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Films like Bad Blood.

Bad Blood (2007) reads as Heavy, measured, measured tragedy / fishing, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, 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.

Takva: A Man's Fear of God (2006) poster
1. Takva: A Man's Fear of God2006

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

Pa Negre (Black Bread) (2010) poster
2. Pa Negre (Black Bread)2010

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

House of Tolerance (2011) poster
3. House of Tolerance2011

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

Ward No. 6 (2009) poster
4. Ward No. 62009

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

Destiny (2006) poster
5. Destiny2006

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

Mud (2003) poster
6. Mud2003

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

Eastern Drift (2010) poster
7. Eastern Drift2010

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

Shadow Kill (2002) poster
8. Shadow Kill2002

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

Melody for a Street Organ (2009) poster
9. Melody for a Street Organ2009

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Araf: Somewhere in Between (2012) poster
10. Araf: Somewhere in Between2012

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

Gabrielle (2005) poster
11. Gabrielle2005

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

Envy (2009) poster
12. Envy2009

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

These are Bad Blood’s neighbours — where are yours?

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