MOOD EXPLORATION

melancholy

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS FOR THIS FEELING

warmest matches first

Quiet Mourning
2012 · Anonymous Fixture

Breathless
1960 · Jean-Luc Godard

Seven Samurai
1954 · Akira Kurosawa

Macario
1960 · Roberto Gavaldon

Solaris
1972 · Andrei Tarkovsky

Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · Jacques Demy

Apocalypse Now
1979 · Francis Ford Coppola

Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick

Flowers of Shanghai

Flowers of Shanghai
1998 · Hou Hsiao-hsien

Shoah
1985 · Claude Lanzmann

L'Atalante
1934 · Jean Vigo

Let the Right One In

Let the Right One In
2008 · Tomas Alfredson

DIRECTORS FOR THIS FEELING

Andrew Haigh UK · Harrogate

Silence becomes language—letting unspoken longing accumulate into unbearable emotional weight.

Barry Levinson USA · Baltimore

Documentary-inflected portraits of ordinary Americans confronting their own limits and lost potential.

Jean Eustache France · Pessac

Excavates profound emotional truth from everyday refusals and the violence of ordinary life.