





Are movies getting longer, or our attention spans getting shorter? As Pete Davidson rapped in a recent Saturday Night Live music video, “Night after night, there’s only one kind of movie I’m always looking for — and that’s a short-ass movie, a really short movie, like, at most an hour, forty.” There’s nothing wrong with long movies ( Robert Pattinson for three whole hours can be great), but not everyone can hold their bladder for that long. In three hours, you could roast a 16-pound turkey or even fly from Chicago to Cancun for vacation. If you’re running short on time or need a quick flick before bed, here are eight short-ass movies to stream, from rom-com to horror. For more short-ass movies, you can queue them up here.

1 hour, 35 minutes Justice for Jennifer Coolidge on being robbed of an Oscar nomination for her line delivery of “So moist” in 2004. In this modern retelling of Cinderella, Hilary Duff stars as Sam, a teenager juggling her diner job, a high-maintenance stepmom (Coolidge) and stepsisters, while dreaming of attending Princeton University. After striking up a friendship with an Internet pen pal who goes by the username Nomad (Chad Michael Murray), the two online strangers agree to meet at a masquerade party. Nomad reveals himself as Austin, the popular high school football player. Before Sam can unmask herself, she leaves in a haste to get back to her diner job — but not before dropping her cell phone. Can Austin trace Sam down using her flip phone?

1 hour, 21 minutes Can you think of the worst way to die? The Final Destination will most certainly make you paranoid about freak accidents. After boarding a plane to Paris for a senior trip, Alex (Devon Sawa) has a premonition that the plane will explode. He and his friends are kicked off the flight after his panic causes a fight to break out, but his fear comes true when the plane does explode. Cheating death doesn’t make the group of teenagers the lucky ones, however. From getting impaled by a hook to being crushed by a flying car, each teen meets their deadly fate one by one.

1 hour, 34 minutes A recently widowed architect, David (Mark Ruffalo), moves into his new San Francisco apartment, but before he can settle in, it seems like someone’s already living there. Elizabeth (Reese Witherspoon), the previous tenant, is occupying the unit rent-free... because she’s dead. Honestly, getting haunted by Reese Witherspoon can’t be the worst thing in the world — and that seems to be how David sees it. As he tries to get to the bottom of Elizabeth’s identity and how she died, the architect and ghost bridge life and death by falling in love.

1 hour, 33 minutes The first three minutes of Lady Bird are so specific, you’ll never forget them. In the first scene of Greta Gerwig’s coming-of-age film, high school senior Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) and her mom (Laurie Metcalf) are crying in the car after listening to an audio recording of The Grapes of Wrath. Wholesome, right? Wrong. Immediately, we get a glimpse into the strained mother-daughter relationship when Lady Bird claims she wants to move to New York where “culture happens,” as opposed to staying in Sacramento. When their argument escalates, Lady Bird opens the door and jumps out of the moving car, setting the tone for Gerwig’s dramedy.

1 hour, 29 minutes Some stories are too good to be true. That becomes the subject in this documentary, which dives into Misha Defonseca’s memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years. In her book, Defonseca writes about escaping the Holocaust by being adopted into a pack of wolves. It’s no surprise that this harrowing tale of survival took the world by storm when it was published in 1997. However, a fallout with her publisher turned detective reveals the deception and lies Defonseca wrote about to hide a darker truth. Misha and the Wolves uncovers her fabrication and explores how storytelling can also turn into manipulation.

1 hour, 37 minutes Need a movie recommendation plus throwback songs to add to your playlist? In Mixtape, set in 1999, Beverly (Gemma Brooke Allen) is a shy middle schooler living with her grandma (Julie Bowen). After discovering a mixtape made by her late parents, she’s hopeful that listening to it will help her learn more about them. When the cassette tape gets eaten by her Walkman, Beverly sets out to track down each song. From the Blue Hearts to the Stooges, each song helps Beverly learn more about her parents’ past, while also helping her make new friends and repair the turbulent relationship with her grandma.

1 hour, 30 minutes If there’s one thing Noah Centineo is going to do, it’s fake dating someone and then eventually catching feelings for them. In The Perfect Date, Brooks (Centineo) dreams of attending Yale, but his dad wants him to go to the University of Connecticut, where he has a full scholarship. After getting paid to go on a fake date with a classmate’s wealthy cousin (Laura Marano), Brooks realizes he can capitalize on this gig. With the help of his best friend, they develop a dating app where anyone can hire Brooks to be their stand-in boyfriend for all occasions.

1 hour, 32 minutes Jason Segel eats the rich (not literally) in this Hitchcockian thriller, also starring Lily Collins and Jesse Plemons. A man (Segel) breaks into an idyllic vacation house, enjoying freshly picked oranges on the poolside like he owns the place. His free stay goes awry when a tech billionaire (Plemons) and his wife (Collins) arrive for a last-minute getaway. Holding the couple hostage, the man goes to great lengths to cover up his crime, only digging himself deeper and deeper into a mess that will have viewers questioning who the real villain is.






































