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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.
39 films tagged art
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Little-known
2025 · Fantasy
A disgraced treasure hunter steals a run of old paintings and pulls his estranged sister, a museum curator, into reading the clues in them. They are after the Fountain of Youth, funded by a dying man.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
Six years after a solar flare wrecks the world's technology, a scavenger is sent from England into France to bring back the Mona Lisa for a self-declared king. A chase across ruins, with a lot of shooting.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
Four distant cousins clear out a Normandy house untouched since the 1940s and piece together the story of an ancestor who left for Paris in 1895 to look for her mother. It moves between the two centuries.
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Little-known
2025 · Documentary
A collage of archive, staged scenes and internet chatter, adapted from a video art installation, with actors playing W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey. Shaped like a record album rather than a story.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A webtoon artist whose spy series was panned is accused by the intelligence service when a real terrorist attack copies its plot. A broad Korean action comedy that moves fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2013 · Romance
A French teenager drifting through school meets an older art student with blue hair, and her whole life reorganises around her. It runs three hours and stays very close to her face.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
An elderly London painter's children secretly hire a young artist to finish the series he abandoned, planning to sell it after he dies. He is sharper than they think, and it is mostly two people in a studio.
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2018 · Drama
The rise of Queen from a pub band to Live Aid, following Freddie Mercury from his first audition to the stadiums. Built around the songs, with the concerts staged at full length.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
In a SoHo apartment in 1974, the photographer Peter Hujar sits on a couch and tells a writer everything he did the day before while her tape recorder runs. Two people, one room, 76 minutes of talk.
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Little-known
2025 · Crime
In 1970 Massachusetts an out-of-work carpenter hires three men to steal four paintings from the local museum, while the country argues about Vietnam. A quiet heist film that stays with him afterwards.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A post office clerk who published one book of poems fifty years ago is tracked down by a young admirer and taken up by a circle of rich would-be writers who treat him as a lost master. It is small and quiet, and it stays with him.
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2026 · Drama
A pop star three days from a comeback show drives to the English countryside to ask the designer she once cut out of her life to make her a dress. Mostly two people in a barn, working and arguing.
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Little-known
2026 · Comedy
Three friends in the Bay Area shoplift from a fashion chain and sell the clothes on cheap, until one of them gets close to the designer whose work she admires. An absurd comedy that keeps stepping sideways.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A broke young man takes an assistant job with a famous artist whose work is sexually explicit, and she quickly makes him her submissive. Sex, jokes about the art world, and a crime story mixed in.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
Seven people in Prague between thirty and fifty take stock of their careers and their marriages: a self-promoting painter, his more talented wife, a lawyer on drugs. The stories run side by side.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
A Mexican sound artist travels from the jungle up into the Peruvian Andes, recording endangered languages along a path her exiled grandfather once took. It is slow, and her grip on what is real slips.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
A Tokyo architect goes out to a rural town to visit her sculptor friend, once her sister-in-law, and sit for a sculpture. The two of them talk, and the tension builds until it comes out.
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Little-known
2026 · Documentary
In 1972 William Greaves filmed a party at Duke Ellington's Harlem townhouse, gathering every surviving figure of the Harlem Renaissance he could find. It sat unfinished for fifty years, until his son cut it together.
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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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2019 · Drama
Four sisters grow up in Massachusetts during and after the Civil War, one of them trying to make a living writing. It cuts back and forth between their childhood and seven years on, so you have to keep track of where you are.
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2016 · Thriller
A Los Angeles gallery owner is sent the manuscript of a novel by her ex-husband, and the film cuts between her reading it and the story on the page. Two stories at once, and the one in the book is nasty.
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2017 · Romance
A celebrated London dressmaker in the 1950s runs his house to a strict routine, then brings home a waitress from the coast and fits her into it. Quiet, mannered, and largely inside one townhouse.
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2024 · Drama
A Hungarian architect who survived the war arrives in Pennsylvania with nothing, and a rich man hires him to build something enormous on a hill. Three and a half hours, with an interval in the middle.
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2021 · Comedy
The staff of an American magazine based in a French town put together one last issue, and three of its articles play out as separate stories. Dozens of actors, packed frames, and it never sits still.
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2024 · Drama
Three chapters, told back to front, about an ordinary accountant named Chuck: the first opens with billboards thanking him for 39 great years while the world falls apart. Each part is a completely different mood.
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Little-known
2019 · Comedy
A young man tells the story of his own life, from a bottle factory in London to a boat house on the coast and a run of people he cannot get out of his head. It jumps between times and places quickly, with a huge cast and a lot of jokes.
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Little-known
2016 · Drama
A bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey writes poems in a notebook, walks his dog, and has one beer in the same bar each night. The film is a week of that, with small variations.
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Little-known
2009 · Animation
A boy in a walled Irish monastery is meant to be helping build the wall against Viking raids, and instead helps a visiting monk work on an illuminated book. Short, flat and patterned like the drawings in the book itself.
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Little-known
2017 · Drama
A young woman putting off college in Columbus, Indiana walks around its modernist buildings with a visitor whose father is in a coma. Almost entirely conversation, framed very carefully.
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1989 · Drama
A new English teacher at a strict New England boarding school in 1959 tells his pupils to read poetry as though it mattered. Warm for a long stretch, and then not.
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Little-known
2022 · Documentary
Two French volcanologists spent twenty years filming each other walking up to erupting craters, and this is cut from their own footage. The images are the reason to watch.
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Little-known
2024 · Animation
Two schoolgirls who draw manga start making it together, and keep going after school ends. Under an hour, and the drawing is the whole subject.
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Little-known
2008 · Documentary
Philippe Petit and his friends smuggle a cable into the World Trade Center in 1974 so that he can walk between the towers. Told like a heist, with the real footage in it.
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2024 · Science fiction
An architect who can stop time wants to rebuild New York as a utopia, and the mayor wants nothing of the sort. Enormous, strange and hard to summarise.
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2025 · Drama
The making of Breathless in Paris in 1959, with a director who has no script and a crew who cannot tell whether he is serious. Black and white, and light on its feet.
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2013 · Drama
Two vampires married for centuries, one in Detroit and one in Tangier, meet up and mostly talk about music and books. Very slow, and very little happens.
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Little-known
2023 · Comedy
Two people freshly out of bad relationships meet at a gallery in Peckham and spend the day walking around south London. Bright, short and very funny.
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2008 · Drama
A theatre director with a grant builds a life-size replica of New York in a warehouse and rehearses his own life inside it, for decades. Very long and very hard to hold.
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1995 · Animation
A Tokyo schoolgirl who reads constantly notices the same name on every library card and goes looking for him. Gentle, and mostly about deciding what to make.
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