It's difficult to follow your dreams. You devote hours of training and preparation without any guarantee that it will go according to plan and you'll be appreciated. You have to have luck. And you have to learn how to get up once you fall with a bang. That requires courage. A group of young people in a ruthless world, stuck in their everyday jobs dreaming of something bigger than just a paycheck. How to deal with failure and rejection? How to dream when you're a woman learning that men can destroy you with the power of their choices and you cannot get by on your own without love? How to accept that time can only work against you? Who can you trust and do you have everything that will guarantee success? A cult movie from the 80s and still an inspiration for many girls who count on their talents to make their dreams come true. Flashdance.
Some people are really devoted to their professions. Others are equally devoted to their bosses, whether out of respect or fear of urban legends about the gloomy fate of those who dared to be disobedient. But what kind of consequences has a job in which your task is to kill fulfilling orders of your superiors? What if one such superior made you take care of his wife? What if, by killing the wrong person, you made your boss your biggest enemy? What if taking care of one crime you accidentally disturbed other more serious criminals and karma had some nasty ways to bite you back? Cult, violent, and hilarious, young Quentin Tarantino and his Pulp Fiction.
You're really lucky when from day one everything was clear. Your sex, your body, your sexual orientation. But many of us question it every single day, which in the clouds of doubts, makes us even more human. But how difficult is the journey of self-acceptance in a competitive female environment when you were born a boy? What challenges face parents and families of transsexual children? How hurtful are the words of peers who know little about changing sex? How tricky is to transform one's body and build sexual relations, not being afraid of rejection? Educational and eye-opening, Girl.
It's a dream come true for every well-behaved school girl to find a bad boy who could be her guardian in the world of love, sex, and dance. What better opportunity to do this than to take part in a summer holiday and mingle with the staff? What can come of the clash of two classes and two beautiful bodies entangles in a passionate embrace? Unforgettable dance and music, a teenage hit, parents' worst nightmare loved to the extent of having a remake this time with the Cuban revolution in the background. If you have a craving for young love and a whole lot of dance classes, enjoy. Dirty Dancing and Dirty Dancing 2 Havana Nights.
You cannot disregard female power. Some men throughout the history of the world wanted to diminish women's significance, close them in the kitchen, limit their ambitions to cooking and child-bearing. Women, however, resisted, spreading their wings and proving that no area of human accomplishments is for them too difficult or unreachable. They survived. But intelligence raises fear. For their beliefs, many women were considered possessed, for their desires they were punished, for the expression of their thoughts they were imprisoned. Some of them needed shelter. Imagine a place which survived the political turmoils of changing governments, a place which valued art and female independence. A place, which could offer a hideout for the lost souls that strove for self-expression. What if it was run by witches? Rhythm, dance, and the horror of female liberation, which required bigger sacrifices, taking sides, and a whole lot of gore, Suspiria.
Do you believe in the power of love? Now you are bombarded with stories of betrayal, of infidelity, of abandoning your spouse for the more attractive or wealthier individual. We hear about break-ups after five, ten, twenty years or even after a couple of months of being together. The world focuses on silly things because times that we live in are silly. You're most likely to be born in peace, availability of goods, your biggest dilemma is to balance your home and your work. But people have always fallen in love. It's in human nature. You just can't help falling for the greatest drug provided by Earth. What if maintaining of this drug was disturbed by the complicated political situation, required more than one change of location and many years apart? A love story, Cold War.
We rarely talk about it. You're more likely to talk about gastric problems than boast about your mental breakdown, visits to the psychiatrist, inability to work or build your personal life from scratch after losing someone you love. Life is unpredictable. Major shifts and changes make you mature and develop, but they often take away the fuel of your life motivation. You become an outcast among your family members, workmates, and friends. Your work-life balance is stretched and you cannot cope, your personal life is in pieces, your behavior is irrational and you are on drugs which numb you and blur your senses. Can you find the light at the end of the tunnel after a major breakdown, is there a chance for love and new beginnings when all hope has been lost? Uplifting. Silver Linings Playbook. Enjoy.
You cannot predict your life. You can't really tell whether it will reward you with bliss and happiness or punish you with struggle and pain. Even if everything seems to go well, there are moments which can surprise you, knock you on the floor of disease, loss, a failed marriage, and disappointment. How to take everything what life has to offer with a pinch of salt, how to get back on your feet when your husband leaves you for another woman, how to have the dignity to die, and why life is a never-ending process of losses and gains. And it never stops being fun. It's only up to us how we decide to live it. Finding Your Feet.
A circus was a place which gathered those who could never fit in the societies norms. It allowed the exception to be seen to the wider audience, it provided jobs for those who couldn't make a living in regular nine to five jobs or manual professions. It gave entertainment to the masses and made people believe in the power of magic. You can think about the years of exploitation, which concerned animals and artists, but this film is far from dealing with the cons of showbusiness. When people were despised for being different, when they were made fun of for weight, height, hair abnormalities, when the color of your skin was still an issue which made it impossible to marry the love of your life, enjoy the evening at the theatre or be treated as equal, circus was a place where all could feel accepted. A tribute to art, music, dance, tolerance, love drive and motivation, and a big happy place for us to rewatch and resing, The Greatest Showman.
Love is one of the greatest mysteries on Earth. It makes everything fade: your family, pursuits, even your dreams. It makes you reevaluate some priorities in life. Is asks you what makes you happy and what you cannot imagine keeping going on without. Love is stronger than plans, as it makes a lot of people rewrite their most precise life scenarios. It helps us move continents, learn languages, develop skills. It can be happy or tragic, long-lasting and short. There are hundreds of stories of happy couples and those less happy ones who had to flee, abandon homes and professions, abdicate from the positions of kings, dukes, and priests. So if you're in a mood for a love story, which was based on a real-life forbidden affair, enjoy this tale: Elvira Madigan.
What if you're a medical student who suddenly felt a vocation to be someone else? What if you resigned from years of secure corporation career and decided to live in another country, working in a completely different job? What if your dream is to open a flower shop, a lavender plant, a chocolate factory? What if you come from a family of lawyers and you want to spend time playing computer games for money? What if you feel that your life purpose is not being stuck for hours behind a desk in an office. What if you dream of something outside the box? Maybe it's the circus? An inspiring film about people who had the courage to live their lives according to their dreams and vocation. About people who turned their jobs into art.
Dreams. The elements that make us wake up in the morning and pursue the most extravagant life paths. The windy road to the realization of dreams often requires standing up to your family, friends, and lovers. Sometimes your vocation is stronger than physical love. Sometimes your dream means abandoning the life you're so used to, abandoning the ones who have been with you since you were born. But dreams are also so deeply inherent in our idea of happiness that it is almost impossible to leave them altogether in a forgotten box of never-to-be. Let's have the courage to dream and lead our lives according to those dreams.










