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Thriller Movies For Tired Brains From The 2020S

Thriller movies for tired brains from the 2020s. Includes Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, The Call, The Beasts and more, curated by Moviepiq.

Low stakes, good films. No thinking required. That's the whole point.

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One movie poster
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2023 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world's fate at stake and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan must consider that nothing can matter more than his mission - not even the lives of those he cares about most.

Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.

The Call movie poster
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2020 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman's past - and life - on the line to change her own fate.

Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.

The Beasts movie poster
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2022 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic except for their opposition to a wind turbine project that creates a serious conflict with their neighbors. The tension will rise to the point of irreparability.

This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.

Sinners movie poster
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2025 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.

Mars Express movie poster
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2023 · ★★★½☆ 7.5/10

In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet's capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, political corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.

This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.

A film for tired brains isn't a lesser film. It just knows what you need tonight.

Propulsive enough to hold your attention without you having to try.

A Quiet Place Part II movie poster
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2021 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.

Bullet Train movie poster
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2022 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe - all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives - on the world's fastest train.

Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.

Sisu movie poster
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2022 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.

Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.

The Last Duel movie poster
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2021 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.

This one works when your attention keeps drifting. The pacing carries you without demanding anything back.

The Mauritanian movie poster
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2021 · ★★★½☆ 7.4/10

The true story of the Mauritanian Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was held at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center without charges for over a decade and sought help from a defense attorney for his release.

Easy to follow even when you're half gone. The film does the heavy lifting.

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

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