for you the TOP-20 best films on the version of the psychological portal that help you think about important and deep topics - love, loyalty, the value of life, dedication, kindness, perseverance, faith, happiness and everything that is really unthinkable without a life.
So, meet: the best twenty of the pictures that make you think about these important, albeit difficult topics ...
20. Source Code
The source code is a new look at the hidden possibilities of a person. This is a program that reveals the abilities of one former military to help the whole world, even if he himself can no longer help. Almost can not.
Captain Coulter secretly finds himself in the body of another person who is traveling in a train. The military did not even have time to understand what had happened, how a powerful explosion destroyed the entire train. Coulter dies with the protagonist again and again and comes to life to understand who is behind the bombings and stop the criminals.
Will he be able to find the fuse and understand how he was in the body of the deceased person, and most importantly - how can the captain get out of it?
19. Winemakers rules
Winemakers Rules is a picture of the long and difficult path of an unusual person. Kind by nature and an orphan in life, Homer lived all his life in a shelter and dreamed of great changes in his life. Dreams come true, and Homer got a chance to leave with the new friends from the orphanage.
Love for the girlfriend of his friend will be a serious test for the young man, and the paralyzed friend as a silent reproach of betrayal. Will Homer be able to settle down in a new and complex world, or may it be easier for him to return home, to a shelter and help children grow and develop.
What path will the young man take for himself, how will he survive the loss of his girlfriend and the death of his mentor and teacher?
18. Intuition
Intuition - a romantic and sad picture of the stories of the fate of the villain. Two people feel an irresistible attraction to each other, and unable to fight the attraction, they spend the evening together. Magic Christmas Eve.
New lovers do not plan a further meeting, but present this step to the discretion of fate - they write phone numbers on items that they immediately dispose of.
If fate is favorable and approves of their union, then the necessary bill and book themselves will be in their hands. I wonder how fate will react to the new couple and whether it will give them the opportunity to continue the relationship?
17. Awakening
Awakening is a sad film that shows the full value of life and all that we have in a concrete example of two people.
The brilliant doctor Sayer spent many years in the laboratory, developing a new medicine that will help people get out of a sleepy state and a state of coma. Leonard spent many years in a state of coma, and now he has awakened with the help of a new medicine.
Leonard begins a new life with the doctor, now Sayer has a chance to help hundreds of patients and teach them to live anew. The doctor spends all his time with the patient and together with him opens a new and beautiful world.
Can he teach Leonardo forgotten skills - to write, speak, etc.?
16. Gravity
"Gravity" shakes its special effects and excellent visual effects. Almost all the action of the film takes place in space, with only two heroes in the picture - he and she.
They are left alone, and they have no connection with the Earth. She has a daughter left at home, and he has a retirement and a quiet life, they were left alone in one bundle, and they no longer have any hope of salvation. They simply move in a black orbit and do not know how much longer they have to live.
Two almost strangers tend to go forward and do not give in to despair. Spectacular shots and great actors made the picture extremely emotional and dramatic.
15. City of Angels
Do angels live in heaven? No, they live among us and daily protect each person from a set of troubles. For those people whose life has already died away, the angels become companions and guides to heaven.
They live among people and try to help everyone, with an invisible hand, they help everyone go forward, but they have no feelings, almost no.
The picture shows the life of an angel named Set, who truly fell in love with an ordinary woman, for his sake he decided to leave heaven forever and become an ordinary mortal.
Their love is pure and beautiful, but how heaven will look at this union, and whether the former angel will endure all human emotions - joy, love, pain, loss ...
14. Pay another
“Pay to another” is a film about the good in the truest sense of the word. The new teacher gives the task to his students to prepare a project, the implementation of which will help people become kinder. For one of the children, this is a real chance to do what he has long dreamed of.
One of the students of the new teacher has his own idea of the good and the world. He lives a difficult life and wants to change everything for the better. Trevor, a cute and amazing boy, found a brilliant and simple way that will help people not only help each other, but also give a piece of good to each person.
Will one child succeed in changing the world, improving it, at least for a drop? ...
13. About Schmidt
“About Schmidt” is an unusual story about an ordinary man named Warren Schmidt. A complex and very sad tragicomedy will show the whole essence of human life by one example.
The main character has lived a life stamped - wife, work, child. It seemed that everything was perfect for him, but left alone with himself, already on the slope of his years, Warren realizes the worthlessness of his life. Finally, the moment of enlightenment came, and the hero decides to fix his life.
He needs to do a lot - to find a common language with his daughter, who does not particularly favor him, to gain the meaning of his own life and, eventually, leave behind him a certain mark in this world.
12. I dance inside myself
“I dance inside myself” is a touching and very sad film telling the viewer the story of two guys. One of them has been chained to a chair since childhood and spent most of his 24 years in a home for people with disabilities.
With the advent of the new patient, the life of the main character is changing dramatically - they both love life and want to live like all normal guys of their age. Escape from the hospital is not a challenge, but a desire to live a real life and breathe the air of freedom.
Young guys show how to value life right here and now, at this moment it is beautiful and wonderful in spite of everything - even for wheelchairs ...
11. Route 60
"Route 60" is a road that is not on any map of the world. But, nevertheless, it is for her that the main character of the film is going to go - a successful young lawyer, who had everything just fine up to a certain point. The purpose of his trip is to find his dream, a girl who comes to him at night.
A touching story about accepted standards and how they fly away if Cupid's arrow hit the heart. Of course, he has a bride, but this girl from dreams is somehow different, special. The hero was lucky - he found an eccentric wizard who would help him find the strange girl from the dreams.
The hero will have to live in a dream and reality, and the main thing here is not to get confused ...
