15. The Witch (2015) Director Robert Eggers and Anya Taylor-Joy are two names you’ll see a lot on this list. The latter stars as Thomasin, the eldest daughter of an English settler in mid-17th century New England. When her baby brother vanishes under her watch, Thomasin is accused of witchcraft by her own family. Satanic conspiracies and paranoia envelope the family, who’s thrown into a crisis of faith and loyalty....
15. ROVE ROVEis a tiny card game by Button Shy Games, a company who specializes in 18-card “wallet games” that are highly portable. This one is a solo spatial puzzle game that’s extremely thinky. InROVE, six of your cards are module cards that are positioned on an imaginary grid. Your goal is to move them around into a formation that matches the pattern of your current mission card. You only have a limited number of moves—dictated by the cards you play from your hand—and each module has its own unique rules for movement (along with one special ability each)....
15. 100 Selected Poems Okay, I’m cheating a bit here with poems, but William Wordsworth has the power to instantly put you in a good mood through his elemental verse—and poems are always great stressbusters. Read between the lines and you will realize that his poems go beyond the romantic ideas of nature. Pour through them like a story and you might find that he is entreating us to slow down and feel the beauty of the little things we take for granted every day....
15. Titanic (1997) Titanicbecame the most commercially successful movie of all time when it first released, and for good reason. The combination of epic scope and intimate emotions made it mesmerizing. The heart of the film rests in the romance between Jack (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and Rose (played by Kate Winslet). When Rose finds herself trapped in what will undoubtedly become a passionless marriage, she serendipitously meets Jack, who saves her life when he interrupts her suicide attempt....
15. The Island (2006) Set during World War II, Anatoly (played by Pyotr Mamonov) is caught by Germans as they board his ship. They provide him with a choice that’ll haunt him forever: shoot his friend or be shot himself. When Anatoly chooses the former, the decision stays with him for the rest of his life, and he ends up serving as an Eastern Orthodox monk in order to find forgiveness and atonement....
