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Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
577 films, showing 50
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1972 · Crime
The ageing head of a New York crime family starts handing the business to his sons, and the youngest, who wanted no part of it, is pulled in. Much of it plays out in quiet rooms, in conversations about loyalty and who owes what to whom.
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2015 · Action
A driver hauling a stolen war rig runs for the desert with five women escaping a warlord, and picks up a drifter on the way. Nearly the whole film is one chase, out across a stretch of desert and back again.
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2017 · Family
A small bear with very good manners takes odd jobs around London to buy his aunt a birthday present, then loses it to a thief nobody believes exists. He keeps his temper and his marmalade habit throughout.
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2003 · Drama
An ageing actor shooting a whisky advert in Tokyo and a young woman waiting on her photographer husband keep running into each other in the same hotel. They spend a few days wandering the city, mostly talking.
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2010 · Science fiction
A team that steals ideas out of people's dreams is hired to do the opposite and plant one. The job needs dreams inside dreams, and the rules are explained at length as it goes.
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2014 · Comedy
A famous hotel concierge between the wars takes on a new lobby boy, inherits a painting from a wealthy guest, and is accused of her murder. It is told as a story inside a story inside a story, at speed.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2007 · Drama
A silver miner turns oilman in California at the turn of the century and buys up a small town's land, running into a young preacher with a following of his own. It follows him across three decades of getting what he wants.
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2016 · Science fiction
Twelve alien craft arrive without explanation, and a linguist is brought in to work out how to ask them what they want. Most of it is the slow business of translation.
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2016 · Drama
A Boston handyman is made guardian of his teenage nephew after his brother dies, which means going back to the town he left. The reason he left comes out slowly.
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2001 · Fantasy
A young hobbit inherits a ring that has to be destroyed, and sets out from a very comfortable village with eight companions and a long way to walk. The first of three, and it ends mid-journey.
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2017 · Horror
A young Black photographer goes with his white girlfriend to meet her parents at their country house for the weekend, where everyone is a little too welcoming. The discomfort arrives well before anything else does.
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2007 · Animation
A rat with an exceptional nose and a taste for cooking ends up steering a hopeless kitchen boy around a famous Paris restaurant. Nobody can be allowed to know.
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2015 · Thriller
An FBI agent is recruited onto a cross-border task force going after a cartel, and is told very little about who she is working for or what the job actually is. She spends the film trying to find out.
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1999 · Science fiction
A software developer who moonlights as a hacker is told the world he lives in is not the real one, and is offered a look at it. Kung fu, long coats, and a lot of talk about what is actually there.
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2006 · Comedy
A family who can barely stand each other drive a failing camper van from New Mexico to California so the youngest can enter a children's beauty pageant. Everyone is having their own bad year.
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2017 · Science fiction
A police officer whose job is retiring old synthetic humans turns up a buried secret and goes looking for a man who disappeared thirty years earlier. Slow, very large, and mostly quiet.
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2007 · Comedy
Two best friends about to leave for different colleges try to buy drink for a party, mostly so the night will mean something. The plan rests on a fake ID with one name on it.
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2014 · Drama
A first-year drummer at a competitive music school wins a seat in the top band, which is run by a conductor who teaches through humiliation. It is mostly the two of them in one room.
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2001 · Romance
A shy Paris waitress decides to quietly arrange other people's lives for the better, and finds her own much harder to touch. Bright colours, small schemes, and a lot of narration.
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2007 · Thriller
A welder out hunting finds a case of cash beside several dead men and takes it, which brings a very patient killer after him. An ageing sheriff follows behind, always arriving late.
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1995 · Animation
A boy's toys come alive when he leaves the room, and the cowboy who has always been his favourite is shoved aside by a new space ranger. The two of them end up lost together, some way from home.
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1994 · Romance
Two Hong Kong policemen, both recently left by someone, drift through the same late-night food stall in two separate stories. Loose, fast-cut, and more about routine than plot.
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1979 · Horror
The crew of a commercial towing ship is woken early to investigate a signal from a nearby moon, and brings something back aboard. Long stretches of corridor and waiting.
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1952 · Musical
A silent-film star has to make his first talking picture opposite a leading lady whose voice will not do, so the studio quietly dubs her. Made in 1952 about 1927, and it stops for a song often.
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2010 · Drama
A Harvard undergraduate builds a website that spreads from campus to campus, and is sued by the friend who funded it and by classmates who say he took their idea. Told through the two depositions, with a great deal of fast talking.
