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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.
289 films tagged friendship, showing 50
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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 · 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 · 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 · Drama
Two childhood friends in a north Indian village, one Muslim and one Dalit, study for the police exam because the uniform would finally get them some respect. It moves slowly and stays close to the two of them.
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2025 · Comedy
A 94-year-old moves to New York after her closest friend dies, wanders into a support group for Holocaust survivors, and starts telling her friend's story as her own. A young student takes an interest.
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2025 · Mystery
Five years on, Stephanie is a true crime vlogger when Emily turns up at a book signing and asks her to be maid of honour at a wedding in Capri. Sharp and silly, with a big cast and a lot of plot.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2020 · Comedy
Four schoolteachers in their forties test a theory that people do better with a bit of alcohol in their blood, so they start drinking at work. It follows the four of them over a term and swings between funny and sad.
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2025 · Comedy
A maid of honour who secretly works as a spy has to save her best friend's wedding when mercenaries take the whole party hostage on a private island. Broad comedy with fights in it.
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2010 · Animation
A family of four-inch people live under the floorboards of a country house, borrowing what they need, until the daughter is seen by the boy who has come to stay. Slow and quiet, with everything sized from her point of view.
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2025 · Science fiction
A company sells a test that claims to identify your one true soulmate, and Simon pays for his best friend Laura to take it. It follows the two of them over many years, mostly in conversations.
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2025 · Comedy
A burned-out paramedic finally gets the office job he applied for, and has to work one last 24-hour shift with his partner and a student riding along. The night runs from funny to awful, call by call.
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2025 · Action
Several people who received organs from the same mysterious donor find they picked up superpowers along with them, and start looking for each other. A comedy, built like a superhero origin story.
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2025 · Animation
Shin-chan and his friends win a dance contest and are flown to India to perform, where a backpack from an antique shop turns one of them into a rampaging monster. Cartoon slapstick for children.
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2025 · Musical
Two rappers from Dundee cannot get anyone in the record industry to take them seriously, so they put on American accents and spend three years pretending to be from California. Based on what the pair actually did.
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2025 · Drama
The true story of Willy Monteiro Duarte, a 21-year-old of Cape Verdean descent beaten to death in an Italian town while stepping in to defend a friend. Drawn from Federica Angeli's book on the case.
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2025 · Drama
In 1950s Taiwan, under martial law, a young woman travels north to collect the remains of a brother executed by the government. Along the way she falls in with a soldier and a rickshaw driver.
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2025 · Drama
A concert flutist goes back to his Finnish hometown and reconnects with an old schoolmate. From there he is pulled towards experimental music.
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2025 · Drama
A Swedish seventeen-year-old joins an all-boys final-year class in Trieste in 2007, where three of them take her in as one of the lads and each quietly wants more. Coming of age, with a friendship under strain.
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2025 · Drama
Ari passes his teaching exam, breaks down nine months into the job and is pushed out of his father's house. He wanders the city feverish, running into old friends, and the film wanders with him.
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2025 · Crime
Three young men in Japan make a living pretending to be women online, talking men into selling them their identity papers. It follows the three of them as the work pulls them further in.
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2025 · Action
Two lifelong friends run the temple committee in an Andhra village, until a minister who wants the temple's land sets about turning them against each other. Long, loud village politics with fights.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Action
Two young men meet in a juvenile detention centre and become friends, and once out they set about training for a mixed martial arts tournament. Street gangs keep getting in the way.
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2025 · Animation
Aske would rather be with his friends than go on ninja missions, so his checkered ninja doll goes looking for missions alone and lands him in trouble with a local gang. Cartoon comedy for children.
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2025 · Drama
A woman stretched between her ailing parents, a strained marriage and a house in the country strikes up a friendship with a struggling single mother nearby. It stays close to the two of them.
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2025 · Drama
Three friends in their early twenties knock about a Slovenian neighbourhood where the local boys treat them as trouble. A young transgender woman named Fantasy arrives, and pulls each of them a different way.
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2025 · Drama
In 1980 the writer Goliarda Sapienza is arrested for theft and meets two much younger women inside. The friendship the three of them build carries on after they get out.
