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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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Pretty Woman, definitely. And anything with Ron Jeremy in it. And the first Hoobastank album.

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This five year old comment made me lol like the dickens

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I would add:

The Sterile Cuckoo (1969)

Foxes (1980)

Darling (1965)

The Ceremony (1963)

Don't Look Now (1973)

Ethan Frome (1993)

Interiors (1978)

The Reader (2008)

Washington Square (1997)

Two For The Road (1967)

Glengary Glen Ross (1992)

Splendor In The Grass (1961)

The Misfits (1961)













"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than..a rude remark or a vulgar action" Blanche DuBois

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Correction:

Not 'The Ceremony', but 'Secret Ceremony' (1968)

"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than..a rude remark or a vulgar action" Blanche DuBois

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that is some list. what I find hard to believe is you didn't list :

The Lost Weekend
Days of Wine and Roses
Leaving Las Vegas

and if your selection of Tender Mercies is added you might as well add
Crazy Heart from last year.

just watched Ironweed over last two hours. it never fails to make me cry.
cheers, Kevin

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King of the Hill (1993)

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A must "love song for bobby long" john travolta, scarlet johanson, gabriel macht. Damn good movie.

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Scarecrow
Midnight Cowboy

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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Apartment Zero
Love And Pain And The Whole Damn Thing
The Nights Of Cabiria
Julia (Fred Zinnemman)
Day For Night
Shoot The Moon

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Under the Volcano (1984)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

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