100+ Good Slow Movies & Shows to Watch

Slow pacing is a surprisingly common factory across some of the most engrossing movies in history. If you love to take your time and bask in the scenery, check out the best slow movies and shows to stream now.

Mid90s (2018)
Mid90s (2018)
8.0
Movie|Spirit

Mid90s (2018)

It wouldn’t be too far of a reach to evoke Kids (1995) while diving into Mid90s. But instead of taking…

La Grazia (2025)
La Grazia (2025)
7.4
Movie|Venice Winner

La Grazia (2025)

In his last few months as president, Mariano de Santis has a few loose ends to tie up. This includes…

La Chimera (2023)
La Chimera (2023)
8.3
Movie|Cannes

La Chimera (2023)

La Chimera is often meandering. Scenes flitter about and move at different paces, resembling dreams more than they do reality,…

Perfect Days (2023)
Perfect Days (2023)
8.3
Movie|Oscar · Cannes Winner · Cannes

Perfect Days (2023)

For public toilet cleaner Hirayama, “enjoy the little things in life” is more than just an adage: it’s a philosophy.…

One Day
One Day
7.8
Show|Berlin

One Day

With a film version that didn’t live up to the hype of the original novel, Netflix’s adaptation of One Day…

The Unknown Country (2023)
The Unknown Country (2023)
8.1
Movie|Spirit

The Unknown Country (2023)

It’s hard not to watch The Unknown Country and think of Nomadland: along with similarities in their Terrence Malick-inspired visuals,…

Touch (2024)
Touch (2024)
7.7
Movie|Spirit

Touch (2024)

With the internet able to connect people from miles away, the concept of the one that got away has become…

A Murder at the End of the World
A Murder at the End of the World
7.9
Show|Spirit

A Murder at the End of the World

From the title alone, A Murder at the End of the World is, of course, a murder mystery, a whodunit…

Train Dreams (2025)
Train Dreams (2025)
7.8
Movie

Train Dreams (2025)

Based on the 2011 novella of the same name, Train Dreams depicts the life of Robert Grainier in the first…

Rental Family (2025)
Rental Family (2025)
8.2
Movie

Rental Family (2025)

Since the 1990s, Japan has offered the service of pretending to be one’s family, friend, or lover. Rental Family isn’t…

Bones and All (2022)
Bones and All (2022)
7.9
Movie|Spirit · Venice Winner

Bones and All (2022)

Earnest, beautiful, and tender, Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All is many things: a road trip movie that sweeps the midwest…

Stonewalling (2024)
Stonewalling (2024)
7.5
Movie|Venice

Stonewalling (2024)

At two hours and nearly 30 minutes, Stonewalling is quite long. The third film from spouses Ryuji Otsuka and Huang…

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)
7.8
Movie|Sundance

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023)

Nakedness has been demonized or at least, has been considered inappropriate outside of certain situations. One such situation is the…

Small Things Like These (2024)
Small Things Like These (2024)
7.4
Movie|Berlin Winner

Small Things Like These (2024)

Small Things Like These is the kind of film that doesn’t have a grand resolution, a dramatic climax, or a…

Blanquita (2023)
Blanquita (2023)
7.7
Movie|Venice Winner

Blanquita (2023)

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Inspired by the Spiniak case, Blanquita reimagines the infamous scandal through mirrored interrogations and disorienting viewpoints. Blanquita rewrites the original…

To Leslie (2022)
To Leslie (2022)
7.9
Movie|Oscar · Spirit

To Leslie (2022)

To Leslie follows the eponymous Leslie (Andrea Riseborough), a Southern woman who finds herself at the bottom of the barrel…

Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021)
Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021)
8.2
Movie|Berlin Winner

Mr. Bachmann and His Class (2021)

By remaining totally committed to its quiet, drama-free, observational style of documentary filmmaking, Mr. Bachmann and His Class ends up…

Somebody Somewhere
Somebody Somewhere
7.6
Show|Spirit

Somebody Somewhere

After having just lost her sister Holly, Sam (Bridget Everett) is in a bit of a midlife crisis. Work feels…

We Grown Now (2024)
We Grown Now (2024)
7.4
Movie|Spirit

We Grown Now (2024)

