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Strangers Who Change Each Other

Watch these back-to-back when you want the warmth of two people who shouldn't have met becoming each other's whole world — a ladder from the multiplex hit down to its arthouse ancestors.

Starts as broadly-loved crowd-pleasers and deepens into festival canon; mostly easy and big-hearted, though Talk to Her turns transgressive and asks for an open mind.

• The Intouchables (2011)
• Green Book (2018)
• Il Sorpasso (1962)
• Talk to Her (2002)
• Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997) — The overlooked German road-trip caper that rhymes with Il Sorpasso and Green Book — two dying strangers who'd never have met steal a car and become each other's whole reason to keep driving, big-hearted and bittersweet rather than grim.