I'd hit youtube to see clips of their films to see where you wanna go as I currently don't have the time to write the kind of descriptions I'd like to write:


Aki Kaurismaki films are less stylish than Jarmusch's but still spare and deadpan

Bela Tarr (particularly Werckmeister Harmonies, Satantango, and Damnation)

Andrei Tarkovsky (particularly Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia)

Victor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive

Tsai Ming-liang (particularly What Time Is It There?, I Don't Want To Sleep Alone, and the already mentioned Goodbye, Dragon Inn)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (particularly Syndromes and a Century, Tropical Malady, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives)

Theo Angelopoulos (particularly Landscape in the Mist for Region 1 DVDs)

Jean-Pierre Melville (already mentioned)

Alexander Sokurov (particularly Mother and Son and The Second Circle)


There are a bunch more, but I got to run. Maybe I'll be back with more.