Films like A Good Marriage.

A Good Marriage (1982) reads as Warm, steady, gentle comedies and proverbs / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

The Man Who Loved Women (1977) poster
1. The Man Who Loved Women1977

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Aviator's Wife (1981) poster
2. The Aviator's Wife1981

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987) poster
3. Boyfriends and Girlfriends1987

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

She's Gotta Have It (1986) poster
4. She's Gotta Have It1986

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

School Daze (1988) poster
5. School Daze1988

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

First Graders (1984) poster
6. First Graders1984

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

In the Soup (1992) poster
7. In the Soup1992

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Apple Game (1977) poster
8. The Apple Game1977

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Calamity (1981) poster
9. Calamity1981

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

A Wedding (1978) poster
10. A Wedding1978

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Ginger and Fred (1986) poster
11. Ginger and Fred1986

Keeps the heightened unreality and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Manhattan (1979) poster
12. Manhattan1979

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

These are A Good Marriage’s neighbours — where are yours?

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