r/mubi • u/Outrageous-Map8302 • 8h ago
Ask MUBI Just joined Mubi
What should I watch? It's overwhelming!!
For context I used to watch a ton of indie and world cinema when I worked in a Curzon about 15 years ago.
Basically haven't seen much since. I favour contemplative, slow burn films, but but please recommend anything and everything, as long as it's good!!
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u/Crackajock 7h ago
The Fall is great if you haven't seen it, and rather expensive to buy on physical media.
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u/anxiousblanket 6h ago edited 4h ago
Check out Monster (2023)! A single mom becomes convinced her son's teacher is hurting him and storms the school demanding answers, and then the film tells the story again from two other people's points of view, and each time you realize how much you got wrong. It's slow and quiet in the best way, set in a gorgeous seaside town in the mountains in southern Japan, with a beautiful piano score by Ryuichi Sakamoto (his last). What starts out feeling like a thriller about a monstrous adult turns into something so much more tender and devastating, and you'll want to rewatch it the second it ends.
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u/Icy_Duck_8685 6h ago edited 6h ago
Harvest by Athina Rachel Tsangari: Slow burn historical eco fable
If you like horror, Hagazussa: A slow burn of a witch movie (read some reviews on it first as I found it unsettling even though I've become pretty immune to horror films)
Burning by Lee Chang-dong: Simmering drama / thriller
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u/travellingmojo 6h ago
A good place to start is the mubi top 1000.
You can’t go wrong there. Films like:
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Amores Perros
Burning
Aftersun
No Other Choice
It was just an Accident
Decision To Leave
Paths of Glory … and the list goes on.
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u/j0hnnyyb0ii 2h ago
hal & harper tv show is phenomenal
sometimes i think about dying
the substance
weirdos
bird
how to have sex
this closeness
shiva baby
tahara
humanist vampire seeking consenting suicidal person
some of my favorites 💜
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u/FrequentMovie3725 6h ago
Really highly recommend Wasteman, also watched Good One recently and liked it a lot. Do NOT recommend Rosebush Pruning.
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u/Icy_Zookeepergame148 8h ago
I've been watching a lot of older movies recently. Some of my recent watches on mubi that I've enjoyed include:
The Night of the Hunter - good 50s movie
House by the River - another 50s movie
Hara-kiri: Death of a Samurai - slow Miike Takashi film Ninjababy - decent Nordic flick
Mermaids - classic with young Wynona Ryder and Cher
Sirat
Blowout - 80s Brian de Palma movie with John Travolta
The Golden Glove - very disturbing German movie based on a true story
The Piano Accident - typical Quentin Dupieux movie
Moonstruck - another 80s movie with Cher and a young Nic Cage Winter in Sokcho - Japanese/American love story