You are in love with someone you cannot reach and a therapist would have a field day with that sentence, which is part of why you haven't gone. They would ask when this pattern started. They would connect things you don't want connected. They would say something accurate that would require you to do something you are not ready to do. So you are here instead. These films will not give you the session you're avoiding. But they will say something true at a safe enough distance, and sometimes that is what you can manage.
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to b
It will not give you the tools your therapist would. It will get closer to the real question than the loop in your head has managed so far.
Gets close enough
Woody has always been confident about his place in the world, devoted to taking care of his kid:whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But after Bonnie creates a reluctant new toy called "Forky", a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends challenges everything Woody believes abo
The film says something true at the right distance. Not advice, not instruction, just recognition of the specific thing you have been carrying.
Holds the question
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
It holds the question without trying to answer it. That is enough for right now.
Better than nothing
Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.
Closer than you expected. Not a replacement for the conversation, but the nearest available thing, and better than nothing.
Closer than expected
None of these are a substitute for the conversation you are avoiding. They are just the nearest available thing.
Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossi
It will not give you the tools your therapist would. It will get closer to the real question than the loop in your head has managed so far.
Gets close enough
Hinako is a surf-loving college student who has just moved to a small seaside town. When a sudden fire breaks out at her apartment building, she is rescued by Minato, a handsome firefighter, and the two soon fall in love.
The film says something true at the right distance. Not advice, not instruction, just recognition of the specific thing you have been carrying.
Holds the question
A young couple's relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. Angel, experiencing love for the first time and facing demons unsurmountable, runs from the new life she doesn't believe she deserves. When Michael sets out to find her, Angel disc
It holds the question without trying to answer it. That is enough for right now.
Better than nothing
Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.
Closer than you expected. Not a replacement for the conversation, but the nearest available thing, and better than nothing.
Closer than expected
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.
It will not give you the tools your therapist would. It will get closer to the real question than the loop in your head has managed so far.
Gets close enough
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.
The film says something true at the right distance. Not advice, not instruction, just recognition of the specific thing you have been carrying.
Holds the question
Edmond Dantès becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Ch--teau d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo
It holds the question without trying to answer it. That is enough for right now.
Better than nothing
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the sim
Closer than you expected. Not a replacement for the conversation, but the nearest available thing, and better than nothing.
Closer than expected
Not the session you need. The nearest available thing.