Anxiety at night is its own thing. These help without making it worse.
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.
Steady company for an unsteady night. The tone holds.
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..
Steady company for an unsteady night. The tone holds.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Steady company for an unsteady night. The tone holds.
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.
Absorbing without spiking. Gets you out of your head without putting you in a worse one.
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.
Absorbing without spiking. Gets you out of your head without putting you in a worse one.
The right film for anxiety sits at a very specific point on the tension dial. These are calibrated for it.
Gentle drama is good for anxious nights. Heavy drama isn't.
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.
Steady company for an unsteady night. The tone holds.
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Absorbing without spiking. Gets you out of your head without putting you in a worse one.
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.
Steady company for an unsteady night. The tone holds.
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.
Steady company for an unsteady night. The tone holds.
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.
Absorbing without spiking. Gets you out of your head without putting you in a worse one.
These films were chosen for the state you're in, not the state you wish you were in.