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2025 · Crime
Adamo runs a legitimate business now and still moves cocaine through the port of Antwerp, which puts him between his old boss and the rival trying to take her trade. Loud and fast, and played partly for comedy.
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2025 · Drama
In Taiwan in 1988, a withdrawn girl living in an unhappy house is drawn out by a lively girl her own age. Slow and quiet, and mostly about what home is like.
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2025 · Drama
In Madrid in 1988, a girl preparing for her first communion starts asking questions about death, and befriends a gypsy girl who goes nowhere without her goat. A coming-of-age story told at child height.
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2025 · Comedy
A year into the pandemic, a class of Spanish school leavers finally get their trip to Mallorca, and a new outbreak confines them to their hotel rooms. They throw the party anyway.
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2000 · Action
A class of Japanese ninth-graders is taken to an island, handed weapons, and told that in three days only one of them may be left. It moves fast and does not soften what the kids do to each other.
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2025 · Drama
A single mother making a documentary about the lack of affection in her Barcelona neighbourhood ends up in a wheelchair after an accident, and old friends gather round. Adapted from a play, and it is mostly talk.
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2025 · Family
A city weatherman breaks down on the road to Broome and ends up looking after orphaned baby kangaroos with a local girl. A gentle family film, loosely based on the man who started a real kangaroo sanctuary.
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2025 · Horror
A music store clerk secretly in love with his friend breaks a novelty toy that grants one wish, and wishes she loved him more than anyone. The wish works, and that is the problem.
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2025 · Thriller
In an America run by the military, fifty teenage boys set off on an annual walk they have to keep at three miles an hour, with three warnings before the soldiers shoot. The last one going wins.
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2025 · Mystery
Four residents of a retirement village meet weekly to pick over cold cases, and then a man behind the plan to redevelop the village is murdered. Comfortable and chatty, more sleuthing than danger.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
A graduate student at a small college in Maine is raped by her thesis adviser, and the film follows the years of her life around it. Quiet, often funny, with her best friend never far away.
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2014 · Animation
A teenage robotics whiz in a city that is half San Francisco and half Tokyo teams up with a soft inflatable healthcare robot his brother built. It is bright and fast, with a real sad streak running under the jokes.
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2025 · Musical
Argentina, 1983: a window dresser jailed for indecency shares a cell with a political prisoner and passes the days retelling him, scene by scene, the Hollywood musical she loves. It cuts between the cell and the musical she is describing.
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2025 · Comedy
Two men meet at a support group in Portland for people who have lost a twin, and become inseparable. It is a black comedy, and it stays uncomfortably close to the friendship.
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2025 · Drama
A suspended basketball coach is sentenced to community service and put in charge of a team of players with intellectual disabilities preparing for a tournament. A long sports comedy, mostly training sessions and the players themselves.
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2025 · Drama
The son of a Nagasaki yakuza boss is taken in as an apprentice by a great kabuki actor and grows up performing women's roles alongside the master's own son and heir. It runs close to three hours and covers decades.
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2025 · Romance
Travelling Europe with two friends before starting a banking job, a graduate meets a New Zealander on the night train to Barcelona who is following his great-grandfather's diary. They carry on together.
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2025 · Comedy
A laid-off accountant arranges a playdate for his stepson with the new stay-at-home dad down the street, and by the afternoon armed men are chasing all four of them. Big and silly, built on chases.
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2025 · Comedy
A man whose wife has just asked for a divorce flees to his best friend's beach house, finds out that couple has an open marriage, and sleeps with the wife. After that it is four people arguing, negotiating and fighting.
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2025 · Comedy
Two Toronto friends have spent seventeen years failing to book a gig at one club, and their latest scheme accidentally sends them back to 2008. Silly and fast, built out of one bad plan after another.
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2018 · Drama
A man in Oakland has three days left on probation and a best friend who cannot leave trouble alone, in a neighbourhood changing block by block. Funny and tense in the same scene, and it sometimes breaks into verse.
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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 · Comedy
A folk musician takes a suitcase of cash to play a private show on a remote Welsh island, where his host turns out to be the whole audience. Then his old singing partner arrives.
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2025 · Comedy
A sound engineer in love with a friend who does not do feelings ends up in bed with her and a woman he met that evening. What follows is the three of them working out what it meant.
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