Short attention span, long movie list. These make it work.
Tired of the small-time grind, three Marseille cops get a chance to bust a major drug network. But lines blur when a key informant makes a big ask.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
After their late former Captain is framed, Lowrey and Burnett try to clear his name, only to end up on the run themselves.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq - anchored only by his one true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in the world.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
When focus is a problem, pacing is the solution. These films understand that.
Scene structure is tight. Easy to re-engage after a distraction.
Now a detective-for-hire like her infamous brother, Enola Holmes takes on her first official case to find a missing girl, as the sparks of a dangerous conspiracy ignite a mystery that requires the help of friends - and Sherlock himself - to unravel.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Using raw, firsthand footage, this documentary examines the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children, and the terrible events that followed.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
One man's campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.