Something to have on. Present but not demanding.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Present enough to be there, undemanding enough to stay background.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Present enough to be there, undemanding enough to stay background.
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Present enough to be there, undemanding enough to stay background.
Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.
Works as company without pulling focus. You can be in the room with it.
American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.
Works as company without pulling focus. You can be in the room with it.
The background film is a genuine category. These have the right texture for it.
Bad background choice. Silence and sudden sounds don't work with divided attention.
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Works as company without pulling focus. You can be in the room with it.
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...
Present enough to be there, undemanding enough to stay background.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Present enough to be there, undemanding enough to stay background.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Present enough to be there, undemanding enough to stay background.
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
Works as company without pulling focus. You can be in the room with it.
These films were chosen for the state you're in, not the state you wish you were in.