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10. Bicentennial man
“Bicentennial Man” is a sad and very interesting story about the life of a robot who really wanted to become a man. Andrew is the robot of the new millennium, one of the most successful developments of the new time. He lives in a beautiful family as a housekeeper. But the first owners still do not realize how unique Andrew is. Over time, human qualities, feelings, emotions, wake up in the robot.
Having lived in the family for 200 years, and raised several generations, Andrew falls in love with the great great-granddaughter of his first owners. Love is given to few, even people sometimes having lived all their life, do not have time to experience it. Andrew had been waiting for her for 200 years.
How to be a robot who has almost become a man and, finally, experienced the brightest and most sincere feeling?
9. In the wild
“In the wild” is not just a film, it is a challenge to stereotypes and frames. We came out of nature, for hundreds of years we lived in nature, our ancestors lived beautifully in harmony with themselves and nature, everything developed together - nature and man. So why are we now sitting in boxes and worrying only about how to make money or how to have fun? How are we developing? The answer is almost nothing.
The main character has challenged everyone - he abandoned the inheritance, big money and a successful career. He made a bet on nature and was going to hitchhike in Alaska. The guy does not want to live according to a pattern, he has his own understanding of how a person should live.
Will he be able to find what he is looking for and find real peace, and maybe he wasn’t planning it all?
8. Where dreams lead
"What Dreams May Come" is a multifaceted and incredibly beautiful film about the purest and most sincere love on earth. They were together and dreamed of living forever, and then he died and went to heaven, to his own paradise. In his paradise there is everything that they dreamed about on earth, but here it was not her. But she was obsessed with grief and committed suicide.
Now they are on different sides of the Gates - she is in hell, and he is in heaven, where without her is also hell. He will go after her and return her to their dream home. Nobody left hell yet, but he has love, which means he is stronger than all.
They cannot live without each other, and they must find themselves so that, finally, their dream will come true. He faces a difficult and very dangerous path, but he cannot leave her there alone.
7. Lovely bones
“Lovely bones” is an adult story about a child. A fourteen-year-old girl was raped and killed by her neighbor, a maniac, and now her soul has fallen into a place from which she can watch her family.
She does not seek to go to hell or heaven - it is difficult for her to part with her relatives and leave the criminal to freedom. Her soul is torn, looking at the sufferings of parents, and her main dream, to expose her neighbor, is practically impossible.
The father, of course, suspects the neighbor, but there is no evidence and he does not, which means the criminal is free. A strong-willed girl believes that justice does exist, and the villain will get what he deserves.
6. Fountain
The “fountain” is a tangled and complicated story about a man who is looking for a source of immortality for his dying wife. The complex plot shows the viewer the whole essence of life and death, the film turns these concepts around in its own way.
Fate each time returns the hero to the starting point and offers to retrace the path, to find the only right direction. The hero with all his strength wants to help his wife, but does not understand how. How can you give a person life if you yourself are his life?
Maybe it is not necessary to leave for a long time close and dear people, and try to always be close. Perhaps this is the life that the doomed needs?
5. American Beauty
“American Beauty” is a serious film that touches on concepts of morality, honor, and their place in the life of our society. Despite the fact that the film was shot in 1999, it is relevant to this day. It seems that some scenes were shot as if yesterday, so everything is believable and natural.
The main character is a very strange and even immoral type, although he is probably the most decent of all the members of his family. A new love for a schoolgirl helped him realize the worthlessness and baseness of his life.
The hero finally realized that all the time he lived in falsehood and hypocrisy, so maybe the time has come to change everything, it’s never too late to start a new life.
4. Artificial Intelligence
“Artificial Intelligence” is a piercing and spiritual drama. People are the most cruel and complex kind of life on the planet, they have learned how to create the perfect robots, but they cannot make themselves better. New robots are getting better and better.
At some point, a little boy-robot accidentally changes something in the work of his "stuffing" and programs himself to show love for his parents. The poor child, even a mechanical one, purely and sincerely loves a woman whom he considers his mother.
It is sad that, as in some families, this love is unrequited, which means the child is abandoned. But the boy does not want to give up and tries to find happiness and peace, even finding himself on the street all alone and fear.
3. This wonderful life
“This wonderful life” is a picture that shows the significance of each life and each person, even if he himself does not consider his life necessary. A simple man, with a kind heart and open heart, lived a normal life and, as it seemed to him, did not achieve anything in this world. After some unpleasant situations it seems to the hero that he is worthless in this life, he decides to deprive himself of the most important gift from God - his life.
But what will life be like if a bright person leaves it? The hero has a unique opportunity - to see a different life, perhaps in life, where it will not be, everything will become much worse?
Maybe a wonderful life is something that already exists and no need to change anything?
2. Reaching heaven
“Reaching out to heaven” is a sad and criminal film about the value of the last days of life. Young children are diagnosed with an incurable disease, they have almost no time left.
The guys, despite the disease are full of determination and adventurism - they steal a car, find a million marks in it and embark on a steep scam. Heroes sketched a whole list of cases, mandatory cases, which they should have time to carry out. They have a desire to live the last days so that later there was something to talk about in heaven.
But the most important thing is that they should see the sea, because in heaven everyone is talking about the sea and its beauty. They have no right to knock on heaven and not see the sea before this.
1. Mr. Nobody
"Mr. Nobody" is a sad and unusual story about the life of an amazing and a bit weird person. People have long become immortal, but only one old man who dies remains, and a whole TV show was made from this event.
The old man tells the story of his life - a little sad, a little perky and sometimes even silly. A person describes in detail what would happen if he acted differently.
It shows every viewer that everyone has the right to choose and it is not necessary to choose everything at all, and maybe it’s not worth choosing anything at all, it may be worth moving straight ahead without making any choice.
