The Best Slow Movies to Watch on Amazon Prime
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.
A captivating Lily Gladstone anchors this meditative docu-fiction chronicling a road trip through the American heartland .
Lulu Wang returns to screen in this Hong Kong-set intersection of personal loss and American privilege.
Oppressively bleak Filipino wartime horror with a unique look and impressive performances.
Mother and daughter navigate a fraught relationship in this quietly beautiful drama.
Mind-bending and weird, this genre mashup of a show will keep you guessing till the end.
A gay footballer gets torn between his life dream and his sexuality in this depressing, but sadly realistic sports drama.
The Brothers Quay fascinates and befuddles in their unsettling first live-action feature.
The midnight sun shines light on a detective’s guilt in this chilling Norwegian crime thriller.
An intense and fantastically-performed film with probing questions that resonate with our times.
An instant essential film in the Jim Jarmusch catalog. In his traditional directing fashion, Paterson disregards plot and instead finds inspiration in deconstructing the seemingly mundane aspects of life. Adam Driver stars as a bus driver and amateur poet who leads a content life staying away from change as much as possible. His girlfriend, Laura […]
War-torn Hiroshima through the eyes of an everyday but spirited young woman.
Ida, the 2015 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, is a stark black & white drama set in the early 60’s about a young Polish nun-to-be and her bawdy Aunt Wanda searching for the truth behind her family’s demise at the hands of the Nazis. What initially comes off as a painfully slow sleep-inducer […]
Somehow an art house film, horror, and romance all in one, Let the Right One In explores the boundaries of its genres with unprecedented finesse, and offers a stunning alternative for those disappointed with recent vampire love stories. From its haunting minimalist imagery to its incredible score, it is persistently beautiful. The film follows twelve-year-old […]
An earnest yet predictable melodrama that overcomplicates its central romance with unnecessary subplots..
A mystifying but gorgeously photographed portrait of life and intimacy.
Robyn Davidson decided to cross 1,700 miles in the Australian desert with four camels and her trusty dog, and this film recounts her real-life journey. In many ways this is a companion piece to Reese Witherspoon’s Wild, also released in theaters in 2014. While I enjoyed Wild, it went out of its way to make […]
This is not what you are looking for if you are not into slow movies. It ambles along like the East-Texas drawls that populate it, taking its sweet time and letting the story gradually roll out. This true-story-based film is driven by a strong and witty performance from Jack Black –just not the Jack Black […]
You know Anthony Hopkins as the evil Hannibal Lecter, but in this film he gives a warm and heartfelt performance portraying real life New Zealand motorcycle legend Burt Munro who set a land speed record in 1967 on a hand-built 1920 Indian. It’s a story of never giving up on your dream even in the […]
