Contemplative movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant contemplative movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out contemplative, serious, art house, psychological, atmospheric and realistic films and TV shows about / with family relations, hopes, existentialism, death, underground, husband wife relationship, unfulfillment, moving, philosophy and loneliness plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Mystery genres shot in France, Germany, USA and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as contemplative: The Girl from Nowhere (2012), Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Colossal Youth (2006), The Sacrifice (1986), The Tree of Life (2011), Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), The Family Man (2000), Faust (2011), Primer (2004).
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and ...
Style:
surreal, tense, psychological, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paranormal phenomena, ghost, mysterious girl, loneliness, older man younger woman relationship, hallucination, reincarnation, introspection, self discovery, apparition, hopes, supernatural power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
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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:
bleak, contemplative, serious, allegory, slow cinema ...
Plot:
surrealism, delusion, circus, musician, magic realism, philosophy, social relations, danger, small town life, village life, european, small town ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
hungary, europe
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In Greenwich Village in the early 1960s, gifted but volatile folk musician Llewyn Davis struggles with money, relationships, and his uncertain future following the suicide of his singing partner.
Style:
depressing, atmospheric, bleak, meditative, clever ...
Plot:
music, homeless, musician, loneliness, cat, musician's life, financial problem, road trip, aspiring singer, depression, art, eccentricity ...
Time:
60s, year 2013, 2010s, year 1961, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, somalia, indiana, chicago ...
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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:
contemplative, serious, thought provoking, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, starting over, hopes, misfit, addiction, urban ghetto life, husband wife relationship, anthropology, decolonization, poetry ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
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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:
atmospheric, philosophical, art house, spiritual, slow cinema ...
Plot:
insanity, existentialism, end of the world, spirituality, distopia, god, philosophy, dialogue, art, post apocalypse, religion, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
soviet union, ussr, europe
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his ...
Style:
philosophical, surreal, artsy, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
philosophy, childhood, grief, coming of age, spirituality, father son relationship, parenthood, existentialism, family relations, domineering father, hopes, religion ...
Time:
1950s, 2010s, year 2011, prehistory, 20th century ...
Place:
texas, america, usa, china
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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, atmospheric, sincere, slow cinema ...
Plot:
tourist, longing, human nature, introspection, theater, solitude, dull life, loneliness, minimalism, underground, asian, life & death ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
taiwan, taipei, japan, east asia, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Jack's lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, date night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
christmas, midlife crisis, road not taken, destiny, parallel universe, life changing experience, alternate reality, lost love, fish out of water, lifestyle change, time travel, family relations ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 80s, 2000s ...
Place:
new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A director with two weeks left on his latest production fakes an ulcer to pursue a romance with his lead actress.
Style:
contemplative, postmodern, clever, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
filmmaking, dishonesty, sexual relations, screenwriter, female nudity, theater, nudity, manipulation, under the surface, artists and showbiz, director, storytelling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bucharest, romania
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6K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Faust is a 2011 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and its literary adaptations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann. The dialogue is in German. The film won ...
Style:
contemplative, disturbing, bleak, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
temptation, life is a bitch, tragic hero, unfulfillment, ambition, blind ambition, downfall, body horror, obsessive quest, faust, scientific research, anatomy ...
Time:
year 2011, victorian era, 19th century, 18th century
Place:
germany, europe, russia
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114K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style:
philosophical, surreal, independent film, confusing, mind bending ...
Plot:
time travel, time loop, parallel universe, time machine, changing the past or future, changing the future, science, inventor, paradox, time traveler, twists and turns, scientist ...
Time:
future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, offbeat, psychological, artsy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
loneliness, midlife crisis, age difference, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, alienation, fish out of water, love story, unlikely couple, self discovery, relationships, adultery ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, america, yale university ...
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100K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.
Style:
surreal, artsy, psychological, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot:
parallel universe, parallel world, tragedy, guilt, grief, outer space, nasa, mysterious planet, space travel, solar system, cosmology, existentialism ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, mojave desert, boston, new haven connecticut, connecticut ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A love story involving a convicted prisoner who "slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell".
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
confined, love affair, estrangement, unfulfillment, prison, suicide attempt, surveillance camera, prison guard, passion, mission, moving, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, seoul, korea, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Twelve years after their beloved eldest son, Junpei, drowned while saving a stranger's life, Kyohei and Toshiko welcome their surviving children home for a family reunion. Younger son Ryota still feels that his parents resent that he isn't ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family reunited, family gatherings, family life, generation gap, bereavement, dealing with death, reconciliation, parents and children, old age, generation, father daughter relationship, love ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia
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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, realistic, contemplative, bleak, meditative ...
