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Sci-Fi Movies That Help After Burnout With Your Girlfriend

Sci-Fi movies that help after burnout with your girlfriend. Includes WALL·E, Stalker, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and more, curated by Moviepiq.

You don't need to be fixed. You need to be held. These films do that.

WALL·E movie poster
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2008 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E - a robot designed to clean up the earth - discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report to the humans. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most imaginative adventures ever brought to the big screen.

Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.

Stalker movie poster
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1979 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.

It doesn't try to fix you. It just sits with you for two hours. That's enough.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind movie poster
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2004 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.

Metropolis movie poster
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1927 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.

The Thing movie poster
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1982 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.

Post-burnout cinema has a specific texture. Quiet, human, not asking you to be more than you are.

Escapist distance is genuinely useful post-burnout.

Good paired viewing. Worth pausing to discuss.

2001: A Space Odyssey movie poster
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1968 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.

The Avengers movie poster
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2012 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!

Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.

Jurassic Park movie poster
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1993 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.

Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.

Transformers One movie poster
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2024 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.

Gentle. Present. Not asking you to do anything but watch. Perfect for after burnout.

Robot Dreams movie poster
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2023 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

A lonely dog's friendship with his robot companion takes a sad turn when an unexpected malfunction forces him to abandon Robot at the beach. Will Dog ever meet Robot again?

It doesn't try to fix you. It just sits with you for two hours. That's enough.

Some films earn their effect. These do.

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