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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.
90 films tagged falling in love, showing 50
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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2009 · Comedy
A man who writes greeting cards for a living falls hard for the new girl at the office, and the film jumps around their year and a half out of order. Chatty, quick, and told from his side.
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Little-known
2016 · Musical
A boy in 1980s Dublin, moved to a rough school when his parents run short of money, starts a band mostly to impress a girl standing outside it. They learn to play as they go.
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2018 · Drama
A rock star with a drinking problem hears a singer in a bar and puts her on stage with him the next night. It is mostly the two of them, with full songs played end to end.
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2013 · Romance
A young man learns from his father that the men in the family can travel back to moments in their own lives, and starts by using it to get a girlfriend. Gentle and mostly about family, with the time travel kept small.
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2023 · Comedy
Two people whose first date ended badly turn up at the same wedding in Sydney and agree to fake being a couple to get everyone off their backs. Sunny, loud, and light all the way through.
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2007 · Romance
On a hot day in 1935 at an English country house, a thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie about her older sister. It then follows the people that lie touched, across years and into the war.
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2009 · Science fiction
A paralysed marine ships out to a moon on the far side of the galaxy, where a lab-grown body lets him walk among the people whose forest sits on what his employers want. Long, and built to be looked at.
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2013 · Adventure
A photo archivist who daydreams elaborately and does very little finally leaves the building, chasing a missing negative across Greenland and Iceland. The daydreams stop once the trip starts.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Action
A young man raised in a village under a huge waterfall climbs it and finds a kingdom that has been waiting a long time for someone like him. Enormous: armies, cliffs, and fights that ignore what a body can actually do.
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2017 · Action
A getaway driver who keeps music playing at all times to drown out the ringing in his ears is working off a debt to the man who hires him. Every chase and shootout is cut to whatever song he has on.
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Little-known
2017 · Comedy
In 1973 the top woman in tennis agrees to a televised match against a loud former champion who says no woman can beat him. Half of it is the circus, half is her private life.
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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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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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2010 · Romance
A married couple with a small daughter come apart over one day and one night, cut against the weeks when they first met. Two people talking, mostly, jumping between the two times.
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2022 · Horror
Two young cannibals meet in 1980s America and drive its back roads together, keeping clear of towns and of others like them. A road film and a first-love story, with a lot of blood in it.
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Little-known
2023 · Comedy
Two unpopular high school seniors start a self-defense club, mostly as a way to get near the cheerleaders they like. Broad, rude, and set in a version of high school where nothing has consequences.
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2011 · Comedy
A woman whose bakery and love life have both fallen apart is made maid of honour, and ends up competing with a richer, smoother bridesmaid. Broad jokes and long scenes that look improvised.
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2005 · Romance
Two young ranch hands spend a summer minding sheep on a Wyoming mountain in 1963, and carry what happens there quietly through the next twenty years of jobs and marriages. Slow, mostly quiet, and covering a long stretch of time.
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2015 · Drama
A young woman leaves a small Irish town for New York in the 1950s, homesick and alone until she meets someone. Gentle and slow, and mostly about one person working out where she belongs.
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2017 · Romance
A seventeen-year-old spends the summer at his family's house in northern Italy, where his father's new research assistant comes to stay for six weeks. Long hot days, and nothing happens quickly.
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2015 · Romance
A young shop assistant in 1950s New York sells a train set to an elegant woman in the middle of a divorce, and the two start seeing each other. It moves slowly and much of it is glances across rooms.
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2006 · Action
A newly promoted British agent is sent to out-play a banker to terrorists at a very expensive poker table in Montenegro. The card game runs long, and the chases around it are done with real bodies and real buildings.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2024 · Drama
A tennis coach enters her slumping husband in a small tournament, where he draws his oldest friend across the net. The match keeps cutting back through thirteen years of the three of them.
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2018 · Comedy
A New York economics professor flies to a wedding in Singapore with her boyfriend and finds out on the way that his family owns half the city. A romantic comedy with a very hostile mother-in-law at the centre.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Drama
The son of a famous heavyweight, who never knew him, turns up in Philadelphia and asks his father's old rival to train him. The usual boxing shape, with the fights shot in long unbroken takes.
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2000 · Action
A master swordsman hands over his famous blade to be retired, and it is stolen the same night by someone who fights as well as he does. Wire-work fights over rooftops, with a lot of longing in between.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2016 · Action
A mercenary comes out of an experiment with powers he never asked for and goes after the man who did it to him, talking to the audience the whole way. Rude, fast, and joking through the violence.
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2022 · Mystery
A detective who cannot sleep looks into a man's fall from a mountain, and spends more and more of his time watching the dead man's wife. It moves slowly, and much of it is two people being careful about what they say.
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2011 · Crime
A Hollywood stunt driver takes getaway jobs at night and keeps himself to himself, until his neighbour's husband comes home from prison. Long quiet stretches, then sudden and very hard violence.
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2023 · Animation
In a city where fire, water, earth and air people keep to their own neighbourhoods, a shopkeeper's daughter made of fire meets a water guy who cries at everything. Bright, busy, and built around her parents' shop.
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2020 · Comedy
A rich young woman in a Regency village amuses herself arranging matches for everyone around her, whether or not they want the help. Bright and mannered, and mostly about who is talking to whom.
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2004 · Romance
After a bad breakup a shy man learns his girlfriend has had him wiped from her memory, and books the same procedure for himself. Most of it happens inside his head over one night, with the rooms coming apart around him.
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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.
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2021 · Comedy
A cheerful bank teller works out that he is a background character in a violent online game, and starts playing it himself. Bright, fast, and full of jokes about video games.
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2017 · Romance
A young man running his family's sheep farm in Yorkshire drinks himself stupid every night until a Romanian worker arrives for lambing season. Quiet, muddy, and very short on dialogue.
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2013 · Science fiction
A lonely man in a near-future Los Angeles, who writes other people's love letters for a living, installs an operating system that talks back. Quiet and warm-looking, and largely one man talking to a voice.
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2023 · Comedy
A mild college professor moonlights for the police, posing as a contract killer in sting operations, and turns out to be very good at inventing a new man for each job. Then one of the women he is sent to trap likes the man he is playing.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2004 · Action
In ninth-century China two policemen set a trap for a rebel group by freeing a blind dancer they believe will lead them to it. The fights are long and colourful and mostly outdoors.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2004 · Animation
A quiet young hatmaker is cursed into the body of an old woman and takes shelter in the walking castle of a wizard everyone is afraid of. Hand-drawn, warm, and it wanders rather than hurries.
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Little-known
2018 · Romance
A young couple in 1970s Harlem are pulled apart when he is jailed for something he did not do, and her family sets about proving it. Slow, warm, and full of long held looks.
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2000 · Romance
Two neighbours in 1960s Hong Kong work out that their husband and wife are seeing each other, and start spending evenings together. Slow and quiet, mostly small talk in corridors and stairwells, in Cantonese.
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2007 · Comedy
A sixteen-year-old finds out she is pregnant and picks a couple in the suburbs to raise the baby. Everybody talks in a very particular way, and the whole thing is over in an hour and a half.
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