– The Blues Brothers (1980) ⋅ Jake & Elwood –
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: cap ⋅ violence: cap]
In the 18th Century – As settlers and native Americans take sides, the story tells of brutal battles with the Iroquois and their French allies, cruel captures, escapes, and revenge ⋅ 1hr 52min
Madeleine Stowe ⋅ Daniel Day-Lewis
Michael Mann
The Gift (2000)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: high ⋅ violence: cap]
Good-hearted Annie Wilson, who bears the gift of prophecy and psychic vision, is a recently widowed mother of three young boys in the rural town of Brixton, Georgia ⋅ 1hr 52min
Cate Blanchett ⋅ Keanu Reeves
Sam Raimi
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Good movie ⋅ Value not necessary
The film tells the story of a afraid family that leaves the United States and tries to find a happier and simpler dystopia life in the jungle paradise of Central America ⋅ 1hr 57min
Helen Mirren ⋅ Harrison Ford
Peter Weir
Persepolis (2007)
Good movie ⋅ Value not necessary
Persepolis explores the intersection of religion and modernity, as well as the impact of religious repression on the feeling and practices of those who must endure it ⋅ 1hr 36min
Catherine Deneuve ⋅ Chiara Mastroianni
Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: chill ⋅ violence: high]
Lieutenant Dunbar, assigned to a remote Civil War outpost, finds himself engaging with a neighbouring Sioux settlement, causing him to question his own purpose ⋅ 3hr 1min
Mary McDonnell ⋅ Graham Greene
Kevin Costner
Home (2009)
Good movie ⋅ Value not necessary
Next to the confusing label intro: the brilliant documentary was filmed in all of the continents of the world, including Antarctica, covering landscapes in 54 countries ⋅ 1hr 30min
Glenn Close ⋅ Jacques Gamblin
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
Level: [sexual: low ⋅ fear: pretty ⋅ violence: low]
During a romantic getaway on a tropical island with her boyfriend, Robin Monroe decides to help her magazine by covering an interesting story on a nearby island ⋅ 1hr 42min
Anne Heche ⋅ Harrison Ford
Ivan Reitman
Days of Heaven (1978)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: up ⋅ violence: low]
In 1910, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work in the fields of a stoic farmer ⋅ 1hr 34min
Brooke Adams ⋅ Richard Gere
Terrence Malick
Hero (2002)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: up ⋅ violence: cap]
In ancient China 221 BC, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin ⋅ 2hr
Maggie Cheung ⋅ Jet Li
Yimou Zhang
Solaris (1972)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: up ⋅ violence: low]
Plot summary. Solaris chronicles the ultimate futility of attempted communications with the extraterrestrial life inhabiting a distant alien planet named Solaris ⋅ 2hr 47min
Natalya Bondarchuk ⋅ Jüri Järvet
Andrei Tarkovsky
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Level: [sexual: low ⋅ fear: up ⋅ violence: up]
A mysterious death has occurred ahead of an Church. William of Baskerville and his novice, arrive for investigation at an early 14th century Benedictine abbey in Northern Italy ⋅ 2hr 10min
Sean Connery ⋅ Christian Slater
Jean-Jacques Annaud
8 Mile (2002)
Level: [sexual: low ⋅ fear: low ⋅ violence: high]
A blue-collar worker from a poor family residing in a trailer park in Detroit, Jimmy has moved to the run-down trailer home of his alcoholic mother Stephanie ⋅ 1hr 51min
Kim Basinger ⋅ Mekhi Phifer ⋅ Eminem
Curtis Hanson
Woman Walks Ahead (2017)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: up ⋅ violence: high]
The film is the story of Catherine Weldon, a widowed artist from New York who, in the 1880s, traveled alone to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Su Chief Sitting Bull ⋅ 1hr 41min
Jessica Chastain ⋅ Michael Greyeyes
Susanna White
Witness (1985)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: low ⋅ violence: high]
The film focuses on a police detective protecting an Amish woman and her young son, who becomes a target after he witnesses a brutal murder in a Philadelphia train station ⋅ 1hr 52min
Kelly McGillis ⋅ Harrison Ford
Peter Weir
The Shape of Water (2017)
Level: [sexual: up ⋅ fear: up ⋅ violence: cap]
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature from a South American river that is being held in captivity ⋅ 2hr 3min
Octavia Spencer ⋅ Sally Hawkins
Guillermo del Toro
Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: chill ⋅ violence: low]
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans ⋅ 1hr 50min
Kristen Stewart ⋅ James Gandolfini
Jake Scott
Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: up ⋅ violence: high]
Dian Fossey was an American anthropologist, primatologist and zoologist who studied mountain gorillas over 18 years in the mountain forests of Rwanda in Africa ⋅ 2hr 9min
Sigourney Weaver ⋅ Bryan Brown
Michael Apted
Monster, Inc (2001)
Good movie ⋅ Value not necessary
This job isn’t easy for the monsters, who believe children are toxic. James P. Sullivan (Goodman), a large woolly blue monster, is one of the company’s top scarers ⋅ 1hr 32min
Pete Docter ⋅ Lee Unkrich
David Silverman
Into the Wild (2007)
Good movie ⋅ Value not necessary
Journalist Krakauer reconstructs the last two years of Chris McCandless, a young man who was content with the wilderness Alaska isolation and died of starvation in 1992 ⋅ 2hr 28min
Emile Hirsch ⋅ Vince Vaughn
Sean Penn
Stand by Me (1986)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: low ⋅ violence: low]
Stand By Me is a unique Hero’s Journey because it can be argued that there are four protagonists — Gordie, Chris, Teddy, and Vern — each with their own emotional journey ⋅ 1hr 29min
Wil Wheaton ⋅ River Phoenix
Rob Reiner
Before Sunset (2004)
Good movie ⋅ Value not necessary
Jesse and Céline first met in Linklater’s earlier film, Before Sunrise. Nine years after meeting Céline in Vienna, Jesse has written a novel, This Time, based on their time together ⋅ 1hr 20min
Julie Delpy ⋅ Ethan Hawke
Richard Linklater
Ratatouille (2001)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: chill ⋅ violence: low]
Remy a young rat with heightened senses in Paris who dreams of becoming a chef at Gusteau’s restaurant and tries to achieve his goal by forming an unlikely alliance ⋅ 1hr 51min
Brad Garrett ⋅ Ian Holm ⋅ Lou Romano
Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava
The Gift (2015)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: chill ⋅ violence: up]
A married couple, Simon and Robyn, run into Gordo, an old classmate. Gordo begins repeatedly dropping in unannounced gifts, such as bottles of wine and koi for their pond ⋅ 1hr 48min
Rebecca Hall ⋅ Jason Bateman
Joel Edgerton
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: low ⋅ violence: up]
The Girl with a Pearl Earring is the story of Griet, a sixteen-year old girl who is hired by the famous painter, Vermeer from Dutch (c. 1665), to clean his studio ⋅ 1hr 40min
Scarlett Johansson ⋅ Colin Firth
Peter Webber
Greenland (2020)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: cap ⋅ violence: cap]
The Road: When scientists discover that a comet is going to hit Earth in a few days, and will likely cause the extinction of humanity, the only hope of survival is to take shelter ⋅ 1hr 59min
Morena Baccarin ⋅ Gerard Butler
Ric Roman Waugh
Enemy Mine (1985)
Level: [sexual: chill ⋅ fear: up ⋅ violence: up]
The 1985 film Enemy Mine tells the story of two soldiers — one human and one alien — who become unlikely allies when they are stranded together on a desolate planet ⋅ 1h 48min
Dennis Quaid ⋅ Louis Gossett Jr.
Wolfgang Petersen
Dracula (1992)
Level: [sexual: up ⋅ fear: cap ⋅ violence: cap]
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land ⋅ 2hr 8min
Winona Ryder ⋅ Gary Oldman
Francis Ford Coppola
Citizenfour (2014)
Good movie ⋅ Value not necessary
2014 Documentary In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with the whistleblower Edward Snowden ⋅ 1hr 54min
Edward Snowden ⋅ Glenn Greenwald
Laura Poitras
Inside Job (2010)
Good movie ⋅ Value not necessary
The global financial meltdown that took place in Fall 2008 caused millions of job and home losses and plunged the United States into a deep economic recession ⋅ 1hr 49min
Adam Bolt ⋅ Gylfi Zoega
Charles Ferguson
Where the Crowdads Sing (2022)
Level: [sexual: low ⋅ fear: low ⋅ violence: high]
Kya is a young woman everyone in the small town of Berkley Cove calls Marsh Girl, is accused in Carolina of murder the quarterback and playboy Chase Andrews ⋅ 2hr 5min
Daisy Edgar-Jones ⋅ Taylor Smith
Olivia Newman
Agora (2009)
Level: [sexual: low ⋅ fear: cap ⋅ violence: cap]
In 391 AD, Alexandria is part of the Roman Empire, and Greek philosopher Hypatia is a teacher at the Platonic/Academy school, where future leaders are educated ⋅ 1hr 46min
Rachel Weisz ⋅ Max Minghella
Alejandro Amenábar
