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Films like Detour.

Detour (2017) reads as Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, 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.

The Girl in the Fog (2017) poster
1. The Girl in the Fog2017

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Image (2014) poster
2. Image2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Loft (2008) poster
3. Loft2008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

At the End of the Tunnel (2016) poster
4. At the End of the Tunnel2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Master (2022) poster
5. Master2022

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

C U Soon (2020) poster
6. C U Soon2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Dinner (2013) poster
7. The Dinner2013

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

The Hate U Give (2018) poster
8. The Hate U Give2018

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

The Limehouse Golem (2016) poster
9. The Limehouse Golem2016

Keeps the heightened unreality and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Aynabaji (2016) poster
10. Aynabaji2016

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Recalled (2021) poster
11. Recalled2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Brimstone (2016) poster
12. Brimstone2016

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

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