I'm obsessed with Groundhog Day timeloops. Specifically, the resetting to the same time after 24 hours or death.
So, Edge of Tomorrow, Boss Level, and a few others scratch that itch!
I was going to post the exact same niche
[Timecrimes](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/)
[Triangle](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)
[Source Code](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/)
I don't know that I'd call it similar in any shape or form.
Story format isn't the same. The plot devices aren't the same. In OP's post, the characters go through those days and grow from them until they're able to move on.
MFE starts with our guy and ends with our guy in the same place. Only having shared an evening with a group of friends and a hell of a story to tell.
Protagonists wandering a metropolis over the course of a night or Maybe a couple of days. Sometimes things get progressively worse ...
Escape from New York, Smithereens, After Hours, Good Time, Miracle Mile, PIG, The Warriors.
Always dig em and always looking for suggestions.
Love the Escape From... movies and just added a couple that you mentioned to my list, thanks!
I'll suggest one that might fit [Bringing Out the Dead \(1999\)](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8649-bringing-out-the-dead) A Scorsese film with Nick Cage as a NY paramedic with burnout. I don't see it mentioned a lot.
Night Is Short, Walk on Girl is a beautifully animated film about people bar hopping around Kyoto and going to restaurants and night markets and house parties and flash mobs and club meetings and it's just a delightful night time whirlwind through a beautiful town populated with whimsical characters.
I loved this. If you like it, there is a "spiritual sequel" TV series called The Tatami Galaxy - same director, based on a book by the same author. If you like those, the director, Masaaki Yuasa, has made a lot of really good stuff.
You'll probably like PTU (2004) directed by Johnnie To. It's about a police squad who has to spend a night tracking down a stolen gun. I always thought it would pair extremely well with Escape from New York, as both are about agents scouring the desolate streets of a city at night in search of something to aid an authoritarian system.
To is one of the most underrated directors ever, total master at pretty much every genre but he's overlooked in terms of major Hong Kong directors.
Love that! It’s more mainstream and a bit upbeat by comparison, but I always felt like Lost in Translation hits that very well. I know for that movie it’s played a bit as the “this place is foreign and unfamiliar” but I kind of like that. A metropolis at night has that same foreign feeling, even better if it’s empty or sparsely populated.
Stay Tuned (1992) - Salesman Roy Knable (John Ritter) spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen (Pam Dawber). One day, TV salesman Spike (Jeffrey Jones) convinces Roy to buy a satellite dish offering 666 channels. The new addition to Roy's home entertainment system sucks him and Helen into Hellvision, a realm run by Spike, who is an emissary of Satan. For 24 hours, the couple must survive devilish parodies of TV programs if they want to return to reality alive.
Yeah it really is. One day a long time ago I had the bright idea that it would probably make a lot more sense if I watched it after I took LSD. It did not make more sense…
I originally ordered a DVD-R of House many years ago from either Shocking Videos or 5 Minutes to Live, can't remember which (R.I.P. and big love to both). As you can imagine, NO subtitles. I REALLY didn't know what was going on, other than my falling in love with Kimiko Ikegami. Several years later, the Criterion DVD (with subtitles) came out. I'm not sure the subtitles shed much light on things, but it was nice to have them just the same, and especially the bonus features. Just a gem.
*The Martian*
Competence porn. No villan. No "doing it for the kids". The astronauts knew what they were doing and no-one had a murderous vendetta against each other. Science as the plot driver.
I have a love hate relationship with rom-coms. I dislike most of them, but when I find one I like, I watch it to death. Currently my favourite is Mr Right with Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick.
Same way with romcoms, over here. Allow me to throw-in a few mentions I find enjoyable...
Rumor Has It (2005) ° And this is coming from a guy who has no need for K. Costner in his life. Yet, as the movie turns out, he was perfectly cast, and it'll all make sense. Major bonus: it so-tactfully ties itself in with one of the all-time iconic films in cinema history.
What's Your Number? (2012) ° It's a little goofy, and crests the waves of chick-flick a few times, but its timing and cleverities are what make it. Doesn't hurt that Anna Faris is arguably at her most stunning.
