Recommendations for less mass-produced and more artistic tv

Tiraon
2024-06-15T18:45:38Z

I'm looking for tv shows, films, animation that feel unique, smaller and less like it was made to order and taken through incessant A/B testing and market research and more like a creative type was given a bit of freedom and went with it, and least to a point.

A few that I think would qualify though obviously filtered through my own preferences.

Films
Children of Men
A post-apocalyptic journey.

The Man From Earth
Just a few people talking in a room about a fantastical scenario. Strangely I tried to imagine a bigger more cinematic version going through the events and actually came to the conclusion the I'd probably like it less.

Stardust
A fantasy romance with a truly whimsical, wondrous feeling. And a bit of humor.

TV shows
Alphas
A superhero show, however they are flawed and the powers are limited. I particularly liked that the problems depicted were small, personal and only started to ramp up later.

Station 11
A post-apocalytic show following a traveling troupe with a repertoire of Shakespeare's plays.

Severance
What if the work and personal lives were separated taken to the logical extreme.

Firefly
A sci-fi western. Small family feel with the crew.

Animation
Mushishi
Episodic series about dealing with varied and fantastical creatures.

Webseries
Anyone but me
A lesbian slice of life romance.

LARPS
A life of a guild of role players. I particularly like how the sessions manage to still get a bit of an epic feel with people simply talking and a bit of props.

Watch blue movies
NSFW theme, though I don't recall much of actual NSFW material. Just hilarious.

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