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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.
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2007 · Drama
A silver miner turns oilman in California at the turn of the century and buys up a small town's land, running into a young preacher with a following of his own. It follows him across three decades of getting what he wants.
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2016 · Drama
Three Black women working as mathematicians at NASA in the early 1960s do the sums that put an astronaut in orbit, in a building that is still segregated. Their fight is mostly a bureaucratic one.
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1995 · Drama
An oxygen tank blows two days into a moon landing, and the mission becomes getting three men home in a crippled ship. Half the film is engineers at desks.
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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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1995 · Crime
A career thief planning one last big score and the detective chasing him circle each other across Los Angeles. It gives both men full lives outside the job, and the two sit down together only once.
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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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2023 · Drama
In 1984 Nike's basketball arm is broke and running third behind Adidas and Converse, and one scout wants to spend the whole budget on a single rookie. Men in offices and on the phone, talking fast.
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2023 · Drama
A Black novelist whose careful books nobody buys writes, as a joke, the crude street story publishers keep asking him for. Half of it is that joke going too far, half is his family at home.
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2004 · Comedy
The most confident newsreader in 1970s San Diego finds a woman hired onto his all-male team and going for his chair. Built from jokes rather than plot, and it stops for any gag it likes.
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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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2013 · Adventure
A photo archivist who daydreams elaborately and does very little finally leaves the building, chasing a missing negative across Greenland and Iceland. The daydreams stop once the trip starts.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2024 · War
Four journalists drive from New York to Washington through a United States at war with itself, trying to reach the president before the fighting does. A road trip, with quiet stretches between loud ones.
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2021 · Drama
The only hearing member of a deaf fishing family joins the school choir and finds she can sing, just as the family business needs her on the boat. Warm and straightforward, moving between sign and speech.
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Little-known
2008 · Drama
A cellist whose orchestra folds moves back to his home town and takes a job he did not expect: preparing the dead for their families before burial. Slow and gentle, with a lot of quiet ceremony.
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2022 · Crime
A woman buried in student debt takes a cash job that turns out to be buying goods with stolen credit cards. It moves fast, stays right beside her, and keeps raising what she has to risk.
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2025 · Action
A driver whose Formula One career ended in a crash in the eighties is brought back decades later to rescue a last-place team and its rookie. Huge engine noise, big screens, simple story.
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2023 · Comedy
Two lonely people in Helsinki, both scraping by on bad jobs, meet at a karaoke bar and keep losing track of each other. Short, very quiet, deadpan, and in Finnish.
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2019 · Drama
Ford hires a car designer and a difficult British driver to build something that can beat Ferrari at Le Mans in 1966. Half of it is engineering arguments in a workshop and half is cars at speed.
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2017 · Romance
A young man running his family's sheep farm in Yorkshire drinks himself stupid every night until a Romanian worker arrives for lambing season. Quiet, muddy, and very short on dialogue.
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2022 · Drama
A buttoned-up London council clerk in 1953, going through the motions of a job he has done for decades, gets a diagnosis and starts trying to get one small thing built. Quiet, polite and very slow on purpose.
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2020 · Drama
A blues singer and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio on a hot afternoon in 1927 and spend most of it waiting. From a play: one building, long speeches, four musicians in a rehearsal room.
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2003 · Adventure
During the Napoleonic wars a British captain is ordered to chase a faster French warship around the tip of South America, with the ship's doctor as his closest friend. Life aboard one ship, in detail.
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2025 · Romance
A New York matchmaker who treats dating as a numbers game ends up choosing between a rich client and the broke ex she never got over. Mostly conversation, about money as much as love.
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2007 · Thriller
A law firm's fixer is sent to clean up after their star litigator falls apart in the middle of defending a chemical company. Grown-ups in offices talking, and it tightens slowly.
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2011 · Drama
The general manager of a baseball team with no money starts picking players by statistics instead of scouting instinct, and has to sell it to a clubhouse that thinks he has lost it. Mostly meetings, phone calls and arguments about numbers.