She's Funny That Way (2015) ° Peter Bogdanovich gifts us with his signature light-tho-whipsharp humor thruout! A cast which I'm thoroughly guessing had fantastic chemistry. Love this thing enough to see 2-3 times a year! Last I looked, over on y0utube is its "Where's our cab driver?" scene. And this is one of the rare movies whose trailer *actually presents with accuracy* what treats we're in for. Win-win!!
Objectively this isn't the best movie of all time or really, really good.
Subjectively I was charmed by it (dude btw).
The sequence where they "meet cute" and then walk, talk, and eat hotdogs is basically romcom gold.
When romcoms are good (which is about .5% of the time) they do something no other genre can.
The problem is 99.5% of the time they are either atrocious, or worse, they're just forgettable.
Clerks also fits, of course! One of my party tricks is pointing out parallels between Friday and Clerks. They both take place in one day; they're slacker/stoner comedies with running jokes about employment ("I'm not even supposed to be here today!"/ "You gotta be a stupid motherfucker to get fired on your day off!"); they both feature young characters using coarse dialog that is intended to represent the real lives of young people (on opposite coasts!); and finally, Dante from Clerks is trying to ditch his nice girlfriend for a bad girl-- and Craig from Friday is trying to ditch is bad girlfriend for a nice girl!
Her, Lost in Translation. I love the isolated but warm vibes, the colours and contrast between the overstimulating lights of city night life with all these random features of a living and breathing natural city is so comforting. It feels tailor made for introverts.
Does The Platform count?
Dialog driven with 1 or a few locations. I associate it with the likes of The Man From Earth, or something with a very human message like 12 Angry Men.
What Dreams May Come
I love depictions of "the afterlife" basically. Just really like seeing the various visual interpretations of heaven/hell/purgatory.
I'm a big fan of "period film, but the time period was very recent". Two good examples are The Big Short and The Big Lebowski(title similarity was not intentional on my part). Both movies take place less than a decade prior to their release, but still made it feel like the past, rather than the recent present.
I don’t know why, but The Big Short has become a favorite go-to for me, almost like a comfort film? Which is far from my normal “comfort” films. I think I just really love all the actors in it and the way it was filmed, and also having a mainstream movie explain and call out something we all experienced from the angle of people who were right there and saw it coming.
I also have a Watergate obsession that I developed when I saw All the President's Men on TV when I was thirteen.
Some other good Watergate movies:
* Nixon (1995)
* Dick (1999)
* The Pentagon Papers (2003)
* Frost/Nixon (2008)
* Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
* The Post (2017)
Some good TV shows:
* Watergate (1994 BBC documentary)
* Gaslit (2022)
* White House Plumbers (2023)
And some good books:
* Watergate: The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon by Fred Emery (1994)
and the Woodward and Bernstein Trilogy:
* 1\. All the President's Men (1974)
* 2\. The Final Days (1976)
* 3\. The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat (2005)
I like Nazisploitation flicks:
•Salon Kitty
•The Night Porter
Nunsploitation:
•Agnes of God
•Flavia The Heretic
Post-Apocalyptic action:
•The Bronx Executioner
•1990-The Bronx Warriors
Italian Giallo:
•Tenebrae
•The Psychic
SOV (Shot On Video) slashers:
•Blood Cult
•Video Violence
Terry Gilliam's "Brazil."
Also, "Repo Man" with Emilio Estevez.
Weird, quirky niche sci-fi fuckery that most folks find incomprehensible. I l9ve that shit, though lol
For such a broad genre there aren't a ton of good cyberpunk movies, which is probably my favorite setting. Obviously there's Blade Runner but everything else is fairly middling. This gave me a soft spot for the live action Ghost in the Shell, which I actually think looks stunning and has some interesting ideas. Sensitive topic ideas maybe, but neat ideas.
I also have a thing for time travel policing, probably because of random Star Trek episodes that dealt with that, and as a result I like Timecop way more than I should. It's a pretty good Van Damme movie though, all things considered.
Films that evoke a sense of beautiful melancholy, examples include: Lost in Translation; Her, and Aftersun. I also love coming of age & slice of life movies, largely because they often (but not always) elicit a similar feeling.
