I watched Past Lives a few weeks ago. Exactly the type of film I seek out but seldom find. Very moving but not the type of story that would appeal to many of the people I know.
When you find them, let me know. I like these kinds of films as well.
Quiet character dramas with stoic, emotionally restrained people who would sooner die than bleed publicly and who treat others with great respect? Movies without villains? Movies in which ordinary people are living the little virtues, sometimes at heroic cost? Movies that valorize normies behaving decently and honorably?
I had drifted away from movies over the years prior to my Road to Damascus moment a few years ago. Then I started exploring. My tastes have certainly changed as I've gotten older. I've seen enough of X, Y and Z and have a lot more patience. So let me suggest these:
The Holdovers (2023); Love at First Sight (2023); Past Lives (2023); Causeway (2022); The Banshees of Inisherin (2022); Living (2022); To Leslie (2022); Living (2022); The Humans (2021); Montana Story (2021); Drive My Car (2021); Compartment No. 6 (2021); After Yang (2021); I'm Your Man (2021); Petite Maman (2021); Jockey (2021); On the Rocks (2020); Another Round (2020); Mr. Jones (2019); Leave No Trace (2018); The Florida Project (2017); Columbus (2017); Blue Jay (2016); Paterson (2016); Manchester by the Sea (2016); Brooklyn (2015); Her (2013); Never Let Me Go (2010); Lost in Translation (2003).
My list of "conservative" movies is broader, and my list of "non-woke" movies is even broader than that, but those I've listed here lean deep into stoicism and introspection.