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Films like Apples.

Apples (2020) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama / surreal, surreal 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.

Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (2015) poster
1. Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One2015

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

Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter (2022) poster
2. Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter2022

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

Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (2015) poster
3. Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One2015

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

Self Made (2014) poster
4. Self Made2014

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

Good Manners (2017) poster
5. Good Manners2017

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

Staying Vertical (2016) poster
6. Staying Vertical2016

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

The Duke of Burgundy (2014) poster
7. The Duke of Burgundy2014

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

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022) poster
8. Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon2022

Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

$9.99 (2009) poster
9. $9.992009

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

Blind (2014) poster
10. Blind2014

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a dense, packed storytelling.

Lazzaro Felice (Re-pass) (2018) poster
11. Lazzaro Felice (Re-pass)2018

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

Anomalisa (2015) poster
12. Anomalisa2015

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

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