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2001 · Animation
In a city powered by children's screams, the top scare team's day goes wrong when a little girl follows one of them home through a closet door. Bright and fast, made for kids with plenty of jokes over their heads.
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2009 · Science fiction
A man three years into a solo contract mining the far side of the Moon, with a talking computer for company, has two weeks left before he goes home. One man, one base, and hardly anyone else in it.
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2014 · Thriller
A young man with no job and no limits finds he can sell footage of crashes and shootings to a Los Angeles morning news show, and gets very good at arriving first. Night driving, police scanners, and one man talking his way into places he shouldn't be.
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2020 · Drama
After her town in Nevada empties out, a woman in her sixties packs her life into a van and takes seasonal work across the American west. Not much plot, real people playing themselves, a lot of sky.
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2017 · Adventure
A girl in the Korean mountains has raised a hippo-sized pig for ten years, and the company that made the animal wants it back in New York. It swings between sweet and rough, sometimes in the same scene.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Drama
A man who cleans public toilets in Tokyo gets up before dawn, works his round, reads a paperback and does the same again tomorrow. Almost nothing happens, on purpose, and he barely speaks.
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2018 · Drama
A live-in housekeeper for a middle-class family in Mexico City goes about her days in 1970 while the household around her comes apart. Black and white, slow, with long shots that pan across a room and back.
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Little-known
2018 · Comedy
A broke telemarketer in Oakland finds that putting on a white voice on the phone gets him promoted, and the promotion takes him somewhere odd. It starts as an office comedy and keeps getting stranger.
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2015 · Drama
Three product launches, forty minutes each, spent backstage with Steve Jobs arguing with the same handful of people. It is almost entirely fast talking in corridors.
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2018 · Comedy
A general manager holds together a highway sports bar and the young women who work there through one very long day of small disasters. Almost all of it is in that one bar, across a single shift.
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2022 · Drama
A famous conductor at the very top of the classical world prepares a live recording in Berlin while things from her past start pressing in. Long, talky, and she is in almost every scene.
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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.
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2016 · Horror
A father and son who run a small-town morgue take in an unidentified body late at night and start the autopsy, and the basement gets stranger with every step. Two men, one building, most of one night.
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2015 · Comedy
A handful of investors work out that the American housing market is built on bad loans and bet against it, while everyone tells them they are wrong. Fast and jokey, and it stops to explain the finance.
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2023 · Thriller
An assassin waits in an empty Paris office for a target, and when the job goes wrong he sets about the people who sent him. Chapter by chapter, with his voice in your ear the whole way.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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2022 · Drama
A housebound English teacher who weighs 600 pounds spends one week trying to reach the daughter he left years ago, while teaching his online classes with the camera off. It never leaves his flat and is nearly all conversation.
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Little-known
2016 · Comedy
A retired German prankster puts in false teeth and a wig and turns up unannounced in Bucharest, where his daughter is working long hours as a consultant. It is nearly three hours of meetings and awkward silences, and very dry.
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2019 · Crime
A New York diamond dealer with a gambling habit juggles bets, buyers, loan sharks and his family over a few days. Everybody talks over everybody, and it does not let up.
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2019 · Animation
A runaway teenager arrives in a Tokyo where the rain never stops and meets a girl who can clear the sky for a few hours at a time. Bright animation, pop songs, and a great deal of weather.
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2012 · Animation
The bad guy in an old arcade game is tired of being the bad guy and sneaks into other machines to win himself a medal. Bright, quick, and packed with games you may recognise.
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2001 · Animation
A sulky ten-year-old moving house wanders with her parents into an abandoned town, and by nightfall she is working in a bathhouse for spirits. She has to keep her job, and her name, to get her family out.
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2008 · War
A bomb disposal team in Iraq gets a new sergeant who takes risks the other two cannot stand, with a month left on their tour. Built one defusal at a time, each one long and tense.
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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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