Slow cinema movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant slow cinema movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out slow cinema, contemplative, aesthetic, art house, serious and realistic films and TV shows about / with minimalism, underground, loneliness, psychological drama, death, melancholy, alienation, male nudity, storytelling and existentialism plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres shot in France, Germany, Taiwan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as slow cinema: Satantango (1994), Tropical Malady (2004), The Turin Horse (2011), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), Days (2020), Taste of Cherry (1997), The Sacrifice (1986), Sleep Has Her House (2017), Colossal Youth (2006), A Brighter Summer Day (1991).
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List of slow cinema movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
slow cinema, sexy, experimental, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
loneliness, minimalism, feminism, female protagonist, housewife, prostitution, prostitute, single mother, feminist, widow, chores, mother son relationship ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
europe, brussels, belgium, france, brussels belgium
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 439 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
slow cinema, black and white, art house, powerful, dark comedy ...
Plot:
poverty, mental disorder, pessimism, suicide, bell, countryside, farm, multiple perspectives, loneliness, mental illness, european, communist ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, 80s
Place:
hungary, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A romance between a soldier and country boy splinters into a mythical venture based on Thai folklore.
Style:
surreal, slow cinema, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
gay, shaman, jungle, friendship, mysticism, lgbt, shapeshifting, gay love, male nudity, bare chested male, love and romance, human nature ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
thailand, asia, bangkok thailand, indiana
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
slow cinema, thought provoking, bleak, black and white, serious ...
Plot:
horse, poverty, survival, destiny, nihilism, desperation, philosopher, everyday life, family relations, human nature, isolation, dying ...
Time:
19th century, distant future, turn of the century, year 2011, 90s ...
Place:
turin italy, europe, seattle
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is ...
Style:
atmospheric, art house, slow cinema, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
murder, police investigation, forensic, brutality, forensics, character study, road trip, isolation, everyday life, law enforcement, introspection, existentialism ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, bosnia herzegovina, former yugoslavia, maghreb, turkey ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
Style:
homoerotic, psychological, slow cinema, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
massage, male nudity, society, lgbt, gay, gay sex, gay interest, acupuncture, friendship, class differences, youth, disorder ...
Place:
taiwan, bangkok thailand
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take ...
Style:
independent film, art house, philosophical, slow cinema, contemplative ...
Plot:
suicide, desert, soldier, existentialism, death, abrupt ending, muslim, dialogue, iranian, depression, hopelessness, conversation ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran, asia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Style:
cerebral, atmospheric, philosophical, art house, slow cinema ...
Plot:
insanity, existentialism, spirituality, religion, female nudity, distopia, art, dialogue, philosophy, god, post apocalypse, mental disorder ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, europe, russia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.
Style:
experimental, slow cinema, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
darkness, nature, poem, spirit, forces of nature, supernatural, mysticism, night, macabre, romanticism, stoner, cosmology ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
slow cinema, melancholic, art house, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
loneliness, alienation, isolation, everyday life, intimate, minimalism, bittersweet, character study, intimacy, coastal town, sexual tension, dog ...
Place:
poetic realism, chile
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style:
thought provoking, contemplative, slow cinema, serious, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, human nature, life is a bitch, hopes, misfit, starting over, urban ghetto life, addiction, decolonization, husband wife relationship, military coup, lost love ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 237 min.
Story:
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Style:
slow cinema, art house, aesthetic, existential, social ...
Plot:
murder, coming of age, love, teenager, street gang, schoolgirl, bookstore, mouse, asian, sadness, slow burn, martial arts ...
Time:
60s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1959, year 1960 ...
Place:
taiwan, nebraska, taipei, asia
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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A female assassin during the Tang Dynasty who begins to question her loyalties when she falls in love with one of her targets.
Style:
colorful, atmospheric, stylized, surreal, meditative ...
Plot:
wuxia, martial arts, kung fu, assassin, tang dynasty, love, life & death, life philosophy, art, beautiful scenery, assassination, magic realism ...
Time:
middle ages, year 2016, 7th century, 9th century
Place:
ancient china, china, taiwan, mongolia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Style:
erotic, sexy, atmospheric, meditative, disturbing ...
Plot:
sex, love triangle, multiple storylines, character study, friendship, dysfunctional family, storytelling, drug, art, loneliness, love and romance, couples ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
taiwan, asia, east asia, taipei, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around ...
Style:
serious, philosophical, black and white, slow cinema, tense ...