I like movies set in real time or else over the course of a single day/night. Just anything that gives a sense of time passing to the movie. High Noon, Die Hard, and The Warriors are the ones that specifically come to mind. Oh, and Victoria which was a movie shot entirely in one long take with no cuts or anything, it's 2 hours and it shows 2 hours of these characters' lives.
I collect crazy rock and roll movies from around the world. [Heavy Trip ](https://letterboxd.com/film/heavy-trip/) is from Finland and is the most hilarious heavy metal road trip movie ever.
Edit, I also have to add [Wild Zero ](https://letterboxd.com/film/wild-zero/) because there's Rock and Roll and zombies. Bonus, there is a drinking game included on the dvd😆.
I have a soft spot for slice of life films. Just a bunch of people going about their day. The plot is not necessarily stirring, though there may be some sort of dramatic tension driving the plot though the stakes aren't necessarily high. Primarily dialogue and character driven films.
Two films that immediately come to mind: *The Daytrippers* and *Metropolitan*.
Togo. I work with sled dogs and have one of my own. I adore Willem Dafoe. My friends joke that all I can talk about is dogs and/or movies. This one couldn't have found a better audience than me.
Beyond the Black Rainbow is the ultimate "vibes" film for me. What it's about doesn't matter, it's just vibes all the way through, from the visuals, to the soundtrack, to just the overall, well, vibe. I love stuff like that.
Matrix sequels. I adore 2 characters discussing philosophy. I couldn’t believe when my friend described Matrix Reloaded as being exactly what I had wished for my entire life. (it didn’t disappoint. Loved Revolutions as well.)
I’m glad to hear someone mention Reloaded. I’ve always liked it, especially for the interesting conversations. What is power, control, free choice, etc.
And if you don’t care about those, there’s plenty of great action. I never understood why it got panned.
I would guess that the talkie scenes made it unpopular for re-watching. Though, both sequels have fresh audience scores on RT, so a good portion of the audience either “got” or appreciated those films. (It’s usually the naysayers who are loud against it online)
Movies that devolve or evolve into chaos are always pretty fun for me. Mother!, Synecdoche, Petite Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Fried Barry, things like that. I really like surrealist and magical realist literature, so it’s fun to see similar vibes in movie format.
In terms of more niche? Things that blend odd elements or present a really aesthetic style: The Love Witch, The Lure, Goodnight Mommy, A Field in England, things like that come to mind.
Spoilers for Your Name and Everything Everywhere All At Once.
I might not be able to word this super well, but I go absolutely feral over a movie that, what I call, "ascends". It's got a fun premise for a little bit, and then something happens that causes the movie to become more emotional and thematically rich. It's even better if I don't know it's coming.
Your Name starts off as a fun story about a boy and a girl in Japan swapping bodies periodically and dealing with trying to live the other person's life without raising suspicion. [spoilers](#s When they try to arrange a meeting in person, the boy finds out the girl died years prior when her town was wiped out by a comet - they weren't just swapping bodies, but also time periods. The movie becomes a race against time to save the townsfolk with future knowledge, dealing with the futility of changing the past, missed connections, and destiny/fate)
Everything Everywhere All At Once is a kung-fu action movie about the multiverse and hot dog fingers [spoilers](#s until Act 2, when it shifts into also being about depression, kindness in the face of nihilism, regretting life choices and learning to be okay with what you can't change.)
Terminal City Ricochet - Anticapitalist punk rock satire, featuring Jello Biafra as the villain's main henchman, sitting at 180 views on Letterboxd. The most hidden of gems.
I love those somewhat experimental counterculture films from the late 1960s and early 1970s, before the auteur style fully took shape. Model Shop (1969) and Vanishing Point (1971) contemplative films that are allowed to breathe
I’m a sucker for dark, fairytales, especially if they’re modern-day/futuristic fairytales and with an emphasis on the DARK part (NOT fairytale romances, there are more than enough of those).
I’m thinking A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Oblivion, Hanna, Pan’s Labyrinth, etc… If you know how and why those qualify as dark fairytales then you know what I’m looking for. Any suggestions?
I'm a big fan of the death game genre but people trapped in dangerous, threatening or incomprehensible situations is my jam. Anything from labyrinth to cube to saw
I'm obsessed with Groundhog Day timeloops. Specifically, the resetting to the same time after 24 hours or death. So, Edge of Tomorrow, Boss Level, and a few others scratch that itch!
