Movies with slow-burn vibe

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Realistic Tense Intimate Claustrophobic Bleak

Overview

The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.

Themes

Deception and trust, Illness testing friendship, Cancer and caregiving, Relationship strain and reconciliation, Pregnancy amid illness, Family bonds after loss

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Realistic Claustrophobic Brutal Deliberate Intense

Overview

A soon-to-be bride on her way to a wedding rehearsal is having second thoughts and decides to take a detour. Her car breaks down and a hitch-hiker offers help. Could it be fate?

Themes

Hostage dynamics, Survival under threat, Fate vs choice, Deception and control, Violence as coercion, Isolation drives tension

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Realistic Tense Intimate Claustrophobic Deliberate

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Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured for 15 years in the face of everything life threw at it – the separations, the discrimination, the temptations, the jealousies and the losses – until the only problem that love can't solve tried to destroy them.

Themes

Memory and mourning, Stigma and discrimination, Secrecy and family pressure, Activism and identity exploration, Illness and relationship resilience, Enduring same-sex love

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Realistic Intimate Raw Claustrophobic Dry

Overview

Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the seismic effect it will have on their relationship, they invite their pretty neighbor into their bed.

Themes

Deception in relationships, Depression and vulnerability, Non-monogamy and threesome, Pregnancy as consequence, Unconventional households, Secrecy and break-up

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Bleak Relentless

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There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.

Themes

Family secrets, Past relationship resurfacing, Marital strain under memory, Infidelity shadows, Promises vs reality, Aging marriage expectations

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Claustrophobic Dry Deliberate Stylish Oppressive

Overview

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?

Themes

Friendship under strain, Memory and mortality, Aging and retirement, Romance and infidelity, Creative legacy under pressure, Art vs cinema

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Tense Bleak Clinical Relentless Intense

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Anna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of Anna Fritz. He and his friends decide to take pictures of the body of Anna Fritz. They decide they could make love to her and nobody would know. They are in front of Anna Fritz ... and can do with it what they want.

Themes

Body as spectacle, Desire and risk, Actress status and judgment, Corpse commodification, Hotel context and risk, Corpse necrophilia implications

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Tense Intimate Atmospheric Contemplative Vast

Overview

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Themes

Trust vs deception, Family bonds under strain, Survival under catastrophe, Time and memory, Duty and personal choice, Scientific uncertainty

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Whimsical Claustrophobic Atmospheric Dry Intense

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An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.

Themes

Absurdity of existence, Inhumanity among people, Surreal humor under duress, Slow tableau storytelling, Dreamlike fantasy

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Realistic Tense Intimate Claustrophobic Restrained

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A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.

Themes

Illness and dependence, Duty vs desire, Marital strain, Caregiving burden, Infidelity and trust, Caregiver autonomy

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