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

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.

• RealisticStrongly realistic

2013 · Romance

A French teenager drifting through school meets an older art student with blue hair, and her whole life reorganises around her. It runs three hours and stays very close to her face.

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

2017 · Romance

A seventeen-year-old spends the summer at his family's house in northern Italy, where his father's new research assistant comes to stay for six weeks. Long hot days, and nothing happens quickly.

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

2024 · Drama

A tennis coach enters her slumping husband in a small tournament, where he draws his oldest friend across the net. The match keeps cutting back through thirteen years of the three of them.

• RealisticClearly realistic
• Character-drivenClearly character-driven

2014 · Horror

After a date, a nineteen-year-old is told that something will now walk towards her, slowly and without stopping, wherever she goes. Wide empty suburbs, a loud synth score, a lot of watching the background.

Sits near the middle on every axis.

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.

• HeavyStrongly heavy
• ComplicatedClearly complicated

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.

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

2023 · Comedy

A Victorian surgeon brings a drowned woman back to life, and she starts again from nothing, learning fast and then running off across Europe with a bad lawyer. Big sets, odd colors, and very blunt talk about sex.

• FantasticStrongly fantastic
• Character-drivenClearly character-driven

2016 · Horror

A lifelong vegetarian starts at the veterinary school where her older sister is already a student, and hazing week makes her eat raw meat. Bloody, funny in places, and hard to watch in others.

• HeavyStrongly heavy

2012 · Drama

A broke father turns up in the south of France with a five-year-old he barely knows, takes work as a bouncer, and meets a killer whale trainer. Rough and physical, and the love story is not a soft one.

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

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.

• HeavyClearly heavy

2011 · Drama

A man with a good job in New York builds his whole life around sex, and then his sister turns up with nowhere else to stay. Cold and slow, holding on shots for a long time.

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

2005 · Comedy

A shy man who works in an electronics shop lets slip to his workmates that he has never slept with anyone, and they take it on as a project. Long, loose, and a lot of men talking rubbish.

• SimpleStrongly simple
• LightClearly light
• IntimateClearly intimate

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.

• ComplicatedClearly complicated
• HeavyClearly heavy

2013 · Crime

A young stockbroker sets up his own firm selling worthless shares over the phone, and spends the money as fast as it arrives. Three hours of shouting, drugs and parties, played for laughs.

• FastStrongly fast

2013 · Horror

A woman drives a van around Glasgow picking up men, and she is not from here. Very slow, almost no dialogue, and long stretches of black space and noise.

• SlowStrongly slow
• HeavyStrongly heavy
• FantasticClearly fantastic
• ComplicatedClearly complicated

2011 · Romance

Two men meet in a Nottingham club on a Friday night and spend the next two days together, mostly talking in a flat. One of them leaves the country on Sunday.

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

2022 · Horror

A small crew drive out to a farm in 1979 Texas to shoot a dirty film in the barn, without telling the elderly couple who own the place what they are doing. Slow for a while, and then not.

• HeavyClearly heavy
• IntimateClearly intimate

2001 · Drama

Two teenage boys in Mexico City talk an older woman into driving to a beach that may not exist, and the three of them set off. A road trip with a lot of sex talk and a narrator who cuts in.

• RealisticStrongly realistic
• Character-drivenClearly character-driven