Too wired to sleep, too tired to do anything else. These split the difference.
Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is... not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way.
The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.
The comedic modern-day quintet takes on their 2003 counterparts when villains from each of their worlds join forces to pit the two Titan teams against each other. They'll need to set aside their differences and work together to combat Trigon, Hexagon, Santa Claus (that's right, Santa!) and time itself in order to save the multiverse.
The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.
Restless nights need films that absorb without over-stimulating. That balance is harder than it sounds.
Light enough not to stimulate further. Good for restless nights.
A disgraced basketball coach is given the chance to coach Los Amigos, a team of players who are intellectually disabled, and soon realizes they just might have what it takes to make it to the national championships.
Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.
The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.
When Pete and Ellie decide to start a family, they stumble into the world of foster care adoption. They hope to take in one small child but when they meet three siblings, including a rebellious 15 year old girl, they find themselves speeding from zero to three kids overnight.
The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
Absorbing enough to quiet the mind, calm enough not to wind it back up.
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.
The right film for when sleep won't cooperate but exhaustion is already there.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.