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Films like Alps.

Alps (2011) reads as Heavy, measured, measured drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold. 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.

Palindromes (2004) (2004) poster
1. Palindromes2004

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

4 (2005) poster
2. 42005

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) poster
3. Julien Donkey-Boy1999

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Closed Curtain (2013) poster
4. Closed Curtain2013

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

Berberian Sound Studio (2012) poster
5. Berberian Sound Studio2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Cosmopolis (2012) poster
6. Cosmopolis2012

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Neon Demon (2016) poster
7. The Neon Demon2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a white-knuckle intensity.

Gummo (1997) poster
8. Gummo1997

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

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) poster
9. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done2010

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

Palindromes (2005) poster
10. Palindromes2005

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

Shirley (2020) poster
11. Shirley2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the patient, unhurried pace; trades toward a strange, dreamlike logic.

Amer (2009) (2009) poster
12. Amer2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

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