Fancast Free Friday Four: Movies That Will Kick You In The Gut

We’ve got a lot of free movies on Fancast. Some of these films pack an emotional kick to the gut.

The Shape of Things: If you’ve ever had even the slightest of self-esteem issues, you will be just as devastated as Paul Rudd is by the events in this film. He stars as a schlubbish guy who has a chance encounter with a radical artist (Rachel Weisz) in a museum, and their budding relationship inspires him to begin a subtle reinvention of himself, which draws the interest of a girl he’d loved for ages (Gretchen Mol), who is currently dating an obnoxious friend (Frederick Weller). When all is revealed, it’s a hell of a kick in the gut.

Requiem for a Dream: A small group of friends (Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans) who happen to be addicted to heroin nevertheless have aspirations for a better future. How their habits systematically and irrevocably destroy their dreams and their lives is a relentless kick in the gut.

Some films are a bit more literal with their gut-kicks. The often star Chuck Norris.

Lone Wolf McQuade: Texas Ranger J.J. McQuade has to fight a weapons dealer named Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine) to rescue his partner and daughter. Chuck Norris kicks people in the gut.

Code of Silence: Honest cop Eddie Cusak finds himself caught in the middle of a violent drug war and an Internal Affairs scandal. You can bet Chuck Norris will kick guts until he’s out of that jam.

For honorable mentions, watch the trailers for these other emotionally gut-kicking films:

Dancer in the Dark - Bjork gives an absolutely heartbreaking performance as a poor factory worker slowly going blind who has to escape into her rich fantasy life to avoid her ever-darkening reality.

The Green Mile: When the sweet and simple John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) walks that green mile, it takes forever, because you’re going to feel every gut-wrenching moment of that unjust march to heaven.

Philadelphia: Tom Hanks won his first Oscar by playing a slowly-dying lawyer stricken with AIDS who nevertheless fights to exact a measure of justice against the law firm who unfairly fired him and smeared his name. See it once and you’ll cry at the end. See it twice, you’ll cry through the whole second half.