FILMS THAT LINGERED:

​Films that lingered due to any of the following 4 categories:
H: Human resonance
I: Insight
T: Texture
C: Conceptualisation

Last added: The seed of the sacred fig I (Cinema)
(see Other films worth considering below List section: The boy who harnessed the wind) (Netflix)
(see Documentaries page: John Singer Sargent: Fashion and Swagger) (Kanopy)

Recently added:

All we imagine as light H (Cinema)
Lee (Cinema)
Documentaries page: Medicine Man: The Stan Brock story (Kanopy)



List:
​A beautiful mind (Ron Howard) 2001 H I
A quiet passion (Terence Davies) 2016 H I
A Separation (Ashgar Farhadi) 2011 H I
A time for drunken horses (Bahman Ghobadi) 2000 I
A time to live and a time to die (Hsiao-Hsien Hou) 1985 H
Aligarh (Hansal Mehta) 2015 I
All of us strangers (Andrew Haigh) 2023 H
All we imagine as light (Payal Kapadia) 2024 H
American Beauty (Sam Mendes) 1999 H I T
Amores perros (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu) 2000 H I
At Eternity's Gate (Julian Schnabel) 2018 H I T
Autumn (Aamir Bashir) 2010 H I
Baaria (Giuseppe Tornatore) 2009 H I
Balangiga (Khavn) 2017 I
Bandit Queen (Shekhar Kapur) 1994 H I
Barely Fields on the Other Side of the Mountain (Tian Tsering) 2017 H I
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov) 2019 H I T
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin) 2012 T
Bekas (Karzan Kader) 2012 T
​Belfast (Kenneth Branagh) 2021 H I
​Beyond the hills (Christian Mungiu) 2012 I
Birdwatchers (Marco Bechis) 2008 I
Black dog (Guan Hu) 2024 I
Bombshell (Jay Roach) 2019 I
Bread and Tulpis (Silvio Soldini) 2000 H
Breaker Morant (Bruce Beresford) 1980 H I
Burnt by the sun (Nikita Mikhalkov) 1994 H I T C
Calvary (John Michael McDonagh) 2014 H
Capernaum (Nadine Labaki) 2018 HI
Character (Mike van Diem) 1997 H
Child's Pose (Calvin Peter Netzer) 2013 H I
Circles (Srdan Golubovic) 2013 I
City of god (Fernando Meirelles / Katia Lund) 2002 H I
Civil War (Alex Garland) 2024 T
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) 2018 H I
Control (Anton Corbijn) 2007 I
​Corn Island (George Ovashvili) 2014 H C
Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch) 1995 T
Departures (Yojiro Takita) 2008 H I T
Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa) 1975 H I
Desert flower (Sherry Hormann) 2009 I
Dust in the wind (Hsiao-Hsien Hou) 1986 H I
Even the rain (Iciar Bollian) 2010 H I
Farewell my concubine (Kaige Chen) 1993 I T
Farewell, My Queen (Benoit Jacquot) 2012 I
Final portrait (Stanley Tucci) 2011 H I C
Footnote (Joseph Cedar) 2011 H C
​Francis Ha (Noah Baumbach) 2012 T
Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) 2013 I
Galipoli (Peter Weir) 1981 H I C
Germinal (Claude Berri) 1993 H I
Godland (Hylnur Palmason) 2022 I T
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) 2013 H I
Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino) 2008 I T
​I'm not there (Todd Haynes) 2007 I
In Bloom (Nana Ekvtimishvili / Simon Gross) 2013 I
In the mood for love (Kar Wai Wong) 2000 H T
In this world (Michael Winterbottom) 2002 H I
Inception (Christopher Nolan) 2010 C T
​Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante) 2015 I
Judas and the Black Messiah (Shaka King) 2021 H
Juno (Jason Reitman) 2007 H I
Kandahar (Mohsen Makhmalbaf) 2001 I
​Kill your darlings (John Krokidas) 2013 I
Kneecap (Rich Peppiatt) 2024 I
Land of mine (Martin Zandvliet) 2015 H
Lars and the real girl (Craig Gillespie) 2007 H
Life, above all (Oliver Schmitz) 2010 I
Little miss sunshine (Jonathan Dayton / Valerie Faris) 2006 H
Los lobos (Samuel Kishi) 2019 I
Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev) 2017 I
​Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela / Hugh Welchman) 2017 T
Lucky (John Carroll Lynch) 2017 H
Malcolm X (Spike Lee) 1992 H I
​Maudie (Aisling Walsh) 2016 H
Minari (Lee Isaac Chung) 2020 H
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) 2016 I
Napoleon Dynamite (Jared Hess) 2004 H
Neruda (Pablo Larrain) 2016 I C
Nomadland (Chloe Zhao) 2020 H I
No one knows about the Persian cats (Bahman Ghobadi) 2009 I
