Items12The creator’s order
  1. 1Perfect Days (2023)Perfect Days (2023) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased 10 Nov 2023A Tokyo toilet cleaner's repeated working days give you a pattern to settle into, then small variations become the drama. Music on cassette, light through leaves and Kōji Yakusho's changing expression keep the routine specific. This is an accessible bridge into slower viewing rather than its most…0
  2. 2First Cow (2020)First Cow (2020) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 6 Mar 2020Foraging, milking and making food are allowed to occupy real screen time in this Oregon frontier story. That attention makes Cookie and King-Lu's fragile partnership feel built through shared labour, rather than asserted by the plot. Kelly Reichardt gives you small practical things to follow while…0
  3. 3Old Joy (2006)Old Joy (2006) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased 25 Mar 2006Two old friends head for woodland hot springs, but the gaps in their conversation tell you as much as the conversation itself. Forest sounds and stretches of road give their drifting friendship room to register. Roughly 73 minutes makes this a modest commitment with a surprisingly persistent ache.0
  4. 4The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 8 Oct 1973A child's encounter with Frankenstein spreads into the silent rooms and open country of post-Civil War Spain. Víctor Erice holds on faces, doorways and honey-coloured interiors until ordinary spaces start to carry Ana's fear and curiosity. Her wish to understand the creature gives you an emotional…0
  5. 5Taste of Cherry (1997)Taste of Cherry (1997) 7.7/10 on IMDbReleased 10 Oct 1997A man drives the hills outside Tehran seeking help with a planned suicide, and extended conversations turn the car into a space for listening. Kiarostami lets stretches of landscape and silence interrupt the apparent task, giving each passenger's response time to register. The withheld background…0
  6. 6Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased 25 Jun 2010Ghosts are welcomed into a dying man's family gathering with almost the same patience given to dinner. Long, unhurried passages and an enveloping jungle soundtrack let the strange become companionable. Illness and parting provide an emotional thread while the film wanders between episodes, bodies…0
  7. 7Cemetery of Splendor (2015)Cemetery of Splendor (2015) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased 2 Sept 2015Beside soldiers afflicted by a sleeping sickness, a volunteer's visits become an unusually absorbing way to spend time. Held views of the ward, ordinary conversations and slowly changing coloured light invite your eyes to wander within the frame. Apichatpong lets care, dreams and buried histories…0
  8. 8Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Dec 2003A near-empty Taipei cinema hosts a screening while patrons and workers make their own tentative journeys through it. Tsai Ming-liang's locked-off views and long pauses make footsteps, snacks and awkward proximity unexpectedly funny, then lonely. You do not need to know the martial-arts film on the…0
  9. 9The Assassin (2015)The Assassin (2015) 6.3/10 on IMDbReleased 27 Aug 2015The fights arrive in brief bursts; much more time belongs to watching, waiting and deciding whether to act. Hou Hsiao-hsien frames an assassin through moving curtains, distant foliage and carefully held interiors, letting political danger inhabit the scenery. This is a route through texture and…0
  10. 10Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 21 Jan 1976Cooking, cleaning and paid visits from men fit into a widow's carefully managed household routine. Chantal Akerman's long, steady shots teach you its rhythm before small disturbances start to matter. Delphine Seyrig makes a minute hesitation consequential because the surrounding work has been given…0