FilmsDeath NoteLike this

Films like Death Note.

Death Note (2006) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured fantasy / mystery, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, 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.

The Stone Council (2006) poster
1. The Stone Council2006

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

Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors (2009) poster
2. Death Note Relight 2: L's Successors2009

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

Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God (2007) poster
3. Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God2007

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the chilly detachment — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Death Note: The Last Name (2006) poster
4. Death Note: The Last Name2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Parallel (2018) poster
5. Parallel2018

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Death Note: L Change the WorLd (2008) poster
6. Death Note: L Change the WorLd2008

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

The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow (2010) poster
7. The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

ARQ (2016) poster
8. ARQ2016

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

Death Note: Light Up the NEW World (2016) poster
9. Death Note: Light Up the NEW World2016

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

The Kovak Box (2006) poster
10. The Kovak Box2006

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a documentary-plain realism.

The Dark Tapes (2017) poster
11. The Dark Tapes2017

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the chilly detachment; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Anomaly (2014) poster
12. The Anomaly2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a relentless forward drive.

These are Death Note’s neighbours — where are yours?

Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.

Find my film for tonight — 60 sec →