What are some slow paced and minimal plot movies?
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Upstream Color might fit this bill.
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Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man.
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Withnail and I is a good one.
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Werckmeister Harmonies (while it has a plot, it comes at you slowly)
Hard to be a God (2013) (the most minimal of plots in a sense)
The Greasy Strangler (closest movie on the list to Napoleon Dynamite in feel)
The Lighthouse (2019)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Stalker
Waterworld? At least that's the impression I got as a kid.
My list is kinda a specific interpretation of 'slow and with minimal plot.'
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- Anatomy of Hell
- Eden and After
- Je Tu Il Elle
- Liberté
And practically every movie by Jean Rollin.
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The Banshees of Inisherin
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For pace, it's basically directly correlated with the movie's age.
I have no idea how today's young screen-addled audiences would even begin to approach the idea of watching basically any movie from the 1970s, let alone the 40s.
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The Brutalist is slow as hell, nothing really happens you would care about, it goes on for fucking ever and then it skips ahead 30 odd years and ends. 100% not recommended.
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]Brian and Charles.
The vibes are similar to Napoleon Dynamite, but the setting is rural Britain instead.
Heartfelt, kooky, a little bit bleak but ultimately feel-good.
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The Zone of Interest. Slice of life about a Nazi commandant. No real plot, not much really "happens" but I was absolutely riveted. Beautiful sound design too.
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The Thin Red Line
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It's been a long time since I watched it but I found Bladerunner very slow paced.
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Clerks (but just the first one)
I don't know if I would call Clerks a slow-paced movie, like the plot barely advances at all throughout the entire movie, and I get that, but the movie is not really about the plot, it's about a series of seemingly unconnected events that happen in an average, nondescript location in New Jersey, and getting to people watch as the weirdness erupts around the one seemingly normal person in the entire film.
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Seriously, give this movie a shot.
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The Thin Red Line
This is part of my top 3 war movies. I’ve heard it criticized as “artsy,” but it is and it’s great.
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I don't know if I would call Clerks a slow-paced movie, like the plot barely advances at all throughout the entire movie, and I get that, but the movie is not really about the plot, it's about a series of seemingly unconnected events that happen in an average, nondescript location in New Jersey, and getting to people watch as the weirdness erupts around the one seemingly normal person in the entire film.
I used to love Clerks when I was a teenager, but after rewatching it as an adult (along with a few other Kevin Smith movies), I feel like I outgrew it. It’s edgy and the characters have good chemistry and was shot well, but end of the day, kinda just juvenile and the dialog pretentious. I get why it was criticized as such.
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Naqoyqatsi was the first thing that popped into my head from the prompt, though I'm not sure if these would be classified as "movies" by some audiences. Cheers.
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i wouldn't know. when i watch movies, i watchitfortheplot.