Plot:
philosophy, surrealism, chaos, musician, delusion, circus, magic realism, social relations, danger, small town life, village life, european ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
hungary, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, erotic, slow cinema, serious ...
Plot:
forbidden love, passionate kiss, making love, fall in love, farmer, redemption, moral dilemma, religion, couples, regret, sin, human nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007
Place:
mexico, latin america
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Thailand, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a ...
Style:
disturbing, surreal, art house, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
surrealism, jungle, magic realism, supernatural, loneliness, existentialism, interspecies sex, buddhist monk, buddhism, reincarnation, life philosophy, introspection ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
asia, thailand, india, tokyo, japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Using few words and gorgeous imagery, this is a poetic painting of a family, each in their own space on an August afternoon.
Style:
slow cinema, poetic, lyrical, contemplative, art house ...
Plot:
family drama, slice of life, intimate, summer, character study, memory, minimalism, bittersweet, silence, daily life, underground, generation ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
Style:
touching, contemplative, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot:
longing, homecoming, disaster, demolished city, social decay, haunted by the past, introspection, life is a bitch, society, injustice, family problems, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
slow cinema, touching, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
loneliness, dog, old age, loss, dream, isolation, death of husband, imagination, female protagonist, intimate, introspection, reflection ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, France
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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, ...
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic, art house, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot:
children, homelessness, poverty, youth, underground, minimal dialogue, minimalism, underworld, homeless, mishap, wandering, exhaustion ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
taipei, taiwan
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
philosophical, slow cinema, art house, road movie, contemplative ...
Plot:
destiny, immigrant, terminal illness, coming of age, dialogue, art, storytelling, writers, greek, hospital, refugee, journey ...
Time:
90s, 1910s, year 1998, future
Place:
greece, australia, japan, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 250 min.
Story:
A man is wrongly jailed for murder while the real killer roams free. The murderer is an intellectual frustrated with his country’s never-ending cycle of betrayal and apathy. The convict is a simple man who finds life in prison more tolerable, when ...
Style:
philosophical, realistic, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
double murder, social problems, punishment, government corruption, revenge, immigrant, social relations, society, working class, village life, prison, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
the philippines, asia, india
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ...
Style:
erotic, contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
small town, sex, female nudity, female pubic hair, voyeur, orgasm, masturbation, psychiatric hospital, dead body, rape, strike, police protagonist ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
france, flanders, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
sincere, art house, stylized, lyrical, philosophical ...
Plot:
unemployment, loneliness, photograph, midlife crisis, isolation, telephone call, photography, art, complex characters, family relations, culture clash, introspection ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
middle east, turkey, istanbul turkey, balkan, maghreb ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) is a retired Romanian engineer, spending his time in the company of his cats and booze. When he starts feeling unusually ill, he first seeks painkillers from his neighbors. It soon becomes apparent that Lazarescu is ...
Style:
sincere, black comedy, contemplative, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
hospital, medical, paramedic, doctors and patients, ambulance, character study, storytelling, self discovery, surgery, public health, terminal illness, fighting illness ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
romania, bucharest, eastern europe, transylvania, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On a dark, rainy night, an historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn". As the film plays, the lives of the theater's various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors ...
Style:
contemplative, surreal, sincere, atmospheric, slow cinema ...
Plot:
longing, tourist, introspection, human nature, dull life, solitude, theater, loneliness, minimalism, underground, asian, life & death ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
taipei, taiwan, japan, east asia, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.
Style:
philosophical, emotional, touching, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, wedding, first love, coma, love, children, elevator, regret, dysfunctional family, lovers reunited, couples, destiny ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo, taipei ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Country: Russia, Germany, Japan, Canada, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A French marquis wanders through a vast labyrinth of corridors, theaters and ballrooms at a reception for a Persian ambassador.
Style:
epic, visual, philosophical, cerebral, surreal ...
Plot:
russian history, museum, painting, revolution, time travel, art, lifestyle, culture clash, haunted by the past, architecture, storytelling, imperial russia ...
Time:
19th century, year 2002, 20th century, 1800s, 18th century ...
Place:
soviet union, russia, ussr, siberia, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
André Demester secretly and painfully loves Barbe, his childhood friend, accepting from her the little that she gives him. He leaves home to be a soldier in a war in a far off land. Barbarity, camaraderie and fear turn him into a warrior. As the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, slow cinema, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
castration, war crime, male female relationship, rape, soldier, murder, death, survival, battles, best friend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, military ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
france, middle east, flanders, europe, belgium
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