Half your attention is plenty. These work with whatever you bring.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Strong enough visually and emotionally that attention gaps don't break it.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
Survives the distracted watch. You'll get it even with gaps.
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.
Strong enough visually and emotionally that attention gaps don't break it.
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.
Survives the distracted watch. You'll get it even with gaps.
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.
Strong enough visually and emotionally that attention gaps don't break it.
Low-attention films survive partial watching through strong visual storytelling and clear emotional stakes.
Atmosphere carries it. Low attention doesn't kill the effect.
Good paired viewing. Worth discussing afterward.
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.
Survives the distracted watch. You'll get it even with gaps.
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...
Strong enough visually and emotionally that attention gaps don't break it.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Strong enough visually and emotionally that attention gaps don't break it.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Strong enough visually and emotionally that attention gaps don't break it.
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.
Survives the distracted watch. You'll get it even with gaps.
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.