Short attention span, long movie list. These make it work.
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator BenjamÃn 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.
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
Films that hold scattered attention tend to be the ones with strong momentum. Every scene moves something forward.
Relentless pacing. Hard to lose even with a wandering mind.
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
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.