Top 20 movies like Coombs

Coombs

If Samuel Beckett had lived in Scotland and made a great film, it would be this: a lucid, sometimes funny, and profoundly compassionate study of extreme old age, death, grief and loneliness. These facts of life are revealed in an act of virtuoso film-making that is dedicated, laconic and ultimately - impossible as it may seem - uplifting. A unique experience, this is a very significant and totally original film that will test, and reward any audience. The challenge is to spend time with lonely old people and Dolak is unflinching. He handles words, sounds and image with extreme care. His film is composed of long takes that juxtapose a daily routine alongside the expansive and empty landscapes of the north east, and both shot in exquisitely beautiful monochrome. Everything seems settled and inevitable until the film makes a completely unexpected move into another realm and intimates a further reach of the imagination.

Coombs is of 0 hour(s) and 57 minute(s). It is Produced By:  Crystalness films, Edinburgh Napier University. It was released on 2017-09-08.

Genres: Documentary

1. New York Portrait, Chapter I

New York Portrait, Chapter I

Hutton's most impressive work ... the filmmaker's style takes on an assertive edge that marks his maturity. The landscape has a majesty that serves to reflect the meditative interiority of the artist independent of any human presence. ... New York is framed in the dark nights of a lonely winter. The pulse of street life finds no role in NEW YORK PORTRAIT; the dense metropolitan population and imposing urban locale disappear before Hutton's concern for the primal force of a universal presence. With an eye for the ordinary, Hutton can point his camera toward the clouds finding flocks of birds, or turn back to the simple objects around his apartment struggling to elicit a personal intuition from their presence. ... Hutton finds a harmonious, if at times melancholy, rapport with the natural elements that retain their grace in spite of the city's artificial environment. The city becomes a ghost town that the filmmaker transforms into a vehicle reflecting his personal mood.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

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2. Ady (Ady)

Ady

Very brief view of Man Ray and his friend Ady Fidelin while at a seaside resort

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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3. Dance (Dance)

Dance

Home movie from Man Ray featuring dancer Jenny gyrating in black and white.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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4. Juliet (Juliet)

Juliet

A late period home movie with Man Ray and his lovely friend Juliet Browner lounging together in the US. Man Ray had returned to America when the Germans occupied France.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

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5. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt)

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

It has an average vote of 7.679 on TMDB.

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6. Maura (Maura)

Maura

84-year-old Maura is the guardian of a very particular tradition in danger of extinction. She is a singer of amorfinos, verses full of humor that will disappear forever with her departure.

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7. Drei Frauen (Drei Frauen)

Drei Frauen

(Drei Frauen)

It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.

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8. Stuttgart, die Großstadt zwischen Wald und Reben (Stuttgart, die Großstadt zwischen Wald und Reben)

Stuttgart, die Großstadt zwischen Wald und Reben

Hans Schilling, who emigrated to Chile shortly before World War 1, comes from Valparaiso to visit his old hometown of Stuttgart after an absence of almost 22 years. His brother Georg Schilling, who stayed in Stuttgart, picks him up at the train station. He proudly shows the homecomer the prospering, Swabian metropolis, followed by impressions of the city's architecture, economy and culture.

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9. ACT (Акт)

ACT

Several fragments of one day in Leningrad in the autumn of 1989, refracted in the imagination of the artist.

It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.

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10. Rabbit (Tochi)

Rabbit

A family from the Sierra Negra in Puebla spend their days between the cycles of the earth. From time to time, the parents feel anxious when they think what will happen to their beloved “yen Tochi” , their youngest child, when they are not there to take care of him.

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11. Underwater Guest (Поиски под водой)

Underwater Guest

Mounting of the film by Dmitry Frolov on the basis of documentary frames of performances of Russian ballet dancers and lifeless margins of the Russian outback. Symbolizes the slowly naked and dying Russian world.

It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.

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12. Dream-Plan-Build Horseshoe Curve

Dream-Plan-Build Horseshoe Curve

Ride along as Horseshoe Curve takes you on a captivating behind-the-scenes railroad journey in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains. Trackside views allow you to see first hand some of railroading's greatest accomplishments in action. This special edition of the Dream Plan Build Video Series covers the many miles of scenery from Altoona to Johnstown, PA, complete with dynamic views that will inspire the modeler in you!

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13. Susan & Leslie

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A slice-of-life documentary following a visually-impaired married couple as they prepare for a trip to the grocery store.

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14. Bodega Bohemia (Bodega Bohemia)

Bodega Bohemia

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15. Ankara, Hauptstadt in der Steppe (Ankara, Hauptstadt in der Steppe)

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Short film about Ankara, Turkiye

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16. Ivan Hellberg, Baggerführer in Kiruna (Ivan Hellberg, Baggerführer in Kiruna)

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Short documentary about an excavator operator in sweden

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17. Neapel (Neapel)

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Short documentary about Naples, Italy.

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18. Horse Wrangler (Caballerango)

Horse Wrangler

Nando, a young horse wrangler in a rural Mexican village, has taken his own life following a disagreement with his father. Caballerango shows the boy’s family members and townspeople as they reckon with the new realities borne out of this inexplicable tragedy. Each account of Nando’s story reveals a different aspect of this rural town, which is deeply affected by modernization. The confrontation between the centuries-old ways of life and the modern-day world seems to be creating serious identity crises among the younger generation. The story is told in a patient, observational style with methodical shots of the landscape, ranches, and of the two white horses, whom Nando and his father tended to. Those horses, the last to see Nando alive, connect us to an ethereal sensation of almost otherworldly mystical beings.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

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19. The Last Baron

The Last Baron

The meaty saga of Burger Baron, a rogue fast-food chain with mysterious origins and a cult following, run by a loose network of fiercely independent Arab Canadian immigrants.

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20. Dark Suns (Soleils noirs)

Dark Suns

An epic investigation into countless murders in Mexico. Presented in chapters, the film unfolds methodically through unsettling testimonials, sketching a portrait of an entire country transformed into a gigantic mass grave thanks to a climate of impunity established by both criminal gangs and state authorities.

It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.

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