What are some of the best movies with low-stakes plots?

The Big Lebowski.

Dude Where’s My Car.

Totoro

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle

Napoleon Dynamite is one of my favorites. Wristcutters: A Love Story is also fantastically weird. The opening scene is very… strong. But the rest of the movie has a lighter tone.

My Dinner with Andre and Coffee and Cigarettes.

I am not sure what you mean by low stakes but are some slice of life movies that may fit your list:

• The Straight Story
• Stand By Me
• A River Runs Through It
• The Way Way Back
• The Breakfast Club
• Return of the Secaucus 7
• The Big Chill
• The Four Seasons
• Indian Summer

Dazed and Confused. It takes place in a 70’s Texas town during the last day of school for a bunch of high schoolers ending in a party in the woods. It plays out the way you’d expect from a bunch of kids looking to have a good time.

Good Morning

It’s a cute, slice-of-life movie about a neighborhood in postwar Japan.

Tetsuo, the iron man.

I think.

I have no clue what it was about.

But I’ve watched it a hundred times.