Drama movies with no emotional energy with family. Includes It's a Wonderful Life, Modern Times, Sunset Boulevard and more, curated by Moviepiq.
You have no emotional bandwidth right now. These respect that.
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.
No emotional weight transferred. You can watch without it costing you anything.
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..
Keeps it light. Nothing here will require anything from your emotional reserves.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Keeps it light. Nothing here will require anything from your emotional reserves.
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.
Keeps it light. Nothing here will require anything from your emotional reserves.
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.
No emotional weight transferred. You can watch without it costing you anything.
Emotional flatness is a valid state. Films that respect it are worth keeping track of.
Avoid heavy drama tonight. Choose something lighter in tone.
Works across the room. Nobody left out or checked out.
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.
Keeps it light. Nothing here will require anything from your emotional reserves.
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
No emotional weight transferred. You can watch without it costing you anything.
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.
Keeps it light. Nothing here will require anything from your emotional reserves.
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.
No emotional weight transferred. You can watch without it costing you anything.
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.
No emotional weight transferred. You can watch without it costing you anything.
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.
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