A GHOST STORY (2017) on iTunes and Amazon. Although 2017 was the year of the horror film, there was at least one ghost story that wasn’t scary: this one, directed by David Lowery. It stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, a couple who are separated, in some ways but not others, by the death of Mr. Affleck’s character, who is portrayed post-mortem by Mr. Affleck in a bedsheet with eyeholes. Here, death does not, in fact, do them part.

FRANK (2014) on iTunes, Amazon and Hulu. Fancy another film featuring an A-list actor in an absurd costume? How about Michael Fassbender in a giant papier-mâché head? You’ll find that, as well as Domhnall Gleeson as a would-be rocker and Maggie Gyllenhaal as a tantrum-throwing synth player, in this film from the director Lenny Abrahamson. The story follows Mr. Gleeson’s character, who quits his boring day job to join an avant-garde rock band fronted by Mr. Fassbender’s character, who never takes off his big head. The group goes on a long retreat, during which they record an album (or try to). Other members of the band are played by François Civil and the real-life drummer Carla Azar. In his review for The Times, A.O. Scott wrote that “Mr. Abrahamson’s main achievement, enabled by the sensitive and resourceful cast, is to find a tone that is funny without flippancy, sincere without turning to mush.”