Andrei Rublev (1969), Everyone Else (2009), Mother and Son (1997), My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010), River (2015), 303 (2018), Earth Songs (2012), Nostalgia (1983) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Slow-paced movies.
Storyline: A 15th-century Russian (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) who paints icons renounces his art after taking part in a peasant uprising.
Plot Keywords: historical, biographical, art, religious, medieval, russian, painter ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Mediterranean vacation reveals cracks in a couple's relationship.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, german film, european cinema, couple, emotional conflict, psychological drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a small house in the countryside of Russia, a son (Alexei Ananischnov) cares for his sick, elderly mother (Gudrun Geyer) as they prepare for her death. As the mother struggles to breathe and her health gradually deteriorates, her son holds her, feeds her and does his best to comfort her. When the son finally brings the mother to her death bed, the two embark on a journey through a hallucinatory outdoor landscape where they spend their final moments together.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, mother, son, parent-child relationship, end-of-life care, illness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A barely literate laborer (Gérard Depardieu) undergoes a personal transformation through his friendship with an old woman (Gisèle Casadesus) who introduces him to the world of books.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, french film, heartwarming, literature, friendship, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman.
Plot Keywords: drama, adventure, nature, documentary, travel, environmental, river ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two university students gain insight into life and love as they get to know each other during a road trip across Europe.
Plot Keywords: romance, road movie, german film, philosophy, dialogue-driven, self-discovery, journey ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For over two years, filmmaker Brian Luke Seaward traveled to many of the world's most pristine locations - Patagonia(Chile), the Caribbean, Iceland, the Canadian Rockies, Hawaii, Greenland, Alaska, Peru, and New Zealand - capturing the Earth's beauty in ways that are rarely seen. Inspired by decades of National Geographic specials, and the BBC's Planet Earth series, Earth Songs takes the viewer on a journey of this planet we call home.—Brian Luke Seaward
Plot Keywords: documentary, nature, environmental, earth, music, ecology, landscape ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in his house for seven years to save them from the evils of the world. Seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes drawn to him. In a series of dreams, the poet's nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and Italy, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined.—Anonymous and Brian McInnis
Plot Keywords: nostalgia, art film, philosophy, memory, time, existentialism, poetic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of "Nokanshi," acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.
Plot Keywords: drama, death, family, grief, redemption, life and death, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, dystopian, artificial intelligence, detective, humanity, existentialism, visually stunning ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Pietro (Nanni Moretti), an Italian executive, mourns his wife by sitting outside of his daughter's school all day.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, emotional, grief, healing, midlife crisis, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron's son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron's household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold.
Plot Keywords: drama, historical, mystery, psychological, thriller, black and white, german film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lucia and Elena are best friends since childhood. They take a car trip from Paris to the country. Their conversations are overtly intimate, but more revealing is their tacit understanding of each others' personality and desires.—Greg Pribyl <gpribyl@isd.net>
Plot Keywords: love, drama, french film, female perspective, journey, friendship, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's November 30, 1962. Native Brit George Falconer, an English professor at a Los Angeles area college, is finding it difficult to cope with life. Jim, his personal partner of sixteen years, died in a car accident eight months earlier when he was visiting with family. Jim's family were not going to tell George of the death or accident, let alone allow him to attend the funeral. This day, George has decided to get his affairs in order before he will commit suicide that evening. As he routinely and fastidiously prepares for the suicide and post suicide, George reminisces about his life with Jim. But George spends this day with various people, who see a man sadder than usual and who affect his own thoughts about what he is going to do. Those people include Carlos, a Spanish immigrant/aspiring actor/gigolo recently arrived in Los Angeles; Charley, his best friend who he knew from England, she who is a drama queen of a woman who romantically desires her best friend despite his sexual orientation; and Kenny Potter, one of his students, who seems to be curious about his professor beyond English class.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, lgbt, art film, melancholy, loneliness, 1960s ...
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 ...
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