If you’re less about adventurous plots, and more about the aesthetics and character arcs, we’ve got you covered. Here are the best plot-less movies and shows to stream right now.
Dir. Alexandre O. Philippe
Swiss filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe gave us the free-flowing fandom doc The People vs. George Lucas in 2010 and hasn’t…
Dir. Andrew Dominik
Whether or not you’re a fan of Nick Cave’s contemplative, idiosyncratic style of music, This Much I Know to Be…
Dir. Anthony Chen
When travelling to another place, another city, another town, there’s a certain anonymity that frees one’s self. No one knows…
Dir. Jessica Kingdon
Though it doesn’t provide a more holistic view of Chinese society even in the context of work and industry, Ascension…
Dir. Kazik Radwanski
A character study in the absolute purest sense, Anne at 13,000 Ft. doesn’t even have the kind of satisfying closure…
Dir. Jóhann Jóhannsson
Almost more like an audiobook than a traditional movie, the first and unfortunately final film from Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson…
Los Espookys is the name of a horror-loving group of friends, who, following their passion, provide gory services to those…
Dir. Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
A quiet movie about an unpredictable convict who gets enrolled in a wild mustang taming program. These initiatives, common around…
Dir. Ruben Östlund
The Square is a peculiar movie about a respected contemporary art museum curator as he goes through a few very…
Dir. Kogonada
What goes well with a love story? Creative architecture. Columbus the movie is such a great and genuine exploration of…
Dir. David Lowery
Twisted yet deep. Sad yet interesting. Slow yet exhilarating. A Ghost Story is an incredible artistic achievement. With hardly any…
Dir. Dziga Vertov
With no dialogue, no intertitles, no hired cast, and barely a semblance of a plot, The Man with a Movie…
Dir. Charlie Ahearn
This cult classic is the first hip-hop movie in cinema’s history — and, aptly, one of the most sampled movies…
Dir. Tsai Ming-liang
Serene and almost silent, Goodbye, Dragon Inn is a film contemplating an old movie theater in Taipei. In its heyday,…
Dir. Jill Sprecher
“What is happiness?” is one of those philosophical questions that seem destined to go unanswered, one that, when asked, starts…
Dir. Mike Leigh
If you’re a fan of musical theater of any kind, Topsy-Turvy pays tribute to that notoriously tricky art form with…
Dir. Edward Yang
Slow and almost silent, Edward Yang’s second feature film pins us down in a fast-moving city. In 1980s Taipei, Chin…
Dir. David Easteal
Consisting almost entirely of a single camera angle and long stretches of either silence or mundane conversation, The Plains makes…
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Youth is a film about Fred Ballinger (Michael Caine) a famous composer vacationing at a resort in the Swiss Alps…
Dir. Maren Ade
Good movies usually aren’t lengthy movies, unless we’re talking about cases like Toni Erdmann. It’s a supremely smart German-Austrian comedy that…
Dir. Lynne Ramsay
What Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher intentionally refuses to give you by way of plot or resolution, it more than makes up…
Dir. Mike Leigh
This is a very nice movie about a lovely older couple named Tom and Gerri. It follows their lives for…
Dir. Anna Muylaert
Val is a housekeeper for a wealthy family in São Paulo. She is close with every family member, and acts…
Dir. Noah Baumbach
Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York – but not the glamorous NYC of Woody Allen movies. Taking place primarily…
Dir. Jim Jarmusch
An instant essential film in the Jim Jarmusch catalog. In his traditional directing fashion, Paterson disregards plot and instead finds…
Dir. Christian Watt
Cunk on Earth is a five-episode mockumentary that takes the piss out of every single historical documentary you’ve seen. The…
Dir. Whit Stillman
It’s very interesting, if not startling, to see an earnest movie made about the white upper class these days. Metropolitan…
Dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien
Written like a stage play, directed like the viewer is a fly on the wall, and shot with a love…
Dir. Robert Benton
One of those long-lost mid-budget dramas that’s content with observing the rich yet uneventful lives of average folk, Nobody’s Fool…
Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda & Hirokazu Koreeda
A very touching film about Japanese children who are abandoned by their mother in their apartment and left on their…
Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch’s latest film is the story of a pair of vampires, Adam and Eve (Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton),…
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