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58 films tagged grief, showing 50
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2010 · Science fiction
A team that steals ideas out of people's dreams is hired to do the opposite and plant one. The job needs dreams inside dreams, and the rules are explained at length as it goes.
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2016 · Science fiction
Twelve alien craft arrive without explanation, and a linguist is brought in to work out how to ask them what they want. Most of it is the slow business of translation.
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2016 · Drama
A Boston handyman is made guardian of his teenage nephew after his brother dies, which means going back to the town he left. The reason he left comes out slowly.
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2014 · Action
A retired hitman is pulled back in after some young men break into his house and take the one thing he had left. It runs on a strict underworld etiquette that the film never stops to justify.
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2000 · Thriller
A man who can no longer form new memories hunts his wife's killer using notes, photographs and tattoos. The scenes run in reverse order, so at the start of each one you know as little as he does.
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2023 · Mystery
A retired Poirot living quietly in post-war Venice is talked into sitting in on a seance at a crumbling palazzo, and the night ends with a body. Mostly one dark house, with the storm outside doing a lot of work.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2024 · Comedy
Two cousins who have drifted apart take a group tour of Poland to see the town their grandmother left. It is mostly the two of them talking, funny and awkward by turns.
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2023 · Comedy
Families gather in a tiny desert town in 1955 for a junior stargazing convention, and the week does not go to plan. The whole thing is staged inside a story about a play being written.
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2019 · Action
What is left of the Avengers regroups after losing, and goes looking for a way to undo it. Three hours long, with a huge cast, and it assumes you have seen a good many of the films before it.
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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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2016 · Drama
A father raising six children off the grid in the forest has to bring them into ordinary America for the first time. Funny and sad in the same scene, and mostly about what the kids make of him.
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2008 · Drama
A cellist whose orchestra folds moves back to his home town and takes a job he did not expect: preparing the dead for their families before burial. Slow and gentle, with a lot of quiet ceremony.
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2021 · Drama
A stage actor takes a job in Hiroshima directing a Chekhov play, and the theatre assigns him a young woman to drive him there and back each day. Three hours, mostly conversation, much of it in the car.
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2023 · Drama
Summer 1957, and Enzo Ferrari is close to losing the company while a marriage and a second household pull at him, with one long road race left to win. More kitchens and offices than racetrack.
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2018 · Drama
The years between Neil Armstrong joining NASA and stepping onto the Moon, at home as much as in the cockpit. Quiet and close in, with the flying shot from inside the capsule.
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2017 · Drama
The minister of a small, nearly empty church in upstate New York starts keeping a journal and agrees to counsel a young man who is frightened about the climate. Slow, quiet, mostly one man alone.
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2013 · Science fiction
A medical engineer on her first shuttle mission is left drifting when debris tears the craft apart, with limited air and no way to call home. Ninety minutes of one problem after another, mostly in silence.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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2020 · Horror
A couple who have fled South Sudan are given a rundown house on an English estate and told not to leave it while their asylum claim is decided. A haunted house film that spends as much time on the paperwork and the neighbours.
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2023 · Drama
Three sisters who do not get on share a small New York apartment while their father is dying in the back bedroom. Almost entirely that one flat, and almost entirely the three of them talking.
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2024 · Drama
In Rio in 1971, a mother of five keeps the household running after soldiers take her husband away for questioning under Brazil's dictatorship. It stays close to the family and covers many years.
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2013 · Drama
A folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village sleeps on other people's sofas, plays a set most nights, and cannot get a record to sell. A week of his life, mostly cold streets and a cat he cannot shake off.
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2016 · Animation
A one-eyed boy in old Japan makes origami move with a stringed instrument, and has to find his father's armour before his grandfather's spirits find him. Stop-motion, and it goes to dark places for a kids' film.
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2024 · Animation
A woman in Melbourne tells her life story to her pet snail: a twin brother sent to the other side of the country, foster homes, and a collection of things she cannot throw away. Clay animation, narrated all the way through, and sad more often than not.
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2019 · Horror
A grieving American woman tags along with her boyfriend and his friends to a midsummer festival at a remote Swedish commune where the sun barely sets. Long, very bright, and it takes its time.
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2003 · Mystery
Three men who grew up on the same Boston street are pulled back together when one man's daughter is found dead and another is the detective on the case. Heavy and slow, and mostly about the three of them.