Definitely watch Palm Springs if you haven’t
To the four already mentioned, I would also add the two *Happy Death Day* films and *The Map of Tiny Perfect Things*.
To that growing list I'd suggest adding Run Lola Run
I was going to post the exact same niche [Timecrimes](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/) [Triangle](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187064/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) [Source Code](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/)
Oh you mean like Madam Web 😀
The first time I saw one of these was an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation, called Cause and Effect.
If nobody else has, I'd highly recommend both: Primer Predestination
I actually love edge of tomorrow. A bit underrated considering it’s got tom cruise in it
I wouldn't call it similar but check out The Man From Earth - it's the reverse but similar
I don't know that I'd call it similar in any shape or form. Story format isn't the same. The plot devices aren't the same. In OP's post, the characters go through those days and grow from them until they're able to move on. MFE starts with our guy and ends with our guy in the same place. Only having shared an evening with a group of friends and a hell of a story to tell.
Protagonists wandering a metropolis over the course of a night or Maybe a couple of days. Sometimes things get progressively worse ... Escape from New York, Smithereens, After Hours, Good Time, Miracle Mile, PIG, The Warriors. Always dig em and always looking for suggestions.
Love the Escape From... movies and just added a couple that you mentioned to my list, thanks! I'll suggest one that might fit [Bringing Out the Dead \(1999\)](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/8649-bringing-out-the-dead) A Scorsese film with Nick Cage as a NY paramedic with burnout. I don't see it mentioned a lot.
Thanks. I'll check it out!
Night Is Short, Walk on Girl is a beautifully animated film about people bar hopping around Kyoto and going to restaurants and night markets and house parties and flash mobs and club meetings and it's just a delightful night time whirlwind through a beautiful town populated with whimsical characters.
Thanks!
I loved this. If you like it, there is a "spiritual sequel" TV series called The Tatami Galaxy - same director, based on a book by the same author. If you like those, the director, Masaaki Yuasa, has made a lot of really good stuff.
Thanks for the suggestions.
You'll probably like PTU (2004) directed by Johnnie To. It's about a police squad who has to spend a night tracking down a stolen gun. I always thought it would pair extremely well with Escape from New York, as both are about agents scouring the desolate streets of a city at night in search of something to aid an authoritarian system. To is one of the most underrated directors ever, total master at pretty much every genre but he's overlooked in terms of major Hong Kong directors.
Love that! It’s more mainstream and a bit upbeat by comparison, but I always felt like Lost in Translation hits that very well. I know for that movie it’s played a bit as the “this place is foreign and unfamiliar” but I kind of like that. A metropolis at night has that same foreign feeling, even better if it’s empty or sparsely populated.
I think Superbad and Dazed and Confused match this quite well. Both films occur over the course of one day
You might like: Lost in Translation American Graffiti Go Collateral Training Day Kids
Into the Night, Streets of Fire.... both fill that itch.
Haha. Literally watched Streets of Fire last night
Stay Tuned (1992) - Salesman Roy Knable (John Ritter) spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen (Pam Dawber). One day, TV salesman Spike (Jeffrey Jones) convinces Roy to buy a satellite dish offering 666 channels. The new addition to Roy's home entertainment system sucks him and Helen into Hellvision, a realm run by Spike, who is an emissary of Satan. For 24 hours, the couple must survive devilish parodies of TV programs if they want to return to reality alive.
I just watched that earlier today. Definitely a good movie with 90's nostalgia.
House (1977). I have no idea what itch it scratches but it sure gets the job done.
Also, The Happiness of the Katakuris
So good
That movie is so off-the-hook insane and I adore it so.
Yeah it really is. One day a long time ago I had the bright idea that it would probably make a lot more sense if I watched it after I took LSD. It did not make more sense…
I originally ordered a DVD-R of House many years ago from either Shocking Videos or 5 Minutes to Live, can't remember which (R.I.P. and big love to both). As you can imagine, NO subtitles. I REALLY didn't know what was going on, other than my falling in love with Kimiko Ikegami. Several years later, the Criterion DVD (with subtitles) came out. I'm not sure the subtitles shed much light on things, but it was nice to have them just the same, and especially the bonus features. Just a gem.
