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Plot Summary:
Ana, Verónica, Marta, and Toro are four lonely people who live an unadventurous and quiet existence in southern Chile. They are with each other without the need of using words, trying to save themselves in a stealthy and extreme way. In order not only of getting away of the loneliness that constitutes their innermost core, but also of finding themselves, they reach for each other to get brotherly and sexual love, affection, and a space and time of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slow cinema
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Verano (2011)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 95 min
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Womanlight (1979)
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: political
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Tres tristes tigres (1968)
Plot Summary:
A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, experimental, independent film
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Dreamland (2015)
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Thomas, a photographer from France, goes to Japan to take pictures of abandoned places. Lonely, he meets Natsuki, a young and beautiful woman, who will become his model. But Thomas has violent panic attacks and nightmares.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Present Tense (2012)
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Planning to take any job she can get in order to save enough money and leave Turkey for the U.S., Mina is hired at an Istanbul café as a fortune teller who reads the dregs in coffee cups. She discovers she has the ability to offer comfort and insight to the customers who are just as lost in the wilderness as she is.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
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Anna (1970)
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A doctor, her daughter, and her young housekeeper spend their summer on a remote island.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 82 min
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Julio Begins in July (1979)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 120 min
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Believers (2022)
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On a small island somewhere near Japan, three cult members have devoted themselves to the "Deserted Island Program". Calling each other by rank, these people-two men and one women-have been chosen by their superiors to throw off the corrupt influence of modern society and "purify" themselves. But as time passes two of the members begin to give into human desire.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
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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)
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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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Nana (2011)
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Nana is 4 years old and lives in a stone house beyond the forest. Back from school, a late afternoon, all she finds is silence in the house. A journey into the darkness of her childhood. The world from her height.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, fairy tale, offbeat
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Suzie (2009)
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Suzie, a 58 year old depressed taxi driver on the night shift. On Halloween, she finds a 10 year old autistic boy in the back seat of her taxi with 50$ and an address. As Suzie arrived at the father's address, she realizes the mess this family is in. This child and her own troubled past lead her down a surprising road. In French with English subtitles.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
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Silence in Dreamland (2013)
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After the death of her husband, silence and loneliness reign in this old lady's house. She made routine her best friend and faith her shelter. Only in her dreams she runs away from those four walls to a timeless magic land where the sea speaks without using words. Her days go by like this; between the real life and dreams… until a street dog comes to her door.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, realistic, slow cinema
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The Absent Season (2004)
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When love has to compete with artistic inspiration and memories from a sheltering past come to take the artist to imaginary worlds that exist deep in his mind. This is the story of young Adrian, pianist and composer, in love with his sister and having a romantic relationship with her until she thinks it's time to stop. Adrian becomes overwhelmed by the memories of his grandfather and mentor now dead. Then he falls in love with a young neighbour but she is more real in her imagination than in ordinary daily life. Adrian discovers that is just having fantasies and wants to put an end to his life. But his talent comes in the figure on an ancestor to help him and move on to a meaningful life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, contemplative, sentimental, captivating, offbeat, serious, realistic, gloomy, sexual
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An Insignificant Harvey (2011)
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A janitor at a small town ski resort, who also happens to be a little person, has his life dramatically change when he finds a stray husky and falls for an exotic dancer.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film
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Shell (2012)
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Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father but now feels trapped within the beautiful but desolate landscape that surrounds her. With only her routine of running the decaying petrol station, taking care of her father, and spending afternoons in her bedroom with a local mechanic, life is passing Shell by with every passing truck that rattles her walls. One day a salesman stops to re-fuel and offers Shell a taste of the outside world that takes her closer than ever to the edge of the road and her desire to escape.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, atmospheric, serious, stylized, uplifting, realistic
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Nothing Personal (2009)
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Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final gesture of taking a ring off her finger signals she is leaving her previous life in Holland behind. She goes to Ireland, where she chooses to lead a solitary, wandering existence, striding through the austere landscapes of Connemara. During her travels, she discovers a house that is home to a hermit, Martin.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Ireland
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, captivating, sexy, offbeat, art house, intelligent, sincere
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Solitary Fragments (2007)
Plot Summary:
Life for Adela, a single mom trying to raise her infant son, and Antonia, a widow with three daughters, are forever altered by the terrorist bombing in Madrid.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, stylized, slow cinema, aesthetic, contemplative, no music
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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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Red Desert (1964)
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Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). Ugo's old pal, Corrado (Richard Harris), shows up in town on a business trip and is more sensitive to Giuliana's anxieties. They begin an affair, but it does little to quell Giuliana's existential fears, and her mental state rapidly deteriorates.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, atmospheric, realistic, serious, poetic, philosophical, neorealism, existential, contemplative
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Island (2011)
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Based on 'Jane Rogers' acclaimed novel, "Island" is a tale of yearning and retribution. Abandoned at birth, Nikki Black has spent most of her life in care sustained only by fairy-stories. Incapable of love, fearful and desperate for revenge, she decides to find her birth mother, confront her, and bitter enough to consider murder. She travels incognito to a remote Hebridean island where Phyllis now lives as a recluse with Calum, her son.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy, art house
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The Girl from the Wardrobe (2012)
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This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, touching, silent, cute, offbeat, humorous, tragicomedy, semi serious
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The Island (2006)
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Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: philosophical, psychological, cerebral, breathtaking, meditative, thought provoking, serious, dramatic, realistic, spiritual
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Wendy and Lucy (2008)
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Wendy, a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve Lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sad, road movie, psychological, realistic, emotional, meditative, talky, stylized, sincere
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (1975)
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A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet. Slowly, her ritualized daily routines begin to fall apart.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 202 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, experimental, sentimental, serious, realistic, avant garde, contemplative, tense, inspirational, art house
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Satantango (1994)
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Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 439 min
Plot tags: slow cinema, art house, contemplative, black and white, dark comedy, poetic, philosophical, psychedelic, intellectual, depressing
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Distant (2002)
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Uzak/Distant chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf, but the mingling of their lives does little to alleviate their detachment.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, bleak, art house, stylized, lyrical, psychological, touching, slow cinema, atmospheric, contemplative
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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