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

2025 · Horror

Almost thirty years after a virus emptied Britain, a boy leaves the island community he was born into and crosses to the mainland with his father. Much of it is the two of them walking.

• HeavyClearly heavy

2011 · Drama

A Tehran wife wants to leave the country and her husband will not leave his father, and the woman they hire to mind him ends up taking them to court. Almost all of it is people arguing, and everyone has a point.

• RealisticStrongly realistic
• IntimateClearly intimate
• HeavyClearly heavy

2023 · Drama

A Black novelist whose careful books nobody buys writes, as a joke, the crude street story publishers keep asking him for. Half of it is that joke going too far, half is his family at home.

• RealisticClearly realistic

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

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.

• FantasticClearly fantastic
• IntimateClearly intimate

2018 · Drama

The rise of Queen from a pub band to Live Aid, following Freddie Mercury from his first audition to the stadiums. Built around the songs, with the concerts staged at full length.

• RealisticClearly realistic
• SimpleClearly simple

2015 · Drama

The son of a famous heavyweight, who never knew him, turns up in Philadelphia and asks his father's old rival to train him. The usual boxing shape, with the fights shot in long unbroken takes.

• RealisticStrongly realistic

2016 · Action

A mercenary comes out of an experiment with powers he never asked for and goes after the man who did it to him, talking to the audience the whole way. Rude, fast, and joking through the violence.

• FastClearly fast

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.

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

2003 · Comedy

A young man in East Berlin whose mother sleeps through the fall of the Wall is told any shock could kill her, so he rebuilds the vanished country inside her flat. Gentle comedy with real history running behind it.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

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.

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

2017 · Horror

A family lives sealed inside a house in the woods with strict rules about the doors, and then a second family asks to come in. Very quiet, very dark, and almost entirely in that house.

• HeavyStrongly heavy
• IntimateStrongly intimate

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

2023 · Drama

The conductor Leonard Bernstein and the actress Felicia Montealegre meet at a party and stay married for decades while he keeps a separate life going. Long scenes of the two of them talking, with whole years skipped between.

• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven
• RealisticStrongly realistic

2019 · Drama

An ageing Spanish director in constant pain stops working and goes back through the people he left behind: his mother, a first love, an actor he fell out with. Slow and warm, and built out of memories.

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

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

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.

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

2002 · Drama

Two men meet at a Madrid clinic where each is sitting with a woman in a coma, and become friends over months of talking to them. Quiet and slow, in Spanish, and it goes to some uncomfortable places.

• Character-drivenStrongly character-driven
• HeavyClearly heavy
• SlowClearly slow
• RealisticClearly realistic
• IntimateClearly intimate

2017 · Comedy

A Pakistani-American stand-up comic is seeing a white grad student while his parents line up matches for him, and then she falls seriously ill. A lot of it is him in a hospital waiting room with her parents, who have only just met him.

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

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.

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

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

2017 · Horror

A heart surgeon has taken a teenage boy under his wing, and the boy starts turning up wherever the surgeon's family happens to be. Everyone speaks flatly on purpose, and it builds slowly.

• HeavyStrongly heavy
• IntimateClearly intimate

2004 · Drama

Two Argentine friends set off up the length of South America on an old motorbike in 1952, one of them a medical student named Ernesto Guevara. Sunny and slow, mostly landscape and conversation.

• RealisticStrongly realistic
• Character-drivenClearly character-driven

2004 · Drama

A Spanish man who has been paralysed from the neck down for nearly thirty years fights in court for the right to end his life, from a bed in his brother's farmhouse. Slow, true, and mostly people talking in one room.

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

2022 · Drama

A housebound English teacher who weighs 600 pounds spends one week trying to reach the daughter he left years ago, while teaching his online classes with the camera off. It never leaves his flat and is nearly all conversation.

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