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56 films tagged marriage, showing 50
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2003 · Drama
An ageing actor shooting a whisky advert in Tokyo and a young woman waiting on her photographer husband keep running into each other in the same hotel. They spend a few days wandering the city, mostly talking.
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2022 · Science fiction
A woman running a failing laundromat is hauled in for a tax audit and told she has to save reality by borrowing skills from versions of herself in other universes. It is a family argument and a martial arts film happening at the same time.
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2016 · Drama
A bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey writes poems in a notebook, walks his dog, and has one beer in the same bar each night. The film is a week of that, with small variations.
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2013 · Drama
A construction manager gets into his car the night before the biggest concrete pour of his career and drives to London instead, sorting out his life on the phone. One man, one car, eighty-five minutes.
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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.
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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.
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2018 · Drama
A rock star with a drinking problem hears a singer in a bar and puts her on stage with him the next night. It is mostly the two of them, with full songs played end to end.
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2013 · Romance
A young man learns from his father that the men in the family can travel back to moments in their own lives, and starts by using it to get a girlfriend. Gentle and mostly about family, with the time travel kept small.
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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.
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2023 · Drama
A man falls from the top floor of a chalet in the Alps and his wife goes on trial, with their partly sighted son the only other person in the house. Most of it is courtroom argument about a marriage.
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2018 · Science fiction
A biologist joins an all-woman expedition into a stretch of coastline sealed off behind a shimmering wall, where the plants and animals have gone strange. It moves slowly and gets stranger the further in they walk.
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2024 · Comedy
A Brooklyn sex worker meets the young son of a Russian oligarch, and a week of spending turns into a marriage his family has no plan to allow. Loud and fast, and the back half is mostly people arguing in cars and hallways.
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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.
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2014 · Thriller
A man's wife vanishes on their fifth wedding anniversary, and the television coverage turns him into a suspect well before any evidence does. Told from both sides, his present and her diary.
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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.
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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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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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2015 · Romance
A young shop assistant in 1950s New York sells a train set to an elegant woman in the middle of a divorce, and the two start seeing each other. It moves slowly and much of it is glances across rooms.
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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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2013 · Thriller
A tired history lecturer in a yellow-lit Toronto spots a bit-part actor who looks exactly like him, and sets out to find him. Slow, quiet, and confusing on purpose.
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2016 · Drama
A Pittsburgh garbage man in the 1950s, who nearly made it as a ballplayer, holds forth in his backyard to his wife, his sons and his oldest friend. Nearly all talk, nearly all one yard, and it started as a play.
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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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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.
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2018 · Comedy
A couple who take their weekly game night seriously turn up for a murder-mystery party thrown by his brother, and the fake kidnapping goes wrong. It runs fast and is played for laughs throughout.
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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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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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2023 · Crime
In 1920s Oklahoma the Osage are rich from the oil under their land, and one by one they start dying. Three and a half hours, told mostly from the side of the white men who married into the tribe.
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2024 · Comedy
Three separate stories with the same handful of actors: a man who lets his boss decide everything, a policeman whose missing wife comes home, and two people hunting for a healer. It is long, deadpan and deliberately strange.
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2015 · Crime
Tom Hardy plays both Kray twins, the brothers who ran a piece of 1960s London, while one of them courts a girl from Bethnal Green. Suits, nightclubs, and violence that arrives without warning.
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2016 · Drama
A white bricklayer and a Black woman marry in Virginia in 1958, where that is against the law, and are arrested in their own bedroom. Quiet and undramatic, with far more kitchen than courtroom.
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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.
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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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2023 · Drama
An actress spends a week with the woman she is about to play, whose relationship with a much younger boy was a tabloid story twenty years ago. Mostly two women watching each other very closely in a nice house.
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2020 · Drama
A Korean family move to a patch of Arkansas farmland in the 1980s so the father can grow vegetables to sell, and the grandmother comes over to help. Gentle and slow, seen largely through the youngest boy.
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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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2023 · Drama
Two children who were close in Seoul are pulled apart when one family emigrates, and they find each other again twice over the next twenty-four years. Very quiet, mostly two people talking, with years skipped in between.
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2017 · Romance
A celebrated London dressmaker in the 1950s runs his house to a strict routine, then brings home a waitress from the coast and fits her into it. Quiet, mannered, and largely inside one townhouse.
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2005 · Romance
Five sisters in a country house are expected to marry well, and the second eldest takes an instant dislike to a rich, silent visitor. Talk, dances and long walks across fields, over two hours.
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2023 · Drama
A fourteen-year-old army daughter in Germany is invited to a party at Elvis Presley's house, and spends the next decade mostly waiting for him inside Graceland. Quiet and slow, almost entirely from her side of the room.
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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.
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2024 · Drama
A Hungarian architect who survived the war arrives in Pennsylvania with nothing, and a rich man hires him to build something enormous on a hill. Three and a half hours, with an interval in the middle.
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2022 · Drama
A boy in postwar Arizona gets a camera and starts making films with his sisters and friends, while his mother and his father start wanting different lives. Long, warm and family-sized.
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2004 · Animation
Superheroes have been banned for years, and a bored insurance clerk who used to be one takes a secret job that pulls his whole family into it. Fast and funny, and half of it is a marriage under strain.
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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.
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Little-known
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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2021 · Drama
In 1925 Montana two brothers run a cattle ranch until one marries a widow and brings her and her grown son home, which the other takes badly. Very slow, and most of the threat is in what nobody says.
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2016 · Drama
A Tehran couple rehearsing a stage production of Death of a Salesman move into a new flat, where something happens to the wife one evening and the husband sets out to find who was responsible. Quiet and slow, and built almost entirely out of arguments.
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