Themes

Underdogs and coming of age 

  • The DUFF
  • Tall Girl
  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Lady Bird
  • Handsome Devil
  • Easy A
  • The Edge of Seventeen
  • Love, Simon
  • Eighth Grade
  • The Spectacular Now
  • Win Win
  • Dope
  • Project X
  • Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
  • Chronicle
  • Paper Towns

Politics and human rights 

  • Lincoln
  • Selma
  • The Post
  • The Butler
  • Trumbo
  • Vice
  • Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
  • The Conspirator
  • J. Edgar
  • Fahrenheit 11/9
  • Free State of Jones
  • The Vietnam War
  • 13th
  • Where to Invade Next
  • Fair Game
  • Snowden

Intense violence and sexual transgression 

  • Nocturnal Animals
  • Stoker
  • The Skin I Live In
  • Elle
  • Midsommar
  • Prisoners
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin
  • Killer Joe
  • Kill List
  • The Killer Inside Me
  • Only God Forgives
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  • Nightcrawler
  • Brimstone
  • The Gift
  • I Saw the Devil

Intense political and terrorist thrillers 

  • Sicario: Day of the Soldado
  • Zero Dark Thirty
  • A Most Wanted Man
  • Bodyguard
  • Closed Circuit
  • The Company You Keep
  • Sicario
  • Cleanskin
  • The East
  • Unthinkable
  • The Ghost Writer
  • Eye in the Sky
  • The Ides of March
  • Snowden
  • Omar
  • The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Student coming-of-age challenges 

  • The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  • Detachment
  • Eighth Grade
  • Love, Simon
  • Dirty Girl
  • Moonlight
  • That's What I Am
  • Hello Herman
  • Bully
  • Monsieur Lazhar
  • Sing Street
  • Easy A
  • I'm Not Ashamed
  • Neds
  • The Way He Looks
  • McFarland, USA

Racism and the powerful fight for justice 

  • Selma
  • 12 Years a Slave
  • The Butler
  • Free State of Jones
  • BlacKkKlansman
  • 13th
  • Mudbound
  • Detroit
  • The Hate U Give
  • The Birth of a Nation
  • I Am Not Your Negro
  • Loving
  • Harriet
  • Roots
  • The House I Live In
  • Lincoln

Twisted dark psychological thriller 

  • Stoker
  • Kill List
  • Shutter Island
  • The Gift
  • The Purge
  • Split
  • Get Out
  • Oculus
  • The Boy
  • The Invitation
  • The Prodigy
  • The Lodge
  • Ma
  • Gone Girl
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer
  • Sinister
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