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Movies like Melancholia
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The 3 reasons people love Melancholia
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You can take a film that looks the end of the world in the face.
You like the slow-motion opening images set to Wagner.
You like long, quiet scenes waiting for the sky to change.
Picks that share your reasons
The Virgin Suicides2000
- the slow-motion opening images set to Wagner
Good for you if you like Sofia Coppola's hazy, sunlit images of 1970s suburbia.
Arrival2016
- long, quiet scenes waiting for the sky to change
Good for you if you like patient scenes where people try to understand each other.
Station Eleven2021
- long, quiet scenes waiting for the sky to change
Good for you if you like a story that takes its time across two timelines.
There Will Be Blood2007
- long, quiet scenes waiting for the sky to change
Good for you if you like a slow, heavy story of ambition.
Requiem for a Dream2000
- a film that looks the end of the world in the face
- the slow-motion opening images set to Wagner
Good for you if you like editing that speeds up as things fall apart.
Atonement2007
- the slow-motion opening images set to Wagner
Good for you if you like the single long shot that crosses the beach at Dunkirk.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion1997
- a film that looks the end of the world in the face
Good for you if you can take the end of the world shown without mercy.
Reasons taken from Melancholia's card. Picks from the Ipsomap catalogue. This application uses TMDB and the TMDB APIs but is not endorsed, certified, or otherwise approved by TMDB.
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