10 Tips from Great Films about OVERCOMING

Stories of overcoming are part of many trajectories. Generally, as a result of some conflict, new ways of seeing the world become available, leading to new journeys and ways of looking at life. Thinking about this section about human existence, below is a really cool list with 10 great films about overcoming:

Ticket

In the plot, we meet Linsey (Jennifer Lawrence) a soldier from the army engineering corps, specialist in water systems, who suffers a complicated brain injury in Afghanistan when the vehicle she was in is attacked. She loses some movement in her body and upon returning to the United States, she ends up initially going to rehabilitation at a caregiver’s house, then heading home, where she has the chance to resolve (or at least try) dormant problems in her relationship with her mother. Gloria (Linda Emond) and in the meantime, she gets a job as a pool attendant and ends up meeting the mechanic James (Brian Tyree Henry) a very kind man who lost his leg in a serious accident that forever changed his family’s destiny. Thus, these two souls begin a friendship with mutual gains on a painful road to escape loneliness.

A life lesson

In the plot, we get to know better a country that we unfortunately know very little about, Kenya. There, after an education incentive, a charismatic 84-year-old man named Maruge (Oliver Litondo) who has an inspiring desire to learn to read and write. Fighting against every type of prejudice you can imagine, Maruge will have the help of the courageous teacher Jane (Naomie Harris) to make your big dream come true.

What Brings Good News

In the plot, after an invaluable tragedy, a school faces a major problem with its students. Shaken, parents and advisors look for a way out to overcome an entire class until the arrival of the new teacher of Algerian origin, played by the great actor Mohamed Fellag.

Blood for Glory

In the plot, we meet boxer Vinny Pazienza (Miles Teller), a sportsman beloved by fans who is constantly rising in his career. Days after another great career victory, he gets a ride in a luxurious car that ends up suffering a serious accident on a North American highway. Hanging between life and death for a long time, when he wakes up from an induced coma he discovers that it will be very difficult for him to walk and his chances of returning to practicing the sport he loves so much are practically nil. Counting on the help of his coach Kevin Rooney (Aaron Eckhart), who had trained the unforgettable Mike Tyson years earlier, Vinny decides to risk his own health and little by little returns to training at a high level, having the incredible chance of winning another world title.

Nyad

In the plot, we meet Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) a sportswoman known throughout America who a few decades ago attempted a feat that others had also failed to achieve. Time passed, away from swimming pools for a long time, she became a commentator on a television station. One day, she returns to achieve the goal mentioned decades ago, swimming more than 160 kilometers between Cuba and Florida, a journey full of dangers that is much more impossible than possible. Alongside his inseparable friend and coach Bonnie (Jodie Foster) and a highly qualified team, Diana will need to train her body and combat the emotional conflicts caused by past traumas in pursuit of this incredible goal.

Infinite Storm

In the plot, we meet Pam (Naomi Watts) a nurse in her 50s with a huge trauma in her past who lives her days alone in a cold and mountainous region. She is part of the Pemigewasset Valley Search and Rescue Team, which also covers Mount Washington in New Hampshire. One day, despite knowing the weather conditions, with a storm coming, she decides to go to the mountains. Along the way, she encounters a lost young man who seems bewildered and out of his mind. Fighting against time, Pam will need to use all her skills to quickly descend the mountain and help the young man she found.

In Search of Revenge

In the plot, we meet Roman (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a hard-working man who works hard on a construction site anxiously awaiting his wife and daughter to arrive in North American territory. Arriving at the airport to pick up the two, he is surprised by the news that the flight they were on suffered a terrible fatality and that no one possibly survived what happened. So, Roman’s world comes crashing down and he will need to get his head on straight and try his way to overcome this tragedy. At the same time, Jake (Scoot McNairy), the flight controller responsible for the airspace at that time, becomes the great villain of the story, being massacred by the press, by the population. Jake will also need to gather the strength to escape this situation that destroyed the relationship he had with his family. Their fates will intersect and will have consequences for both.

Antonia, a Symphony

In the plot, we meet Antonia (Christanne de Bruijn), a young woman with an obvious talent for classical music who has one big dream: to be a conductor of an important orchestra. But her life is not easy, coming with her family from Holland to the United States, where she later discovers that she was adopted, she suffers all types of prejudice in American lands in pursuit of her dream of studying and achieving respect in the world of music.

Tom of Finland

In the plot, we meet the previously Finnish army lieutenant Touko Laaksonen who later became one of the most iconic homosexual artists of the 20th century. The film tells Tom’s trajectory from the time he was a Finnish Lieutenant in the Second World War, his relationship full of tension with his sister, his intense (some hidden) loving sexual relationships and his taste for art with part of his work focused on gay audience that gained a legion of fans, mainly in the United States. Very well scripted, the arcs are detailed and present us with a great x-ray of this Finn who became a sensation in the United States.

The Idol

In the plot, we meet young Mohammed Assaf who enjoys his days in the city of Gaza, Palestine, where he lives with his family. Happy and full of friends who have always been involved with music, he goes through a great abyss when he loses his only sister prematurely to a terrible illness. Thus, he grows up and his dreams become more distant and the reality he lives in sucks him in. Until one day he decides to return to music as inspiration and applies for Arab Idol (the Arab American Idol) in 2013, seeking his long-awaited success and recognition.