No focus required. Just press play and let it happen.
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
You can lose the thread and find it again without the film punishing you for it.
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Short scenes, clear stakes. Easy to re-engage after each drift.
An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.
Short scenes, clear stakes. Easy to re-engage after each drift.
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
Short scenes, clear stakes. Easy to re-engage after each drift.
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if taking its cue from his life. After many days of solitude, he finally finds work as a freelance writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then, one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.
You can lose the thread and find it again without the film punishing you for it.
When concentration fails, good pacing picks up the slack. These are paced for exactly this.
Emotional beats are clear enough to follow with scattered attention.
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that he's fallen for online.
You can lose the thread and find it again without the film punishing you for it.
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.
Short scenes, clear stakes. Easy to re-engage after each drift.
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
You can lose the thread and find it again without the film punishing you for it.
A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams.
Short scenes, clear stakes. Easy to re-engage after each drift.
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while working as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing – which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian – dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with Catholic guilt.
You can lose the thread and find it again without the film punishing you for it.
These films were chosen for the state you're in, not the state you wish you were in.