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Films like A Promise.

A Promise (2013) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle drama / 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.

Late Autumn (2011) poster
1. Late Autumn2011

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Departure (2016) poster
2. Departure2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Free Fall (2013) poster
3. Free Fall2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Tigertail (2020) poster
4. Tigertail2020

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Silk (2007) poster
5. Silk2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Pass (2016) poster
6. The Pass2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Casa Grande (2014) poster
7. Casa Grande2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Cezanne and I (2016) poster
8. Cezanne and I2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Fiore (2016) poster
9. Fiore2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Anatomy of a Love Seen (2014) poster
10. Anatomy of a Love Seen2014

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Leave No Trace (2018) poster
11. Leave No Trace2018

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Disobedience (2018) poster
12. Disobedience2018

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are A Promise’s neighbours — where are yours?

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