Contemplative Cinema Movies

A woman relives her last moments with her partner before having to say goodbye.

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...

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...

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

"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...

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

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

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 slow, dialogue-free film about a woman's journey in Siberia.

A boy traverses through thoughts of past, present, and future on a contemplative trip through the city.

When Benny's younger brother, Loren, suddenly reappears after being missing for months, the two are forced to reckon with the drastically different wa...

When her bionic boyfriend Ethan proposes, Jackie finally feels like she has found her happily ever after— until a chance encounter with another human...

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals in late '60s British society. Constructed as a mo...

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

An investigation about human intervention in nature, from the subjective point of view of the camera, the environment and its transformation are obser...

A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot.