You have no emotional bandwidth right now. These respect that.
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.
No emotional weight transferred. You can watch without it costing you anything.
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.
No emotional weight transferred. You can watch without it costing you anything.
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.
Keeps it light. Nothing here will require anything from your emotional reserves.
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.
Keeps it light. Nothing here will require anything from your emotional reserves.
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.
Keeps it light. Nothing here will require anything from your emotional reserves.
Films with no emotional demand are harder to find than they should be. These genuinely ask nothing.
Difficult match for no-emotional-energy nights. Consider something else.
Works across the room. Nobody left out or checked out.
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Keeps it light. Nothing here will require anything from your emotional reserves.
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.
Keeps it light. Nothing here will require anything from your emotional reserves.
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.
No emotional weight transferred. You can watch without it costing you anything.
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.
No emotional weight transferred. You can watch without it costing you anything.
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.
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.