Dang this sounds hella interesting, esp. if you’re into slower, non-action movies.

The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the “Stalker” (Alexander Kaidanovsky), who guides his two clients—a melancholic writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and a professor (Nikolai Grinko)—through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the “Zone”, where supposedly exists a room which grants a person’s innermost desires. The film combines elements of science fiction and fantasy with dramatic, philosophical, and psychological themes.[5]

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More recently, reviews of the film have been highly positive. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Stalker is rated at 100% based on 47 reviews with an average rating of 8.6/10. Its critical consensus states, “Stalker is a complex, oblique parable that draws unforgettable images and philosophical musings from its sci-fi/thriller setting.”[42] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 85 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.[43] It earned a place in the British Film Institute’s “100 Greatest Films of All Time” poll conducted for Sight & Sound in September 2012. The group’s critics listed Stalker at joint No. 29.[44] Directors ranked it at No. 30. In the most recent 2022 edition of Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time list, the film ranked 43rd in the critics poll,[45] and 14th in the director’s poll.[46] In The Guardian, Geoff Dyer described the film as “synonymous both with cinema’s claims to high art and a test of the viewer’s ability to appreciate it as such”.[17] Critic Derek Adams of the Time Out Film Guide has compared Stalker to Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, also released in 1979, and argued that “as a journey to the heart of darkness” Stalker looks “a good deal more persuasive than Coppola’s.”[47] Slant Magazine reviewer Nick Schager has praised the film as an “endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness”.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)