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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2015 · Drama
A prisoner forced to work in the crematoria at Auschwitz decides to find a rabbi and bury one boy properly. The camera stays on his face and blurs everything behind him.
- Strongly heavy
- Strongly realistic
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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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2025 · Crime
A woman working every job she can get in Portland has one night to replace the $25,000 she had saved to buy the house she shares with her mother and brother. One night, and it gets uglier as it goes.
- Strongly realistic
- Clearly heavy
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