The Rules of the Game (1939), Funny Ha Ha (2003), Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Late Spring (1949), The Wild Pear Tree (2018), Regular Lovers (2005), Before Sunrise (1995), The Mother and the Whore (1973) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Long Takes movies.
Storyline: In Greece, young Voula (Tania Palaiologou) and her little brother, Alexandros (Michalis Zeke), think that their dad is in Germany, so they decide to pack up and search for him. During their life-changing trek, they meet the kindly Orestis (Stratos Tzortzoglou), who looks after them for a time. Eventually, the children decide to resume their quest, but they are forced to deal with the brutal realities of being alone in the world as they wander through an unforgiving winter landscape.
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, road movie, greece, loneliness, family, siblings ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: University professor Isa (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) and his lover, Bahar (Ebru Ceylan), are on vacation together when they break up. She returns to Istanbul by herself, and later, Isa resumes a relationship with a former lover. Upon hearing that she is in the East filming a TV project, Isa travels to that part of the country to track her down and perhaps mend the rift between them.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, marriage, relationships, midlife crisis, travel, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the mid 1990's, 20 French urban dancers join together for a three-day rehearsal in a closed-down boarding school located at the heart of a forest to share one last dance. They then make one last party around a large sangria bowl. Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And it's soon impossible for them to resist to their neuroses and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rhythm of the music. While some feel in paradise, most of them plunge into hell.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, horror, dance, psychedelic, drugs, experimental film, french cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jorgos, a migrant worker from Greece, joins a group of young people in Munich usually hanging around. This foreigner incites hostility and jealousy among them, and he is insulted as a "Communist" and "Greek dog". After having been attacked, Jorgos talks to Maria of his wish to return home.—L.H. Wong <as9401k56@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg>
Plot Keywords: black and white, social critique, racial discrimination, alienation, minimalism, realism, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sam and Jonathan, a pair of hapless novelty salesman, embark on a tour of the human condition in reality and fantasy that unfold in a series of absurdist episodes.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, existentialism, absurdist, swedish film, surrealism, social critique, alienation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Elvira, once a working-class butcher named Erwin, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now struggles to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Plot Keywords: german film, 1970s, drama, tragedy, loneliness, social marginalization, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish production, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, surrealism, nonlinear narrative, los angeles, identity crisis, female protagonist, horror elements ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bothersome New York City high-school student Lisa Cohen (17), who consistently messes up her life and that of boy classmates, searches New York in vain for a fit cowboy hat to wear at an excursion with her separated father and stepmother. Spotting one on bus driver Maretti's head but failing to board, she stubbornly runs along and keeps claiming his confused attention, until the bus hits a blind senior, who is wounded fatally The NYPD quickly closes the case as an accident, but Lisa, duly consumed by guilt and spared any charge, starts bothering everyone and making a mean pest of herself, not only at home, as self-absorbed actress mother may deserve, but also in the precinct, tracking down the victim's uninterested kin out of town and even Maretti at home. A family friend lawyer gets involved in the case, digging in to compromising circumstances and causing real trouble to people who were of the hook.
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, new york, teenager, moral dilemma, family, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the outskirts of Austin, 10-year-old Annie tears around on her BMX bike, hurls dough at cars, and smashes things up with her baseball bat. Her father, a goat farmer-cum-demolition derby driver, does little parenting. Annie has no friends her age, so her daily routine is filled with solitary mischief. Playing in the woods one day, she hears a woman's plaintive call for help from an abandoned well. Though Annie feels driven to visit the well daily, she is unsure about how to deal with the woman's plight.—Sundance Film Festival
Plot Keywords: independent film, drama, child protagonist, american film, coming of age, surrealism, texas ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two friends that call each other Gerry decide to hide in the wilderness in order to see something. However, they do not find what they're looking for. They decide to return to the car but they get lost in the desert, without water, supplies or a compass. Now they have to walk, trying to find the road to survive.
Plot Keywords: experimental, minimalist, survival, desert, friendship, psychological, slow cinema ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Murphy is an American cinema school student, living in Paris. He had a French girlfriend, called Electra, whom he dated for two years. One day, they met and had a no-strings-attached threesome with another woman, a young blonde Danish teenager named Omi, as a way to add some excitement to their love life. But later, he had sex with her behind Electra's back, as a result of which Omi became pregnant. This unplanned pregnancy ended the relationship between Murphy and Electra on a horrible note, and it forced Murphy to marry Omi. In one morning, Electra's mother, Nora, phones him to ask if he's heard from Electra, because she hasn't heard from her for three months, and given her daughter's suicidal tendencies. For the rest of this day, he recalls his past two years with Electra in a series of fragmented, nonlinear flashbacks; how they first met in Paris, their quick hookup, and their lives over the next two years which is filled with drug abuse, rough sex and tender moments.
Plot Keywords: love, romance, relationships, intimacy, sex, emotions, paris ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Carlos (Cheech Marin) failed in the show-biz and currently works as waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex (Emma Samms) and dumb footballer Bruce (Vernon Wells), who celebrate their engagement with her parents. Alex' father (Terence Cooper)is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée. But her father sees through the game...—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: political allegory, identity, alienation, aftermath of war, symbolism, slow pacing, visual storytelling ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A widowed professor (Chishû Ryû) fakes an impending marriage to spur his adult daughter (Setsuko Hara) to get on with her life.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, black and white, father-daughter relationship, marriage, tradition, modernity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Noriko (Setsuko Hara) lives in postwar Tokyo with her extended family. Although she enjoys her career and her friends, her more traditionally minded family worries about the fact that she's still single at the advanced age of 28. When 40-year-old business associate Takako (Kuniko Igawa) proposes marriage, Noriko's family press her into accepting. But when her widowed childhood friend Kenkichi (Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi) returns to the neighborhood, she finds her heart leading in another direction.
Plot Keywords: family, drama, marriage, tradition, modernity, generation gap, everyday life ...
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