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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.
64 films tagged obsession, showing 50
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2025 · Horror
A young quarterback with a head injury he should not be playing through accepts a week of training at the desert compound of the ageing star he idolises. Mostly the two of them, and it turns strange fast.
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2025 · Action
Ronnie wakes from a coma grieving a girlfriend everyone tells him never existed, and sets out to prove she was real. Very long and very violent, and it keeps you unsure what is only in his head.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
Newly married to a debt-ridden academic, Hedda throws a party to win him a professorship, and the woman she once loved turns up with a new partner and a manuscript. One house, one night, and all talk.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A pop star sunk in depression loses his voice on stage and walks off, then spends the night with a fan who has just set a house on fire. Loud, and it moves between concert stages and one long night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Mystery
A Paris psychiatrist refuses to accept that a patient's death was a suicide and starts looking into it herself, while her own life comes apart. Part detective story, part comedy, following one woman.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
Sagar's whole life is organised around his devotion to a Telugu movie star, whose hundredth film is falling apart for want of money. Long and loud, and built around what fans do for the people they love.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Mystery
Daisy spends her days reviewing flagged videos for a social platform under strict quotas, until one clip she cannot forget sends her looking for the man in it. It is bleak, and stays close to her.
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2025 · Horror
A music store clerk secretly in love with his friend breaks a novelty toy that grants one wish, and wishes she loved him more than anyone. The wish works, and that is the problem.
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2025 · Comedy
Two men meet at a support group in Portland for people who have lost a twin, and become inseparable. It is a black comedy, and it stays uncomfortably close to the friendship.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A hot-headed student leader falls for the researcher who chose him as her PhD subject, and she does not feel the same. Years later he is a fighter pilot and she is the psychologist assessing him.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A pregnant Los Angeles lawyer takes on a young client facing eviction, then hires her as the family's nanny. The nanny is very good with the children, and that is the problem.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A shop assistant in Los Angeles gets talking to a rising pop star who comes into the store, and within weeks he has quit his job to film the star's album campaign from inside his circle. It is tense rather than loud.
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Little-known
2025 · Fantasy
A runaway teenager takes refuge in a 1970s film studio where an actress is shooting The Snow Queen, and cannot stop watching her. The two circle each other, and it moves slowly.
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Little-known
2025 · Action
A contract killer in her sixties, still the best the agency has, is slowing down, and a younger assassin has become fixated on her. The film keeps going back to how she was trained as a girl.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Mystery
A pastor whose marriage and career are both coming apart becomes convinced that a man on parole has taken his son, and then that God is telling him what to do about it. A cold thriller that stays very close to him.
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Little-known
2025 · Science fiction
A woman whose daughter was murdered uses a machine to cross into parallel universes and kill the same man again and again, until a teenage runaway attaches herself to the trip. Small, grim science fiction, mostly on the road.
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Little-known
2018 · Thriller
A young man getting by on delivery work runs into a girl from his old neighbourhood, and when she comes back from a trip abroad she has a rich, easy-going friend with her. Very slow, and it holds a lot back.
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2026 · Romance
A Yorkshire landowner brings home a boy off the streets, and he and the daughter of the house grow up inseparable, then in love, while she sets her sights on the rich neighbour. It stays between two houses on the moors.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
A queer filmmaker hired to reboot the eighties slasher franchise she grew up on goes looking for the actress who played the original final girl. She finds her living on the abandoned campground where it was shot.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A broke young man takes an assistant job with a famous artist whose work is sexually explicit, and she quickly makes him her submissive. Sex, jokes about the art world, and a crime story mixed in.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
A Kansas highway patrol officer sees her husband murdered by the serial killer the papers call the Satanic Slasher, and follows his trail across the Midwest. The chase is straightforward and the killings are not spared.
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2022 · Mystery
A detective who cannot sleep looks into a man's fall from a mountain, and spends more and more of his time watching the dead man's wife. It moves slowly, and much of it is two people being careful about what they say.
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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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2014 · Drama
A first-year drummer at a competitive music school wins a seat in the top band, which is run by a conductor who teaches through humiliation. It is mostly the two of them in one room.
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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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2024 · Horror
A young wife in 1830s Germany is haunted by something that has wanted her since childhood, while her husband is sent to a Carpathian castle to close a property deal. Slow and dark, built on dread rather than jumps.
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2003 · Thriller
A man is locked in one room for fifteen years without being told why, then let out with a few days to find whoever did it. Violent and strange, and it moves like something is chasing it.
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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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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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Little-known
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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2023 · Thriller
An Oxford scholarship student is invited to spend the summer at the enormous country estate of his rich, easy-going classmate. Long lunches in the heat, and it gets uncomfortable early.
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Little-known
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.
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2007 · Drama
In 1881 the last of the James gang is coming apart, and a nineteen-year-old who has read every dime novel about Jesse talks his way into the crew. Very slow, narrated throughout, more waiting than shooting.
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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.
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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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2006 · Mystery
Two London stage magicians fall out after an accident and spend years trying to work out and wreck each other's best trick. Told in pieces, out of order, out of the two men's notebooks.
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Little-known
2009 · Mystery
A retired Buenos Aires court investigator starts writing a novel about the 1974 murder case he never let go of. It moves between the two times, and the case is only half of what it is about.
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2011 · Thriller
A plastic surgeon works alone at his country estate on a new kind of skin, watching the woman he keeps locked upstairs on a screen. Cold and controlled, and it jumps back in time about halfway.
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2024 · Horror
A fitness-show host dropped by television on her fiftieth birthday takes a black-market drug that promises a younger version of herself. It gets very graphic, and the last stretch does not hold back.
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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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2012 · Thriller
A CIA analyst spends a decade of her working life on one question: where bin Laden is. Procedural and cold, years of cables and interrogations and meetings, and then one long night raid.
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2007 · Mystery
A cartoonist at a San Francisco paper gets pulled into the Zodiac killings and keeps working the case for years after everyone else has stopped. Long, talky, and full of names, dates and paperwork.
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Little-known
2024 · Drama
An actor with a facial difference takes an experimental treatment that changes his face, then watches another man get cast as the old him. It gets steadily stranger and funnier.
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2002 · Comedy
A screenwriter hired to adapt a book about orchids cannot find the story in it, and writes himself into the script instead. It folds back on itself and keeps going.
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1999 · Horror
A widower's friend helps him hold a fake film audition to find a new wife, and he picks a quiet former dancer. It plays as a gentle romance for a long time.
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2024 · Drama
The chief executive of a robotics company starts an affair with a much younger intern who works out what she wants before she says it. Mostly two people in hotel rooms and offices.
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1999 · Comedy
A puppeteer takes a filing job on a half-height office floor and finds a tunnel that drops him into John Malkovich's head for fifteen minutes. Funnier and stranger the further it goes.
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2010 · Thriller
A ballerina gets the lead in Swan Lake and has to find a wildness in herself that her mother and her training removed. It stays very close to her as the pressure builds.
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1986 · Mystery
A student home from college finds a severed ear in a field and starts watching a nightclub singer's apartment. The town looks perfectly ordinary from the street.
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1977 · Science fiction
An Indiana lineman sees something over a road and cannot stop building the same shape out of everything in his house. Builds slowly to one very long encounter.
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