Thriller movies when you cant focus from the 2010s. Includes Parasite, Whiplash, Shutter Island and more, curated by Moviepiq.
You don't need to concentrate. The good ones do the work for you.
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
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.
Relentless pacing. Hard to lose even with a wandering mind.
Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
As the deceased soul Ja-hong and his three afterlife guardians prepare for their remaining trials for reincarnation, the guardians soon come face to face with the truth of their tragic time on Earth 1,000 years earlier.
Short scenes and clear stakes. Your attention doesn't have to stay perfect to keep up.
Having died unexpectedly, firefighter Ja-hong is taken to the afterlife by 3 afterlife guardians. Only when he passes 7 trials over 49 days and proves he was innocent in human life, he's able to reincarnate, and his 3 afterlife guardians are by his side to defend him in trial.
Strong enough momentum to keep pulling you back in, even when your mind wanders.
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.
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.
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