Comedy movies for restless nights from the 2000s. Includes Stranger Than Fiction, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, Last Holiday and more, curated by Moviepiq.
Something to watch when the night won't settle. Absorbing enough to help, calm enough not to hurt.
Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.
The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.
When Scooby and the gang get trapped in a video game created for the gang, they must fight against the 'Phantom Virus.' To escape the game they must go level by level and defeat the game once and for all.
The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.
The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and jets off to Europe where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Williams.
The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.
Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.
Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.
Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.
Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.
A film that helps a restless night has something specific going for it. These have it.
Light enough not to stimulate further. Good for restless nights.
A young Jewish American man endeavors - with the help of eccentric, distant relatives - to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II - in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.
Stowing away after a failed con, a pair of swindlers end up on El Dorado, the fabled "city of gold", where they quickly get in over their heads when they are mistaken as gods by the inhabitants.
The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.
With one coin to make a wish at the piazza fountain, a peasant girl encounters two competing street performers who'd prefer the coin find its way into their tip jars. The little girl, Tippy, is caught in the middle as a musical duel ensues between the one-man-bands.
Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.
The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.
A former world-famous conductor of the Bolshoï orchestra, known as "The Maëstro", Andreï Filipov had seen his career publicly broken by Leonid Brezhnev for hiring Jewish musicians and now works cleaning the concert hall where he once directed. One day, he intercepts an official invitation from the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet. Through a series of mad antics, he reunites his old orchestra, now composed of old alcoholic musicians, and flies to perform in Paris and complete the Tchaikovsky concerto interrupted 30 years earlier. For the concerto, he engages a young violin soloist with whom he has an unexpected connection.
Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.
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