A Single Man (2010)

A grieving British professor in 1962 Los Angeles spends one pivotal day reassessing whether life holds meaning after losing his long-term partner.

Tom Ford directs this period drama and romance, adapted around a single day in the life of a heartbroken college lecturer played by Colin Firth. As encounters with figures including Julianne Moore and Nicholas Hoult's characters unfold against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis, he weighs whether to embrace the future or remain anchored to the past.