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Movies with atmospheric vibe

The Little Prince

371. The Little Prince

Adventure Animation Fantasy Family Adventure Epic
7.6

20151h 48min

France, Italy

Director: Mark Osborne

Overview

Based on the best-seller book 'The Little Prince', the movie tells the story of a little girl that lives with resignation in a world where efficiency and work are the only dogmas. Everything will change when accidentally she discovers her neighbor that will tell her about the story of the Little Prince that he once met.

Themes

Parent child tension, Utopia vs dystopia, Efficiency vs imagination, Adult conformity, Social differences, Education as control

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Amazon Video
Apple TV
fuboTV
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Synchronicity

372. Synchronicity

Mystery Science Fiction Thriller Time Travel Sci-Fi Mindbender Mystery
5.4

20151h 41min

Mexico, United States

Director: Jacob Gentry

Overview

A daring physicist travels into the past to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.

Themes

Time travel ethics, Trust and betrayal, Corporate control of invention, Altered reality perception, Parallel universe instability, Ownership of ideas

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Amazon Video
Apple TV
fuboTV
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Some Kind of Beautiful

373. Some Kind of Beautiful

Comedy Romance Romantic Comedy Awkward Comedy
5.7

20151h 39min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Tom Vaughan

Overview

By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity College in Cambridge. By night, Richard indulges his own romantic fantasies with a steady stream of beautiful undergraduates. But Richard has grown tired of the game and is looking for something more meaningful and lasting. So when Kate, Richard’s tanned, athletic, 25-year-old American girlfriend tells him that she is pregnant, Richard is thrilled. He looks forward to having a family of his own, being a father his children could be proud of, not some sex-fueled bobcat. There is only one problem. Richard’s not in love with Kate. Richard is in love with Kate’s sister, Olivia. He had been in love with her ever since he first saw her.

Themes

Infidelity and deception, Career vs personal life, Age-gap romance, Teacher-student dynamic, Parental duty and care, Search for lasting connection

Available on

Google Play Movies
YouTube
Plex Channel
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Amy

374. Amy

Documentary Music Biographical Documentary Backstage & Showbiz Music
7.8

20152h 8min

United Kingdom

Director: Asif Kapadia

Overview

A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.

Themes

Addiction and rehabilitation, Fame exposure and decline, Media attention and judgment, Troubled relationships and instability, Creative pressure and risk, Archival imagery and memory

Available on

Netflix
Amazon Video
Apple TV
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Bound to Vengeance

375. Bound to Vengeance

Thriller Horror Kidnapping & Captivity Thriller Psychological Horror
5.6

20151h 20min

United States

Director: José Manuel Cravioto

Overview

A young woman, Eve, fights back and manages to escape a malicious abductor. However, after discovering she may not be the only victim, Eve unravels a darker truth and decides to turn the tables on her captor.

Themes

Deception and manipulation, Revenge and survival, Agency under duress, Resilience amid violence, Kidnapping and captivity

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Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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Max

376. Max

Adventure Drama Family Animal Companion Family Family Drama
6.6

20151h 51min

United States

Director: Boaz Yakin

Overview

A dog that helped soldiers in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family after suffering a traumatic experience.

Themes

Loyalty under pressure, Duty versus family, Grief and coping, Risk and rescue, Trauma and reintegration, Illicit dealings

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Amazon Video
Apple TV
fuboTV
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Dope

377. Dope

Crime Drama Comedy Coming-of-Age Drama Narcotics Crime
7.2

20151h 43min

United States

Director: Rick Famuyiwa

Overview

Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.

Themes

Trust under pressure, Deception and exploitation, Urban survival under pressure, Academic ambition under duress, Wealth temptation, Peer influence and risk

Available on

Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Video
Apple TV
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Intruders

378. Intruders

Drama Thriller Horror Psychological Horror Domestic Thriller
5.7

20151h 30min

United States

Director: Adam Schindler

Overview

Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.

Themes

Deception and betrayal, Surveillance and control, Trauma and retaliation, Power vs vulnerability, Family violence legacy, Spatial confinement

Available on

Google Play Movies
YouTube
Hoopla
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Aloha

379. Aloha

Drama Comedy Romance Romantic Comedy Awkward Comedy
5.4

20151h 45min

United States

Director: Cameron Crowe

Overview

A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.

Themes

Trust and deception, Loyalty across relationships, Private interests vs public good, Development vs tradition, Power dynamics and responsibility, Cultural mediation

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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Embrace of the Serpent

380. Embrace of the Serpent

Drama Adventure Adventure Epic Historical Drama
7.8

20152h 5min

Argentina, Colombia

Director: Ciro Guerra

Overview

The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel through the Amazon in search of a sacred plant that can heal them. Inspired by the journals of the first explorers of the Colombian Amazon, Theodor Koch-Grunberg and Richard Evans Schultes.

Themes

Religious conversion pressures, Colonial encounter and control, Nature as resource and stage, Indigenous knowledge vs extraction, Memory vs oblivion in contact, Power asymmetry and exploitation

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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