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

2015 · Action

A driver hauling a stolen war rig runs for the desert with five women escaping a warlord, and picks up a drifter on the way. Nearly the whole film is one chase, out across a stretch of desert and back again.

• FastStrongly fast
• Plot-drivenStrongly plot-driven
• HeavyStrongly heavy
• EpicClearly epic

1999 · Science fiction

A software developer who moonlights as a hacker is told the world he lives in is not the real one, and is offered a look at it. Kung fu, long coats, and a lot of talk about what is actually there.

• FantasticStrongly fantastic
• FastClearly fast
• Plot-drivenClearly plot-driven

2002 · Horror

A bike courier wakes alone in a London hospital a month after an infection tore through Britain, and walks out into a city with nobody in it. The first stretch is very quiet, and then it stops being quiet.

• HeavyClearly heavy

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

2018 · Horror

A family lives on a farm in total silence, because anything that hears them comes for them. Most of it is signed or whispered, with long stretches where nobody makes a sound at all.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2020 · Horror

A mother and her children leave the farm and go looking for other survivors, in a world where anything that hears you comes for you. Long stretches with no talking, and it keeps moving.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2018 · Horror

Something arrives that kills anyone who looks at it, so a woman takes two small children down a river blindfolded. It cuts between that trip and the crowded house where it all started.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2024 · Animation

A cat wakes to a rising flood and ends up sharing a boat with a dog, a lemur, a bird and a capybara. There is no dialogue at all, just animals, water and sound.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2024 · Action

A girl is stolen from a green, hidden place and grows up among the warlords of the wasteland, working her way back toward home. Told in chapters over many years, with long stretches of vehicles chasing each other.

• EpicStrongly epic
• 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

2013 · Science fiction

The last people alive circle a frozen Earth on a train that never stops, and the ones at the back decide to fight their way to the front. Each carriage is its own set piece and it only goes one way.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

2009 · Drama

A man and his young son walk south through a burnt-out America years after everything died, pushing a shopping trolley and hiding from other people. Grey, quiet, and bleak from start to finish.

• HeavyStrongly heavy
• SimpleClearly simple

2008 · Animation

Seven hundred years after people left, one small robot is still tidying up the rubbish on Earth, until a sleek probe drops out of the sky. The first forty minutes are almost wordless.

• FantasticStrongly fantastic

2009 · Comedy

A nervous young man with a long list of survival rules crosses a ruined America with a stranger who mainly wants a snack cake. Jokey, quick, and never far from a fight.

• SimpleClearly simple
• FastClearly fast