Plot:
medical, hospital, paramedic, doctors and patients, ambulance, character study, storytelling, self discovery, surgery, public health, fighting illness, terminal illness ...
Time:
90s, year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
romania, bucharest, eastern europe, transylvania, europe
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245K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style:
psychological, surreal, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, teens, adult
Plot:
time, philosophy, destiny, alternate reality, surrealism, butterfly effect, depression, choice, utopia, twists and turns, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 2011, distant future, 2010s ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, melancholic, visually stunning, artsy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, marriage, love affair, unrequited love, love, newspaper, food, tragedy, betrayal ...
Time:
60s, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Style:
depressing, touching, serious, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
childhood, poverty, dysfunctional family, boy, young kid, innocence lost, children, child abandonment, brother brother relationship, tragedy, coming of age, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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58K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young man, whose only possession is a motorcycle, spends his time riding around the city looking for empty apartments. After finding one, he hangs out for a while, fixing himself something to eat, washing laundry or making small repairs in return. ...
Style:
lyrical, contemplative, surreal, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
golf, loneliness, motorcycle, relationships, abusive husband, jealousy, love triangle, art, love story, love, existentialism, destiny ...
Time:
year 2004, y2k, 21st century
Place:
korea, east asia, south korea, asia
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61K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
Style:
touching, surreal, contemplative, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
writers, writer's life, love, androids, road not taken, sensuality, haunted by the past, old friend, coincidence, destiny, memory, introspection ...
Time:
future, 60s, year 2004, 2040s, y2k ...
Place:
hong kong, china, singapore, east asia, asia
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5K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Western
Country: Denmark, Mexico, France, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A father and daughter journey from Denmark to an unknown desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
Style:
contemplative, atmospheric, surreal, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
desert, escapades, parents and children, family relations, love and romance, on the road, murder, wild west, father daughter relationship, coming of age, minimalism, american history ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Pedro Almodovar production in which a fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies with out telling her family of her illness.
Style:
sad, touching, contemplative, philosophical, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
terminal illness, cancer, secret love, illness, love and romance, dealing with death, death, parents and children, infidelity, hospital, relationships, love story ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Out of Nature is a journey inside Martins head. A family father in his 30s living in a small town of Norway. He feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away. Away from his job, away from his family, into the woods, up to the mountains. ...
Style:
contemplative, semi serious, existential, psychological, humorous ...
Plot:
male nudity, male masturbation, male pubic hair, hiking, masturbation, mountain, self discovery, introspection, imagination, nature, midlife crisis, running ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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192K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Style:
psychological, touching, cerebral, sentimental, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
alien, mental institution, patient, planet, extraterrestrial, mysterious character, hypnosis, space and aliens, mental illness, psychiatrist, science, investigation ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, persia, new york, greenland, newfoundland ...
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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, art house, contemplative, black and white, dark comedy ...
Plot:
poverty, suicide, writers, farm, loneliness, countryside, multiple perspectives, mental illness, hidden treasure, minimalism, tango, minimal dialogue ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 80s, 20th century
Place:
hungary, europe
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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:
bleak, atmospheric, slow cinema, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot:
horse, poverty, survival, minimalism, nihilism, desperation, destiny, everyday life, family relations, human nature, philosopher, isolation ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, 90s, year 2011, distant future
Place:
turin italy, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
contemplative, slow cinema, depressing, aesthetic, realistic ...
Plot:
art, biopic, countryside, youth, childhood, mental disorder, landscape, mother and son, spirituality, minimal dialogue, artist, underground ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
soviet union, russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lichter is an episodic tale from Hans-Christian Schmid about the life on the boarder between Germany and Poland. The film sheds light on the everyday stories of escape and desperateness.
Style:
contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
border, immigrant, politics, human spirit, danger, couples, political unrest, redemption, rebelliousness, life is a bitch, hopes, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, germany, ukraine, europe
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7K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life.His father is a beekeeper whose bees have disappeared unexpectedly, ...
Style:
contemplative, psychological, sentimental, captivating, aesthetic ...
Plot:
woods, parents and children, family relations, introspection, hopes, father son relationship, youth, everyday life, only child, betrayal, nature, honey ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
turkey, middle east
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