20 Movies That, For Better or Worse, Have No Hint of a Plot

We like to think of ourselves as a website of the people, which means that we’ll tolerate an arthouse experiment every once in a while, but we believe all movies should have certain things. Characters, a setting, a script, a sweet-ass Grand Funk Railroad needle drop. You know, the basics. Almost always, they should have a plot. Almost.

Sometimes, nothing needs to actually happen in a movie for it to be moving and useful — two people having a conversation can be as emotionally exciting as the highest octane series of car chases. Of course, sometimes nothing happens in a movie because it was made by a really bad moviemaker. It’s a toss up, really, but Reddit sorted them out after user Due_Film8896 asked r/AskReddit, “Which movie can be summed up as ‘nothing really happens’?”

20 The Man From Earth

19 Brief Encounter

18 The Irishman

17 Ad Astra

16 I’m Thinking of Ending Things

15 Dazed and Confused

14 Asteroid City

13 The Banshees of Inisherin

12 The Straight Story

11 Raiders of the Lost Ark

10 Locke

9 Rubber

8 Star Wars: The Last Jedi

7 The Tree of Life

6 Garden State

5 Slacker

4 The Room

3 Buried

2 Avengers: Age of Ultron

1 Bambi