15 easy films to help you relax and unwind

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The life hacker has prepared for you a selection of pleasant and unobtrusive films that will help you cope with a bad mood, relieve your brain and escape from the routine.

Fantastic love and where to find it

• Fantasy, drama, melodrama, comedy.
• UK, USA, 2016.
• Duration: 100 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 8.

Bella is a charming eccentric with an inexplicable horror of nature. She rents a cozy apartment in the very center of London, one of the living conditions in which is to take care of a small garden in the yard. Because of her phobia, the girl started it in order. To keep her home, Bella will have to not only overcome her fear and put the garden in order, but along the way make friends with a grumpy neighbor and even fall in love.

Full moon kingdom

• Drama, melodrama, comedy.
• USA, 2012.
• Duration: 90 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 8.

There is an unprecedented commotion in the summer camp of the Boy Scouts: the boy Sam is missing. At the same time, on the other side of the island, the Bishop family also raises the alarm: the girl Suzy has disappeared somewhere. These two teenagers have long been in love with each other and even managed to plan an escape to be alone away from adults. While terrified parents, the local sheriff and the camp counselor are looking for them, they are enjoying their freedom with might and main.

Walk in the woods

• Drama, comedy, adventure, biography.
• USA, 2015.
• Duration: 104 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 3.

The aging writer Bill Bryson lived for twenty years in England, far from his homeland. To write a new book about the nature of America, he decides on a daring adventure and invites his alcoholic friend to go on a risky trek along the Appalachian mountain trail in search of inspiration.

The Incredible Life of Walter Mitty

• Adventure, melodrama, drama.
• USA, UK, 2013.
• Duration: 114 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 3.

The life of an office worker, Walter Mitty, is boring and monotonous. He is very lonely and the only thing that cheers him up is dreams of incredible adventures. However, they suddenly become a reality: in order to avoid dismissal, Walter embarks on a journey full of dangers across the amazingly beautiful Iceland.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

• Fantasy, adventure, family.
• USA, UK, 2016.
• Duration: 133 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 4.

The renowned magical zoologist Newt Scamander comes to New York to attend a special magical convention and meet with an influential official. He carries with him a magical suitcase filled to capacity with all sorts of incredible creatures. Of course, they cannot sit quietly on the spot: at the first opportunity they break free, giving their master a lot of trouble.

Paterson

• Adventure, melodrama, drama.
• USA, France, Germany, 2016.
• Duration: 118 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 4.

A calm and soothing film about a week in the life of Paterson, a bus driver and poet. He writes only for himself and does not give in to his wife's persuasion to publish poetry. But one day a small event happens that changes everything.

Trainee

• Melodrama, comedy.
• USA, 2015.
• Duration: 121 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 1.

Ben Whitaker is very bored in retirement. Traveling, favorite books and watching good films do not give him any pleasure, but only make him yearn. He literally feels how life flies by. In an attempt to get rid of this oppressive feeling, Ben decides to get a job in a fashion store in order to bring at least some benefit.

The hunt for savages

• Drama, comedy, adventure.
• New Zealand, 2016.
• Duration: 101 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 9.

Ricky Baker is an orphan and a real bully, constantly arranging all sorts of dirty tricks around. That is why finding parents is so difficult for him. Bella and her weird husband Huck are the only ones willing to accept the boy. At first, everything goes well, but one day Ricky runs away into the forest, and Huck is suspected of kidnapping him.

Live on your own

• Drama, melodrama, comedy.
• USA, 2014.
• Duration: 103 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 6.

After moving to America, the once large and friendly family loses contact with each other. But one big grief forces them to unite again and reconsider their views on life.

Sing Street

• Drama, melodrama, comedy.
• Ireland, UK, USA, 2016.
• Duration: 106 minutes
• IMDb: 8, 0.

Due to financial difficulties, Conor is forced to change the elite school to the most ordinary one. In a new place, he is not met in the best way, but life suddenly presents the teenager with a pleasant surprise. He falls in love with an unapproachable girl, for the sake of which he is even ready to put together his own rock group.

Excellent student of easy virtue

• Melodrama, comedy.
• USA, 2010.
• Duration: 92 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 1.

Modest and not very popular at school, Olive inadvertently becomes the heroine of unflattering gossip. Rather than despair, the girl comes up with an unusual and witty plan to help stop the spread of unpleasant rumors and save her reputation.

Love Rosie

• Melodrama, comedy.
• Germany, UK, 2014.
• Duration: 102 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 2.

Rosie and Alex have been friends since childhood and are so close that they know almost everything about each other. They dream that after graduation they will go to the USA together to continue their studies there. But the prom crosses out all their plans and separates them from each other for a long time.

Moonlight magic

• Melodrama, comedy.
• USA, UK, 2014.
• Duration: 90 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 6.

There is no charlatan or magician in the world that the illusionist Stanley could not expose. Except for the young spiritualist Sophie, who conquered one famous and influential family with her outstanding abilities. In an attempt to unravel the girl's secret and bring her out into the open, Stanley himself does not notice how he begins to feel sympathy for her.

Hi Julie

• Drama, melodrama, comedy.
• USA, 2010.
• Duration: 90 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 7.

A touching story about the first love between teenagers Julie and Bryce, shown from different points of view.

Mistress America

• Comedy.
• USA, Brazil, 2015.
• Duration: 84 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 3.

Tracy is a lonely and humble student at New York College. Brooke is her eccentric half-sister, who constantly does not sit still. They are complete opposites, but this does not prevent the girls from making friends over time and starting to do all sorts of funny follies together.

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