You don't need to concentrate. The good ones do the work for you.
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Two teen track stars discover first love as they train for the biggest relay race of their young lives.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness – and what it means to fall in love with another man.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
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.
Emotional beats are clear. Hard to lose the thread even with gaps.
After being gone for a decade, a country star returns home to the love he left behind.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, without arranging the times, the two start to see each other again and again, but only on rainy days. They deepen their relationship and open up to each other. But the end of the rainy season soon approaches.
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.