No film here is good or bad. It is only like something.

2007 · Thriller

A welder out hunting finds a case of cash beside several dead men and takes it, which brings a very patient killer after him. An ageing sheriff follows behind, always arriving late.

• HeavyStrongly heavy

2012 · Drama

An elderly Paris couple, both retired music teachers, are living quietly together when the wife has a stroke and her husband takes on her care. Almost all of it happens inside their apartment.

• SlowStrongly slow
• RealisticStrongly realistic
• HeavyStrongly heavy
• IntimateStrongly intimate
• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven

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.

• RealisticStrongly realistic
• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven
• IntimateClearly intimate

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.

• RealisticStrongly realistic
• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven
• IntimateStrongly intimate
• SlowStrongly slow

2023 · Comedy

A mild biology professor finds he has started turning up in the dreams of strangers all over the world, doing nothing in particular. It plays as a comedy about sudden fame and gets darker as it goes.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2022 · Drama

A buttoned-up London council clerk in 1953, going through the motions of a job he has done for decades, gets a diagnosis and starts trying to get one small thing built. Quiet, polite and very slow on purpose.

• RealisticStrongly realistic
• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven
• SlowStrongly slow
• IntimateStrongly intimate

2017 · Action

An old Wolverine drives a limo near the Mexican border and hides a sick Professor X across it, until a girl with familiar habits needs taking north. A road movie, and much more violent than the ones before.

• HeavyStrongly heavy

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.

• RealisticStrongly realistic
• SlowStrongly slow
• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven
• SimpleClearly simple

2020 · Horror

A woman and her grown daughter drive out to the old family house when the grandmother goes missing, and she comes back with no idea where she has been. Slow, damp, and mostly three women in one house.

• HeavyStrongly heavy
• IntimateStrongly intimate
• SlowClearly slow

2004 · Comedy

Two old friends spend a week driving round California wine country before one of them gets married, one talking about wine and the other chasing women. Mostly conversation, and it wanders.

• RealisticStrongly realistic
• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven
• IntimateStrongly intimate

2012 · Action

A stolen list of undercover agents sends James Bond after a man with a grudge against the woman who runs MI6. Big set pieces in Istanbul, Shanghai and Scotland, with the gadgets kept light.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2020 · Drama

An old man in London keeps turning down the help his daughter arranges, and the film is put together from inside his head, so rooms and faces do not stay put. Almost all of it is one flat and two or three people talking.

• HeavyStrongly heavy
• IntimateStrongly intimate
• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven
• ComplicatedClearly complicated

2019 · Crime

A truck driver falls in with the Philadelphia mob and spends decades doing what he is told, including for a union boss the whole country knew. Three and a half hours, told by an old man looking back.

• RealisticStrongly realistic
• HeavyClearly heavy

2013 · Romance

Mumbai's lunchbox service delivers a wife's cooking to the wrong desk, and the man who eats it writes back. Most of the film is two people passing notes, in a city that never stops moving.

• RealisticStrongly realistic
• IntimateStrongly intimate
• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven

2024 · Horror

A fitness-show host dropped by television on her fiftieth birthday takes a black-market drug that promises a younger version of herself. It gets very graphic, and the last stretch does not hold back.

• HeavyStrongly heavy
• FantasticClearly fantastic

2019 · Drama

A cardinal comes to Rome to hand in his resignation and ends up spending days arguing with Pope Benedict about the church. Two men talking, in gardens and chapels, with jokes.

• RealisticStrongly realistic
• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven

2009 · Animation

A widowed balloon seller ties thousands of balloons to his house and floats it towards South America, with an eight-year-old scout on the porch by accident. Bright and funny, with one very sad stretch early on.

• FantasticStrongly fantastic
• SimpleClearly simple

2022 · Horror

A small crew drive out to a farm in 1979 Texas to shoot a dirty film in the barn, without telling the elderly couple who own the place what they are doing. Slow for a while, and then not.

• HeavyClearly heavy
• IntimateClearly intimate