Romance movies for a scattered attention span with family. Includes The Apartment, The Handmaiden, The Art of Racing in the Rain and more, curated by Moviepiq.
Your brain is jumping around. These are structured enough to hold you anyway.
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.
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
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.
Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.
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.
Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.
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.
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
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.
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.
Emotional through-line is loud enough to keep scattered attention tethered.
Works across the room. Nobody left out or checked out.
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
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.
Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.
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.
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
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.
Works with a wandering mind. The key moments get through regardless.
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.
The emotional signals are loud enough to bring your attention back each time it drifts.
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.
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