Films like Crime Is Our Business.

Crime Is Our Business (2008) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / crime, 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.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005) poster
1. By the Pricking of My Thumbs2005

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Casi divas (2008) poster
2. Casi divas2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

An Italian Name (2015) poster
3. An Italian Name2015

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dampfnudelblues (2013) poster
4. Dampfnudelblues2013

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Wedding Cake (2010) poster
5. The Wedding Cake2010

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Playing Dead (2013) poster
6. Playing Dead2013

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

French Women (2014) poster
7. French Women2014

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Art of the Steal (2013) poster
8. The Art of the Steal2013

Keeps the grounded, familiar shape and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Happy Endings (2005) poster
9. Happy Endings2005

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

A Flat for Three (2012) poster
10. A Flat for Three2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a airy, open telling.

Unlikely Revolutionaries (2010) poster
11. Unlikely Revolutionaries2010

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Shall We Kiss? (2007) poster
12. Shall We Kiss?2007

Keeps the heightened unreality and the grounded, familiar shape; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

These are Crime Is Our Business’s neighbours — where are yours?

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