• Monsieur Ibrahim: A graceful and glowing spiritual adventure story set in Paris during the 1960s where a Sufi grocer brings light and love into the lonely life of a Jewish adolescent who is filled with a yearning for something more.
  • Adaptation: A powerful movie about the passions that sometimes fuel our best achievements and other times leave us stranded with nothing more than our lesser appetites.
  • Antwone Fisher: An inspiring story about a young African American's desire to come to terms with his origins, a sacred task strongly recommended by a therapist.
  • Balseros (Cuban Rafters): An ambitious and well-realized documentary about seven Cuban dreamers who risked their lives aboard homemade rafts to make it to America to forge a new life for themselves.
  • Being John Malkovich: An Alice-in-Wonderland extravaganza about the yearning we all have, occasionally, to be someone else.
  • Bend It Like Beckham: A delightful English comedy that charts the single-mindedness of an Anglo-Indian girl to fulfill her dream of becoming a soccer player.
  • Billy Elliott: A wonderful film about an 11-year-old growing up in an English mining town in 1984 who follows his heart's desire to become a ballet dancer.
  • Blue Car: A beautifully crafted drama about the tug and pull of yearning in the lives of a tormented 18-year-old poet and her high school English teacher.
  • Chicken Run: A spunky, hilarious animated film about the yearning for freedom in the heart of a very determined hen on a farm in the English countryside.
  • Claire's Knee: A charming French film about the tug-of-war between a man's structured beliefs and his desires.
  • The Dreamers:An exploration of the twilight realm of longing where three youths embark on a voyage of discovery.
  • Dying Young: A convincing anatomy of the universal yearning for intimacy.
  • Equus: An illuminating parable about the human condition, giving voice to the yearning for some kind of religious experience.
  • Far From Heaven: A remarkably alluring film about one suburban woman's yearning in the face of a discovery that shatters her cheery and tranquil suburban life.
  • Fear and Trembling: A fascinating French film set in Japan about power in the workplace and the yearning that fuels a cross-cultural experience.
  • Fire: A compelling drama set in India about the boundlessness of desire.
  • The Good Girl: A well-constructed black comedy about what happens to an unhappy woman whose yearning for something completely different takes her to a place she really doesn't want to be.
  • The Hours: A mesmerizing and multidimensional drama based on a Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the yearning of three women and their varied paths to passion, meaning, and happiness.
  • The Last Kiss: A light-hearted probe of the problems of individuals for whom the yearning of passion spells discontent.
  • The Man on the Train: A marvelously acted French film about two men past their prime who cross each other's paths and yearn for something completely different in their lives.
  • Millennium Actress: An enchanting Japanese animated film about a woman whose life is propelled by the yearning of her heart for a mysterious stranger.
  • My American Cousin: An energetic and authentic portrait of a 12-year-old girl's coming of age that reveals the mixed feelings young people have about sex, rebellion, independence, and self-esteem.
  • October Sky: A movie that will lift your spirits and make you feel good about all those who pursue their dreams in the face of large obstacles.
  • The Old Gringo: An adaptation of Carlos Fuentes' novel about the desperate yearning of three strangers who meet in Mexico in l913 during Pancho Villa's revolution.
  • The Rookie: A soulful tribute to the spiritual firepower of yearning and the way a community supports the dreams of one of its gifted members.
  • Rumi: Poet of the Heart: A documentary that conveys the enchantment of Rumi's spirituality and the imaginative imagery of his poetry.
  • Shall We Dance?: A marvelous Japanese film about a middle-aged accountant whose life is transformed by the spiritual uplift of desire he experiences after he joins a dance club.
  • Three Seasons: An extraordinary cross-cultural masterpiece shining with incredible images, a keen sense of pace, and a reverence for the incredible yearning of ordinary people.
  • Two Family House: An inspiring drama that celebrates the efforts of an ordinary working-class man to follow his bliss on Staten Island.
  • Vanity Fair: An exquisite screen adaptation of Thackeray's novel about the poison of envy and the social climber in us all.
  • Violets Are Blue: A drama that addresses the complex choices many people have to make as they come face-to-face with the dreams of their youth and the realities of middle-age.

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