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.
- Clearly light
AI estimate, not yet described
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- LightHeavyBrokeback Mountain is Clearly heavy; Avengers: Infinity War is Slightly heavy.
- SimpleComplicatedBrokeback Mountain is Slightly simple; Avengers: Infinity War is Clearly complicated.
- SlowFastBrokeback Mountain is Clearly slow; Avengers: Infinity War is Clearly fast.
- RealisticFantasticBrokeback Mountain is Strongly realistic; Avengers: Infinity War is Strongly fantastic.
- IntimateEpicBrokeback Mountain is Slightly intimate; Avengers: Infinity War is Strongly epic.
- PlotCharacterBrokeback Mountain is Strongly character-driven; Avengers: Infinity War is Strongly plot-driven.
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14 films tagged everyday life
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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.
- Clearly intimate
- Clearly character-driven
AI estimate, not yet described
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.
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly slow
AI estimate, not yet described
Paterson
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.
- Strongly slow
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
- Strongly light
AI estimate, not yet described
2013 · Romance
Nine years on, Jesse and Celine are together with twin daughters and spending the last day of a summer in Greece. It is nearly all the two of them talking, in takes that run for many minutes at a time.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly slow
AI estimate, not yet described
2004 · Romance
Nine years after one night in Vienna, a writer on a book tour runs into her again in a Paris bookshop, and they have the afternoon before his flight. One long walk and one long conversation.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly slow
AI estimate, not yet described
Fallen Leaves
Little-known
2023 · Comedy
Two lonely people in Helsinki, both scraping by on bad jobs, meet at a karaoke bar and keep losing track of each other. Short, very quiet, deadpan, and in Finnish.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly slow
- Clearly simple
- Clearly character-driven
AI estimate, not yet described
Hard Truths
Little-known
2024 · Drama
A London woman furious at almost everything snaps at her husband, her son and everyone in the shops, while her cheerful sister keeps trying to reach her. Nearly all of it is talk in kitchens and living rooms.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly heavy
- Strongly slow
AI estimate, not yet described
2004 · Comedy
A teenager in small-town Idaho draws mythical creatures, feeds his brother's llama and helps a friend run for class president. Deadpan, barely plotted, and full of long flat pauses.
- Strongly simple
- Strongly light
- Strongly intimate
- Clearly character-driven
AI estimate, not yet described
2020 · Drama
After her town in Nevada empties out, a woman in her sixties packs her life into a van and takes seasonal work across the American west. Not much plot, real people playing themselves, a lot of sky.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly slow
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly simple
AI estimate, not yet described
2019 · Drama
A fading television cowboy and his stunt double drive around Los Angeles in 1969 while the actress next door goes about her week. Long and loose, with very little plot for most of its length.
- Clearly character-driven
- Clearly realistic
AI estimate, not yet described
2023 · Drama
A man who cleans public toilets in Tokyo gets up before dawn, works his round, reads a paperback and does the same again tomorrow. Almost nothing happens, on purpose, and he barely speaks.
- Strongly slow
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly character-driven
- Strongly simple
AI estimate, not yet described
2018 · Drama
A live-in housekeeper for a middle-class family in Mexico City goes about her days in 1970 while the household around her comes apart. Black and white, slow, with long shots that pan across a room and back.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly slow
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly heavy
AI estimate, not yet described
Support the Girls
Little-known
2018 · Comedy
A general manager holds together a highway sports bar and the young women who work there through one very long day of small disasters. Almost all of it is in that one bar, across a single shift.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly simple
AI estimate, not yet described