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Films like Dirty Love.

Dirty Love (2005) reads as Neutral, breathless, gentle comedy / romance, 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 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It (2010) poster
1. The 41–Year–Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It2010

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Strange Wilderness (2008) poster
2. Strange Wilderness2008

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Date Movie (2006) poster
3. Date Movie2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pledge This! (2007) poster
4. Pledge This!2007

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Still Waiting... (2009) poster
5. Still Waiting...2009

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5 (2014) poster
6. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .52014

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Dirty Movie (2011) poster
7. Dirty Movie2011

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Farce of the Penguins (2006) poster
8. Farce of the Penguins2006

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Best Night Ever (2013) poster
9. Best Night Ever2013

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hole in One (2009) poster
10. Hole in One2009

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the airy, open telling — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films (2011) poster
11. Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films2011

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a heightened unreality.

See Me After Class (2012) poster
12. See Me After Class2012

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a running vein of humour.

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