Movies: Contemplative cinema

An isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by....

A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter....

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shu...

A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime....

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction....

A grieving young inventor finds solace in repairing an antique typewriter....

A humanoid robot deliverywoman muses on the mystery of human nature as she drops off parcels around the galaxy....

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A pleasant drive through a countryside is filled by melancholy as unpleasant memories surface....

"Protected by the mountains that surround the neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the city of Sabará, Brazil, a group of young people are having fun on their motorcycles on a dead-end viaduct known by the residents of the region as ramal ferroviário"....

A quiet killer is looking for a room. The real state agent, shy and expressionless, guides him through Tokyo, towards the ruins the decadent economy has left behind, in hopes of finding The Room....

Two lonely people cross paths while working in a coffee shop. Even with opposite personalities, they both want to move forward with the business which they use as a conduit to heal their wounds, even though they know nothing about coffee....

Days slip away in a former baptist church haunted by its past...

A filming exercise becomes a memory of young Nico's crush and fall for his classmate, Iris....

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a montage of various disconnected political acts (in line with Godard's then appropriation of Soviet dir...

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A young woman is obsessed by memories of her lover, who had vanished the previous summer....

Jack wants to know if Ollie “like likes” him. But Ollie is meditating. So, he asks a bird instead....

A meditation on memory around Iceland's famous Ring Road....

Indulging in frivolous passions and contemplating the essence of being, a young woman reflects her feelings that seem to be doomed and rejuvenating at the same time....