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Films For When You’re Burnt Out But Can’t Rest With Someone Close

Films for when youre burnt out but cant rest with someone close. Includes The Prestige, Witness for the Prosecution, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and more, c...

Too depleted to function, too wound up to rest. The gap between those two things is its own particular hell. These films do not fix burnout but they occupy the gap without costing you anything.

The Prestige movie poster
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2006 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

Paced for the depleted. Nothing happens so fast it requires you to catch up.

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Witness for the Prosecution movie poster
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1957 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.

Paced for the depleted. Nothing happens so fast it requires you to catch up.

Occupies the gap

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish movie poster
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2022 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.

Low drain, real company. The film occupies the gap without asking anything of you.

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The Help movie poster
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2011 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

Paced for the depleted. Nothing happens so fast it requires you to catch up.

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Shutter Island movie poster
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2010 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Low drain, real company. The film occupies the gap without asking anything of you.

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Works with someone who does not need to talk through it with you.

Hacksaw Ridge movie poster
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2016 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Paced for the depleted. Nothing happens so fast it requires you to catch up.

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Django Unchained movie poster
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2012 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Low drain, real company. The film occupies the gap without asking anything of you.

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The Apartment movie poster
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1960 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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.

Paced for the depleted. Nothing happens so fast it requires you to catch up.

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The Usual Suspects movie poster
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1995 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

Paced for the depleted. Nothing happens so fast it requires you to catch up.

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The Art of Racing in the Rain movie poster
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2019 · ★★★★☆ 8.2/10

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.

Low drain, real company. The film occupies the gap without asking anything of you.

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