If you loved The Salt of the Earth, try Lumière & Company

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Lumière & Company has roughly 9.5× fewer votes than The Salt of the Earth — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Salt of the Earth

2014 · dir. Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

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Lumière & Company

1995 · dir. David Lynch, James Ivory, Ismail Merchant, Spike Lee, Lasse Hallström, Jaco Van Dormael, Zhang Yimou, Liv Ullmann, Michael Haneke, Wim Wenders, Andrei Konchalovsky, John Boorman, Arthur Penn, Patrice Leconte, Cédric Klapisch, Hugh Hudson, Peter Greenaway, Abbas Kiarostami, Costa-Gavras, Gabriel Axel, Yoshishige Yoshida, Theo Angelopoulos, Raymond Depardon, Claude Lelouch, Youssef Chahine, Jerry Schatzberg, Alain Corneau, Francis Girod, Vicente Aranda, Fernando Trueba, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Sarah Moon, Bigas Luna, Nadine Trintignant, Merzak Allouache, Claude Miller, Gaston Kaboré, Jacques Rivette, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Régis Wargnier, Lucian Pintilie

What they share

Both films are directed by Wim Wenders, and they both carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Documentary territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Salt of the Earth, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Lumière & Company is

Dogme meets early cinema. 40 directors use a 1895 camera. Carries era nostalgia.

If you loved The Salt of the Earth, try Lumière & Company

The Salt of the Earth

Lumière & Company

What they share

What Lumière & Company is

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