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123 films tagged friendship, 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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2014 · Comedy
A famous hotel concierge between the wars takes on a new lobby boy, inherits a painting from a wealthy guest, and is accused of her murder. It is told as a story inside a story inside a story, at speed.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2001 · Fantasy
A young hobbit inherits a ring that has to be destroyed, and sets out from a very comfortable village with eight companions and a long way to walk. The first of three, and it ends mid-journey.
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2007 · Animation
A rat with an exceptional nose and a taste for cooking ends up steering a hopeless kitchen boy around a famous Paris restaurant. Nobody can be allowed to know.
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2007 · Comedy
Two best friends about to leave for different colleges try to buy drink for a party, mostly so the night will mean something. The plan rests on a fake ID with one name on it.
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1995 · Animation
A boy's toys come alive when he leaves the room, and the cowboy who has always been his favourite is shoved aside by a new space ranger. The two of them end up lost together, some way from home.
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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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2010 · Drama
A Harvard undergraduate builds a website that spreads from campus to campus, and is sued by the friend who funded it and by classmates who say he took their idea. Told through the two depositions, with a great deal of fast talking.
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2016 · Drama
Three chapters in the life of a quiet boy growing up in Miami: as a child, as a teenager, and as a grown man. Each one turns on who he is willing to be seen as.
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2008 · Crime
Two Irish hitmen are sent to a picture-postcard Belgian town to lie low after a job, and one of them is bored out of his mind. They wait for a phone call.
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2016 · Drama
Three Black women working as mathematicians at NASA in the early 1960s do the sums that put an astronaut in orbit, in a building that is still segregated. Their fight is mostly a bureaucratic one.
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2006 · Adventure
A stuntman laid up in a 1920s Los Angeles hospital tells a wandering adventure story to a little girl with a broken arm, partly to get something from her. The story is shot in real places all over the world.
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2019 · War
Two young British soldiers are sent on foot across enemy ground to call off an attack that would walk sixteen hundred men into a trap. Shot to look like one unbroken take, so it runs at their pace.
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2012 · Comedy
Two rookie cops with nothing to show for themselves are sent back into high school undercover, where the social rules have changed since they were students. It runs on the two of them bouncing off each other.
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2009 · Comedy
Two friends go looking for the classmate who vanished after they survived a brutal engineering college, and the search takes them back through their student years. Broad jokes and songs, then it turns serious.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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1998 · Comedy
A very relaxed man in Los Angeles is mistaken for a millionaire with the same name, and would like a new rug. What follows is a kidnapping plot he keeps wandering out of.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2016 · Animation
A boy who led the bullying of a deaf classmate in primary school tracks her down years later to try to say something to her. Most of it is quiet, awkward conversation between teenagers who do not know how to start.
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2018 · Mystery
A cheerful mom who runs a small parenting vlog befriends the glamorous mother of her son's classmate, and then that friend doesn't come back from a work trip. A mystery played with jokes and very good clothes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2017 · Drama
A Seoul cabbie takes a big fare to drive a German reporter down to Gwangju in May 1980, with no idea what is happening in the city. It starts as a comedy about a man chasing money and does not stay one.
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2022 · War
A German schoolboy signs up in 1917 with his friends, excited about the war, and is sent to the trenches of the Western Front. It is loud and muddy and there is almost no let-up.
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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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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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1998 · Crime
Four friends lose half a million pounds in a rigged card game and have a week to find it, so they plan to rob the neighbours who are busy robbing someone else. Several groups end up after the same two antique shotguns.
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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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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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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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2022 · Horror
A group of rich twenty-somethings ride out a hurricane at a family mansion and start a party game where one of them is secretly the killer. Mostly one house, in the dark, with a lot of bickering.
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2019 · Comedy
Two straight-A students find out the night before graduation that the classmates they looked down on got into the same colleges, so they cram four years of fun into one evening. It is one long night, mostly the two of them talking.
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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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2018 · Comedy
A broke and prickly New York biographer works out that she can pay the rent by writing letters in dead authors' voices and selling them. Dry, funny, and largely two people drinking in bars.
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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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2012 · Science fiction
Three high-school boys climb down a hole in a field and come out able to move things with their minds, and at first they mostly mess about. Shot as if one of them is filming the whole time.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2022 · Drama
Two thirteen-year-old boys who have been inseparable their whole lives start a new school, where the other children ask what exactly they are to each other. Quiet, slow, and close to their faces.
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2008 · Science fiction
A going-away party in Manhattan is cut short by something very large coming ashore, and the whole night is filmed on one guest's camcorder. Short, shaky and more or less in real time.
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Little-known
2016 · Science fiction
A woman loses her job and her boyfriend, moves back to her hometown, and works out that a giant creature stomping around Seoul copies whatever she does in one particular playground. A small-town drinking story with a monster movie bolted on.
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Little-known
2020 · Drama
Four Black veterans go back to Vietnam for the body of their squad leader and the crate of gold buried with him. Long, cutting between now and the war, and stopping to argue about history.
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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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2019 · Drama
Ford hires a car designer and a difficult British driver to build something that can beat Ferrari at Le Mans in 1966. Half of it is engineering arguments in a workshop and half is cars at speed.
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Little-known
2014 · Comedy
A young office worker talks his way into a band whose singer never takes off the large fake head he wears, and follows them to a cabin to record an album. Odd and funny early, heavier later.
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2018 · Comedy
A couple who take their weekly game night seriously turn up for a murder-mystery party thrown by his brother, and the fake kidnapping goes wrong. It runs fast and is played for laughs throughout.
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2018 · Drama
A Bronx bouncer takes a job driving a Black concert pianist through the American South in 1962, guided by a book listing where he is allowed to stop. Two men in a car, talking, for most of it.
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2014 · Action
A small-time thief picks up a mysterious orb and ends up in an alien prison with a green assassin, a talking raccoon and a tree. Big, loud, colourful, and joking most of the way through.
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2011 · Fantasy
The last of the Harry Potter films picks up mid-run, with three teenagers hunting the objects keeping a dark wizard alive, and ends at the school where it all started. Most of it is the final battle.
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2004 · Fantasy
In his third year at Hogwarts, Harry learns that the man who broke out of the wizard prison is looking for him. Greyer and rainier than the first two, and it moves quickly for a long film.
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2007 · Comedy
London's best policeman is promoted sideways to a village where nothing happens and paired with a partner raised on action films. Jokes come thick and fast, and it gets very loud towards the end.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2010 · Animation
A Viking teenager who is no good at killing dragons brings one down, finds it hurt, and starts working out what dragons actually want. Flying scenes, and a father who is hard to talk to.
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2024 · Horror
Two lonely teenagers in the suburbs bond over a late-night TV show about girls fighting monsters, and one of them cannot let it go. It is slow and dreamlike, and more sad than scary.
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2015 · Animation
The feelings inside an eleven-year-old girl run her from a control room in her head, and two of them get lost the week her family moves across the country. Bright and fast, with a lot underneath.
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2024 · Animation
Riley turns thirteen and a new crew of feelings, Anxiety among them, muscles into the control room in her head just as she leaves for hockey camp. Bright, fast, and mostly set inside her mind.
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