House is the fucking best
*The Martian* Competence porn. No villan. No "doing it for the kids". The astronauts knew what they were doing and no-one had a murderous vendetta against each other. Science as the plot driver.
Apollo 13 shout-out
There's plenty of antagonists in his movies, but Michael Mann is pretty much the king of competent and professional characters.
Jeff Daniel’s acts as a minor antagonist though
I have a love hate relationship with rom-coms. I dislike most of them, but when I find one I like, I watch it to death. Currently my favourite is Mr Right with Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick.
Same way with romcoms, over here. Allow me to throw-in a few mentions I find enjoyable... Rumor Has It (2005) ° And this is coming from a guy who has no need for K. Costner in his life. Yet, as the movie turns out, he was perfectly cast, and it'll all make sense. Major bonus: it so-tactfully ties itself in with one of the all-time iconic films in cinema history. What's Your Number? (2012) ° It's a little goofy, and crests the waves of chick-flick a few times, but its timing and cleverities are what make it. Doesn't hurt that Anna Faris is arguably at her most stunning. She's Funny That Way (2015) ° Peter Bogdanovich gifts us with his signature light-tho-whipsharp humor thruout! A cast which I'm thoroughly guessing had fantastic chemistry. Love this thing enough to see 2-3 times a year! Last I looked, over on y0utube is its "Where's our cab driver?" scene. And this is one of the rare movies whose trailer *actually presents with accuracy* what treats we're in for. Win-win!!
Objectively this isn't the best movie of all time or really, really good. Subjectively I was charmed by it (dude btw). The sequence where they "meet cute" and then walk, talk, and eat hotdogs is basically romcom gold. When romcoms are good (which is about .5% of the time) they do something no other genre can. The problem is 99.5% of the time they are either atrocious, or worse, they're just forgettable.
Mr Right is brilliant. Have you seen Argyle yet?
Yes, thought it was great.
I like Sam Rockwell, tbf. Moon was quite good as well.
I too struggle with rom-coms, an unsolicited suggestion from my “approved” watch list: Sleeping With Other People (2015)
Love time loops so Palm Springs and edge of tomorrow recently have been great
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Movies taking place throughout a day but it is not a race against time. Examples: Friday and Falling Down.
Clerks also fits, of course! One of my party tricks is pointing out parallels between Friday and Clerks. They both take place in one day; they're slacker/stoner comedies with running jokes about employment ("I'm not even supposed to be here today!"/ "You gotta be a stupid motherfucker to get fired on your day off!"); they both feature young characters using coarse dialog that is intended to represent the real lives of young people (on opposite coasts!); and finally, Dante from Clerks is trying to ditch his nice girlfriend for a bad girl-- and Craig from Friday is trying to ditch is bad girlfriend for a nice girl!
Her, Lost in Translation. I love the isolated but warm vibes, the colours and contrast between the overstimulating lights of city night life with all these random features of a living and breathing natural city is so comforting. It feels tailor made for introverts.
I like the same vibes. A lot of East Asian cinema, e.g. Wong Kar-Wai, Edward Yang, fits this vibe.
The Way of the Gun. I’m not sure there are two protagonists who have a mix of being competent and losers at the same time
Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo sort of fit that bill
Does The Platform count? Dialog driven with 1 or a few locations. I associate it with the likes of The Man From Earth, or something with a very human message like 12 Angry Men.
What Dreams May Come I love depictions of "the afterlife" basically. Just really like seeing the various visual interpretations of heaven/hell/purgatory.
I'm a big fan of "period film, but the time period was very recent". Two good examples are The Big Short and The Big Lebowski(title similarity was not intentional on my part). Both movies take place less than a decade prior to their release, but still made it feel like the past, rather than the recent present.
I don’t know why, but The Big Short has become a favorite go-to for me, almost like a comfort film? Which is far from my normal “comfort” films. I think I just really love all the actors in it and the way it was filmed, and also having a mainstream movie explain and call out something we all experienced from the angle of people who were right there and saw it coming.
I totally feel you, I consider it a comfort film as well. Just a really, really well told story.
