Zama (2017), Grass (2018), Into Great Silence (2005), The Sacrifice (1986), Honeyland (2019), In the Last Days of the City (2016), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), Grass (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Slow Cinema movies.
Storyline: In the 18th century, a highly-placed servant of the Spanish crown who is obsessed with petty grudges and fantasies plots his transfer to Buenos Aires.
Plot Keywords: colonialism, historical drama, latin america, 18th century, bureaucracy, identity crisis, isolation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman working on her laptop in a cafe overhears three dramatic stories unfolding through nearby conversations.
Plot Keywords: documentary, korean cinema, minimalist, dialogue-driven, slice of life, black and white, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: Alexander, a journalist and former actor and philosopher, tells his little son how worried he is about the lack of spirituality of modern mankind. In the night of his birthday, the third world war breaks out. In his despair Alexander turns himself in a prayer to God, offering him everything to have the war not happen at all.
Plot Keywords: philosophical, existential, art film, apocalyptic, sacrifice, religious, surreal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood. This film which is filmed in Macedonia is an exploration of an observational Indigenous visual narrative that deeply impacts our behavior towards natural resources and the human condition.
Plot Keywords: documentary, rural life, nature, sustainability, tradition, modernization, conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As a filmmaker in Cairo deals with a loss in his life, he struggles to make a movie that captures the soul of the city.
Plot Keywords: drama, art film, independent film, urban life, loneliness, memory, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
Plot Keywords: drama, rural life, existentialism, slow cinema, man and nature, cultural conflict, documentary style ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Ron Mann looks at the history of marijuana, from early government propaganda newsreels to Ronald Reagan's war on drugs. Narrated by Woody Harrelson.
Plot Keywords: documentary, experimental, short film, avant-garde, surreal, minimalist, visual poetry ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A series of scenes that focus specially on a single idea, emotion or act us. In the absence of interfering qualities this film is able to take one factoring influence and amplify it to absurd and hilarious proportions. Each scene gives us an uninterrupted view at some of the more unglamorous characteristics that in the end determine who we are, both as individuals and as a thread in the patchwork of the collective human unconscious.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, black comedy, swedish film, surrealism, absurd, slice of life ...
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: The director Friedrich Monroe has trouble with finishing a silent b&w movie about Lisbon. He calls his friend, the sound engineer Phillip Winter, for help. As Winter arrives Lisbon weeks later, Monroe is disappeared but has left the unfinished film. Winter decides to stay, because he is fascinated of the city and the Portuguese singer Teresa, and he starts to record the sound of the film. At the same time Monroe cruises through the city with a camcorder and tries to catch unseen pictures. Later they meet and Winter convinces Monroe of finishing the film.—Christoph Blendinger <blendi@iam.uni-bonn.de>
Plot Keywords: music, journey, documentary style, european cinema, director, sound design, nostalgia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a once-popular movie theater, a decrepit old barn of a cinema that is screening a martial arts classic, King Hu's 1966 "Dragon Inn." Even with the rain bucketing down outside, it doesn't pull much of an audience -- and some of those who have turned up are less interested in the movie than in the possibility of meeting a stranger in the dark.—Sujit R. Varma
Plot Keywords: slow cinema, nostalgia, loneliness, silence, farewell, passage of time, minimal dialogue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two young guys work in a plant that manufactures oshibori (those moist hand-towels found in some Japanese restaurants). Their weird bond is based on uncontrollable rage--something neither can articulate or control--and the strange jellyfish that they keep as a pet.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, psychological, urban life, alienation, youth, friendship, social critique ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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 non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave - the birthplace of his first life.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, drama, surreal, reincarnation, family, memory, death ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Chantal Akerman films her mother, an old woman of Polish origin who is short lifetime, in her apartment in Brussels. For two hours, we will see them eating, chatting and sharing memories, sometimes accompanied by Sylvaine, Chantal's sister. Also, and to show how small the world has become, Chantal remains in contact with her mother at other times of the year via Skype from lands as far away from Belgium as Oklahoma or New York.—jsanchez
Plot Keywords: documentary, family, parent-child relationship, immigration, belgium, poland, jewish ...
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