Movies That Make You Think — Part 31

Four pressure tests: a polite reunion that turns into psychological revenge, teenagers chasing a classmate’s murder past the official story, a pilot forced to turn a crash landing into a rescue mission, and a president fighting the clock to turn wartime necessity into constitutional change.

The Gift (Prime Video)

Simon and Robyn’s new life starts to unravel when Gordo, an old acquaintance from Simon’s past, returns with gifts, awkward friendliness, and unfinished history. The thriller keeps shifting the moral ground under its characters, asking how long a buried cruelty can stay buried when the victim refuses to disappear.

November Criminals (Hulu)

After a classmate is murdered, Addison refuses to accept the easy explanation and begins his own investigation with Phoebe beside him. The movie blends grief, teen uncertainty, and amateur detective work into a story about how quickly a search for justice can become obsession.

Plane (Prime Video)

Pilot Brodie Torrance saves his passengers from a storm by landing on a remote island, only to discover the crash was the easy part. With the passengers threatened by armed rebels, he has to trust a prisoner in transit and make fast choices where duty, survival, and judgment collide.

Lincoln (Hulu)

Steven Spielberg narrows Abraham Lincoln’s story to the final months of the Civil War and the political battle to pass the Thirteenth Amendment. It plays less like a statue coming to life than a procedural about compromise, conscience, pressure, and the cost of turning moral clarity into law.