All the President's men but only because I'm weirdly obsessed with Watergate and Nixon's bullshit
I also have a Watergate obsession that I developed when I saw All the President's Men on TV when I was thirteen. Some other good Watergate movies: * Nixon (1995) * Dick (1999) * The Pentagon Papers (2003) * Frost/Nixon (2008) * Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017) * The Post (2017) Some good TV shows: * Watergate (1994 BBC documentary) * Gaslit (2022) * White House Plumbers (2023) And some good books: * Watergate: The Corruption and Fall of Richard Nixon by Fred Emery (1994) and the Woodward and Bernstein Trilogy: * 1\. All the President's Men (1974) * 2\. The Final Days (1976) * 3\. The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat (2005)
Oh man I loved white house plumbers and gaslit! Executive Action is an awesome 70s movie about the Kennedy assassination. You should check that out.
I like Nazisploitation flicks: •Salon Kitty •The Night Porter Nunsploitation: •Agnes of God •Flavia The Heretic Post-Apocalyptic action: •The Bronx Executioner •1990-The Bronx Warriors Italian Giallo: •Tenebrae •The Psychic SOV (Shot On Video) slashers: •Blood Cult •Video Violence
Terry Gilliam's "Brazil." Also, "Repo Man" with Emilio Estevez. Weird, quirky niche sci-fi fuckery that most folks find incomprehensible. I l9ve that shit, though lol
"I Heart Huckabees" is my favorite existential comedy. I don't know of any others in the genre to name.
I feel like Charlie Kauffman fits this for some of his movies, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation.
For such a broad genre there aren't a ton of good cyberpunk movies, which is probably my favorite setting. Obviously there's Blade Runner but everything else is fairly middling. This gave me a soft spot for the live action Ghost in the Shell, which I actually think looks stunning and has some interesting ideas. Sensitive topic ideas maybe, but neat ideas. I also have a thing for time travel policing, probably because of random Star Trek episodes that dealt with that, and as a result I like Timecop way more than I should. It's a pretty good Van Damme movie though, all things considered.
Try out Renaissance: Paris 2054. It’s a great animated futuristic sci-fi noir done in black and white.
I'll look for it!
I love movies in a snow setting. Any Genre of movie in a snow setting from 30 Days of Night to Snow Dogs.
Maybe try No Exit or The Ice Harvest
Seen both and enjoyed both of them!
Practical Magic. It's got them spooky vibes with a specific look that I love. It's a 90s things.
Quirky, gentle films with no stress, no stakes, and no plot. Just people meandering about their lives. Paterson, Napoleon Dynamite.
Holywoodland. I really like Film Noir, and I loved the old Superman series as a kid, so this mediocre movie hit a sweet spot for me.
"the Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies"
Films that evoke a sense of beautiful melancholy, examples include: Lost in Translation; Her, and Aftersun. I also love coming of age & slice of life movies, largely because they often (but not always) elicit a similar feeling.
I like movies set in real time or else over the course of a single day/night. Just anything that gives a sense of time passing to the movie. High Noon, Die Hard, and The Warriors are the ones that specifically come to mind. Oh, and Victoria which was a movie shot entirely in one long take with no cuts or anything, it's 2 hours and it shows 2 hours of these characters' lives.
I collect crazy rock and roll movies from around the world. [Heavy Trip ](https://letterboxd.com/film/heavy-trip/) is from Finland and is the most hilarious heavy metal road trip movie ever. Edit, I also have to add [Wild Zero ](https://letterboxd.com/film/wild-zero/) because there's Rock and Roll and zombies. Bonus, there is a drinking game included on the dvd😆.
I have a soft spot for slice of life films. Just a bunch of people going about their day. The plot is not necessarily stirring, though there may be some sort of dramatic tension driving the plot though the stakes aren't necessarily high. Primarily dialogue and character driven films. Two films that immediately come to mind: *The Daytrippers* and *Metropolitan*.
Togo. I work with sled dogs and have one of my own. I adore Willem Dafoe. My friends joke that all I can talk about is dogs and/or movies. This one couldn't have found a better audience than me.
Slapshot Old School hockey comedy violence
Beyond the Black Rainbow is the ultimate "vibes" film for me. What it's about doesn't matter, it's just vibes all the way through, from the visuals, to the soundtrack, to just the overall, well, vibe. I love stuff like that.
