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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.
35 films tagged secrets
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2017 · Horror
A young Black photographer goes with his white girlfriend to meet her parents at their country house for the weekend, where everyone is a little too welcoming. The discomfort arrives well before anything else does.
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2007 · Animation
A rat with an exceptional nose and a taste for cooking ends up steering a hopeless kitchen boy around a famous Paris restaurant. Nobody can be allowed to know.
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1952 · Musical
A silent-film star has to make his first talking picture opposite a leading lady whose voice will not do, so the studio quietly dubs her. Made in 1952 about 1927, and it stops for a song often.
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2016 · Thriller
A woman wakes from a car crash in a locked underground bunker, where the man who put her there says the air outside will kill her. Nearly all of it is three people in a few small rooms.
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2012 · Comedy
Two rookie cops with nothing to show for themselves are sent back into high school undercover, where the social rules have changed since they were students. It runs on the two of them bouncing off each other.
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2005 · Thriller
A quiet diner owner in a small Indiana town stops a robbery and ends up on the news, which brings men from out of state who say they know him. Short, tense, and close to his family.
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2018 · Mystery
A cheerful mom who runs a small parenting vlog befriends the glamorous mother of her son's classmate, and then that friend doesn't come back from a work trip. A mystery played with jokes and very good clothes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2017 · Action
An MI6 agent is sent into Berlin days before the Wall comes down to recover a stolen list of undercover officers. Neon, eighties pop, and long bruising fights shot to look like one take.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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2018 · Thriller
Seven strangers check into a faded hotel on the Nevada state line in 1969, none of them there for the reason they gave at the desk. It plays out room by room, in chapters, mostly at night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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2024 · Thriller
The Pope dies and the cardinals are locked inside the Vatican to choose the next one, while the man running the vote keeps learning things about the candidates. Whispered talk in beautiful 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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2024 · Musical
A Mexico City lawyer with no prospects is hired by a cartel boss who wants help disappearing from his own life and becoming someone else. It is sung, and it swings between crime story and dance number.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Comedy
A mild college professor moonlights for the police, posing as a contract killer in sting operations, and turns out to be very good at inventing a new man for each job. Then one of the women he is sent to trap likes the man he is playing.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2004 · Action
In ninth-century China two policemen set a trap for a rebel group by freeing a blind dancer they believe will lead them to it. The fights are long and colourful and mostly outdoors.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2002 · Crime
A policeman has spent ten years undercover in a Hong Kong triad while one of the triad's men has spent the same ten years rising inside the police. Both sides find out there is a mole, and it moves fast.
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2009 · War
In occupied France a squad of American soldiers hunts Nazis behind the lines while a young cinema owner in Paris makes plans of her own. It is built out of long talking scenes that keep tightening.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Drama
A Chicago car thief is picked up by the FBI and offered a deal: get close to the young chairman of the local Black Panther chapter and report back. It moves between the two men all the way through.
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2021 · Animation
Two sea monster boys pass as human in a seaside town on the Italian coast for one summer, chasing a Vespa and a place in the local race. Sunny, quick, and aimed squarely at kids.
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2014 · Science fiction
A time-travelling agent working his last case sits down in a 1970s bar and listens to a stranger tell the story of their life. Small, talky, and it asks you to keep track.
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2022 · Action
Two men in 1920s India, one working for the British and one hunting for a girl taken from his village, become close friends without knowing who the other is. Three hours of dancing, fighting and no physics at all.
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2003 · Comedy
A broke guitarist takes his flatmate's substitute teaching job at a posh prep school and quietly turns his fourth-grade class into a rock band. Loud, silly, and mostly kids learning to play.
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2004 · Action
Two years in, the job is wrecking his grades, his rent and the one relationship he wants, just as a scientist with four mechanical arms starts tearing up New York. Big set pieces built around a fairly sad life.
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2006 · Crime
A young cop goes undercover inside a Boston crime boss's crew while one of the boss's own men rises through the state police, and each side works out there is a rat. It is long, loud and full of swearing.
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Little-known
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.
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2014 · Thriller
A polite young soldier turns up at the door of a family whose son died overseas, says he was a friend, and they let him stay. Small town, synth music, and tension that climbs scene by scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2016 · Thriller
A pickpocket takes work as maid to a Japanese heiress in 1930s Korea, planted there by a con man who wants the heiress's fortune. Told in parts that go back over the same days, and very adult.
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2015 · Mystery
A bounty hunter and his prisoner are forced by a blizzard into a stagecoach stop in Wyoming with six strangers, at least one of whom is lying. It is three hours long, nearly all of it in one room and nearly all of it talk.
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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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2015 · Thriller
A man goes to a dinner party at the house he used to live in, thrown by his ex-wife and the husband she came back from two years away with. One house, one evening, and it takes its time.
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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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2010 · Crime
A Boston bank robber starts seeing the woman his crew took hostage on their last job, while the FBI closes in. Straight ahead, with big robberies at either end and a part of town nobody leaves.
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2021 · Horror
A woman with a metal plate in her skull from a childhood car crash dances at motor shows, then goes on the run under someone else's name. Extremely violent and strange, and it explains very little.
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Little-known
2006 · Comedy
A working-class woman in Madrid juggles her daughter, her sister and the village she grew up in, where the women talk about the dead as if they had never left. Bright colours, warm, and led entirely by women.
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