Once were warriors (Lee Tamahori) 1994 H I
One flew over the Cukoo's nest (Milos Forman) 1975 H I
One life (James Hawes) 2023 H
Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) 2023 I
Our little sister (Hirokazu Koreeda) 2015 T
Past lives (Celine Song) 2023 H
Pather Panchali (Sanyajit Ray) 1955 I
Perfect days (Wim Wenders) 2023 H
Picnic at hanging rock (Peter Weir) 1975 T
Pili (Leanne Welham) 2017 I
Predestination (Michael and Peter Spierig) 2014 C
Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Zbanic) 2020 I
Raise the red lantern (Yimou Zhang) 1991 H I T
Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov) 2002 T
Samson and Delilah (Warwick Thornton) 2009 H I
Shayda (Noora Niasari) 2023 H I
Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda) 2018 H
Short Term 12 (Destin Daniel Cretton) 2013 I
​Siddharth (Richie Mehta) 2014 H I
Sideways (Alexander Payne) 2004 H
Sin Norte (Fernando Lavanderos Montero, Gonzalo Verdugo) 2015 I 
Song lang (Leon Le) 2018 T
Son of Babylon (Mohamed Al Daradji) 2009 H I
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) 2015 H I
​Spread your wings (Nicolas Vanier) 2019 I
Spring, summer,autumn,winter… and spring (Ki-duk Kim) 2003 H I T
Summer 1993 (Carla Simon) 2017 I
Sweet Bean (Naomi Kawase) 2015 H I
Tall as the boabab tree (Jeremy Teicher) 2012 I
Tar (Todd Field) 2022 T
Ten canoes (Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr) 2006 H I
The banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh) 2022 H
The battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo) 1966 H I
The black hen (Min Bahadur Bham) 2015 I
The bicycle theif (Vittorio De Sica) 1949 H I
The big short (Adam McKay) 2015 H I
​The Circle (Jafar Panahi) 2000 I
The death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci) 2017 I
The diving bell and the butterfly (Julian Schnabel) 2007 I T
​The eagle huntress (Otto Bell) 2016 H I
The eight mountains (Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch ) 2022 H
​The father (Florian Zeller) 2020 H I
The farewell (Lulu Wang) 2019 H I
The favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos) 2018 I
The first grader (Justin Chadwick) 2010 I
The insider (Michael Mann) 1999 I
The innocents  (Anne Fontaine) 2016 H
The Iron Lady (Phyllida Lloyd) 2011 H I
The last king of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald) 2006 I
The lives of others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) 2006 I
The last emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci) 1987 I
The lunchbox (Ritesh Batra) 2013 H I
​The Mauritanian (Kevin Macdonald) 2021 I
The motorcycle diaries (Walter Salles) 2004 H I
The orator (Tusi Tamasese) 2011 H I
The piano (Jane Campion) 1993 H T
The queen (Stephen Frears) 2006 I
The quiet girl (Colm Bairead) 2022 H T
The return (Andrey Zvyagintsev) 2003 H I
The sea inside (Alejandro Amenabar) 2004 H I
The seed of the sacred fig (Mohammad Rasoulof) 2024 I
The sessions (Ben Lewin) 2012 H I
The snapper (Stephen Frears) 1993 H
The square (Ruben Ostlund) 2017 C
​The station agent (Tom McCarthy) 2003 H
The taste of things (Anh Hung Tran) 2023 T
The teacher who promised the sea (Patrica Font) 2023 I
The Tin Drum (Volker Schlondorff) 1979 H I C
The tree of wooden clogs (Ermanno Olmi) 1978 H I
The twelfth man (Harald Zwart) 2017 H
The weeping camel (Byambasuren Davaa / Luigi Falorni) 2003 H I
​The wonders (Alice Rohrwacher) 2014 H
The year of living dangerously (Peter Weir) 1982 I
Three colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski) 1993 H T
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) 2014 I
Tomorrow will be better (Dorota Kedzierzawska) 2011 H T
Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu) 1953 H
Trainspotting (Danny Boyle) 1996 H I
Tulpan (Sergei Dvortsevoy) 2008 H I
Twelve years a slave (Steve McQueen) 2013 H I
​Under the hawthorn tree (Yimou Zhang) 2010 I T
Vice (Adam McKay) 2018 I
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg) 1971 T
Wadjda (Haifaa Al-Mansour) 2012 I
Wajib (Annemarie Jacir) 2017 I
War Witch (Kim Nguyen) 2012 I
​Wilaya (Pedro Perez Rosado) 2011 I


