Films like DMT: The Spirit Molecule.

DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2010) reads as Neutral, measured, gentle documentary / supernatural, inventive 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.

Uncertainty (2009) poster
1. Uncertainty2009

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The Scapegoat (2012) poster
2. The Scapegoat2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

Donovan's Echo (2011) poster
3. Donovan's Echo2011

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

Passion Play (2011) poster
4. Passion Play2011

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

The Lazarus Project (2008) poster
5. The Lazarus Project2008

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

The Man from Earth: Holocene (2017) poster
6. The Man from Earth: Holocene2017

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

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present (2012) poster
7. Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present2012

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the gentle temperature; trades toward a heightened unreality.

Howl (2010) poster
8. Howl2010

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.

Jonathan (2018) poster
9. Jonathan2018

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

Ricordi? (2019) poster
10. Ricordi?2019

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.

Anna (2013) poster
11. Anna2013

Keeps the bone-dry seriousness and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Freud's Last Session (2023) poster
12. Freud's Last Session2023

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the bone-dry seriousness; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

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