Ballad of a Small Player
2025 · Drama · Edward Berger · 1h 41m
An Irish financier hiding in Macau under a borrowed title lives between hotels and baccarat tables, drinking, running out of money and waiting for his luck to turn. Slow, sweaty and mostly one man.
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly intimate
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2025 · Drama
A homeless young man in London, in and out of trouble and struggling with addiction, comes out of prison and tries to put a life together with a social worker's help. It stays right with him, and slips now and then into something stranger.
- Strongly character-driven
- Strongly intimate
- Clearly heavy
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Mother Mary
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2026 · Drama
A pop star three days from a comeback show drives to the English countryside to ask the designer she once cut out of her life to make her a dress. Mostly two people in a barn, working and arguing.
- Strongly intimate
- Strongly character-driven
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The Banshees of Inisherin
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2022 · Comedy
On a small Irish island in 1923, a man is told by his only friend, with no warning and no reason given, that they are not friends any more. Two men, a pub and a lot of talking, and it gets darker as it goes.
- Strongly character-driven
- Strongly intimate
- Clearly realistic
- Clearly heavy
- Clearly slow
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