Touching, romantic, and heartfelt movies: what to watch this weekend

Romantic plots, incredible stories about true feelings, tears and disappointments, a thorny path to a glorious dream, lightning-fast work of directors and professional acting - all this awaits connoisseurs of touching movies. UNN offers a selection of films to watch this weekend.

Captain Fantastic 2016 - the head of a large family named Ben decided to isolate his family from capitalism and consumer society, and organized a camp in the forest where everyone lives by his own rules. Now his children with unusual names are smart beyond their years, read books thoughtfully, celebrate the birthday of a living classic, the philosopher Noam Chomsky, instead of Christmas, and are physically well developed. This could have gone on for a long time if Leslie's wife's mental illness, which had been dormant in her for a long time, had not given her a sign: she needed hospitalization and was taken to the hospital. After some time, she committed suicide amid depression, and the family faced grief for the first time in many years, forcing them to board a bus and head to a city full of enemies and temptations. How will this dangerous journey end?

• Genre: Film, Drama, Comedy

• Country: USA

• Director: Matt Ross

• Cast: Viggo Mortensen, George McKay, Samantha Erber, Annalisa Basso, Nicholas Hamilton, Sri Crookes, Charlie Shotwell, Trin Miller, Katherine Hahn, Steve Zahn.

Tick tock... Boom! 2021 - the film takes place in the 1990s, when New York City was experiencing global changes and the AIDS epidemic. A young man named John dreams of becoming a composer so that he and his beloved Susan can get out of poverty and leave their hard work as waiters at a local diner. To achieve his goal, he writes an unusual musical, hoping to become famous and popular. However, years of poverty pass, and soon John turns 30, and his girlfriend gets tired of waiting for success and decides to leave him for a more promising man. Michael's best friend also stops helping and finds a stable income in the financial sector. Then, after experiencing betrayal and failure, John begins to plunge into the world of despair because he has wasted his time and failed to achieve fame.

• Film: Drama, Music, Biography

• Country: USA

• Director: Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Cast: Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesus, Vanessa Hudgens, Joshua Henry, Jonathan Mark Sherman.

Midnight in Paris 2011 - Gil, a naive Hollywood writer, dreams of bohemian life in the French capital of the 20th century and finds himself there in an absolutely mystical way. Arriving in Paris with his fiancée, he leaves her at the hotel and goes for a walk in the night city. And then the unthinkable happens - Gil finds himself in the past. The hero meets his idols: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dali, and Buñuel. Walking around Paris at night and meeting celebrities of the last century becomes a habit for Gil. The city lives according to its own laws and hospitably opens its doors to the young romantic, he realizes that he belongs to this time and wants to stay there forever.

• Genre: Film, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy

• Country: Spain, USA, France

• Director: Woody Allen

• Cast: Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates, Lea Seydoux, Kurt Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Tom Hiddleston, Cory Stoll, Adrian Brody.

The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 - the film tells the story of the exciting adventures of the legendary concierge Gustav and his young friend, the porter Zero Mustafa. The hotel staff witnesses the theft and search for priceless Renaissance paintings, the struggle for a wealthy family's huge fortune, and... the dramatic changes in Europe between the two bloody wars of the 20th century.

• Genre: Film, Comedy, Crime, Adventure

• Country: Germany, USA

• Director: Wes Anderson

• Actors: Tony Revolori, Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Edward Norton, Mathieu Amalric, Saoirse Ronan, Adrian Brody, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray.

Julie & Julia 2009 - this story tells the life of two women from different eras and social classes, but equally passionate about cooking and constant work on themselves.

Julie Powell dreams of a career as a writer, but, unfortunately, nothing happens. To distract herself from the daily routine, she decides to set a goal: to prepare more than five hundred recipes described in the famous book by Julia Child in a year. Julie writes a story about her cooking adventures in daily notes published on her personal blog.

In parallel to this story, the life of Mrs. Child herself is shown. Having found herself in France through her husband's service, she began to comprehend the local cuisine with all her inherent passion. She transferred her experience into a book that became the flagship of culinary art for many years.

The difficulties that arise in the way of both women only make them stronger.

•  Genre: Film, Drama, Melodrama, Biographical

• Country: USA

• Director: Nora Ephron

• Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond, Helen Carey, Mary Lynn Rajskab, Jane Lynch, Joan Juliet Buck, Crystal McCreery.