Other films worth considering:

13 Minutes (Oliver Hirschbiegel) 2015
About Elly (Asghar Farhadi) 2009
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) 2022
A month of Sundays (Matthew Saville) 2015
Amour (Michael Haneke) 2012
A radiant girl (Sandrine Kiberlain) 2021
​Argo (Ben Affleck) 2012
An Education (Lone Scherfig) 2009
​Aurore (Blandine Lenoir) 2017
A zed and two noughts (Peter Greenaway) 1985​
Balloon (Michael Herbig) 2018
Beats per minute (Robin Campillo) 2017
Birdman (Alejandro G. Inarritu) 2014
Blue bayou (Justin Chon) 2021
Boyhood (Richard Linklater) 2014
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee) 2005
Burning (Chang-dong Lee) 2018
Can you ever forgive me? (Marielle Heller) 2018
Certified copy (Abbas Kiarostami) 2010
Close (Lucas Dhont) 2022
Columbus (Kogonada) 2017
Compartment number 6 (Juho Kuosmanen) 2021
​Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa) 2019
Days of being wild (Kar-Wai Wong) 1990
Decision to leave (Park Chan-wook) 2022
​Dogman (Matteo Garrone) 2018
Drive my car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi) 2021
Driveways (Andrew Ahn) 2019
Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev) 2011
El Norte (Gregory Nava) 1983
Empire of light (Sam Mendes) 2022
Everybody knows (Asghar Farhadi) 2018
Everything everywhere all at once (Dan Kwan / Daniel Scheinert) 2022
Fallada: the last chapter (Roland Graf) 1988
Fallen leaves (Aki Kaurismaki) 2023
First cow (Kelly Reichardt) 2019
​Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold) 2009
Floating lives (Phan Quang Binh Nguyen) 2010
Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz) 2017
Full time (Eric Gravel) 2021
​General Nil (Ryszard Bugajski) 2009
​Green Book (Peter Farrelly) 2018
Green days by the river (Michael Mooleedhar) 2017
Hidden figures (Theodore Melfi) 2016
Hope (Maria Sodahl) 2019
Hotel Mumbai (Anthony Maras) 2018
I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach) 2016
If Beale Street could talk (Barry Jenkins) 2018
In a better world (Susanne Bier) 2010
Intouchables (Olivier Nakache, Eric Tolendano) 2011
​Incendies (Denis Villeneuve) 2010
​Inside Llewyn Davis (Ethan & Joel Coen) 2013
​I Tonya (Craig Gillespie) 2017
I've loved you so long (Philippe Claudel) 2008
Jedda the Uncivilized (Charles Chauvel) 1955
​Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi) 2019
Ka Whawhai Tonu (Mike Jonathan) 2024
Lee (Ellen Kuras) 2023
Lincoln (Steven Spielberg) 2012
​Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) 2017
Lebanon (Samuel Maoz) 2009
​Leviathan (Andrey Zvyagintsev) 2014
​Linha de Passe (Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas) 2008
​Lion (Garth Davis) 2016
Living (Oliver Hermanus) 2022
​Manchester by the sea (Kenneth Lonergan) 2016
​Mao's last dancer (Bruce Beresford) 2009
Me too (Antonio Naharro, Alvaro Pastor) 2009
​Medal of honour (Calin Peter Netzer) 2009
Misbehaviour (Philippa Lowthorpe) 2020
Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau) 2011
