You survived the week. The least you deserve is a good film on the other side of it.
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
End-of-week viewing is about unwinding, not stimulating. These get that balance right.
Gives the week some perspective. Good for decompressing.
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.