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Once

2007 · Musical · John Carney · 1h 26m

A Dublin street singer and a Czech woman selling flowers spend a week writing and recording songs together. Small, shot on the street, and the songs are played all the way through.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly intimate
  • Strongly character-driven
  • Clearly simple

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Describe: Once

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  • The Lunchbox

    94% alike

    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.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Strongly character-driven

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    Describe: The Lunchbox

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
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  • DJ Ahmet

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    2025 · Drama

    A fifteen-year-old in a conservative village in rural North Macedonia falls for a girl and decides he wants to be a DJ. It stays small, and most of it is village life and what a teenager there is allowed to do.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Clearly intimate
    • Clearly character-driven

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    Describe: DJ Ahmet

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
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  • 2025 · Drama

    A twelve-year-old who is close to her deaf mother starts at a school full of much richer kids and begins to feel ashamed of where she comes from. Quiet and small, and it stays close to her.

    • Strongly realistic
    • Strongly intimate
    • Strongly character-driven

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    Describe: If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart into Your Mouth and Smile

    Where does it sit? Neither end is better than the other.

    LightHeavy
    SimpleComplicated
    SlowFast
    RealisticFantastic
    IntimateEpic
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