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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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2021 · Drama
An eight-year-old helps clear out her grandmother's house in the woods and meets another girl her age building a hut nearby. Just over an hour, very quiet, and almost entirely the two children.
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2021 · Drama
A man who lives alone in the Oregon woods with his truffle pig goes back into Portland when somebody takes her. Quiet and slow, and much of it is people talking about food.
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2020 · Thriller
A woman in her thirties who walked out of medical school spends her nights pretending to be too drunk to stand, to see what men do next. Bright colours, pop songs, and a mean sense of humour.
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2019 · Horror
A young hospice nurse who has recently found God is sent to look after a former dancer dying at home, and decides the woman's soul is her responsibility. Small, quiet and very close to one person.
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2018 · Mystery
A father's sixteen-year-old daughter does not come home, and he starts looking by opening her laptop. The whole thing plays out on computer and phone screens.
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2020 · Comedy
A student turns up at a family shiva and finds her ex-girlfriend and the older man she has been seeing in the same crowded house. Seventy-eight minutes in one home, and it tightens the whole way.
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2022 · Horror
A therapist watches a patient do something terrible in front of her, and afterwards starts seeing strangers smile at her the same way. Loud, full of jump scares, and it does not let up.
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2014 · Animation
A boy on an Irish lighthouse island takes his little sister, who has never spoken, on the long way home past the creatures of old Irish stories. Hand-drawn, gentle, and full of singing.
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2011 · Science fiction
A group of kids shooting a zombie movie on Super 8 film are filming at a railway station when a train comes off the tracks, and soldiers fill their town soon after. A summer-of-1979 adventure with the kids doing most of the work.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2022 · Animation
A teenage girl in a seaside town finds a door standing on its own in some ruins, and ends up crossing Japan closing others like it. Big weather, big feelings, and a talking three-legged chair.
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2022 · Horror
Teenagers in Adelaide pass around an embalmed hand that lets a spirit into whoever holds it, ninety seconds at a time, and film each other doing it. Loud and fast, and it gets nasty.
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2014 · Horror
A widowed mother and her difficult six-year-old find a pop-up book on the shelf about a thing that visits once you know its name, and the boy stops sleeping. Almost all of it happens in one tired house.
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2023 · Animation
During the war a Tokyo boy is moved out to his family's country estate after losing his mother, and a talking heron leads him into a tower with another world inside. It wanders, and the rules are never explained.
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2007 · Comedy
Three brothers who have not spoken since their father's funeral take a train across India on a trip the eldest has planned to the minute. Symmetrical shots, dry jokes, and a lot of luggage.
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2005 · Horror
Six women meet up for a caving trip in the Appalachians and drop into a system that is not on any map. Half of it is the dark and the squeeze, and then it turns into something else.
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2019 · Drama
A Chinese American writer flies to Changchun for a wedding the family has arranged so everyone can see her grandmother, who has not been told she is ill. Warm, awkward, and mostly meals.
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2014 · Thriller
A polite young soldier turns up at the door of a family whose son died overseas, says he was a friend, and they let him stay. Small town, synth music, and tension that climbs scene by scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Comedy
A disliked teacher at a New England boarding school is stuck minding the boy nobody collected for Christmas 1970, along with the cook who has just lost her son. Slow, snowy, and mostly the three of them.
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2015 · Thriller
A man goes to a dinner party at the house he used to live in, thrown by his ex-wife and the husband she came back from two years away with. One house, one evening, and it takes its time.
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2023 · Drama
The Von Erich brothers wrestle their way through 1980s Texas under a father who wants a world title in the family. Long, and it spends more time with the brothers at home than in the ring.
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2024 · Drama
Three chapters, told back to front, about an ordinary accountant named Chuck: the first opens with billboards thanking him for 39 great years while the world falls apart. Each part is a completely different mood.
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2020 · Horror
A schoolteacher is left alone in the lake house her husband built for her after his sudden death, and starts finding things in it she cannot explain. A quiet film about grief with a lot of standing in the dark, listening.
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2007 · Horror
A woman moves back into the seaside orphanage she grew up in to reopen it as a home for children, and her young son starts talking about friends nobody else can see. An old-fashioned ghost story built on quiet, not jump scares.
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