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1995 · Romance
A young American and a young French woman meet on a train and get off together in Vienna, with one night before his flight. That is the whole film: two people walking around a city, talking.
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2008 · Action
Batman, a new district attorney and a straight-arrow cop try to break organised crime in Gotham, and a criminal with no name and no plan starts pulling the city apart. Much of it is about what each of them will agree to do.
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1993 · Comedy
A sour television weatherman covering a small-town festival wakes up to find it is the same day again, and again. He works through boredom, then mischief, then something else.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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1968 · Science fiction
A strange black slab turns up at three points in human history, and a ship heads for Jupiter to find out why. Very little is explained, and long stretches carry no dialogue at all.
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2014 · Action
A retired hitman is pulled back in after some young men break into his house and take the one thing he had left. It runs on a strict underworld etiquette that the film never stops to justify.
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2016 · Drama
Three chapters in the life of a quiet boy growing up in Miami: as a child, as a teenager, and as a grown man. Each one turns on who he is willing to be seen as.
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2008 · Crime
Two Irish hitmen are sent to a picture-postcard Belgian town to lie low after a job, and one of them is bored out of his mind. They wait for a phone call.
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1996 · Crime
A car salesman short of money hires two men to kidnap his own wife, and the plan goes wrong immediately. A very pregnant small-town police chief works it out at her own pace.
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1964 · Comedy
An American general goes off the reservation and orders a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, and the men in the war room try to call it back. A comedy, played entirely straight.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2016 · Drama
Three Black women working as mathematicians at NASA in the early 1960s do the sums that put an astronaut in orbit, in a building that is still segregated. Their fight is mostly a bureaucratic one.
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2015 · Drama
The Boston Globe's investigations desk works a story about abuse in the Catholic church, and keeps finding it is bigger than the last version of it. Mostly documents, doorsteps and phone calls.
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1995 · Drama
An oxygen tank blows two days into a moon landing, and the mission becomes getting three men home in a crippled ship. Half the film is engineers at desks.
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2006 · Adventure
A stuntman laid up in a 1920s Los Angeles hospital tells a wandering adventure story to a little girl with a broken arm, partly to get something from her. The story is shot in real places all over the world.
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2013 · Science fiction
Eight friends at a dinner party start noticing odd things the night a comet passes overhead, beginning with the phones. Almost all of it happens in one house, with the cast working from an outline.
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2019 · Romance
A painter is sent to a remote island to paint a reluctant bride's wedding portrait without her sitting for it, so she has to watch her closely and work from memory. Almost no men appear.
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2014 · Horror
In an Iranian ghost town, a lonely young man with a nice car crosses paths with a skateboarding vampire in a chador. Black and white, very slow, and more mood than plot.
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2022 · Science fiction
A woman running a failing laundromat is hauled in for a tax audit and told she has to save reality by borrowing skills from versions of herself in other universes. It is a family argument and a martial arts film happening at the same time.
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1998 · Drama
A former neo-Nazi comes out of prison set on pulling his younger brother back from the movement he helped build. Told in two strands, the present in colour and the past in black and white.
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2000 · Thriller
A man who can no longer form new memories hunts his wife's killer using notes, photographs and tattoos. The scenes run in reverse order, so at the start of each one you know as little as he does.
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2014 · Science fiction
With the crops failing on Earth, a former pilot leaves his daughter behind and flies through a wormhole looking for somewhere else to live. Long stretches of orbital mechanics, and a clock that runs at different speeds for different people.
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2023 · Drama
The physicist who ran the Manhattan Project builds the bomb, then spends years in rooms answering for it. Three hours, mostly of men talking, cut between two timelines.
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2005 · Drama
Over two days in Los Angeles a dozen strangers collide in traffic, at gunpoint and in each other's houses, and race is in every exchange. The stories run in parallel and keep crossing.
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2000 · Crime
A stolen diamond, an unlicensed boxing promoter and a bare-knuckle fighter nobody can understand all end up chasing the same few objects around London. Told fast, with a large cast and a lot of doubling back.
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2019 · Crime
An American who built a cannabis empire in England wants to sell up and retire, which brings every rival and blackmailer out at once. A tabloid reporter narrates most of it as a pitch.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2010 · Thriller
Two US marshals travel to an island asylum in 1954 to find a patient who has vanished from a locked room, and a hurricane closes the way back. Nobody on the staff answers a question straight.
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