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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.
1750 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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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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2000 · Drama
A fifteen-year-old talks a music magazine into sending him on tour with a rising rock band in 1973, without mentioning how old he is. Warm and funny, and most of it happens on the bus.
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2017 · Family
A boy with a facial difference starts school for the first time at ten, and the film hands the story around to the people near him. Warm and openly designed to move you.
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2025 · Science fiction
Dinosaurs now survive only near the equator, and a drug company hires an ex-operative and a paleontologist to take samples from the three biggest species. They head for the island where the failed experiments were left.
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2025 · Family
Four misfits from a small Idaho town fall through a portal into a blocky world where anything can be built, and need a man called Steve to get them home. It moves fast and is played for laughs.
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2025 · Thriller
Taken in as a child by an assassins' society that trains its killers as dancers, Eve grows up in the trade and goes after the people who killed her father. Wall to wall fighting, in the John Wick world.
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2025 · Science fiction
Sam Wilson, the new Captain America, is pulled into a fight over a rare metal found in the ocean after the president who once hunted the Avengers asks for his help. Big fights, and a lot of political manoeuvring.
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2025 · Fantasy
On an island where Vikings have fought dragons for generations, the chief's inventor son shoots one down and cannot bring himself to kill it. A live-action remake, big and loud, with a boy and a dragon at the centre.
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2025 · Horror
A college student keeps dreaming of a 1969 tower collapse her grandmother saw coming and stopped, and learns Death has been working through the survivors and their children ever since. The sixth in the series.
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2025 · Horror
Four years on, Gwen is dreaming about murders at a winter camp she has never been to, so she takes her brother and a friend there. A blizzard shuts them in, and the dead phone starts ringing again.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Fantasy
Twenty-two years after her own body swap, Anna is marrying again, and her teenage daughter and soon-to-be stepsister cannot stand each other. A palm reading later, all four women wake up in the wrong bodies.
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2025 · Thriller
An unidentified missile is tracked heading for Chicago, twenty minutes out, and the film stays with the American officials who have to decide what to do. Rooms, screens and phone calls, close to real time.
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2023 · Drama
A Black novelist whose careful books nobody buys writes, as a joke, the crude street story publishers keep asking him for. Half of it is that joke going too far, half is his family at home.
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2025 · Comedy
Four childhood friends with disappointing lives buy the rights to a film they loved and go to the Amazon to remake it cheaply themselves. Then a much bigger snake than the one they hired turns up.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
In May 2020, the sheriff of a small New Mexico town refuses the mayor's mask mandate and decides to run against him. It is a long film about a town arguing with itself, online and in the street.
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2025 · Horror
A year after a group of friends cover up the crash they caused on a cliff road, a note arrives saying somebody knows. Then a fisherman with a hook starts working through them.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Thriller
After the Kandahar hijacking, an intelligence chief sends a young agent into Karachi to work his way up through the gangs shielding a terror network. Three and a half hours, with a lot of names and factions to keep straight.
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2025 · Comedy
A couple married 65 years die a week apart and reach an afterlife waiting room, where each person picks one eternity and stays in it. Her first husband, killed young in Korea, has been waiting.
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2025 · Comedy
On the opening night of Oklahoma! in 1943, the lyricist Lorenz Hart slips away to a Broadway bar and holds court, sore about the hit his old partner wrote without him. One room, and almost all talk.
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2025 · Comedy
Happy Gilmore has been out of golf for eleven years and drinking, and takes it up again to pay for his daughter's ballet school in Paris. Same swing, same shouting, plus a rival league.
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2025 · Drama
In 1983 a Scottish schoolboy starts swearing uncontrollably in class, years before anyone can tell him why, and his school treats it as bad behaviour. Based on a real life, following him from twelve into his twenties.
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2025 · Drama
A therapist looks after a daughter who has to be fed through a tube at night, in a motel room, because the ceiling of their flat came down. Her husband is away at sea, her clients are a lot, and she is not sleeping.
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2025 · Drama
The Crawleys in 1930, with Mary's divorce making her unwelcome at other people's parties and Cora's brother arriving from America having lost the family money. The last of the three films, and it is dinners, drawing rooms and who is speaking to whom.
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Little-known
2012 · Drama
An elderly Paris couple, both retired music teachers, are living quietly together when the wife has a stroke and her husband takes on her care. Almost all of it happens inside their apartment.
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2025 · Science fiction
A man walks into a Los Angeles diner saying he comes from a future where artificial intelligence wiped out humanity, and that the people eating there can stop it. It is his hundred and seventeenth try.
