Asklemmy

This is one of the reasons I love the movie Fargo. The scene where the cop’s husband is eating cereal, she leaves and we sit with his crunching sounds for a bit, then she returns like “I forgot my keys” or something. I find that scene hilarious and the whole movie has lots of real moments like it.

I struggle with realistic dialogue where lots of people talk over each other tho, it gets very loud and incomprehensible very quickly, but that is usually the point of those scenes. I also struggle with that irl lol.

Hah that's why I love Adventure Time

Takeshi Kitano is a Japanese director that likes to film actors when they are rehearsing scenes and then sometimes edits in those cuts as they feel more natural, he mostly does Japanese films but he did do an American gangster film called Brother, check it out

Heath Ledger Did Not Improvise in the Hospital Scene in 'The Dark Knight' After a 'Mishap'

How about a group of villains that don't have much care when half their members are killed? I mean some of them likely were good friends. I always find that odd particularly is the movie was more serious and accurate.

I so feel this!

We're watching Ragnarok (Netflix) which is a Norwegian series that ran for four seasons. The lead character is flawed and unlikeable in a lot of ways we'd never intentionally do in an American production. And there's this character arc where one of villains is slowly turning good, while the hero begins to betray his morals. I don't know if I'm giving the producers too much credit, but I see a lot of subtlety in the characters I don't notice in US shows - behaviors which are infuriating but make sense in the context of the character's core persona.

A shame it didn't do well in Norway; one of the reviews bitingly said that it was bad and "felt more like a Danish series." We've been really enjoying it as a breath of fresh air in the superhero genre, and just finished season 2. It got only 3 seasons.

As a postfix, yes, I've seen Heroes, and yes it's a hard divergence from the typical genre. But I feel it mostly aims for shock value, and just took a trope and switched the premise - it didn't substantially add character depth.

Here are two examples: in Ragnarok, we're told repeatedly by a mother that her son has always had a strong sense of law and justice. Later, when the authority figures around him are telling him to do things and he's just passively following their orders, it was infuriating until I realized: well, what do we expect him to do? Rebel? The second example is that the hero is not a deep thinker. He's not clever, he doesn't have witty one-liners... he's literally a mouth-breather - he spends much of the show mutely standing there with his mouth open, until there's a situation where he can be violent. But he's Thor, and not American Thor. He's not a figure known for his cleverness. I can't think of a case in American film & TV where the leading protagonist is so flawed, in unattractive, un-sexy ways.

Yet another thing the lord of the rings movies absolutely nail. The evolution of the Rohirrim theme from a single lonely violin when Gandalf and co. arrive in Edoras to a grand orchestral arrangement over the assembled host gets me every time.

You should watch Rugrats, the main cast don't have any children, only the supporting cast.

But not isolated to 'career women', 'scarred by trauma from the past women' or womaniser men. Characters that just don't have kids because they don't want to. They don't need to be cool or deadbeat uncles/aunts either.

I also really really really want the idea that women will lie down and die/accept doom unless they have found out recently that they're pregnant, to stop being used. Women have a will to live without gestating another lifeform.

So many of my favourite shows and characters have been ruined by the 'oh she's pregnant' storyline. Because the writers clearly couldn't think of any other life changing or character building arc than impregnation.

Inception

If I understand you correctly, I think the following might qualify.

Breaking Bad, Imposter, American History X, American Psycho and Fight club. All pretty popular. You might have seen them.