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Films For When Youre Avoiding Your Thoughts When You Need To Disappear For A Night

Films for when youre avoiding your thoughts when you need to disappear for a night. Includes The Shop Around the Corner, A Dog's Journey, 2001: A Space Odyss...

You know what is in there and you are not ready to go near it. That is allowed. These films are good company for the avoidance -- absorbing enough to hold you, nothing that will accidentally open the door.

The Shop Around the Corner movie poster
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1940 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Good clean absorption. Nothing in here will accidentally open the door you are keeping shut.

Does not open doors

A Dog's Journey movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

A dog finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he meets.

Good clean absorption. Nothing in here will accidentally open the door you are keeping shut.

Does not open doors

2001: A Space Odyssey movie poster
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1968 · ★★★★☆ 8.1/10

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Steady and contained. Gives the avoidance a legitimate place to be.

Clean absorption

How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

It's been ten years since the dragons moved to the Hidden World, and even though Toothless doesn't live in New Berk anymore, Hiccup continues the holiday traditions he once shared with his best friend. But the Vikings of New Berk were beginning to forget about their friendship with dragons. Hiccup, Astrid, and Gobber know just what to do to keep the dragons in the villagers' hearts. And across the sea, the dragons have a plan of their own...

Steady and contained. Gives the avoidance a legitimate place to be.

Does not open doors

Sherlock Jr. movie poster
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1924 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Steady and contained. Gives the avoidance a legitimate place to be.

Does not open doors

Does not open doors

For when you need the world to go away for a while. This does that.

Memoir of a Snail movie poster
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2024 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

Forcibly separated from her twin brother when they are orphaned, a melancholic misfit learns how to find confidence within herself amid the clutter of misfortunes and everyday life.

Good clean absorption. Nothing in here will accidentally open the door you are keeping shut.

Does not open doors

The Grand Budapest Hotel movie poster
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2014 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

Good clean absorption. Nothing in here will accidentally open the door you are keeping shut.

Clean absorption

The Wolf of Wall Street movie poster
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2013 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

Good clean absorption. Nothing in here will accidentally open the door you are keeping shut.

Does not open doors

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio movie poster
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2022 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.

Good clean absorption. Nothing in here will accidentally open the door you are keeping shut.

Clean absorption

The Avengers movie poster
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2012 · ★★★★☆ 8.0/10

When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!

Good clean absorption. Nothing in here will accidentally open the door you are keeping shut.

Does not open doors

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