Spoilers ahead: for the puzzle and the movies/games
This page reveals all categories and answers for this puzzle. It also discusses plot details, story endings, and other spoilers for some of the movies/games shown.
easy
Starring Nicolas Cage
Moonstruck · Raising Arizona · Face/Off · Pig
medium
Journeys that change the travelers
Alice in the Cities · Easy Rider · Sideways · The Straight Story
These films use the road or the trip as the thing that strips people down. By the end, the travelers are not just somewhere else. They understand themselves differently.
hard
Shot by Emmanuel Lubezki
A Little Princess · Children of Men · The New World · The Revenant
tricky
War seen through a child's eyes
Empire of the Sun · Grave of the Fireflies · Hope and Glory · Ivan's Childhood
The trick is that these films are not united by country, style, or even medium. They all make war feel intimate by forcing it through a child's point of view.