Short attention span, long movie list. These make it work.
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed's rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Films that hold scattered attention tend to be the ones with strong momentum. Every scene moves something forward.
Short scenes help. You can drift and re-engage without losing the thread.
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.