Suddenly (2002), I Got Life! (2017), Tinker Bell (2008), Middle of Nowhere (2012), Islands in the Stream (1977), The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005), A Matter of Size (2009), Incendies (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Self-discovery movies.
Storyline: Wreck-It Ralph longs to be as beloved as his game's perfect Good Guy, Fix-It Felix. Problem is, nobody loves a Bad Guy. But they do love heroes... so when a modern, first-person shooter game arrives featuring tough-as-nails Sergeant Calhoun, Ralph sees it as his ticket to heroism and happiness. He sneaks into the game with a simple plan -- win a medal -- but soon wrecks everything, and accidentally unleashes a deadly enemy that threatens every game in the arcade. Ralph's only hope? Vanellope von Schweetz, a young troublemaking "glitch" from a candy-coated cart racing game who might just be the one to teach Ralph what it means to be a Good Guy. But will he realize he is good enough to become a hero before it's "Game Over" for the entire arcade?
Plot Keywords: video game character, opponent, villain, soldier, friend, uplifting, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sara (Rosalinde Mynster) is a teenage girl who becomes disillusioned with her Jehovah's Witness upbringing when her parents split up after her father, Andreas (Jens Jørn Spottag), admits to cheating on her mother. Things get even more complicated when an attractive youth named Teis (Pilou Asbæk) pursues a romance with Sara. She soon falls in love with Teis, but he does not share her faith, which leads to tension between Sara, her family and the young man she wants to spend her life with.
Plot Keywords: young girl, love interest, father, mother, pastor, solemn, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Peanut Butter Falcon is an adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak (22), a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from the nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler by attending the wrestling school The Salt Water Redneck. Through circumstances beyond their control Tyler (32), a small-time outlaw on the run, becomes Zak's unlikely coach and ally. Together they wind through deltas, elude capture, drink whisky, find God, catch fish, and convince Eleanor (28), a kind nursing home employee with a story of her own, to join them on their journey.—Lucky Treehouse
Plot Keywords: wrestler, fisherman, cool, engaging, gutsy, north carolina, small town ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.—Steve Richer <sricher@sympatico.ca>
Plot Keywords: orphan, uncle, storekeeper, adolescent, emotional, intricate, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along with a friend, they eventually end up visiting their aunt in the wastelands of Cleveland and then proceed to Florida where they lose all their money gambling before unwittingly gaining a fortune.
Plot Keywords: slacker, best friend, cousin, gambler, aunt, drug dealer, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mild-mannered office worker Remy (Michel Robin) invites a group of work colleagues to a gathering at his new country home, hiring refined butler Emile (François Simon) to oversee the festivities. Though the party begins innocently enough, as the alcohol flows it disintegrates into a drunken bacchanal, with revelers -- including office lothario Maurice (Jean-Luc Bideau) and spinster Emma (Neige Dolsky) -- revealing the most intimate details of their lives.
Plot Keywords: playboy, spinster, office worker, butler, guest, drunk, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Angela,a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she goes after Emile's friend Alfred.
Plot Keywords: boyfriend, best friend, colleague, stripper, woman, lighthearted, living room ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Louise, a young woman, who recently finished her studies in arts, is working as a interior decorator trainee. Playing the game of seduction, her life becomes more and more complicated.—<woo@ficsgrp.com>
Plot Keywords: party girl, designer, architect, writer, tennis player, witty, calm ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: "Winter Journey" is based on American radio host Martin Goldsmith's book about his Jewish parents, who fled Nazi Germany. Both were talented musicians, but after the Nuremberg Laws were enacted in 1935 they were only able to perform as members of the Jewish Cultural Federation, a bizarre propaganda organization fully controlled by the Reich Chamber of Culture. This film brings to life the reality of their beautiful and painful love story, using remarkable and ingenuously edited archive material. It also includes reenactments of the conversations Goldsmith had with his father in preparation for his book. The dynamic that emerges in the interaction between Martin Goldsmith himself, as the unseen interviewer, and a vulnerable Bruno Ganz, playing his father Georg Goldsmith, is fascinating. On one occasion Ganz even references his legendary role as Hitler in Der Untergang (2004), when Goldsmith, Sr., mimics an agitated Nazi official who stamps his visa. In ways like this, the story transcends its modest place in the history of the war.—International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam 2019
Plot Keywords: handsome man, event coordinator, friend, love interest, local, death, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Frances lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she's not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren't really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.
Plot Keywords: dancer, partner, apprentice, amusing, brooklyn, stable, search ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Everything is connected: an 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific; letters from a composer to his lover; a thriller about a conspiracy at a nuclear power plant; a farce about a publisher in a nursing home; a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea; and the tale of a tribe living on post-apocalyptic Hawaii far in the future.
Plot Keywords: attorney, composer, journalist, publisher, worker, tribesman, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: friend, delinquent, mother, neighbor, teen boy, bleak, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Living in India, Mary Lennox, a young, privileged girl, is left orphaned when her parents are killed in an earthquake. She is sent back to England where she goes to live on her uncle's estate. It is a fairly isolated existence and she has to find things to keep herself occupied. She finds a sickly young boy...and a secret garden.
Plot Keywords: orphan, uncle, servant, friend, creative, emotional, dreamy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the I.R.A., and when he does find money, he spends it on drink.
Plot Keywords: ira agent, irishman, teen boy, mother, father, emotional, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Minnie breaks up with her married boyfriend and becomes disillusioned. However, she begins to learn that there is hope for love and romance in a desperate world when she meets a crazy car-parker named Seymour.—David Gibson <djg6@ukc.ac.uk>
Plot Keywords: parking lot attendant, museum curator, hippie, mistress, charming, engaging, offbeat ...
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