Drama movies for a scattered attention span late at night. Includes It's a Wonderful Life, Modern Times, Sunset Boulevard and more, curated by Moviepiq.
Hard to stay with anything for long. These make it easier.
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
Intermittent focus is a real watching mode. These hold together through it.
Needs a strong performance at the centre to hold scattered focus.
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.
Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.
These films were chosen for the state you're in, not the state you wish you were in.
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