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2025 · Horror
A prince renounces God when his wife is killed and spends four hundred years looking for her again, until a solicitor's fiancée in 1889 Paris turns out to be her. Played as a love story more than a scary one, and everything in it is big.
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2025 · Thriller
A Chicago construction foreman who used to be a Royal Marine goes after the traffickers who took his employer's daughter, working his way up through the Russian mob. One fight after another.
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2025 · Crime
A New York music mogul has staked everything on buying his label back when a kidnapper calls for a ransom, and the boy taken turns out to be his driver's son rather than his own. He has to decide whether to pay.
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2025 · Fantasy
Two strangers who meet at a wedding end up driving rented cars with a GPS that keeps steering them through doors into their own pasts. A gentle fantasy romance, mostly the two of them.
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2025 · Mystery
An intelligence officer is given a week to find who leaked a secret programme, and his own wife is one of the five suspects. Mostly dinners and interviews, and everyone in the room lies for a living.
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2025 · Horror
A young quarterback with a head injury he should not be playing through accepts a week of training at the desert compound of the ageing star he idolises. Mostly the two of them, and it turns strange fast.
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2025 · Mystery
A private eye in Bakersfield looks into the death of a woman who called her scared the day before, and the trail leads to a church with a very hands-on reverend. Loose and jokey, and it keeps stopping to flirt.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A West Virginia basketball player wins a local boxing contest and lets the coach who spotted her run her career, then marry her. It follows her rise through the 1990s, with a controlling husband in her corner.
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2025 · Comedy
A lieutenant governor is handed the governor's office when her mentor quits, with fourteen months of his term left and a reporter already digging. Her estranged father picks the same week to reappear.
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2023 · Drama
A man falls from the top floor of a chalet in the Alps and his wife goes on trial, with their partly sighted son the only other person in the house. Most of it is courtroom argument about a marriage.
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2025 · Horror
A man trying to leave a subway station ends up in a corridor that loops back on itself, with instructions to turn around whenever he spots anything out of place. It is one corridor, walked over and over.
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2025 · Crime
A New York bartender agrees to look after his neighbour's cat in 1998, and within days Russian gangsters have put him in hospital over a key he knows nothing about. It moves fast and gets bloody.
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2025 · Drama
After Shivaji dies, his son Sambhaji takes command of the Maratha resistance and strikes at the Mughal empire, while his own court plots to replace him. A long war epic, battle after battle.
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2025 · Horror
A lawyer and his teenage daughter hit a unicorn with the car on the way to his billionaire boss's estate, and find its blood cures whatever it touches. The family wants to make a business of it, and the comedy is at their expense.
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2025 · Mystery
A widowed therapist goes on her first date in years, at a restaurant on the top floor of a tower, and starts getting anonymous messages from someone who has to be in the room. Nearly all of it is that one table, over one evening.
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2025 · Drama
A man walks into a remote forest to bring his brother a letter from home, asking him to come back and talk to the boy he left behind. Mostly two men in a hut, talking and not talking.
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2025 · Animation
The bank takes the farm and plans to sell the animals off, so a pig named Snowball talks the rest into throwing the humans out and running the place themselves. Bright, fast animation over Orwell's story.
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2025 · Drama
A Los Angeles cam performer is paid $50,000 to spend one night with a client who answers the door in a balaclava and starts asking him personal questions. Almost all of it is the two of them in one room.
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2025 · Comedy
Bridget Jones is widowed with two young children, and everyone around her is saying it is time to start dating again. She goes back to work and gets chased by a man in his twenties.
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2025 · Thriller
A US marshal charters a small plane to fly a mob accountant out of the Alaskan wilderness to testify. Almost all of it happens in the cockpit of that plane, with three people in it.
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2004 · Comedy
The most confident newsreader in 1970s San Diego finds a woman hired onto his all-male team and going for his chair. Built from jokes rather than plot, and it stops for any gag it likes.
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2025 · Family
Gabby sets off on a road trip with her grandmother, and her cat-filled dollhouse falls off the van and into the hands of an old cat lady. She shrinks down to doll size to get her cats back.
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2025 · Crime
A bent detective is sent to find the son of a mayoral candidate, who has stolen a shipment of cocaine and now has the Triads and half the force hunting him. Long, brutal fights, mostly at night.
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2025 · Comedy
The British prime minister and a US president who used to be an action star cannot stand each other, then end up parachuting out of Air Force One into Belarus together. Chases and bickering the whole way.
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