Films like Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands.

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976) reads as Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / romance, 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.

Formula of Love (1984) poster
1. Formula of Love1984

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

An Ordinary Miracle (1978) poster
2. An Ordinary Miracle1978

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973) poster
3. A Slightly Pregnant Man1973

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) poster
4. A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy1982

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

That Same Munchausen (1979) poster
5. That Same Munchausen1979

Keeps the gentle temperature; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Bald Hassan (1970) poster
6. Bald Hassan1970

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Mary Poppins, Goodbye (1983) poster
7. Mary Poppins, Goodbye1983

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a bone-dry seriousness.

The Man Who Quit Smoking (1972) poster
8. The Man Who Quit Smoking1972

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

The New Devil of Hellsbottom (1964) poster
9. The New Devil of Hellsbottom1964

Keeps the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) poster
10. Peggy Sue Got Married1986

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Alice (1990) poster
11. Alice1990

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the gentle temperature; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Ki-ke-ri-gū! (1966) poster
12. Ki-ke-ri-gū!1966

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a airy, open telling.

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