More films like this?


If I were to give you this list, what would you add to it?
I'm looking for anything with this same feeling.
Quiet, personal films with good cinematography.

Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Paper Moon (1973)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Harry and Tonto (1974)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Black Stallion (1979)
Breaking Away (1979)
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Threshold (1981)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Silkwood (1983)
Tender Mercies (1983)
Testament (1983)
Country (1984)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Places in the Heart (1984)
The Stone Boy (1984)
Vigil (1984)
The Quiet Earth (1985)
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Ironweed (1987)
Matewan (1987)
High Tide (1987)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Signs of Life (1989)
An Unremarkable Life (1989)
The Long Walk Home (1990)
Rising Son (1990)
The Inner Circle (1991)
Passion Fish (1992)
On My Own (1993)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
The Secret Garden (1993)
A Place for Annie (1994)
Imaginary Crimes (1994)
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Dead Man (1995)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Margaret's Museum (1995)
A Family Thing (1996)
Fly Away Home (1996)
Eve's Bayou (1997)
New Waterford Girl (1999)
The Straight Story (1999)
Wit (2001)
In America (2003)
Off the Map (2003)
The Snow Walker (2003)
Old Joy (2006)
The Necessities of Life (2008)
Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Winter's Bone (2010)

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Almost any film by Yasujiro Ozu, but particularly 'Tokyo Story', which is a clear model for Harry and Tonto.

From Tarkovski: Nostalghia. More recently, most films by Abbas Kiarostami (Iran), Paul Cox (Australia) and Jan Hrebejk (Czech Rep.), esp 'Beauty in Trouble, which has all of the above qualities plus real eros. To say nothing of Bergman (Wild Strawberries).

Many filmmakers aim at the combination of personal+low key+carefully framed, but it is easy to overcook. Then I lose a little more interest in cinema. But I find these ones particularly satisfying.

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These human, personal films do not all have outstanding cinematography--though several do--but here are a few suggestions:

Goin'Down the Road (1970)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Outrageous (1977)
High Hopes (1988)
Mississippi Masala (1991)
Before Sunrise (1995)
Monsoon Wedding (2001)
A Touch of Spice (2003)
Please Give (2010)

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three seasons
powder blue
the yellow handkerchief
saint jack (though there are 1 or 2 a bit brutal scenes in it)
les petite fugues
the theory of flight
the priest

and i would add the brown bunny, though many people don´t like it; and "the neon bible", a very serious, sad film.


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Up?

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"up?" : i don´t understand. (english ain´t my language, maybe that´s the reason).
can you explain it, please?

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Jersey_Mike may be referring to the film "Up" made in 2009. I haven't seen it, but it was popular.

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uuuh - thank you. i didn´t know that film.

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Afterlife (1999)
Elling (2001)
Kitchen Stories (2004)

I absolutely adore Afterlife. It has the same sentimental quietness. It's a beautiful story too.

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"elling" came to my mind, too; and "mozart and the whale" (same director, about asperger; as sensitive and solidary and diverting (and wonderful!) as "elling".

but then i thought that it would not fit to the list, because it´s much more funny than harry and tonto.

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Nobody's Fool, Get Low, That Evening Sun...

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Umberto D comes to mind for me. By the way Harry and Tonto is a wonderful film and Carney is brilliant!

Chinatown is the greatest film of all time.

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"Umberto D.", definitely. And although "Wendy & Lucy" is not in the same league as these two, there's a great performance by Michelle Williams.

"Live on, love all, and let live" - River Phoenix.

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Kes
Kotch
3 Women
Local Hero
The Station Agent
A Trip to Bountiful
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

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Hud
Sounder
Casey's Shadow
Norma Rae
Murphy's Romance
Stanley & Iris
The River
Raggedy Man
Coal Minor's Daughter
Inside Moves
In Country
The Rain People
Gardens Of Stone
Kramer Vs. Kramer
Nobody's Fool
Absence Of Malice
Crossroads (1986)
Badlands
The Sugarland Express
CrissCross
Second Best
Children Of A Lesser God
The Miracle Worker
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Graduate
Harold & Maude
Being There
Bound For Glory
The Last Detail
Smile
The Man In The Moon
Fired Green Tomatoes
The War
Field Of Dreams
How To Make An American Quilt
This Boy's Life
Blue Sky
Sling Blade
The Apostle
Get Low
Crazy Heart
Once
Marty
Two Lovers
Rocky
Forrest Gump
Heart's In Atlantis
Night And The City (1992)
A Bronx Tale
Rain Man
Evening
Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Horse Whisperer
A River Runs Through It
The Great Debaters
Snow Falling On Cedars
The Visitor (2007)
The Ice Storm
Beautiful Girls
Witness
Regarding Henry
Awakenings
Stealing Home
Little Man Tate
Broken Flowers
Chungking Express

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My Twentieth Century - 1989. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096863/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

It's Hungarian with English subtitles, but it is very much based in it's cinematography, and is mood and feeling driven. I have it on VHS, and that's the only format I've ever seen it in.



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Tree of Life
Thin Red Line

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