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

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.

• IntimateClearly intimate
• Character-drivenClearly character-driven

1988 · Action

A New York cop visiting his wife's office Christmas party in a Los Angeles tower is the only one out of the room when armed men take it over. He spends the night barefoot in the building's guts.

• Plot-drivenStrongly plot-driven
• FastStrongly fast

2022 · Drama

An eleven-year-old girl and her young dad spend a week at a cheap Turkish resort, filming each other on a camcorder by the pool. Very little is said out loud; it is small moments and long silences.

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

2023 · Comedy

Two people whose first date ended badly turn up at the same wedding in Sydney and agree to fake being a couple to get everyone off their backs. Sunny, loud, and light all the way through.

• LightStrongly light
• SimpleClearly simple

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

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.

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

2014 · Drama

A Swedish family are having lunch on a ski resort terrace when an avalanche comes at them, and they spend the rest of the holiday arguing about those few seconds. Uncomfortable to watch, and mostly one hotel.

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

2019 · Animation

A spoiled postman is posted to a frozen island where the two halves of town have feuded for generations, and finds a woodsman with a cabin full of toys. Hand-drawn, funny, and made for children.

• LightStrongly light
• SimpleClearly simple

2021 · Drama

Three days at Christmas 1991 with Princess Diana at the royal family's country estate, weighed down by schedules, meals and being watched. It stays close to her throughout and moves slowly; more mood than story.

• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven
• SlowStrongly slow
• HeavyClearly heavy
• IntimateClearly intimate

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.

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

2021 · Drama

A university professor on a working holiday on a Greek island becomes fixated on a young mother and her daughter staying at the same beach. It cuts between now and her own years with small children.

• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven
• RealisticStrongly realistic
• IntimateStrongly intimate
• HeavyClearly heavy
• SlowClearly slow

2023 · Comedy

The staff of a shabby theatre camp in upstate New York try to keep the place open for one more summer while putting on an original musical. Shot like a documentary, and mostly improvised jokes.

• LightStrongly light
• IntimateClearly intimate