The feeling that no film could possibly help is usually wrong. These usually help.
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Two teen track stars discover first love as they train for the biggest relay race of their young lives.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to fall in love with another man.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
When the mood is off, the film needs to be better than usual. These can carry it.
Sometimes exactly right when you least expect it to be.
After being gone for a decade, a country star returns home to the love he left behind.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.