Contemplative Cinema Movies

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...

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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...

A field laborer fights to survive in a hostile environment. The appearance of a strange presence and a revolver will change his destiny.

Contemplative and almost without dialogues, the film shows the routine of inhabitants in a city: a young woman who lives alone; an eldery that lives...

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

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

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

One day, a man films himself killing his dog with his bare hands and posts the video on the Internet. One night, Ethan watches the video and sets...

We all have dreams and most of people give up before achieving them. Le rêve is about mistakes don't matter. The important thing is to get up...

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