Not looking for a relationship -- just for the feeling of being known. These films are full of that. Human connection that is not romantic, company that asks nothing, presence that makes the room feel less empty.
After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.
The connection here is not romantic. It is just human. That is exactly what this state needs.
Presence without plot
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
The connection here is not romantic. It is just human. That is exactly what this state needs.
Presence without plot
Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.
The connection here is not romantic. It is just human. That is exactly what this state needs.
Presence without plot
A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Full of the kind of presence that makes a room feel different. No love plot required.
Presence without plot
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Full of the kind of presence that makes a room feel different. No love plot required.
Presence without plot
Presence without plot
Works with someone who does not need to talk through it with you.
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
Full of the kind of presence that makes a room feel different. No love plot required.
Human warmth without romance
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.
Full of the kind of presence that makes a room feel different. No love plot required.
Human warmth without romance
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Full of the kind of presence that makes a room feel different. No love plot required.
Presence without plot
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
The connection here is not romantic. It is just human. That is exactly what this state needs.
Presence without plot
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.
The connection here is not romantic. It is just human. That is exactly what this state needs.
Presence without plot
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.