The world has gone slightly distant, like you are watching your own life from a step back. These films sit in that gap. A few of them will make something feel real again, briefly, without forcing it.
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
Watching it feels like being in the same frequency. That is oddly settling.
Grounding without announcing it
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Watching it feels like being in the same frequency. That is oddly settling.
Grounding without announcing it
The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.
The texture of this film is slightly removed from ordinary reality. It suits the state.
Grounding without announcing it
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Watching it feels like being in the same frequency. That is oddly settling.
Matches the frequency
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction.
The texture of this film is slightly removed from ordinary reality. It suits the state.
Grounding without announcing it
Grounding without announcing it
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.
The texture of this film is slightly removed from ordinary reality. It suits the state.
Matches the frequency
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
The texture of this film is slightly removed from ordinary reality. It suits the state.
Matches the frequency
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
Watching it feels like being in the same frequency. That is oddly settling.
Matches the frequency
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
The texture of this film is slightly removed from ordinary reality. It suits the state.
Matches the frequency
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Watching it feels like being in the same frequency. That is oddly settling.
Grounding without announcing it
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.