The definition of success is different for everyone. Swimming in the sea of financial sharks, owning a great apartment, and enjoying the pleasures of a big city is considered a great achievement for some but, possibly, you need to redefine things in life. Going back to your roots gives you an opportunity to climb not the career ladder but expand your own personal space which is way more horizontal. Beautiful Italy in the background, a house to renovate, a few friendships to build, and a romance to start. Yes, you can have a good money year, but also A Good Year, and the latter is far more worthy. Enjoy.
Ambition can blind you at times. You can be driven by ego and achievements and be misled by what is worthy. Life also puts obstacles in front of you, challenges that make you learn your lessons and change your course of action. This journey gives you people who can shift your perspective and teach you the important things. And very rarely in life, you have a chance to talk to real spiritual leaders and change, admit to the wrong you caused, and improve. Based on real Heinrich Harrer and Dalai Lama with World War 2 and China's takeover of Tibet in the background. And a journey of one self-centered boy, who believed he could win the world on his own until he met the right kind of people and became a man. Seven Years in Tibet.
If you have a matter to solve, you want to get the job done, don't you? And when the issue concerns the killing of your father, you want to hire the best possible person to make sure the villain will be caught and punished accordingly. And it doesn't matter that you are just a teenage girl in the brutal world of Wild West surrounded by unscrupulous criminals when justice rarely sees the light of day. A unique friendship, an unlikely bond and a quest towards one girl's justice. True Grit.
Remember Groundhog Day? Thirty years on you can have the same concept adjusted to modern circumstances. And what reliving the same day over and over, and over again means for the 2020s? Is it the same as Bill Murray's never-ending nightmare which led to self-reflection or in time have we changed and our experiences, social contacts, and relationships are relevant only for us? This time, we can see both sides of the spectrum, the perspective of a man, and an equally lost woman. Is there a way out of this time trap? A tragic and funny portrait of us, people, who lost something important, and are numb by the routine and offerings of adulthood. Palm Springs.
Life. Ranging from monotonous to exciting. Full of ups and downs. Falling in love and breaking up. Excitement and depression. Kindness and the ugly truth. Life goes by and before you know it, you fall into the trap of your routine and grow miserable. But if, quite depressed by your current daily chore of being alive, you found yourself in an almost magical trap without escape? What if every day you had to experience the same exact day over and over again? How would it affect you and would it change you for the better? All that life has to offer in the short space of one day and a lot of human self-reflection. Bill Murray at his best. Groundhog Day.
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.
We all come from somewhere: our current location, dream job and desired destination in the world of emigrants and immigrants cannot wipe out our roots. And these roots, entangling our toes, feet, and ankles, remind us of long-forgotten history, ancestry, and family. But in the melting pot of new traditions, Starbucks' culture, borrowed ideas, foreign fashion and languages isn't it good to go back to the square one and appreciate our own uniqueness, diversity and depth? Maybe family meetings are great lesson of being humble and in peace with oneself? All cultures, however, have their unwritten rules which need to be accepted. One of Chinese traditions is lying to someone who is about to die about their actual health. Knowing that someone dear to you is sick, can you really blend in and maintain a lie? The Farewell.
Seventeen is not really a dream come true age to get pregnant. That's right, you can glorify it in teen reality TV dramas about how teenage girls try to juggle growing up and motherhood, but you can have a better idea about your future and not really want a child in it (either at all or for now). But your country/state/politics might not help you to deal with your situation especially when you're left without the support of your family, friends, and a boyfriend. You might have to find money, travel miles, and take with you someone who you can trust the most. A Thelma-and-Louise-like journey with a contemporary problem. How to deal with the world when you're a young woman in the country full of religious fanatics and irrational paradoxes? How valuable does a real friendship turn out to be, and why so many of us, young women, will find it a heart-warming story about a heartbreaking life choice. Unpregnant.
We got used to male detectives: Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Hercules Poirot occupied our consciousness for decades. What we needed was someone new and fresh. And a woman. Because what was for decades ignored by others, was female intelligence, bravery, and the ability to notice what to man's eye is unseen. So wouldn't you like to engage in a detective mystery and a brave escape from the strict rules of conventions, tight structures of corsets in the male-dominated world of 19th century England? Enola Holmes is a smart aspiring detective and an example to follow for many girls growing up nowadays with access to Netflix. Based on a series of novels by Nancy Springer, Enola Holmes.
The most frustrating thing in life is to run into a stumbling block of your ambition. But some things are just so difficult to overcome. Money, class, background, education - these things you won't easily acquire and there are no shortcuts. But if once rejected, you badly needed to be accepted back? What can you resort to in order to make your plan work and the girl of your dreams like and trust you back? Is there a limit to your scruples or Machiavelli was right and "The end justifies the means"? How a boy with no money and prospects tried to make it in the city of Warsaw. The Hater.
It takes time to learn your true vocation. You might get in the trap of money, sex, and idleness and be too blind to learn the value of work and love. But time is a great teacher. What comes easily to you, can be as easily taken away. True skills, however, will stay and help you recover from the greatest misfortunes. The loss will teach you the value of friendship, love, parenthood, and profession. And then - you're changed. And people do change, once they suffered enough, learned a lot or got bored with the same things over and over again. How did it happen to a young, arrogant medic who happened to find himself at the king's court? Great costumes, palaces, and rituals of the epoch and one lost young man prone to sin, Restoration.
If you devote your life to just a single aspect, you might find there's something missing. Education is one of these things. Burying yourself entirely in books doesn't guarantee that your life will be happy and fulfilled. But if you realized it just at the last moment of your high-school marathon and there was just one day to catch up on days wasted on serious things? All parties squeezed in one day, speedy self-searching and disappointments, and admitting that you actually might have been wrong. Booksmart.