Monster (Patty Jenkins) 2003
Monsters Ball (Marc Forster) 2001
Me and Earl and the dying girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) 2015
​Mr Turner (Mike Leigh) 2014
Munich: The edge of war (Christian Schwochow) 2021
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Erguven) 2015
My left foot (Jim Sheridan) 1989
Nebraska (Alexander Payne) 2013
Newsfront (Phillip Noyce) 1978
Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda) 2004
Norwegian Wood (Tran Anh Hung) 2010
Notes on a scandal (Richard Eyre) 2006
Official secrets (Gavin Hood) 2019
Once upon a time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) 2011
One Last Deal (Klaus Haro) 2018
​On the path (Jasmila Zbanic) 2010
​Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack) 1985
Penguin Bloom (Glendyn Ivin) 2020
Portrait of a lady on fire (Celine Sciamma) 2019​
Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (Angela Robinson) 2017
​Puzzle (Natalia Smirnoff) 2009
Philomena (Stephen Frears) 2013
Red like the sky (Cristiano Bortone) 2006
Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes) 2008
Satellite Boy (Catriona McKenzie) 2012
Secrets and lies (Mike Leigh) 1996
Since Otar left (Julie Bertuccelli) 2003
Sister (Ursula Meier) 2012
​Still life (Uberto Pasolini) 2013
​Still walking (Hirokazu Koreeda) 2008
​Talk to her (Pedro Almodovar) 2002
​Tanna (Martin Butler/ Bentley Dean) 2015
​Tangerines (Zaza Urushadze) 2013
​Taste of cherry (Abbas Kiarostami) 1997
​Tehran taxi (Jafar Panahi) 2015
Tracks (John Curran) 2013
​The band's visit (Eran Kolirin) 2007
The best of men (Tim Whitby) 2012
​The big sick (Michael Showalter) 2017
The boy who harnessed the wind (Chiwetel Ejiofor) 2019
​The crow's egg (M Manikandan) 2014
The dark horse (James Napier Robertson) 2014
The duke (Roger Michell) 2020
The electrical life of Louis Wain (Will Sharpe) 2021
​The Fringe Dwellers (Bruce Beresford) 1986
The great escaper (Oliver Parker) 2023
​The hand of god (Paolo Sorrentino) 2021
The holdovers (Alexander Payne) 2023
​The Hedgehog (Mona Achache) 2009
​The lady in the van (Nicholas Hytner) 2015
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti) 1963
The menu (Mark Mylod) 2022
​The Nightingale (Philippe Muyl) 2013
The passion of Augustine (Lea Pool) 2015
​The past (Asghar Farhadi) 2013
The Patience Stone (Atiq Rahimi) 2012
The Peanut Butter Falcon (Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz) 2019
The power of the dog (Jane Campion) 2021
The promised land (Nikolaj Arcel) 2023
The salesman (Asghar Farhadi) 2016
​The Straight Story (David Lynch) 1999
The theory of everything (James Marsh) 2014
The upside (Neil Burger) 2017
​The worst person in the world (Joachim Trier) 2021
The wind that shakes the barley (Ken Loach) 2006
​Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) 2017
Truman (Cesc Gay) 2015
Truth (James Vanderbilt) 2105
We of the never never (Igor Auzins) 1982
​Xingu (Cao Hamburger) 2011
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