Two by Jim Jarmusch: Night on Earth (1991), Paterson (2016)

Jarmusch has a rare feeling for urban desolation, for loneliness, and the sweet, whimsical overlap of chance and companionship.
David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

From Night on Earth to Paterson Jarmusch's style had become more minimalist, i.e, saying more with less.  In the town of Paterson a man named Paterson drives a local bus, focusing on his job and seldom talking to his passengers except once, when his bus breaks down.  The film takes place during one week when Paterson drives his bus, writes poetry and walks his dog to the local tavern, where he has one beer. His wife is somewhat obsessed with things black-and-white (perhaps a comment on the ubiquity of color in movies as well as the racial composition of their New Jersey town), wearing clothes and making cupcakes in those colors.  Drama is threatened and then diffused, as a car full of African-Americans jokes about dognapping Paterson's dog Marvin (a tribute to Jarmusch's membership in "The Sons of Marvin," composed of those who have a resemblance to Lee Marvin) and Paterson wrests a gun away from a distraught man in a bar, the gun only able to shoot foam pellets. Paterson on Sunday goes for a walk in the park by himself (Marvin chewed up Paterson's notebooks and is confined to the garage) and meets a Japanese tourist and writer; they talk about Paterson native William Carlos Williams and his new friend gives him a blank notebook as a present.

Jarmusch focuses beautifully in these films on work and the quotidian.  Night on Earth has five segments with cabdrivers and passengers at 4 AM.  In Los Angeles a female cabdriver takes a fare to Beverly Hills and is offered a screen test by the fare, a casting agent.  She turns her down.  In Rome a cabby picks up a priest who dies in the cab while the driver is giving an outlandish confession.  In Paris a black cabdriver picks up a blind woman and they talk about sight and other senses.  In New York a fare teaches the new immigrant cabby how to drive and in Helsinki a driver picks up three inebriated men and they discuss how bad one of the fares has it, while the driver tops them by having it much worse. The film captures the quiet beauty of cities at 4 AM, after most businesses have closed and few have opened, and those still awake talk about their lives.