Films like Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed.

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama / experimental, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

Barrier (1966) poster
1. Barrier1966

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

The Garden of Delights (1970) poster
2. The Garden of Delights1970

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

The Mongols (1973) poster
3. The Mongols1973

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

The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) poster
4. The Saragossa Manuscript1965

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Juliet of the Spirits (1965) poster
5. Juliet of the Spirits1965

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) poster
6. Funeral Parade of Roses1969

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

Salto (1965) poster
7. Salto1965

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

The Power of Emotion (1983) poster
8. The Power of Emotion1983

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

Trans-Europ-Express (1966) poster
9. Trans-Europ-Express1966

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

The Blind Director (1985) poster
10. The Blind Director1985

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

Sympathy for the Devil (1968) poster
11. Sympathy for the Devil1968

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

Zigeunerweisen (1980) poster
12. Zigeunerweisen1980

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

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