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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Lion
91% alike
2015 · Drama
A five-year-old falls asleep on a train and wakes thousands of miles across India, and grows up adopted in Australia. The first half is a small boy alone in a huge country; the second is a man at a computer.
- Strongly realistic
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Road to Perdition
91% alike
2002 · Crime
An enforcer for an Illinois mob boss in 1931 takes to the road with his twelve-year-old son after a job goes wrong. Slow and quiet, and it tells you more with pictures than with dialogue.
- Clearly realistic
- Clearly heavy
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Society of the Snow
89% alike
2023 · Drama
A plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team comes down high in the Andes in 1972, and the survivors have to work out how to last the winter. Cold, slow and hard to watch, with the crash early on.
- Strongly heavy
- Strongly realistic
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