Suggestions for conversation- or ideas-driven movies?

[Dampfish]

Recently I've gotten in the mood to watch conversation- or ideas-driven movies. That is, where the majority of the movie is basically just intelligent conversation between intelligent people. To give you an idea of what I mean, movies like The Sunset Limited, The Man From Earth and the classic Twelve Angry Men (didn't much care for the remake, though).
I've seen a few already but I'd like to see more.

So, my question is (as you might have guessed), what other movies can you recommend that is in a similar vein?

Edit:
This turned out much better than I thought! A lot of great suggestions so far. Thought I'd collect them here for ease of access to anyone else looking for the same thing.

Spoiler: The list of movies thus far...

12 Angry Men [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050083/]
Alphaville [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058898/]
Another Earth [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1549572/]
Before Sunrise [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112471/]
Before Sunset [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0381681/]
Before Midnight [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209418/]
Buried [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462758/]
Carnage [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1692486/]
Cosmopolis [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1480656/]
Doctor Zhivago [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/]
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/]
Exam [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258197/]
Glengarry Glen Ross [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104348/]
Grand Illusion [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028950/]
Hard Candy [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424136/]
It's a Disaster [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1995341/]
Judgment at Nuremberg [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055031/]
K-Pax [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272152/]
London [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0449061/]
Man from Earth, The [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/]
Mindwalk [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100151/]
Moon [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182345/]
Much Ado About Nothing [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2094064/]
My Dinner with Andre [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082783/]
Night on Earth [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/]
Nothing [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298482/]
Primer [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/]
Resolution, The [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1977895/]
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100519/]
Sleuth [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069281/]
Solaris [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/]
Stalker [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079944/]
Sunset Limited, The [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1510938/]
Take This Waltz [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592281/]
Waiting for Godot [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276613/]
Waking Life [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/]

Did I miss any?

 

[Marter]

London is one, although you might have to stretch your definition of "intelligent." It's a philosophical conversation movie where most of the characters instigate their discussion by consuming copious amount of drugs (mostly cocaine).

There's another one I can vaguely remember but I can't think of it at the moment. If it comes to me I'll edit this post with its title.

 

[FalloutJack]

Rozencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead.

If that isn't a brilliant take on two minor characters of Hamlet, I don't know what is.

 

[Frezzato]

The Man From Earth. Damn, I love that movie. I saw it on Netflix, bought the Blu-ray, then bought the DVD once I realized it contained extras the Blu-ray didn't. Then, using the location of the giant dirt track behind the shooting location, which I found within the DVD extras, I located the actual house used in the movie via Google Earth. I correlated the location using the view of the famous Vasquez Rocks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasquez_Rocks] formation visible at the beginning of the movie. This of course is not to be mistaken for the other Vazquez Rock [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49OZ0M_0fhg].

Did I mention I love The Man From Earth? Anyway, I also liked the movie Exam (2009). It takes place pretty much in a single room, and while the characters aren't exactly intelligent, it's one giant puzzle. Cool, it's still on Netflix Instant. Watch it while you can!

 

[TheRiddler]

My Dinner With Andre basically consisted of two guys sitting in a restaurant talking about life. One's pragmatic humanism plays off interestingly with the other's more spiritual, idealistic worldview. The result is a philosophical movie that breaks away from cliche. Strongly recommended.

 

[NihilSinLulz]

Waking Life and the The Before trilogy. Linklater is a god of capturing interesting conversation.

 

[prowll]

Judgement At Nuremburg.

No need to rent it, just go to the youtubes for it here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J62XvzlHelk

 

[Frission]

La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) by Jean Renoir. It's about a paradigm in society in response to the First World War.

I think it's been translated.

EDIT: There's also Doctor Zhivago (the 1965 version) by David Lean. I wouldn't say it's known for it's intelligent conversations, but it's a great film, especially considering the era it was made in.

It's good for general culture.

 

[likalaruku]

Oooh...I thought it was about ideas for MAKING controversial movies.

 

[jhoroz]

I guess Primer could be considered to be heavy on conversations, where the ideas and ethics of time travel are discussed.

 

[HardkorSB]

The Resolution:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1977895/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4

Nothing:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298482/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

K-Pax:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272152/?ref_=tt_rec_tti

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

Cosmopolis:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1480656/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

[MrBaskerville]

Waiting For Godt is nothing but conversation, based on a play about two tramps who are talking while they are waiting for their friend, who might never arrive. It's an interesting piece and the play was quite eseential to the whole french new wave movement in the 60s (Some of the stuff that inspired Tarantino to do movies like Pulp Fiction). In the same vein i would recommend Alphaville by Godard (actually i would recommend most Godard movies from his early days, they are almost always centered around long conversations), there's a lot of talking going on in that one, it's a very cheap sci-fi movie with a lot of interesting philosophical ideas.

I would also recommend Carnage, where four parents meet to discuss a feud between their sons, but instead they end up talking about themselves and their relationships practically disintegrates as the movie goes on. The last one i want to recommend is Cosmopolis, everyone seem to hate it, but personally i love it. It's a rich guy driving through town in his limo to get a haircut while his business empire is falling to pieces. It's a bit cold and distanced (deliberately) but if you manage to get past that it's quite engaging, funny and interesting. There's a lot of ideas thrown around, like in any Delilo novel.

 

[Vale]

I suppose any movie by Tarkovsky would apply. Solaris and Stalker are the ones I'd suggest... and I guess if you're looking for this kind of movie, you might not much mind that it is an incredibly slow thing.

 

[Queen Michael]

Rozencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead.

If that isn't a brilliant take on two minor characters of Hamlet, I don't know what is.

Hey now, they made a movie out of it!? WHy didn't anybody tell me!?

Oooh...I thought it was about ideas for MAKING controversial movies.

Conversational movies, my friend, not controversial.

 

[Little Woodsman]

Not sure if it's quite what you're looking for, but Alfred Hitchcock's classic The Rope centers around the conversation at a dinner party where two of the diners & the audience know a gruesome secret that the other dinner guests do not.
Got ninja'd on My Dinner With Andre.

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

The 1990 movie, Mindwalk. The entire film is an extended conversation between a poet, a scientist and a politician about how we perceive the world around us and how that perception affects our decision-making. It's actually incredibly interesting, but the only "action" is some people walking and the tide coming in during one scene.

 

[Dampfish]

Wow, excellent suggestions, all of you! Some of these I've never even heard of. I have some catching up to do. Keep 'em coming!

 

[Slitzkin]

Maybe not as typicaly dialogue driven as a Woody Allen film or '12 Angry Men' but films like 'Born on the 4th of July', 'Amadeus' and 'In Bruges'.

But if you want something a little more bleak and destructive watch 'Naked'.

NSFW Language

 

[BloatedGuppy]

the The Before trilogy. Linklater is a god of capturing interesting conversation.

This is what I came to recommend. I honestly think these are some of the best films of the last few decades. Absolutely brilliant stuff.