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Films like By the Stream.

By the Stream (2024) reads as Neutral, slow-burn, gentle drama / arthouse, grounded 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.

In Our Day (2023) poster
1. In Our Day2023

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

Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) poster
2. Father Mother Sister Brother2025

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

Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021) poster
3. Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy2021

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

Showing Up (2022) poster
4. Showing Up2022

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

Yourself and Yours (2016) poster
5. Yourself and Yours2016

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

Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013) poster
6. Nobody's Daughter Haewon2013

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

The Shadowless Tower (2023) poster
7. The Shadowless Tower2023

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

The Truth (Kore-eda) (2019) poster
8. The Truth (Kore-eda)2019

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

Fallen Leaves (2023) poster
9. Fallen Leaves2023

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

Echo (2019) poster
10. Echo2019

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

Youth (2015) (2015) poster
11. Youth2015

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

Youth (Sorrentino 2015) — re-pass (2015) poster
12. Youth (Sorrentino 2015) — re-pass2015

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

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