Requiem for a Dream
2000 · Drama · Darren Aronofsky · 1h 42m
Four people in Brooklyn, three of them young and one a widowed mother waiting on a call from a TV game show, each get hooked on something over the course of a year. Cut fast and hard, and it gets grimmer the longer it runs.
- Strongly heavy
- Strongly realistic
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Whiplash
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2014 · Drama
A first-year drummer at a competitive music school wins a seat in the top band, which is run by a conductor who teaches through humiliation. It is mostly the two of them in one room.
- Strongly heavy
- Strongly realistic
- Clearly fast
- Clearly character-driven
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Nightcrawler
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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.
- Strongly character-driven
- Clearly heavy
- Clearly realistic
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2019 · Drama
A high school wrestler in south Florida is holding together a bad shoulder, a girlfriend, and a father who expects a great deal. It changes shape halfway, and the camera and music never sit still.
- Strongly heavy
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly character-driven
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