12 Years a Slave
2013 · Drama · Steve McQueen · 2h 13m
A free Black musician living in New York in 1841 is drugged, kidnapped and sold to a plantation in Louisiana. It moves slowly and stays with the worst of it rather than cutting away.
- Strongly heavy
- Strongly realistic
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2025 · Drama
In 1950s Taiwan, under martial law, a young woman travels north to collect the remains of a brother executed by the government. Along the way she falls in with a soldier and a rickshaw driver.
- Strongly realistic
- Clearly heavy
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2025 · Drama
A Palestinian family is followed across three generations, from losing their home in Jaffa in 1948 to life under occupation in the 2020s. It runs long and moves in chapters, staying with the one family.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly heavy
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2026 · Drama
The daughter of the man counted as the 58th victim of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre tells the story of a father whose body was never found. It mixes archive footage with acted scenes, all of it animated over the top.
- Strongly heavy
- Clearly realistic
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