Restless energy needs somewhere to go. These absorb it.
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Keeps moving. Matches the restless energy rather than fighting it.
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.
Something happens every few minutes. The pacing holds the restlessness in place.
A family dog – with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind – evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.
Something happens every few minutes. The pacing holds the restlessness in place.
In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.
Something happens every few minutes. The pacing holds the restlessness in place.
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Something happens every few minutes. The pacing holds the restlessness in place.
Restless energy and good forward momentum are a natural match. These keep pace with you.
Usually too slow for restless nights. Match temperament carefully.
Best watched alone. Full absorption, no compromise on what to pick.
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Something happens every few minutes. The pacing holds the restlessness in place.
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
Something happens every few minutes. The pacing holds the restlessness in place.
A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
Keeps moving. Matches the restless energy rather than fighting it.
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Something happens every few minutes. The pacing holds the restlessness in place.
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Something happens every few minutes. The pacing holds the restlessness in place.
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.