Places evoke certain emotions, but even the most rundown, cramped projects feel special when they’re home. We Grown Now is…

Alcarràs (2023)
Alcarràs (2023)
7.8
Movie|Berlin Winner

Alcarràs (2023)

On one level, Alcarràs is a story about land, about how inextricable it is to livelihood, about how ownership of…

Belfast (2021)
Belfast (2021)
8.1
Movie|Golden Globe · Oscar · Oscar Winner

Belfast (2021)

Belfast stars Outlander’s Caitríona Balfe as the mother of a working-class Northern Irish family during The Troubles. Religious tension and…

The Taste of Things (2023)
The Taste of Things (2023)
7.6
Movie|Cannes Winner

The Taste of Things (2023)

If it’s true that to cook is to love, then Dodin and Eugenie must be enraptured by one another. They…

Dark Winds
Dark Winds
8.1
Show

Dark Winds

Even without doing the important and long overdue work of uplifting Native American voices, Dark Winds manages to be an…

The Falls (2021)
The Falls (2021)
8.0
Movie|Berlin

The Falls (2021)

All the synopses going around the internet won’t fail to let you know that The Falls takes place at the…

The Great Lillian Hall (2024)
The Great Lillian Hall (2024)
7.2
Movie|SAG

The Great Lillian Hall (2024)

The Great Lillian Hall doesn’t do anything particularly great to a familiar premise, but it’s still worth watching for the…

The English
The English
7.8
Show|SAG

The English

There is no shortage of craft and ambition in The English, a miniseries that employs tropes of classic Westerns, like…

Familiar Touch (2024)
Familiar Touch (2024)
7.2
Movie|Spirit Winner · Spirit · Venice Winner

Familiar Touch (2024)

Dementia has been depicted in film before, but writer-director Sarah Friedland’s debut feature takes a stronger interest in Ruth’s journey,…

The Eternaut
The Eternaut
7.5
Show

The Eternaut

After decades of copyright disputes, The Eternaut finally makes its way on screen, right in time to echo certain worldwide…

The Hand of God (2021)
The Hand of God (2021)
8.0
Movie|Oscar · BAFTA · Venice Winner

The Hand of God (2021)

The Hand of God is the autobiographical movie from Paolo Sarrantino, the director of the 2013 masterpiece The Great Beauty.…

Minari (2021)
Minari (2021)
7.8
Movie|Oscar · Spirit · Sundance Winner

Minari (2021)

Minari is a film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung, about a Korean-American family in search of the so-called…

Herself (2021)
Herself (2021)
8.0
Movie|Sundance

Herself (2021)

Herself tells the story of Sandra (Clare Dunne), a single mother who runs away from her abusive husband to start…

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House
8.4
Show

The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House

On the surface, The Makanai is a simple, slice-of-life show about food and friendship. While it is that, to be…

The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age
7.0
Show|SAG

The Gilded Age

From the creators of Downton Abbey comes another period drama about social climbers and too-big homes. The Gilded Age, set…

Janet Planet (2024)
Janet Planet (2024)
7.1
Movie|Berlin · Spirit

Janet Planet (2024)

Many films have been made about that uniquely taut mother-daughter bond, but maybe none is as delicate as Janet Planet.…

The Innocents (2021)
The Innocents (2021)
7.7
Movie|Cannes

The Innocents (2021)

The Innocents is a Norweigan thriller that follows four kids who discover they have supernatural powers over the summer. They…

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (2022)
The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (2022)
7.4
Movie|Sundance

The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future (2022)

The poetic title of this debut feature from Chilean filmmaker Francisca Alegría does not tell a lie: a cow does…

Pacifiction (2022)
Pacifiction (2022)
7.5
Movie|Cannes

Pacifiction (2022)

It doesn’t feel quite right to call Pacifiction a political thriller — at 2 hours 45 minutes and with an…

Utama (2022)
Utama (2022)
7.5
Movie|Sundance Winner

Utama (2022)

Before anything else, Utama will knock you off your feet with its breathtaking beauty. Set in the Bolivian highlands, it…

Afire (2023)
Afire (2023)
7.2
Movie|Berlin Winner

Afire (2023)

There’s something rich at the heart of Afire that, whether intentionally or not, is kept at arm’s length from the…

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