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Films like Bad Tales.

Bad Tales (2020) reads as Heavy, measured, measured drama, inventive 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.

You'll Never Find Me (2024) poster
1. You'll Never Find Me2024

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

Censor (2021) (2021) poster
2. Censor2021

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

Goodnight Mommy (2014) poster
3. Goodnight Mommy2014

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

Manodrome (2023) poster
4. Manodrome2023

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

Stratos (2014) poster
5. Stratos2014

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

Mr. Devil (2019) poster
6. Mr. Devil2019

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

Love Me Not (2017) poster
7. Love Me Not2017

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

America Latina (2022) poster
8. America Latina2022

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

Always Shine (2016) poster
9. Always Shine2016

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

We Are What We Are (2010) poster
10. We Are What We Are2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the pitch-dark outlook — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Relic (2020) poster
11. Relic2020

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

Master (2022 US) (2022) poster
12. Master (2022 US)2022

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

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