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Crime Movies For Mental Exhaustion From The 2020S

Crime movies for mental exhaustion from the 2020s. Includes The Good Nurse, Kill Boksoon, To Catch a Killer and more, curated by Moviepiq.

You've used everything up. These ask very little and give a lot back.

The Good Nurse movie poster
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2022 · ★★★½☆ 6.9/10

Suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths, a nurse risks her own life to uncover the truth.

Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.

Kill Boksoon movie poster
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2023 · ★★★½☆ 6.9/10

At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.

Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.

To Catch a Killer movie poster
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2023 · ★★★½☆ 6.9/10

Baltimore. New Year's Eve. A talented but troubled police officer is recruited by the FBI's chief investigator to help profile and track down a mass murderer.

Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.

Sharper movie poster
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2023 · ★★★½☆ 6.9/10

A small, wealthy family in New York City gets progressively torn apart by secrets, lies, and the theft that orchestrates all of it.

Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.

Shelter movie poster
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2026 · ★★★½☆ 6.8/10

A man living in self-imposed exile on a remote island rescues a young girl from a violent storm, setting off a chain of events that forces him out of seclusion to protect her from enemies tied to his past.

Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.

Not every film needs to be a challenge. Some nights, being pulled along is exactly right.

The genre mechanics carry it. Low effort on your part.

Let Him Go movie poster
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2020 · ★★★½☆ 6.8/10

Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.

Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.

The Pale Blue Eye movie poster
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2022 · ★★★½☆ 6.8/10

West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.

Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.

Army of Thieves movie poster
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2021 · ★★★½☆ 6.8/10

A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.

Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.

Hit Man movie poster
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2024 · ★★★½☆ 6.8/10

A mild-mannered professor moonlighting as a fake hit man in police stings ignites a chain reaction of trouble when he falls for a potential client.

Low cognitive demand, high reward. The rare film that works when you have nothing left.

The Dry movie poster
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2021 · ★★★½☆ 6.8/10

Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.

Asks almost nothing of your processing power. You can be fully present or half asleep and still get it.

These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.

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