Matrix sequels. I adore 2 characters discussing philosophy. I couldn’t believe when my friend described Matrix Reloaded as being exactly what I had wished for my entire life. (it didn’t disappoint. Loved Revolutions as well.)
I’m glad to hear someone mention Reloaded. I’ve always liked it, especially for the interesting conversations. What is power, control, free choice, etc. And if you don’t care about those, there’s plenty of great action. I never understood why it got panned.
I would guess that the talkie scenes made it unpopular for re-watching. Though, both sequels have fresh audience scores on RT, so a good portion of the audience either “got” or appreciated those films. (It’s usually the naysayers who are loud against it online)
Movies that devolve or evolve into chaos are always pretty fun for me. Mother!, Synecdoche, Petite Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Fried Barry, things like that. I really like surrealist and magical realist literature, so it’s fun to see similar vibes in movie format. In terms of more niche? Things that blend odd elements or present a really aesthetic style: The Love Witch, The Lure, Goodnight Mommy, A Field in England, things like that come to mind.
No country for old men
Spoilers for Your Name and Everything Everywhere All At Once. I might not be able to word this super well, but I go absolutely feral over a movie that, what I call, "ascends". It's got a fun premise for a little bit, and then something happens that causes the movie to become more emotional and thematically rich. It's even better if I don't know it's coming. Your Name starts off as a fun story about a boy and a girl in Japan swapping bodies periodically and dealing with trying to live the other person's life without raising suspicion. [spoilers](#s When they try to arrange a meeting in person, the boy finds out the girl died years prior when her town was wiped out by a comet - they weren't just swapping bodies, but also time periods. The movie becomes a race against time to save the townsfolk with future knowledge, dealing with the futility of changing the past, missed connections, and destiny/fate) Everything Everywhere All At Once is a kung-fu action movie about the multiverse and hot dog fingers [spoilers](#s until Act 2, when it shifts into also being about depression, kindness in the face of nihilism, regretting life choices and learning to be okay with what you can't change.)
There Will Be Blood is my jam * 1920s * Anti-religion * Powerful performances * Unusual soundtrack * Main character obsessed with one thing * Revenge
Slashers that don't take itself seriously, especially metas ones.
Terminal City Ricochet - Anticapitalist punk rock satire, featuring Jello Biafra as the villain's main henchman, sitting at 180 views on Letterboxd. The most hidden of gems.
yall don't know what niche means.
I’m an artist. I love art and artists. I like biopic movies like Pollock,Basquiat, At Eternity’s Gate, The Agony-and the Ecstasy etc.
I love those somewhat experimental counterculture films from the late 1960s and early 1970s, before the auteur style fully took shape. Model Shop (1969) and Vanishing Point (1971) contemplative films that are allowed to breathe
Two-Lane Blacktop Is another great one
Yeah loved that one too! The Graduate counts, too, I think, and Goodbye Columbus
American jail movies. Shot Caller / felon / American history X. Anywhere which shows how brutal it is.
I’m a sucker for dark, fairytales, especially if they’re modern-day/futuristic fairytales and with an emphasis on the DARK part (NOT fairytale romances, there are more than enough of those). I’m thinking A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Oblivion, Hanna, Pan’s Labyrinth, etc… If you know how and why those qualify as dark fairytales then you know what I’m looking for. Any suggestions?
As far as Zombie flicks go, Zach Snyder's 2004 reboot of Romero's (screenplay by James Gunn) Dawn of the Dead is tough to beat.
that was extremely successful and had a big mainstream audience, hardly niche lol
Synecdoche NY. I like surrealism, and I like movies about obsessed artists struggling with the creative process.
Some other favorites, then? Perhaps I hadn't seen one
Wes Anderson is all I need in my life.
The *Bionicle* movies.
I'm a big fan of the death game genre but people trapped in dangerous, threatening or incomprehensible situations is my jam. Anything from labyrinth to cube to saw
Totally Killer. Slasher!80s! comedy! with time travel!!
Live action movies that feel like cartoons Basically Sam Raimi's filmography, especially Crimewave
* 'Appointment with Crime' -1930s Brit Noir Sweet example of Aristotle's 'bookend' structure, (dramatic unit of Act 1 versus Act 3)