When you're getting back to yourself, the film needs to meet you halfway. These do.
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.
It doesn't ask you to be well yet. Meets you where you actually are.
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.
It doesn't ask you to be well yet. Meets you where you actually are.
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.
Low drain, steady company. Exactly what recovery viewing needs.
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.
It doesn't ask you to be well yet. Meets you where you actually are.
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.
It doesn't ask you to be well yet. Meets you where you actually are.
Getting better is its own state. These films are good company for it.
Gentle and human. Good company when you're not fully yourself.
Best watched alone. Full absorption, no compromise on what to pick.
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
It doesn't ask you to be well yet. Meets you where you actually are.
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.
It doesn't ask you to be well yet. Meets you where you actually are.
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.
It doesn't ask you to be well yet. Meets you where you actually are.
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.
Low drain, steady company. Exactly what recovery viewing needs.
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.
It doesn't ask you to be well yet. Meets you where you actually are.
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.