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38 films tagged everyday life
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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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2025 · Documentary
A documentary portrait of Naples, built from fragments of the days of the people who live and work there. There is no story to follow, only the city.
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2025 · Drama
A deaf woman living in rural Spain is expecting a baby with her hearing partner, and cannot stop thinking about how she will talk to her daughter. Close and quiet, mostly the two of them and a new baby.
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2025 · Drama
A computer engineer in her thirties loses the funding for her tech project and takes a job on the till at a big electronics shop. A Spanish drama that stays with her while she works out what she wants.
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2025 · Drama
A middle-aged man lives in a crumbling villa in Tuscany. A group of idealistic young students turns up to bring its vineyards back.
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2025 · Documentary
Four young people in Gaza film their daily life during the war: a boy in a tent, a girl making a cooking show, a boy helping paramedics, a woman with a newborn. An hour, spent close to them.
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2025 · Drama
A woman in HR at a demanding company interviews one young job applicant after another while quietly working out whether to keep a pregnancy nobody knows about. Much of it is those interviews.
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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.
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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.
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2025 · Drama
Four generations of girls grow up on the same farm in northern Germany, in four different periods. The film cuts between them instead of telling them in order, and the same gestures and moments keep returning.
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2025 · Comedy
Two friends in Los Angeles find their rent money gone and have until six in the evening to come up with $1,500 or lose the apartment. One long day, one bad idea after another, played for laughs.
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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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2025 · Drama
A trained dancer marries into a traditional family and watches her days disappear into the kitchen while the men wait to be served. Repetitive on purpose, slow, and almost entirely inside one house.
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2025 · Drama
An Icelandic family goes through a year in which the parents separate and everyday life carries on around it. It is a comedy-drama that follows the whole year rather than one crisis.
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2025 · Drama
In a Chinese village in 1991, a ten-year-old left with his grandmother watches a year of planting and harvest, weddings and funerals, as the young people leave for work in the cities. It moves at the speed of the farming year.
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2026 · Drama
A middle-aged surgeon with no children has given her life over to work and duty, until a novelist starts sitting in to watch her for a book. French, unhurried, and it stays with her throughout.
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2026 · Comedy
Olga lives alone and by strict routine in a huge Mexico City block of flats until money forces her to rent out a room, and her lodger has secretly brought his young son. It moves very slowly.
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2026 · Documentary
An elderly Ruc woman born in a cave lives with her extended family in rural Vietnam, teaching the children words from a language that is nearly gone. Shot on 16mm, and built from moments.
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2026 · Drama
An eleven-year-old is sent from the city to live with his young aunt in the family's village, and takes a long time to settle. Almost nothing dramatic happens: school, chores, and the people around him slowly changing.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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2024 · Drama
Two nurses share a flat in Mumbai, one waiting on a husband who never writes and one seeing a man her family would not accept, and they take a trip to the coast. Slow and observational.
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2014 · Drama
Twelve years in the life of a Texas boy and his family, shot with the same actors for a few days a year as they actually aged. There is no plot to speak of, only time passing.
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2023 · Drama
A village near Tokyo is told a glamping site is coming and that the water will be affected, and two company reps drive up to sell it. Very slow, and it ends somewhere unexpected.
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2019 · Documentary
The last wild beekeeper in a deserted Macedonian village looks after her blind mother, until a family with cattle moves in next door. Filmed over three years with no narration.
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1991 · Animation
A twenty-seven-year-old office worker takes a week in the countryside picking safflowers, and her ten-year-old self keeps turning up. Slow, adult and quietly detailed.
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2019 · Drama
One day in the life of a junior assistant at a New York film company, from opening the office to locking it. Almost nothing is said out loud.
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2017 · Drama
A six-year-old spends a summer running around a budget motel outside Disney World while her young mother works out how to pay for the room. Bright, loose and observational.
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2023 · Drama
A cook and the gourmet she has worked for over twenty years prepare meals together in a French country kitchen. The first half hour is one lunch being made.
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