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Plot Summary:
Using few words and gorgeous imagery, this is a poetic painting of a family, each in their own space on an August afternoon.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, aesthetic
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Last Day of Summer (1984)
Plot Summary:
A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags:
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Days in the Country (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a bar in Santiago, two old men talk over their past. This is a strange discussion. In fact, they talk of themselves as if they were dead. We don't know what is true or false, what is dream or reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Il dono (2003)
Plot Summary:
In 1950, the small Calabrian village of Caulonia still numbered nearly 15,000 souls, but there now remain no more than a few hundred. A phlegmatic old man and a young disabled woman are among the last inhabitants who haunt the deserted village. They seem to be waiting apathetically for their end and resemble the old boat abandoned on the shore. Il Dono is the story of those who have left, told by those who have stayed; a tale of disaster and exodus.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: semi documentary
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Frost (1997)
Plot Summary:
Time of darkness. Time of fire kindled against cold and fear. During the Holy Night, the seven year old Micha has to escape with his young mother Marianne from the violence of his drunken father... During their one week odyssey through frozen Germany, mother and son meet people to offer them shelter... Crushed by their own poverty, or dominated by their feelings of being lost, these people just hurt them deeper and they can be nothing other than stations of their continuous escape.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 270 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, aesthetic, road movie, crying
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A Summer at Grandpa's (1984)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story about a young brother and sister whom spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Hunters (1977)
Plot Summary:
During a hunting party on New Year's Eve 1976, five representatives of the bourgeoisie encounter with their companion the body of a partisan from the Civil War of the late forties. What they are most confused about is the fact that the corpse that lies at their feet is still bleeding….
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, France, West Germany
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, aesthetic
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Matthew's Days (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man who is socially inept and out of touch with the world lives with his sister in a small farmhouse. The overly sensitive man lives off his hard-working sibling, taking odd jobs as he gets them to secure his meager earnings. When he brings home a woodcutter from the forest, the sister and the newcomer fall in love. Terrified over a life without his sister, the man can't cope and decides to kill himself. This depressing tale of alienation, doubt and uncertainty was the Polish entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Our Lady of the Turks (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man (Carmelo Bene) can not bear to be part of society. He considers himself a "jerk" and so invents its own philosophy, which involves the destruction of his land of Puglia where all citizens are devoted to the Catholic religion. However, the man can not destroy the belief of the pilgrims of Salento, because a woman would prevent that. It is an unknown "Santa Margherita", which tries to divert man from his weird and impossible philosophy. Successive scenes of the film show various situations unreal and dream in which the two protagonists try to obtain the best one on the other. After a blasphemous dialogue between monks, the man includes his whole philosophy in a Moorish building. In fact, this seems to have been the scene of the massacre of the famous 800 Martyrs of Otranto, which are considered by the scetic man the absolute death of Christianity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: experimental, aesthetic, avant garde
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Fallen (2005)
Plot Summary:
One night, Matiss Zelcs, an employee of the Latvian national archive in Riga, notices a woman on a bridge. After passing by her without preventing her suicidal fall into the depths, a sensation of failure and guilt changes his life. He cannot forget her. Driven by a feeling of remorse and the fever of illusion, he roams through the city night and day looking for traces of her existence. This journey through the tumult of his conscience leads him deeper into his own loneliness and the depths of his soul, as he gets more and more entangled in the destinies of the woman and of the people who were attached to her. He finds himself confronted with the pain of yearning and guilt, the cruelty of love and desire, and the search for forgiveness, release and salvation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Drama
Country: Latvia, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, aesthetic
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The House (1997)
Plot Summary:
Abstract, beautifully photographed and nearly silent but for limited narration, this plotless arthouse outing from Lithuanian cult film director Sharunas Bartas pays tribute to a huge, old lakeside manor and Lithuanian culture.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Drama
Country: Lithuania, Portugal, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, silent, avant garde, silent film
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The Corridor (1995)
Plot Summary:
The atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown ... A series of faces, gestures and images both real and imagined time. (A fragmentary narrative without dialogue and depicts several people in Vilnius).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Lithuania, France, Netherlands
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, bleak, contemplative, lovecraft, poetic, aesthetic, avant garde, silent, silent film
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Three Days (1991)
Plot Summary:
In Kaliningrad two Lithuanian boys meet two Russian girls. They have difficulties in finding places where they can sleep together. But this is the only problem they do solve. All four justly feel miserable because their lives are meaningless (the recurrent dull and poorly kept house façads could well be taken as a comparative symbol). In addition, everyone is so absorbed by his or her own distress and hardly capable of bothering about the anguish of the others. The three days end with a pervasive lack of contact. Written by Max Scharnberg, Stockholm,.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Lithuania
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, bleak, contemplative, artsy, aesthetic, avant garde
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The Beekeeper (1986)
Plot Summary:
A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: road movie, art house, slow cinema, contemplative, aesthetic, avant garde
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Few of Us (1996)
Plot Summary:
A slow, dialogue-free film about a woman's journey in Siberia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, aesthetic, avant garde, silent, silent film
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Infinity (1992)
Plot Summary:
