Into Great Silence (2005), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978), Once (2007), Maudie (2016), Seaside (2002), Paterson (2016), The Whales of August (1987), Blue Jay (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Simplicity movies.
Storyline: Filmmaker Philip Gröning travels to the French Alps to document the daily lives and rituals of the Carthusian Order of monks.
Plot Keywords: documentary, silence, christianity, france, meditation, prayer, solitude ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The life inside a farm in Italy at the end of the 19th century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy another pair. What can they do?—Michel Rudoy <mdrc@hp9000a1.uam.mx>
Plot Keywords: drama, rural life, italian cinema, poverty, family, faith, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An unnamed guy is a Dublin guitarist/singer/songwriter who makes a living by fixing vacuum cleaners in his Dad's Hoover repair shop by day, and singing and playing for money on the Dublin streets by night. An unnamed girl is a Czech who plays piano when she gets a chance, and does odd jobs by day and takes care of her Mom and her daughter by night. Guy meets girl and they get to know each other as the girl helps the guy put together a demo disc that he can take to London in hope of landing a music contract. During the same several day period, the guy and the girl work through their past loves, and reveal their budding love for one another, through their songs.
Plot Keywords: musical, romance, independent film, ireland, songwriting, low budget, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 1930's rural Nova Scotia. Maud Dowley, who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, smokes heavily to deal with the pain. Because of her unusual gait from the arthritis, she is often mistaken as a stupid, incapable woman, that perception which does make her feel stupid and incapable. That view is held by her surviving family, her brother Charlie and her Aunt Ida with whom she lives. After an action by Charlie, Maud decides to seek some independence and is the only applicant for a posted job as housekeeper for brusque Everett Lewis, a poor fish seller. Despite not wanting to hire a cripple which only adds to their antagonism, Maud negotiates to get the job for room and board. Their antagonistic relationship ends up including Everett exacting beatings on Maud whenever she doesn't do what he wants. To keep herself happy, Maud begins to paint the interior of the house with happy pictures and paint similar pictures on small cards, these folk art pictures are how she wants to see the world. ...
Plot Keywords: biography, romance, drama, art, painter, canada, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This French drama depicts the lives of people who reside all year 'round in a small coastal town. Rose (Bulle Ogier) is a retired factory worker who spends much of her time at the nearby casino, and her son, Paul (Jonathan Zaccaï), is a lifeguard on the beach. Meanwhile Paul's girlfriend, Marie (Hélène Fillières), works at the same factory that employed his mother, reflecting the town's tininess. As the seasons pass, Rosie, Paul, Marie and other locals go through various changes.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, youth, coming of age, seaside, independent film, artistic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Exactly one week in the life of a young man named Paterson of Paterson, New Jersey is presented. He lives an extremely regimented and routinized life, that routine perhaps most vividly displayed by the fact that he is able to wake up at exactly the same time every day without an alarm. That life includes eating Cheerios for breakfast, walking to work carrying his brown bag lunch packed in his lunch pail by his wife Laura, having a casual chat with his colleague Donny before he begins his shift driving the #23 Paterson bus for the local public transit company, walking home where he straightens out the exterior mailbox which somehow during the day gets knocked crooked, eating dinner with Laura and listening to her goings-on of the day, taking Laura's English bulldog Marvin - who he would admit to himself he doesn't much like - out for a walk to his neighborhood bar where he has one and only one beer before walking home with Marvin. There are day to day variations which are often the ...
Plot Keywords: poetic, everyday life, artist, marriage, observational, creativity, quiet ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's August. Like they have most summers, elderly widowed sisters Libby Strong and Sarah Webber, who live in Philadelphia, are staying together in the family's summer cottage on an island off the coast of Maine. The cottage, which now belongs to Sarah, has been in their family most of their lives, was the family's summer getaway from Philadelphia when they were younger. There are a few people who have been friends or acquaintances on the island, including the outspoken Tisha Dought, and Joshua Brackett. Someone new at least to Sarah's social circle is Mr. Maranov, a former Russian aristocrat. His stay on the island is threatened when his landlady, Hilda Partridge, passes away. Sarah and Libby have come to the realization they are in the respective twilight of their lives, Sarah, who still keeps busy and wants to savor life's pleasures, acts as now sightless, cantankerous and bitter Libby's caregiver. Sarah knows she can no longer take care of Libby. As such, Sarah has to make alternate living arrangements instead of the Philadelphia house.Those arrangements will not involve Libby's estranged daughter Anna, who has the means to take care of her mother, although not the want. It is their interactions with Tisha and Mr. Maranov which may decide their sisterly fate for the immediate future.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, family, aging, sisters, memories, seaside, summer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Beginning - At first they seem very, awkward and of course they have nothing to say to each other, it's been years. They go out to get some coffee and they bond for a while, you start to see their friendship, Amanda seems reserved whilst Jim seems more forward and more talkative. It just happens that they both left their hometown, sort of symbolizes their fear of having to confront their past for years to come. But they both come back and happen to run into each other, just coincidental.—Isabel Aghahowa
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, independent film, reunion, nostalgia, emotion, dialogue-driven ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A small village in Burkina Faso. The story focuses on Bila, a ten year old boy who befriends an old woman, Sana. Everybody calls her 'Witch' but Bila himself calls her 'Yaaba' (grandmother). When Bila's cousin Nopoko gets sick it is Sana's medicine who saves her.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: drama, family, village life, child's perspective, tradition, social outcasts, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The lives of the affluent residents of an exclusive town in the French countryside converge at a chateau owned by Marie-Agnes de Bayonette (Thamar Tarassachvili), a feisty, physically disabled woman, and maintained by her elderly cousin, Solange (Narda Blanchet). When de Bayonette dies suddenly, cultures and personalities clash as an international cast of characters -- including real estate vultures, bargain hunters and numerous distant cousins -- descend upon the chateau.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, coming of age, family, youth, dream, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kibong (Won-Sop Sin), a young Buddhist monk on a quest to achieve peace and enlightenment, ventures to a monastery in the mountains of South Korea to commune with the elderly and reclusive Hyegok (Pan-Yong Yi) in hopes of gaining the answers he craves. With the aid of Haejin (Hae-Jin Huang), the young orphan who lives with him, Hyegok attempts to impart his wisdom onto Kibong. Yet, the young man still feels torn between his old life in the city and the path toward inner peace.
Plot Keywords: meditation, life and death, nature, solitude, time, silence, philosophy ...
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