Too much input. These don't add to it.
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
The rhythm of this one quiets rather than amplifies. Right choice for tonight.
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
The rhythm of this one quiets rather than amplifies. Right choice for tonight.
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
The overstimulated brain needs low-contrast input. These bring the noise down, not up.
Gentle emotional stakes. Good antidote to an overstimulated state.
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
The rhythm of this one quiets rather than amplifies. Right choice for tonight.
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.
The rhythm of this one quiets rather than amplifies. Right choice for tonight.
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with Catholic guilt.
Calm enough not to spike the signal. Absorbing enough to hold your attention.
These films were chosen for the state you're in, not the state you wish you were in.