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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.
18 films tagged heartbreak
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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2019 · Drama
A theatre director and the actor married to him are separating, and what starts as a decent, agreed split turns into lawyers on two coasts. Mostly conversations, and a few of them are very long.
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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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2016 · Thriller
A Los Angeles gallery owner is sent the manuscript of a novel by her ex-husband, and the film cuts between her reading it and the story on the page. Two stories at once, and the one in the book is nasty.
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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.
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2013 · Action
The life of Ip Man, the martial arts teacher who later taught Bruce Lee, told through the men he fought and the woman he could not have. The fights are slowed down and shot in the rain.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Comedy
A woman in Oslo coming up on thirty keeps changing what she wants to be and who she wants to be with, told in twelve chapters. Funny and sad in the same scene, moving at the speed of a conversation.
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