It's been a lot. These don't add to it.
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
A family dog – with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind – evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
After a long week, a film should feel like something you chose rather than endured. These do that.
Human and comforting. Good for softening the edge of a hard week.
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
This is end-of-week cinema. You don't have to bring much. The film meets you where you are.
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
After five hard days, this gives back more than it asks. Good trade.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.