These are the ones I put on when I want to feel better about people. There is no cleverness to it. They are about families, mostly made rather than born, and about somebody deciding to stay when leaving was available.
Nothing here is hiding what it means. It happens in the room, in front of you, and nobody in it is embarrassed about that.
Four children and a flying bison, and by the end they belong to each other. The moment Zuko finally says the thing to his uncle, the show just lets it be as big as it is. No joke on the way out. Everyone remembers where they were sitting.
The one about the years after you win, which almost nobody makes. Korra gets everything she wanted and then has to work out who she is when she is not the one being called for, and the people around her stay through all of it. You grow up more than once, apparently.
They foster three kids and are bad at it for most of the film, and it is honest about that. Love turns up after the work here, not before it, and the work is mostly laundry and being shouted at. Then the hearing happens and I have never once got through it.
The world ends early and the rest of it is people deciding to belong to each other anyway. A girl, a wrestler who cannot stop putting himself between people and harm, a woman carrying somebody else's child through the snow. Shelved as horror. It is about how fast strangers turn into family when there is nothing else left to be.
A man who will not carry a rifle carries seventy-five other men off a hill instead, one at a time, all night, saying the same short sentence to himself between each one. The film does not try to make him complicated. It shows you what he did until you feel how heavy each trip was.
It is a comedy about a man with no intention of growing up, right up until it is not. The turn comes in the courtroom, when he has to say out loud what the kid actually is to him. Nobody expects that film to go there. It goes there.
A father who built a whole castle to keep one person safe, and has to learn that the castle is the problem. Very silly for ninety minutes, completely serious for about four, and the four are why it is on the shelf.
Covers shown small, one each, so you can see which thing is which. Nothing here has a number on it and nothing here ever will.