To dispel his obsession with death, Prokhorov decides to travel, with no luggage and no destination. He finds himself in the little town where he grew up, but finds no solace there because he has to face death.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 206 min
Plot tags: existential
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The Raven's Dance (1980)
Plot Summary:
With a keen sense of visual beauty, director Markku Lehmuskallio has created a thought-provoking, aesthetic film about a married couple and an old man living in a remote part of Finland. The young husband goes out hunting but only to support himself and his wife, not to kill off hordes of animals. He sets traps, and that gets him in trouble with the police who proceed to ticket him for using the devices. The forest cycles themselves are intimated when an old tree is shown falling to earth -- perhaps a reflection on the old man's passing years. In contrast to these few people living off the land and basically keeping the ecological balance intact, a highway construction crew is shown at work felling trees. Soon the antagonism grows between encroaching civilization and the quiet life of the young couple and elderly man.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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The Mourning Forest (2007)
Plot Summary:
A caregiver at a small retirement home takes one of her patients for a drive to the country, but the two wind up stranded in a forest where they embark on an exhausting and enlightening two-day journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, spiritual, independent film, slow cinema, aesthetic
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Eastern Drift (2010)
Plot Summary:
A thriller about a crook who efforts to get out of the business could cost him his life. Gena is a drug runner who has grown tired of the violence and unpredictability of his life, and he decides it's time to go straight. Gena plans one last score which will give him enough money to get out of the business and relocate to France with his girlfriend Gabrielle. But Gena finds himself between a rock and a hard place when one of his partners fails to pay him; in order to keep the deal in motion, Gena heads to Moscow to ask a mob boss for a much-needed loan. Gena's former girlfriend Sasha gives him a place to stay for the night, but when the gangster decides he wants Gena out of the way for good, they both go on the run in fear of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Lithuania, Russia
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, slow cinema, aesthetic
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985)
Plot Summary:
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, spiritual, aesthetic
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Stray Dogs (2013)
Plot Summary:
A father and his two children wander the margins of modern day Taipei, from the woods and rivers of the outskirts to the rain streaked streets of the city. By day the father scrapes out a meager income as a human billboard for luxury apartments, while his young son and daughter roam the supermarkets and malls surviving off free food samples. Each night the family takes shelter in an abandoned building. The father is strangely affected by a hypnotic mural adorning the wall of this makeshift home. On the day of the father's birthday the family is joined by a woman - might she be the key to unlocking the buried emotions that linger from the past?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, bleak, contemplative, art house, aesthetic, avant garde, masterpiece
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Almanac of Fall (1984)
Plot Summary:
In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, intellectual, neo noir, avant garde, powerful, aesthetic, psychological thriller, psychological, tense, bleak
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Freedom (2000)
Plot Summary:
A few fugitives... And a very, very long way to freedom.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Portugal, Lithuania
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: serious, contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, slow cinema, aesthetic, stylized, gloomy, avant garde
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Eternity and a Day (1998)
Plot Summary:
Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, road movie, philosophical, art house, psychological, sincere, contemplative, sad, poetic, sentimental
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Suzaku (1997)
Plot Summary:
Depicts the life of a family in a remote Japanese timber village. Family head Tahara Kozo lives with his mother Sachiko, wife Yasuyo, nephew Eisuke and young daughter Michiru. Economic recession and failed development plans cause tragedy in the family.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, independent film, aesthetic
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The Turin Horse (2011)
Plot Summary:
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: bleak, atmospheric, slow cinema, contemplative, thought provoking, serious, existential, black and white, art house, experimental
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My Joy (2010)
Plot Summary:
A routine run for a truck driver turns into a nightmare he can’t escape in this psychological drama from filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa. Georgy (Viktor Nemets) is driving a load of freight into Russia when, after an unpleasant encounter with the police at a border crossing, he finds himself giving a lift to a strange old man (Vladimir Golovin) with disturbing stories about his younger days in the Army. After next picking up a young woman (Olga Shuvalova) who works as a prostitute and is wary of the territory, Georgy finds himself lost, and despite asking some homeless men for help, he’s less sure than he was before of how to make his way back where he belongs. As brutal images of violence and alienation cross the screen, Georgy’s odyssey becomes darker and more desperate until it reaches an unexpected conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: road movie, disturbing, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, dread, slow cinema, aesthetic, atmospheric
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Mother and Son (1997)
Plot Summary:
A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven among the deeply spiritual images of the countryside and cottage.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: contemplative, slow cinema, depressing, aesthetic, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, touching, serious, emotional
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Post Tenebras Lux (2012)
Plot Summary:
Juan and his urban family live in the Mexican countryside, where they enjoy and suffer a world apart. And nobody knows if these two worlds are complementary or if they strive to eliminate one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, experimental, psychological, psychedelic, surreal, captivating, slow cinema, philosophical
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The Four Times (2010)
Plot Summary:
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have deserted long ago. He is sick, and believes to find his medicine in the dust he collects on the church floor, which he drinks in his water every day.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, surreal, emotional, realistic, contemplative, existential, philosophical, spiritual, art house
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The Town (1997)
Plot Summary:
The story of a family living in a small godforsaken town in Turkey seen through the eyes of children and dealing with the growing complexity when one becomes an adult.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: aesthetic, art house, black and white, slow cinema, independent film