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No Men Beyond This Point (2015)
Useful Thought Experiment
Despite denying cis woman-identifying biological mothers anything but heterosexuality or asexuality (which is notoriously difficult to 'prove' except performatively, i.e. Telling others it is so), this is a handy way for diverse audiences to consider "the runty little" (as one man describes it) chromesome that constitutes a pillar of patriarchal lies and superiority complexes.
Certainly the Earth would be better without cis het men, but it would also only be far better without all men AND women, and the film foregrounds this well.
The ending, sadly, is awful though, so best hit STOP before it.
Gekijouban Made in Abyss: Fukaki Tamashii no Reimei (2020)
Definitely watch the show first
The first two films have some remarkably weak writing, though animation is fairly strong throughout.
NOT FOR KIDS, coz darker themes are visited early on and usual anime penchant for over-emphasizing characters' puberty and promoting the ongoing genocide of animals (history will NOT look kindly of these aspects).
Despite it being "irredeemable" that the first two so-so films weren't given due care in editing to make one GOOD film (so many ponderous filler moments that simply 'wait-out' the allotted time), the third makes up for it by being a classy act, every bit as good as the TV series and leading to climatic emotional scenes.
Above and Beyond (1952)
Yet another imperialist film excusing the planet's single greatest atrocity event.
As a non-American this is very hard to watch, with war criminals celebrated left and right, and an imperialist logic that entirely ignores the victims of its wars. Hard to find any of the characters sympathetic. Robert Taylor's performance is so-so, and the comic moments are sickening. The message that bigger, more destructive weapons will eventually give American males some relief from their gender crisis, finally win a war, and allow them to be dutiful white hetero husbands and fathers is also obscene. For fans of Kissinger: The God-sent Hero, George W. Bush: Our Brave Leader, and Oppenheimer: Saviour, I guess.