5. Lost in Translation
Cast: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Fumihiro Hayashi
Sometimes you’re so bored that watching a crushingly depressing film about loneliness, insomnia, and existential crises somehow laps your boredom and balances everything out. Lost in Translation is, perhaps, the epitome of such a film that is somehow a comedy, drama, and neither all at once.
6. Pulp Fiction
Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis
Say what you will about Tarantino or any of his other films, but you’d have to legitimately hate entertainment to say Pulp Fiction is boring. If anything, it’s infinitely watchable in a way that seems a bit mystic. The three-part story—which weaves around itself in non-chronological order before piecing itself back together in a way that inexplicably makes more sense than if it had been told straight-through—is varied and well-executed enough that even after a dozen viewings you might spot something new.